• Join fellow book artists for an afternoon of free book making on Jan. 4 from 3-5pm at Bona Fide Books, 1609 Magua St., No. 4, Meyers. No experience necessary, but a love of books helps.

• Tahoe City Cross Country is open.

• The U.S. Coast Guard still hasn’t finished its investigation of when the Tahoe Queen ran aground in August.

• Here is the Caltrans roadwork schedule for the week for El Dorado-Tahoe.

• The Winter Holiday Anti-DUI crackdown resulted in three driving under the influence arrests from local routine traffic enforcement and special Avoid the 6 DUI overnight deployments in El Dorado County Dec. 12-28. Over the course of the next week of the campaign extra DUI saturation patrols will be deployed in Placerville, South Lake Tahoe, and the unincorporated parts of El Dorado County. The CHP is deploying all available officers between Dec. 31 at 6pm and midnight Jan. 1.