• El Dorado County will host a public meeting to receive input on a proposed bike trail alongside Lake Tahoe Boulevard southwest of the Y. The forum starts at 6pm on April 29 at the South Lake Tahoe City Council Chambers, 1901 Airport Road. For more information, go online.

• May 3 is the date of the election to choose the state representative for District 4, which includes the California side of the basin. Polls will open at 7am and close at 8pm. The last day to register to vote is April 18. Sample and vote-by-mail ballots have gone out this week.

• Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki and other Nevada Commission on Tourism officials honored industry professionals from around the state last week, presenting the annual Volunteer Tourism Awards for exceptional achievement at the 21st annual Rural Roundup tourism conference. Representing the Reno – Tahoe Territory is Gordon Horsley, business development manager for Amador Stage Lines in Reno.

• The Lake Tahoe Historial Society will kick into spring with featured speaker Margie Daum on April 26 at Camp Richardson Resort at its annual meeting starting at 7pm. The museum is scheduled to open May 15 to welcome Amgen visitors. Nine days later, historian Frank Tortorich and Kim Copel will tell Pony Express stories.

• U.S. Census Bureau employees will begin the first wave of data collection for the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation from about 53,000 households across the country.

• Also from the U.S. Census, a report called the “Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Fluctuations in the U.S. Income Distribution: 2004-2007” divides the nation’s 106 million households into quintiles of 21.3 million based on income and compares their characteristics and their movements between and within the quintiles.