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UPDATE: As storms continue to drop feet of snow in the Sierra, Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows are latest Tahoe ski resorts to announce early season starts.
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Lake Tahoe ski resorts Heavenly and Northstar will launch their 2015-16 ski and snowboard season this Saturday, six days ahead of schedule, thanks to recent winter storms. This is the earliest the resorts have opened since 2012, officials said.

Low pressure is moving into the Carson City region, with rain showers and high elevation snow in the Sierra expected through Wednesday, clearing by Thursday with mild weather through Nevada Day festivities, and then a stronger system pushing into the area late Sunday.

The Bureau of Land Management Carson City District is continuing to sell firewood cutting permits at multiple locations. Pinyon pine and Utah Juniper permits are $10 a cord. People may purchase up to ten cords before a commercial firewood cutting permit is required. Only dead trees — standing or down — may be cut.

There's a good chance Carson City, Carson Valley and Dayton areas will see a nice soaking from a weather system moving into the region. The not-so-cold, cold front will provide rain showers with a chance for thunderstorms into Thursday, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. The highest mountain peaks in the Sierra may get a dusting of snow, especially above 9,000 feet.

Whether you pedal, paddle or hike, the watering hole at the end of a long day exploring North Tahoe is the incentive that pushes many recreationists through that last mile.

North Tahoe has stepped up to help those adventure-seekers searching for the perfect pairing of singletrack and suds or paddling and pints with the unique North Lake Tahoe Ale Trail Campaign.

Dayton is dishing up fun this weekend with their annual Oodles of Noodles festival. Sunday features a pet parade, live music, and more. The Sequicentenial of the Civil War will be remembered at the Dayton Cemetery; just take Main Street up the hill and to the left. Street Vibrations Spring Revival roars into Reno this weekend, and Virginia City is sure to have its share of bikers, as well. So please drive carefully.

SUNDAY:
• 14th Annual Oodles of Noodles Cook Off and Festival: Live Entertainment, Pet Parade, Great Food, Vendors and Crafters, Civil War Re-Enactments, Old West Gun Shows, Motorsports and more in Old Town Dayton (Noodle Tasting Saturday Only; Pet Parade at 10am, $5 entry)
• Sundaes on Sunday: Carson City Library’s Grand Opening Sunday in the Secret Garden (2pm-4pm)
• First Sunday Breakfast at the Elks Club: 515 N Nevada (bar opens 7am; 8:30am-11am, $7)

First things first. Saturday afternoon could be expecting some wet weather, so be prepared. I can’t predict what events may be affected by it, or if the rain will even show up. No worries for you wine walkers, though, downtown will be hopping: rain, shine, or blizzard. Head over to Artsy Fartsy Art Gallery and wish them a happy fourth anniversary, Jeffery will be serving up one of his signature Sangrias. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church won best wine walk stop last month and will have live music. Don’t forget to spend some time inside Westside Pour House: ARTistically INKlined pop-up gallery returns and proves that tattoo artists are first, and foremost, artists.

SATURDAY:

• Street Vibrations Spring Rally: Downtown Reno
• Reno Tahoe International Film Festival – go to www.RTIFF.org for schedule and locations
• Sierra Lutheran High School's 13th Annual Golf Classic at the Silver Oaks Golf Course (7am Check-in, Shotgun start at 8am; $125 for a single player or $400 for a team of four)

The next low pressure system will move into the region from California on Sunday bringing showers and high elevation snow to the Sierra and western Nevada through at least Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

Up to 6 inches of snow may accumulate above 8,000 feet, with wet roads for those traveling over I-80 and US-50. Snow could impact travel over the Mt. Rose Highway and the higher passes in Alpine and Mono counties.

Mother Nature has left a swath of new snow at Lake Tahoe ski resorts this week. The snow arrived in time for Carson City spring breakers to hit the slopes.
Kirkwood Mountain Resort received 2 feet snow Tuesday and overnight into Wednesday morning with a seven day new-snow total of 28 inches.

