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Recently, the Carson City Sheriff’s Search and Rescue was honored with a $5,000 donation from the Southwest Gas Foundation in recognition of the commendable resource the 23-crew member volunteer unit is to the community.

Shoe Tree Brewing in Carson City and Minden had an excellent week last week. They won seven medals in three separate competitions. Two of the competitions are among the largest in the world.

Dry sagebrush on the desert floor the deserted Lunar Lake on a sunny day

Nevada Humanities is pleased to announce a funding opportunity to grant $612,049 to Nevada communities through Nevada Humanities American Rescue Plan Relief and Recovery Grants.

Find all your fall season crafts, gifts, and unique treasures at the Craft Fair and Vintage Flea parking lot sale at MidTown Marketplace, 104 Corbett Street, Carson City. Saturday September 18th from 9am-2pm. Pancho's Tacos Food Truck will also be onsite from 11am-2pm.

This Saturday, Sept. 18, Carson City will host its first 5K 'Walk/Run to Remember' benefit for the Northern Nevada Alzheimer's Association. Festivities include food trucks, live music, vendors and more.

"Walk/Run to Remember" events are held nationwide. Brenda Collings is organizing the first capital city event as a way to help support NNAA's mission, which helped her personally when her parents struggled with the disease.

The Lake Tahoe region forest closure order will be terminated at midnight Wednesday, once again allowing beach goers and some back country enthusiasts access in areas not immediately affected by the Caldor Fire. The order was originally longer but moved up two days due to better conditions.

Former U.S. Senator and Congressman Dean Heller will be at the Carson City Republican Party office on Monday, Sept. 20 at 8 a.m. where he will be making a special announcement. Everyone is invited. Call our office to RSVP at (775) 841-1800 please drop by. We expect a large crowd to hear what he has to say.

Nevada’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (NCET) is hosting its 15th annual Small Business Expo on Friday, October 15 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Mt. Rose Ballroom at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. All interested individuals from Carson City, Reno, Tahoe and surrounding areas are encouraged to attend.

The Carson City Farmer’s Market 2021 season is quickly drawing to a close. The market began June 5 after switching from the Third Street parking lot to the parking area behind the Carson Nugget, 412 N. Stewart Street, which allowed for the largest farmer’s market yet.

The Carson City Schools Foundation, in support of the Carson City School District, is pleased to announce its "Sponsor a Student" for Western Nevada College Jump Start College program raised nearly $17,000 for textbooks and other necessary materials for high school Jump Start students.

The Nevada Highway Patrol has identified a California resident who died in a Sept. 4 vehicle incident involving a commercial vehicle on I-80 in Churchill County near Jessup.

The Capital Branch of AAUW is having its annual Membership Luncheon at the Governor's Mansion in Carson City on Saturday, Sept. 18 from 11 AM to 1 PM. Box lunches will be provided by Bella Vita for $15. A short informational program will precede the meal.

Just 9 tickets remain for The Greenhouse Project’s annual Fall Celebrity Chef Dinner “Grateful Harvest 12 Years Strong”which takes place Monday, Sept. 27 at Cucina Lupo. The last day to purchase tickets for this exclusive evening is Sept. 20.

Carson City Fire Department responded Tuesday night to a fire at the Carson City landfill off of Flint Drive across from Highway 50 East. It is the second fire at the city dump in a week.

CARSON CITY — U.S. Representative Mark Amodei (NV-02) on Tuesday presented the Nevada State Museum with a 2021 Commemorative Morgan Dollar, in honor of the Carson City Mint and the 100th anniversary of the last Morgan Dollar minted.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is requesting assistance with identifying and locating two unidentified men who, on Sept. 4, 2021 at around 9 p.m., stole a bottle of alcohol from a female bartender.

We are sad to report the passing of Garth Richards. A native of Carson City, Garth and his wife Joanie, strongly believed in giving back to the community that has given so much to them both.

Truckee Meadows Habitat for Humanity is thrilled to host our first fundraiser since the pandemic began!
The family is requesting your presence at the Murder Mystery Dinner and Auction. The agenda for this family meeting will include dinner, a no host bar, auction and a murder to be solved.

Event: Mobsters & Molls Murder Mystery Dinner
When: Friday Oct 22nd, 2021, 6:00 - ‘till the territories are sorted out or the last man walks out.
Where: Hidden Valley Country Club, 3575 E. Hidden Valley Drive, Reno, NV 89502

UPDATE: Grand Canyon University advised Tuesday that a second Carson City woman, Chandler Blue, is featured on a new 10-song album. Blue is a 2017 graduate of Carson High School. In 2015 she auditioned for the TV talent show "American Idol."

Go here to listen to Blue's song "You Choose Me."
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A Carson City native and student at Grand Canyon University's Worship Arts program is featured on a new 10-song album released recently.

CARSON CITY — Following a 4-0 vote from the Nevada State Board of Health, Gov. Steve Sisolak signed emergency regulations that require State of Nevada employees who work with vulnerable populations in state-operated, licensed health care settings or state-operated detention facilities to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Here’s how to take any problem you are facing and turn it into more opportunity than you imagined. Using this method, you will be able to:

Recognize critical opportunity when it happens
Emotionally regulate in challenging situations
Increase personal accountability
Gather the right kind of support
Celebrate wins, big or small
Shorten the cycle time between problematic events and solutions

Workbook “Creating Critical Opportunity” will be available to buy during lunch and learn if desired.

