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Bring your cars old and new to the Smith's Food and Drug Show & Shine, 599 East William in Carson City from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will feature great music, giveaways and trophies. There is a fee for the cars but spectators get in free. T-shirt and free lunch for car participants. Call Bryan at (775) 690-3680 for information.

Join in the fun, fright and local lore in the spine-chilling Ghost Walking Tour of Carson City historic homes. Learn about spirits of the past that still linger. Madame Curry will be your tour guide with many haunting surprises to occur.
The tour begins at 7 p.m. with departure from the Firkin & Fox, (The old St. Charles Hotel) on 3rd and Curry. Adults $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Call (775) 687-7410 for advance tickets and information. Be Brave.

Carson City Sheriff’s Office will host the 7th Annual Cops and Kids Sheriff’s Open House safety, crime and substance abuse awareness fair on Saturday, May 22, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, 911 E. Musser Street, Carson City.
This year's special guest will be Miss Nevada USA 2010 Julianna Erdesz.

Ayako's Dance Studio dancers will perform in "Alice in Dance Wonderland" on May 28, 7 p.m., at the Carson City Community Center, Bob Boldrick Theater.
This production is sponsored by the Pinkerton Ballet Theatre, a non-profit organization whose mission is to enable children to experience and enjoy the performing arts. Call (775) 882-2916 or e-mail: Tu2teacher@sbcglobal.net for more info and tickets.

Join the Silver Dollar Car Classic cars that will be on display at the Carson Nugget West parking lot. No charge for spectators or cars. Rock & Roll music and food. The event runs from 6 to 8 p.m. Call (775) 687-7410.

Bob Nylen, Curator of History at the Nevada State Museum will continue his series of lectures depicting Nevada's rich historical past with Letters from the Nevada Frontier. Bob will be showing slides and reading the correspondence of Tasker L. Oddie. This will give you an insight of the early life of Nevada. The program starts at 2 p.m. at the Nevada State Museum. Call (775) 687-4811.

Join Carson City Symphony's Strings in the Schools students in a public Contradance, 3 to 4 p.m., Saturday at Empire Elementary School, 1260 Monte Rosa Drive.
Learn the steps to the jig, reel, and waltz. Dance to live music with the students and leaders Sue Kitts, Chris Bayer, Steve Suwe, and Gary Lyon. Admission is free and all are welcome. For more information, call Strings in the Schools Director Sue Kitts at (775) 450-5584 or the Carson City Symphony at (775) 883-4154.

Join Silver Dollar Car Classic cars with great music and outstanding hot dogs. Beautiful old and new cars. K-9 Dog House (Gourmet Hot Dogs) off College Parkway next to Wal-Mart, 3250 Retail Drive. For information call (775) 687-7410.

CARSON CITY – A member of the citizen’s panel appointed by lawmakers to chart Nevada’s future for the next 20 years expressed concern today about whether the process to be followed to complete the effort conforms to meet the requirements of the state Open Meeting Law.

Former Carson High standout Kayla Sanchez ran to sixth-place in the 400-meter hurdles and ran legs for Arizona State University relay teams that were top-three finishers at the Pacific-10 Conference Track and Field Championships in Berkeley, Calif., on Sunday.

The forum is at the Community Center's Sierra Room, and starts at 7 p.m. You can watch the live video here.

Carson City's J.T. Cockerill and the Cal State Stanislaus University men's golf team will swing into action on Tuesday at the NCAA Division II Tournament in Noblesville, Ind.

The Downtown Coin Club staged its first coin show over the weekend at the Carson Nugget.

The event drew 675 adults, plus a number of kids who were rewarded with a Wheat cent album, and were allowed to begin filling it by picking through a pile of 5,000 of the coins.

Ron Roberts from the Nevada State Museum gave each kid who picked out Foreign coins a trip around the globe, showing them the country and telling them the denomination.

A screening of the public television documentary "Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure" will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday May, 20 in the Carson City Library Auditorium, 900 N. Roop St, Carson City. The event will be hosted by the American Society of Civil Engineers – Capital Branch.

The screening will be followed by a community discussion with Mark Brethauer P.E., a Senior Project Manager with Carson City Public Works. The event is free and open to the public.

CARSON CITY – Nevada Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., said today he does not believe Congress will move forward with any type of immigration reform this year because the issue is too controversial for Democrats in an election year.

New board members of the Nevada Rural Democratic Caucus were elected at a meeting Saturday, May 15 in Fallon. They are, left to right, back row, member-at-large Claude Butler of Humboldt County; second vice chair Nora Hadfield of Elko County; secretary Vickie Rock of Humboldt County, and chair Gim Hollister of Douglas County; front row, member-at-large Kristin Thomas of Lincoln County and first vice chair Nora Howell of Churchill County; not pictured, treasurer Karen McEntire of Carson City. Submitted photo

The Nevada Appeal has a good poll question about the Nugget Project, so we recreated the question here. Since this is probably the closest thing we are going to get to a public vote, go vote on our question, and then go over to the Appeal and vote on theirs.

