Storyteller Jim Cogan will be at the Carson City Library telling tales on Tuesday, July 16 at 6 p.m. This program is free to the public. Jim Cogan offers storytelling venues that appeal to all ages.

Combining history, folklore, legend, family memories and original perspective, Jim takes audiences on an animated and mesmerizing journey through the magical worlds of stories. Mixing creative use of sound with a kaleidoscopic face, adding his animated physical presence in the creation of visual imagery, Jim transforms stories into dramatic, and often hilarious, adventures.

A Carson City man was arrested and faces charges including domestic battery and gross misdemeanor child abuse after using a pillow to repeatedly beat on his girlfriend in which their baby also sustained a bruise to the face, authorities said.

Miguel Angel Paredes, 23, was arrested at 4:08 a.m. Saturday in the 2000 block of Lone Mountain Drive. He faces a gross misdemeanor charge of abuse or neglect of a child, two misdemeanor charges of domestic battery and a misdemeanor charge of obstructing an officer.

On his first airplane ride, Doug Thorngren thought he could glimpse the Earth’s curvature. He was 8 years old, living in Iowa 54 years ago when a pilot flew to town in a J3 Cub. When someone asked who wanted a ride, his hand was the first one in the air.

Here is the Carson City road maintenance and repair report for the week of July 15-21:

Beginning Sunday, July 14, through Friday, July 19, there will be road closures on Fairview Drive during the night hours of 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. due to maintenance. The closures will occur at locations throughout the project limits from Carson Street to just east of Edmonds Drive and detours will be signed.

Due to continued construction of the Carson City Freeway project the following road closures are in effect: (detours are signed)

— Snyder Avenue between E. Roland Street and Center Drive.