• 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.