Update: Event has been canceled.

The public is invited to a Coffee and Conversation forum with Mayor Bob Crowell at the Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada on Thursday, May 27 from 8 to 9:30 a.m. The event is sponsored by the Carson City Chamber of Commerce.

A candidates forum, hosted by the Carson City Arts and Culture Coalition, will be held tonight from 7 to 9 p.m., in the Sierra Room of the Carson City Community Center. Carson Now will have live coverage.
The forum is free and open to the public.

A traffic stop near Airport Road in Carson City resulted in the arrest of two women, one of whom allegedly was in possession of a pharmaceutical drug without a prescription.
According to the arrest report, a vehicle was stopped on Sunday and an unidentified driver was arrested for DUI.
During the investigation, a deputy asked the arresting officer to have the vehicle towed. While conducting a vehicle inventory, a deputy found an orange pill bottle with the suspect's name on the top, according to the arrest report. The suspect was a passenger in the vehicle.

A Carson City man who told authorities he was hanging out in the bushes behind the old K-Mart because there was a box of clothes he was going through, was arrested on drug charges.
Kermit Kincheloe, 49, faces a felony charge of possession of methamphetamine and a misdemeanor charge of drug paraphernalia, according to Carson City deputies.

While the Carson City Board of Supervisors are on track to ante up $75,000 this week to move the Nugget Project to the next phase, I'm finding that the more I dig into the details, the more the numbers don't seem to add up.

Specifically, I'm looking into part of the project that calls for getting three state agencies to lease space in this proposed 177,000 square foot development in downtown Carson City. I use the word "proposed" in a very loose sense here, since it's likely to change once P3 Development begins the real process of feasibility planning for this project. In fact, as I am writing this, there's a new story out from Northern Nevada Business Weekly quoting the developer that the office portion would be 175,000 square feet, with an additional 50,000 square feet of retail space, to go along with the 60,000 square feet for the library/business incubator/digital media lab portion of the project.

Kris Holt of Nevada Business Connections talks about his efforts to attract companies to the Carson City area:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vN6cCWkPrs

Former Western Nevada College star Brian Barnett had his best day so far with the University of Nevada baseball team as the Wolf Pack rolled to an 11-0 win at Sacramento State on Sunday.

RENO — The Nevada Republican Party elected Mark Amodei its new chairman last night during a special Central Committee meeting at the Sienna Hotel and Casino.  Amodei, a former state senator, defeated Clark County Republican Party Political Director David Isbell by a vote of 218 to 54.
After the election, Amodei said he would focus on moving forward and defeating the Democrats in the upcoming elections. To do this, he says, he will focus on communication and collaboration within the party.

Brian Lester won the 1-meter diving while Ashton McIntosh, Tim Grunert, Zachary White and Luke Gentner combined to win the 200-yard freestyle relay as Carson High's boys took second as a team at the Northern 4A Regional Swimming and Diving Championships, which wrapped up at the Carson City Aquatic Facility on Saturday afternoon.

RENO — Richard Shroy went into the last lap of his boys 1,600 meters race merely trying to hang on for third-place and qualify for state. The Carson High senior did much better than that, using a blistering late kick to surge from third-place to a gold medal in the event during the Northern 4A Regional Track and Field Championships at Damonte Ranch High School on Saturday afternoon.

CARSON CITY — Is the next Phil Mickelson or Michelle Wie living in the Carson City area? Well the Fred and Judy Alexander Foundation wants to find out. That's why the foundation and the Sierra Nevada Chapter of the Northern California PGA Section will hold a free golf clinic — The 18th Annual Fred Alexander Memorial Family Golf Clinic — for children ages 6 to 17 on Sunday, May 16 at Eagle Valley Golf Course in Carson City.
The event begins at 11:45 a.m. and last until 4:30 p.m., with registration running from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Carson City Sheriff’s Office will host the 7th Annual Cops and Kids Sheriff’s Open House safety, crime and substance abuse awareness fair on Saturday, May 22, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, 911 E. Musser Street, Carson City.

Cops and Kids Sheriff’s Open House was started by Sheriff Ken Furlong as part of the community policing efforts implemented by his administration.
Cops and Kids Sheriffs Open House is designed to:

— Build positive relationships between law enforcement, youth and citizens

Carson City deputies responded to a hit and run earlier tonight, in which a black BMW X5 was rear-ended, with the driver allegedly speeding away after her airbag deployed.

The suspect apparently hit the BMW near Fairview and Carson Street at about 6:30, and then drove away, darting in and out of traffic.

Two witnesses, each driving separate vehicles, followed the suspect, who was driving a white sedan. The witnesses followed the sedan from Fairview down Saliman to Highway 50, alerting dispatchers of the accident.

The Western Nevada College baseball team pounded out nine hits and held 17-year-old phenom Bryce Harper to a 1-for-5 day and struck him out three times.
So that led to another win over College of Southern Nevada, right? Not even close. CSN showed why its arguably the best team in the nation -- and possibly the deepest -- by beating WNC 9-2 on Saturday in the championship round of the Scenic West Athletic Conference postseason tournament in Henderson.