A 3.5 magnitude earthquake centered near Incline Village was reported shortly after 10 Tuesday night, according to the University of Nevada Seismological Laboratory.

According to the lab, the 3.49 quake was centered about 5.8 miles West North West of Mt. Rose and about eight miles North North West of Incline Village with a depth of about 5.8 kilometers.

This is my annual reminder that if you are a trout fisherman and are new to our area, you may not be aware that some of our best Lahontan Cutthroat Trout fishing is at Pyramid Lake in the month of March.
Pyramid Lake, which is roughly the same surface size as Lake Tahoe, is about 30 miles north of Reno-Sparks, and it contains Lahontan Cutthroat Trout that can weigh more than 20 pounds.

A winter storm that wasn’t necessarily supposed to pack a big punch did, sort of, bringing a foot or more of much-needed snow around Lake Tahoe area ski resorts Friday and Saturday.

In what has been a dismal season where resorts have retooled the layers of snow they do have and producing as much as they can with snow making machines, the last day of February 2015 brought out droves of skiers and new hope for a so-called "Miracle March" in the Sierra, where late winter systems have historically pummeled Lake Tahoe with several feet of snow.

The 5th annual CHS Safe and Sober 5k Run/Walk was a tremendous success with turn-out of 113 participants. The weather cleared up this morning and with just a bit of wind at race time, we couldn’t have asked for more perfect weather, maybe even a sunburn.

The complete race results can be found by clicking here. Thanks to the Tahoe Mountain Milers who provided the chip-set timing system, and special thanks to Steve Lang for setting up and running the system.

Lake Tahoe area ski resorts report anywhere from 8 to 24 inches of new snow from the first wave of storms to hit the Sierra Friday and Saturday. Another storm is expected to arrive late Sunday.

Sierra-at-Tahoe reports 10 inches of new snow in the past 24 hours. Heavenly received anywhere from 4 to 8 inches of snow overnight allowing them to open two new runs, High Five and Double Down.

If you love Tahoe and you love to ski or ride, now is the time to take advantage of the “Plates for Powder” program.

The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District and Mount Rose Ski Patrol will offer avalanche training Jan. 13, 14, and 16, 2015 at the Mt. Rose Summit Highway, across from the summit parking lot area.

Training objectives and stations will cover transceiver and RECCO search, proper probe line set up and execution, snow pit/snow pack information and a search dog demonstration.

The Nevada Highway Patrol has identified the passenger who died in a New Year's Day crash on Mt. Rose Highway east of Incline Village in which the driver fled and was later found hiding.

UPDATE: The Nevada Highway Patrol reports the driver of the Isuzu Rodeo involved in a fatal New Year's night vehicle crash has been located. Manuel Mejia Verdusco, 49, of Incline Village, was the driver that had been reported missing in the head-on crash that killed one person on Mt. Rose Highway, according the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Verdusco has multiple injuries to the face, wrist, and ankle and has been taken to the hospital for treatment.
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UPDATE: The Nevada Highway Patrol was able to make contact with Mr. Edgar Guzman-Barrios. After cooperating with an interview with law enforcement officers Mr. Guzman-Barrios provided important proof that cleared him of any involvement in the crash. NHP is confident that Mr. Guzman-Barrios was not inside the vehicle when it caused the accident on Mt. Rose. The NHP investigators are now looking into other evidence to help locate the driver of the Isuzu Rodeo.
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One person has died and another is being sought after a two-vehicle crash on Mt. Rose Highway on New Year's Day in which alcohol may have been a factor, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.

UPDATE 6:56PM: The Nevada Highway Patrol reports the driver of the Isuzu Rodeo involved in a fatal New Year's night vehicle crash has been located. Manuel Mejia Verdusco, 49, of Incline Village, was the driver that had been reported missing in the head-on crash that killed one person on Mt. Rose Highway, according the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Verdusco has multiple injuries to the face, wrist, and ankle and has been taken to the hospital for treatment.
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UPDATE: The Nevada Highway Patrol was able to make contact with Mr. Edgar Guzman-Barrios. After cooperating with an interview with law enforcement officers Mr. Guzman-Barrios provided important proof that cleared him of any involvement in the crash. NHP is confident that Mr. Guzman-Barrios was not inside the vehicle when it caused the accident on Mt. Rose. The NHP investigators are now looking into other evidence to help locate the driver of the Isuzu Rodeo.
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One person has died and another is being sought after a two-vehicle crash on Mt. Rose Highway on New Year's Day in which alcohol may have been a factor, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.

