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Heading into Tuesday, sunny skies and more springlike weather are ahead before active weather patterns start up again later in the week. Activities lined up around the capital city include morning and evening walks hosted by Muscle Powered. You can join true crime, paranormal writer Janice Oberding at Nevada State Library and Archives for a brown bag luncheon. There's a meeting of the Carson Fly Fishing Club at the sheriff's office, a paint and sip night at Living the Good Life and you can join Mile High Jazz Band at Comma Coffee for a 'Fate & Fortune' evening of music and poetry. Read on for details.

Local author, Janice Oberding, will be the featured speaker for the March Nevada in Small Bites brown bag lunch. Aside from those who were incarcerated there, she is one of only a few people who have spent an entire night at Alcatraz.

Partly sunny skies and a daytime high in the mid-40s looks to be the order of the day around the capital city as we roll into Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. Happenings around town include a book presentation by urban fantasy author SM Reine at the Nevada State Library and Archives, a morning fitness walk and evening hike, dance classes, a meeting of the CCSD board, plus festive December music and more with Night Lights Holiday Jazz and Poetry at Carson City's Comma Coffee. Read on for more.

December’s “Archives Appetizer” guest, SM Reine, is the author of more than 50 urban fantasy novels including the young adult "Seasons of the Moon" series and the many installments of the adult "Descent and Ascension" series.

Hello Carson City and welcome to Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. Events around the capital city include a monthly lunch series at the Nevada State Library featuring author, professor and poet Lindsay Wilson, a Sierra Nevada Forum discussion on Nevada's Native Tribes, past, present and future; heart and vascular screenings through Carson Tahoe Health and Wellness, a morning walk, evening hike and a bike ride with Muscle Powered, archery at Centennial Park, family craft and movie night at Carson City Library and more.

The Nevada State Library will feature author, professor and poet Lindsay Wilson at its Sept. 10 “Nevada in Small Bites” book talk series.

Heading into Tuesday, August 13, there's a galaxy of events lined up, beginning at midnight with a meteor shower watch party at WNC's Jack C. Davis Observatory. When the sun arrives there's fitness events, a book talk at the Nevada State Library and Archives, outdoor Carson City jazz festival happenings at Comma Coffee and Bob McFadden Plaza, family movie night at the library and more. Enjoy.

Joyce M. Cox, author of Arcadia Publishing books on Sparks, Washoe County, and the upcoming "Behind the Arch, The Story of Reno, Nevada’s Unique Chamber of Commerce," will be the featured speaker for the August Archives Appetizer brown bag lunch in Carson City.

Karen Gedney, author of "30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor," will be the July featured speaker at the Nevada State Library's Nevada in Small Bites brown bag lunch.

Author Jack Harpster is the featured speaker at the October lecture of the Nevada State Museum, Carson City. Harpster will discuss his new book “The Genesis of Reno: The History of the Riverside Hotel and the Virginia Street Bridge” from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 27 as part of the museum’s monthly Frances Humphrey Lecture Series.