RENO — Now that the Carson High softball team has come close to doing something really special, CHS coach Scott Vickrey wants his squad to build on its momentum for possibly even a better finish next year.
 
Carson's season came to an end on Saturday at Bishop Manogue in the Northern 4A playoffs as the Senators were eliminated by Damonte Ranch 11-1 in five innings. But Carson's third place finish at zone should serve as a springboard for his young team, Vickrey said, which is losing just three seniors in Daria Leid, Megan Hein and Natalie Morrow.

CARSON CITY — Local author and inventor Sam Flakus has recently published his muse, 'Dark Horse' which is now available at Comma Coffee and Borders on Topsy Lane in the All Things Local section.

Randy Carlson talks about his candidacy for Carson City School Board:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEjbp1QxGJs

Duane Kuiper keeps using the line when describing the San Francisco Giants, but the Western Nevada College baseball team might as well steal the term from Kuiper and use it as its slogan.
 
WNC baseball -- TORTURE!

Former Western Nevada College star Lance Ray is doing everything he can to help the University of Kentucky baseball team make the postseason.

Reno and Galena will meet to decide the Northern 4A Regional Baseball Tournament championship on Saturday in Minden.

RENO -- A long time has passed since the Carson High softball program reigned as a state champion in 1994 and won four successive zone tournament championships between 1995 and '98. And while the Senators still have a way to go before they return to that level, they are at least knocking on the door after splitting two games at the Northern 4A Regional Tournament on Friday afternoon.

VIRGINIA CITY — Longtime Virginia City businessman Hugh Roy Marshall brings history to the airwaves and the Internet beginning Saturday.
Tales of Nevada Past and Present premieres at 1:00 p.m. PDT on 5,000-watt on the regional affiliate 1270-AM. The program will be available live to online listeners at www.KBZZ.com. The on-air talk line is (775) 823-1920.

"The rich future of Virginia City and the legacy of the legendary Comstock Lode cannot be fully realized without a continuing focus on all the things that led us here," Marshall says.

A female driver and passenger were unhurt when their grey Infinity jumped a curb and hit the side of IHOP on South Carson Street at about 4:30 this afternoon.
The car suffered some damage but there was no real structural damage to the building, according to those on scene.
Carson City Sheriff's Sgt. Mike Cullen said the driver and passenger were unhurt.
Witnesses Savannah Graeber and Shelby Brown said they heard a loud squeak sound as the car bounced up on the curb, hitting the building.

Susan Botich will be playing live acoustic folk, jazz and popular music at 88 Cups Cafe in Minden, NV (775-783-0688) May 29 from 7:00 PM until about 9:30 PM.

Susan Botich’s vocal range and versatile singing and playing style keeps audiences entranced all evening. Ms. Botich’s eclectic choice of folk, jazz and popular songs compliment her lyrically-driven original music, as well. To hear samples of Susan Botich’s songs, visit www.susanbotich.com/music.

A 20-year-old Carson City man who jumped on a teenager at the Carson City Community Center on Thursday night has been identified as Jory McCulley, according to a Carson City jail deputy.
McCulley has been charged with eluding police, endangering a person/property, speeding 21 mph over the speed limit and reckless driving, the deputy said. His bail has been set at $10,000 bondable.

A 24-year-old Carson City man faces multiple charges including assault with a deadly weapon in a road rage incident where the victim was allegedly assaulted with a crutch.
On Thursday at about 4 p.m. the suspect, John Delvecchio, was allegedly driving in an aggressive manner in an unregistered Cadillac, tailgating, honking his horn, cursing and attempting to run the victim off the road several times between the Douglas County Sheriff's Office building in Gardnerville and the Carson City limits, according to the arrest report.

Despite taking an early lead, the Western Nevada College softball team was unable to hang on as it dropped a 6-3 decision to Snow College in an elimination game at the Region 18 Tournament on Friday morning in Salt Lake City.

Las Vegas attorney Mark Hutchison says he will soon be going to Florida for oral arguments in the federal motion to dismiss the health care lawsuit being brought by 20 states including Nevada.
Reagan-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson will hear arguments challenging the states’ right to bring the suit on September 14, 2010 in the Northern District of Florida.

In the waning hours of the special session this past February, legislators hurriedly introduced and passed Senate Bill 5, a bill intended, among other things, to remove the sunset on part of a half-percent sales tax passed in 2003.

CARSON CITY — A 14-year-old Carson City girl who was taking a break from "The Sound of Music" rehearsals Thursday night at the Carson City Community Center, said she pushed away a man who "came out of nowhere" and jumped on top of her as stunned friends watched.

"I was kind of freaked out," the 14-year-old victim told Carson Now late Thursday night. "I just held my breath and pushed him off of me."

The unidentified man, who had led authorities on a car chase through town, was detained shortly after the attack by Carson City deputies. The incident began at about 8:30 p.m.

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