Happy Friday, Carson City! We have survived 'HalloweeNevada' Day and now it's time to enjoy the autumn weather, warm drinks, good music, and the craft fair season.

Many people in our area have Facebook accounts, but not everyone, so I am pleased to bring you the event list that is featured on my Facebook page, I love Carson City.

Low pressure will move through northern California and northwest Nevada Monday, producing gusty winds and hazardous boating conditions for Lake Tahoe and Pyramid, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. A Lake Wind Advisory is in effect.

In addition to the winds, the best chance for rain and high elevation snow is north of Interstate 80 from Monday afternoon to early Tuesday morning. Rainfall amounts up to 0.50 inch are possible in Lassen and Plumas counties, with less than 0.10 inch elsewhere.

UPDATE SATURDAY: The Sierra received anywhere from 3 to 6 inches of snow overnight. Go here for a photo gallery of Lake Tahoe ski resorts getting snow on their mountains.
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As crews make good progress on a project to repave and enhance the Mt. Rose Highway, the Nevada Department of Transportation is reminding motorists that paving continues on an upper segment of the highway.

Many celebrations are scheduled throughout the Silver State in the month of September. These Nevada 150 events celebrate all things Nevada and help bring awareness to the 150th Anniversary of Statehood. The following events are held Sept. 15 through 30.

Welcome back to another week of Senator Square, all news about students, staff and events at Carson High School. If you have information you’d like the community to know about in relation to CHS, please contact me agolik@carson.k12.nv.us.

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Here is the Carson City area road report for July 29 through Aug. 3, 2014. The Nevada sesquicentennial Fair will be held at Fuji Park July 30 through August 3. Additional traffic may be expected in the area. Off-site parking will be at the Casino Fandango with free bus rides to and from the fair.

The Nevada Department of Transportation will be continuing road work on Highway 50 from Deer Run Road in Carson City to just east of Highway 341 in Mound House. There will be single lane closures on weeknights from 8 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.

To make travel easier and safer, the Nevada Department of Transportation will temporarily suspend or alter construction work on three projects around the area during Hot August Nights and the Reno-Tahoe Open events.

No construction-related lane closures will take place between the evening of Friday, July 25 and the morning of Monday, Aug. 4 on NDOT’s Mt. Rose Highway project. For the Highway 50 project at Moundhouse, there will be some drainage and shoulder work that will not affect lanes of traffic, said NDOT spokeswoman Meg Ragonese.

An ancient forest of mature pine trees, standing upright under 100 feet of water in a small lake in the Lake Tahoe Basin, helps scientists as they study how changing climate can affect mountain environments and the communities in them. The trees, discovered and studied by a University of Nevada, Reno, researcher, are remnants of a 200-year-long medieval drought.

The site is a stop on one of the field trips of a four-day international conference on mountain observatories held at the University of Nevada, Reno July 16-19.

A repave along the bottom section of Mt. Rose Highway in Washoe County should be done by Thursday, according to the Nevada Department of Transportation.

Paving work from the base of the highway at South Virginia Street to Timberline Drive in the Montreux area should be finished in time for the July 4 holiday weekend with some with minor roadside enhancement work over the next few weeks, said NDOT spokeswoman Meg Ragonese.

Beginning Thursday, the Nevada Department of Transportation will temporarily suspend major work on state road projects over the Fourth of July holiday weekend for easier travel.

There will not be construction-related lane closures beginning the morning of Thursday, July 3 and evening of Sunday, July 6 for NDOT projects including Kingsbury Grade, Mt. Rose Highway, U.S. 50 (Moundhouse-area) and other road work.