Editor’s Note: Ben Spence is a Special Education, Gifted and Talented Endorsed, AP Seminar, Honors US History, World History, and Adult Education Carson High School teacher. Below is his report.

This past Winter Break, CHS teacher Benjamin Spence led a group of seven exceptional students on an adventurous trip around beautiful Costa Rica.

Come and join us! Play BINGO benefiting Thorn!! Thorn is a organization that helps stop sex trafficking here in this world.

Admission: $20 per person includes 6 cards for 10 games

Additional game cards are $5 (must pay for the first $20)
$2 per dabber

Admission: $20 per person includes 6 cards for 10 games

Additional game cards are $5 (must pay for the first $20)
$2 per dabber

Gift cards will be the prizes

Reno resident and Air Force veteran Tony Grady announced his candidacy to be Nevada’s next Lieutenant Governor. Appearing on Sam Shad’s Nevada Newsmakers show this week, Tony remarked that he is running because he loves Nevada and the people he’s met throughout our State.

The Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF) is currently accepting pre-proposals for several competitive grants, highlighted below, for projects that encourage collaborative, science-based restoration of priority landscapes to protect communities and ecosystems from wildfires, floods, insect and disease outbreaks, invasive species, development disturbances, and watershed destruction.

At 11:26 a.m. a vehicle crash was reported in the northbound lanes of I-580 near College Parkway.

Injuries are unknown at this time.

Deputies and first responders are enroute to the scene.

Motorists should seek alternate routes or use caution while in the area.

Four Weddings and an Elvis is coming to the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City! The Proscenium Players, Inc. is performing the hilarious 4-part comedy, written by Nancy Frick.

Show dates are February 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th at 7:30 p.m. and February 5th, 6th, 12th, and 13th and 2:00 p.m.

The play centers in a small Las Vegas wedding chapel that is host to some quirky characters in their outlandish nuptials.

We are thankful for families and students who continue to exercise patience and kindness amid persistent staffing shortages.

Families should plan to transport student(s) to and from school Monday and Tuesday, January 24 and 25, 2022.

Buses will continue to operate for students with IEP’s (Individual Education Plans) specifically noting transportation needs.

As a school district, we provide 1) as much information to 2) as many people 3) as soon as it is possible. When we make tough decisions like closing schools or limiting transportation services, we understand the impact and inconvenience families experience.

It is not something we take lightly. We know how difficult it can be to arrange rides, babysitters or daycare.

At 2:38 p.m. a vehicle crash was reported in the area of E. Washington and N. Walsh.

Two vehicles are involved. No injuries are reported.

The vehicles are currently blocking traffic. Deputies are enroute to the scene.

Motorists should seek alternate routes.

A vehicle crash involving two vehicles was reported just before 12:30 in the area of the Carson City Nugget near Robinson Street.

Deputies are working to clear to the roadway currently and traffic should be opened back up soon.

No injuries are reported.

Motorists should seek alternate routes until the roadway reopens.

Adult Paint and Sip takes place every Friday from 7-9:30pm.

Tonight's project will be "Winter Sunset Reflection.”

Law enforcement officers face enormous stress and mental health demands while on the job. Unfortunately, that stress can lead to burn out, PTSD, substance abuse, leaving the career and even suicide.

Members of the Rotary Club of Carson City will learn how the officers in the Carson City Sheriff’s Office manage those challenges at the club’s next meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 25 at noon.

At a meeting recently, Carson City Democrats celebrated the fund raising efforts of its First Annual Plein Air Watercolor Competition. There was a $3,000 donation made to the C.I.R.C.L.E.S. Initiative for its work combating long term poverty and a $1,000 donation to a long standing scholarship fund at WNC targeted for Carson City students.

As 2022 begins to take shape, this is a great opportunity to consider preparing your home, family, property and yourself for wildfire. Begin your wildfire preparation journey by viewing the many educational workshops that were presented during the 2021 Lake Tahoe Wildfire Awareness Campaign.

A new year means it’s time to start gardening chores all over again. And, while it is only the end of January, clean up chores and pruning have begun. After the huge wind storm a few weeks ago, where a gust of 96 mph was measured here in Washoe Valley, we had a lot of downed tree debris. Fortunately, there were no big branches or trees down, just hours of work picking up smaller materials.

During Thursday's Carson City Board of Supervisors meeting, supervisors voted in favor of approving a tentative subdivision map for the Blackstone Ranch project.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The South Lake Tahoe City Council took the first steps in creating an ordinance that will allow park-model RVs less than 400 square feet in size on parking pads at South Lake Tahoe properties to help alleviate the housing crisis.

MINDEN — Douglas County Board of Commissioners awarded $125,200 in grant funding through the Community Grant Program to non-profit organizations that provide substantial benefit to residents of the community on January 6, 2022. Over the past 13 years, the Community Grant Program has awarded over $1,715,000 to help support countless non-profit organizations.

Low band of colors make a beautiful Wednesday sunrise over Carson City.

The Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team will conduct prescribed fire operations this week, if conditions and weather are favorable. Operations are expected to continue throughout the winter season to help land managers reduce hazardous fuels that can feed unwanted wildfires. Smoke will be present.

Sierra Nevada Journeys, a Northern Nevada-based organization focused on delivering science education programs to youth in order to develop critical thinking skills, is expanding their STEM Enrichment Fund to offer programming to every elementary school in four Nevada counties thanks to a $50,000 donation from Google.

Decades of demonstrations created while teaching classical life drawing classes comprise CCAI’s exhibition, "Phyllis Shafer: Figure Studies (Yes, that Phyllis Shafer)", in Western Nevada College’s Bristlecone Gallery.

We are so excited to partner with Carson City's own, Alejandra of Grazed.Nv to host our charcuterie board night out! Join us on Saturday, Feb 12 at 6 p.m. for a unique Valentine's night out. This class is for two people per ticket which gets you charcuterie for two and a board to work on together.

The Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources on Tuesday launched the next phase of one of the state’s most important and successful conservation and recreational grant programs. Formerly known as the Conservation and Resource Bond Program approved by Nevada voters in 2002 (or “Q1”), the new and expanded program will be known as “Conserve Nevada.”