• According to the EPA, paper makes up almost 30 percent of America’s waste each year. All the more reason to get your news only online.

• Randy Vogelgesang is now president of the South Tahoe Public Utility District board and Kelly Sheehan is VP.

• The Douglas and Gloria Rumberger Foundation sent a $2,500 grant to the Washoe County Honorary Deputy’s Association earlier this month on the condition the money be used to provide gifts to the homeless.

• Rick Normington, dean of Business and chair of the Siebens Entrepreneurship Program, retired from classroom teaching at Sierra Nevada College at the end of the fall semester.

• Zephyr Cove Tennis Club Foundation has donated $250 to the Safeway Foundation for its partnership with local food banks to provide $10 dollar food bags to those in need.