• Obexer’s Boat Company in Homewood is celebrating its 100th year at Lake Tahoe as a family-owned full service marina.

• Nevada Department of Wildlife is stocking Lake Tahoe with 22,000 Lahontan cutthroat trout this month.

• Washoe County Sheriff’s Office is donating $20,000 from state forfeiture funds to support efforts by the nonprofit Join Together Northern Nevada to increase parent awareness and education about local drug use trends, the signs and symptoms of drug abuse, and effective intervention skills.

• Arcadia Publishing just released two volumes of regional interest — “Donner Summit” and a companion postcard book written by Arthur Sommers.

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Lake Tahoe News will be at the farmers’ market in South Lake Tahoe today from 8am-1pm.

Stop by, say hi, give us some news tips, pick up a free pen, buy a T-shirt and eat your veggies.

The market is in the American Legion parking lot on Highway 50.

The Sierra Nevada College Millennium Plus Scholars Award is a $50,000 scholarship (four years at $12,500) earmarked for the approximately 8,000 2011 graduating high school seniors who will be eligible for the Guinn Millennium Scholarships.

Students are awarded Guinn Millennium Scholarship recipient status upon graduating from a Nevada high school with a 3.25 gpa and completing a rigorous high school curriculum. Students interested in receiving Sierra Nevada College’s Millennium Plus Scholars Award — which supplements the Guinn Millennium Scholarship — must meet the Nevada state scholarship eligibility requirements and apply for the award by Sept. 1.

Students may apply the $1,980 from the state and $12,500 from Sierra Nevada College (both annual amounts) toward tuition.

Contact the Admissions Office at the college with any questions, or to learn more about scholarships and additional financial aid at (775) 831.6223 or admissions@sierranevada.edu.

U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews will carry out prescribed fire operations July 19 near Rubicon Bay.

Operations will be conducted on approximately 20 acres, and will continue through the end of the week.

All prescribed fire operations are dependent on weather and available staffing.

Residents and visitors can expect to see smoke from prescribed fire project areas. Smoke management is part of every prescribed fire burn plan, and efforts will be taken to reduce actual or potential smoke impacts on community areas.

This and other prescribed fire projects are designed to reduce wildfire risks to communities and critical resources.

State and local fire management agencies may also be conducting prescribed fire work during this period.

Placer County took top honors among county exhibits at the California State Fair in Sacramento.

The exhibit won the Gold Ribbon, Best Animation, and the Golden Bear/Best in Show Award. This is the second year in a row the county exhibit captured these awards.

The exhibit features the ski and recreation areas at Lake Tahoe, nature, culture, history, fine food and wines available throughout the county. The exhibit also offers a look at the many activities in the county, including gold panning, camping, boating, hiking, fishing and museums.

The exhibit makes note of the area’s history, including Maidu Indians, the Gold Rush and the Transcontinental Railroad.

• South Lake Tahoe has track meets for all ages on Thursdays from 5-8:30pm through July 28 at South Tahoe Middle School.

• Scott Lankford, author of “Tahoe Beneath the Surface: The Hidden Stories of America’s Largest Mountain Lake”, will sign books July 19 from 3-5pm at Explore Tahoe, 4114 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. Call (530) 542.4637 for more details.

• The Village at Northstar’s Sterling Napa Estates Wine Walk is July 30 from 2:30-5:30pm. Cost is $30/person.

• Sierra Nevada College humanities Professor Robert King won the Purdue College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2011. His dissertation research focused on the ontology of systems in the history of philosophy.

• Looking at airports with less than 15 million annual passengers, Air Transportation Research Society of Canada named Reno-Tahoe International Airport the second most efficient airport in the United States and Canada.

• This is Caltrans’ Sierra roadwork schedule for the coming week.

Tahoe Youth & Family Services is saying thank you to the community for 40 years of support with an event in the parking lot by Red Hut on Ski Run Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe.

Free ice cream cones, popcorn, cotton candy and a bounce house will be part of the party on July 21 from 2:30-6:30pm.

El Dorado County Department of Transportation has scheduled a temporary closure of the Mosquito Bridge over the South Fork of the American River for annual maintenance activities.

These activities include inspection, adjustments to hardware installed last year, and overall cleaning of the structure.

The closure is scheduled for July 18-29 between 8am and 3pm.

For more information, call (530) 642.4909.

• The Frances C. and William P. Smallwood Foundation awarded Tahoe Youth & Family Services $6,000 and the Community Foundation of Western Nevada through the Community Partnership Fund donated $5,000 to support the agency’s Youth Drop-in Resource Center in Douglas County.

• South Lake Tahoe’s next Fiscal Sustainability meeting is Aug. 4 from 2-4pm at Lake Tahoe Airport.

• Tahoe Women’s Care has launched a new website.

• Tahoe Derby Dames compete at Bijou Community Park in South Lake Tahoe starting at 5pm Aug. 20.

• Sue Novasel is putting a portion of the profits from weddings she schedules at Lake Tahoe Community College’s Ledbetter Terrace into a college scholarship fund.