Adams Hub Lunch & Learn sessions featuring lunch from Bella Vita!

This session will help leaders reach goals specific to career transition, interpersonal and professional communication, performance management and building effective teams within an organization.

What will attendees learn? Creating an environment that makes high performance possible, how to create a system that measures the right things at the right times within a business, Improving employees performance with consistent feedback

If you would like to order lunch please call Adams Hub at 775-222-0001

If the prospect of having to do sales causes you to feel anxiety, then this is a must-attend workshop. Through a process of shifting your core beliefs about the sales process, you’ll begin to view yourself and your message in a new light. We’ll then combine this mindset shift with a solid sales framework to transform the sales experience in a positive way for both you and your clients.

Adams Hub Lunch & Learn sessions featuring lunch from Bella Vita!
Please call 775-222-0001 to order your lunch, before 5:00pm Monday evening

The next Carson City Board of Supervisor’s meeting will take place Thursday, Sept. 16 beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Robert ‘Bob’ Crowell Board Room in the Carson City Community Center, located at 851 E. William Street.

Items up for discussion include using inmates to maintain city parks, the naming of open space land, a presentation on voter outreach, and more.

How long have you lived here? Where did you move from?

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — Caltrans has reopened State Route 89 between Meyers and Hope Valley, Pickett's Junction, but US50 and SR88 remain closed. Crews are working to make US50 between Kyburz and South Lake Tahoe safer for the public to travel by cutting down trees and clearing burned debris.

CARSON CITY — GreenUP! and Western Nevada College partnered to offer a free workshop for auto repair and auto body shops in Nevada on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021 at Western Nevada College in the E.L. Cord Automotive Technology Center. The workshop is made possible with funding provided from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Squaw Valley ski resort officials announced Monday they are changing the name of the world-renowned resort near Truckee to 'Palisades Tahoe' after a year-long process. Officials changed the name to remove the word 'squaw,' which is considered offensive as an ethnic and sexual slur for Indigenous North American women.

Wow! Dayton Valley Days is this weekend, September 18 and 19, and since most people need a change of pace nowadays, the Historical Society of Dayton Valley invites everyone to visit our booths on Pike Street, and to learn about Dayton’s 19th Century culture by visiting the Dayton Museum at 135 Shady Lane and Logan, a short walk from the Dayton Valley Community Center. Admission is free.

The Carson City Symphony Association will hold a Lecture-Demonstration-Workshop on Tuesday, Sept. 21, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., in the orchestra/band room at Carson High School, 1111 N. Saliman Road, Carson City.

An afternoon tea at the Governor's Mansion will be held Oct. 16 as a fundraiser to benefit Carson City's Holiday with a Hero program.

Can you create a monster of a horror film in 2 weeks? The Carson City Classic Cinema Club, Second Unit Presents: Carson Creepy Short Horror Film Competition.

Competition begins on Sept. 29 and ends of Oct. 13. Cost $25 per entry. Register and additional information online at creepyww.com.

Carson Chamber Singers, a 50 person chorus directed by Richard Hutton, performs the a cappella masterwork, All-Night Vigil by Sergei Rachmaninoff in two beautiful venues: St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral (310 W. 2nd Street, Reno) on Saturday Nov. 6th at 7:00 p.m., and St. Mary in the Mountains (111 E Street, Virginia City) on Sunday November 7th at 4:00 p.m. The concert is 60 minutes without intermission.

The Nevada Highway Patrol has identified a Lyon County woman who died with her unborn child in a Sept. 8 crash in Yerington.

Start your weekend with pancakes, sausage, eggs and Larry's Gourmet Coffee in historic downtown Dayton this weekend at Dayton Valley Days!

Prepare your pajamas as V&T Railway is celebrating the return of The Polar Express Train Ride in Carson City this 2021 holiday season. After taking a year off due to the pandemic, the railway is now selling tickets to this immersive family-oriented experience at Eastgate Depot.

These photos of this weekend's Great Reno Balloon Race were submitted by Gary K. Gundlach of Dayton.

Nicole Berwager and Russ Ristine have been elected to the board of directors of NCET, a member-supported non-profit that produces educational and networking events to help people explore businesses and technology across Carson City, Reno, Sparks, Tahoe and the rest of Northern Nevada.

Berwager, elected as vice president of membership and event services for lunches, works as sales and event manager at Official ASM Global, the company that manages the Reno-Sparks Convention Center, the Reno Events Center, the National Bowling Stadium and the Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center.

The American Dream in business is the “belief that anyone, regardless of where they were born or what class they were born into, can attain their own version of success in a society in which upward mobility is possible for everyone. The American dream is believed to be achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking, and hard work, rather than by chance.” So writes Adam Barone in Investopedia on July 21, 2021.

A 23-year-old man was arrested Saturday for suspicion of gross misdemeanor destruction of property, hit and run causing property damage and DUI after allegedly crashing into a light pole and leaving the scene.

When the lake we love for its scenic splendor showed up in a photo on the front page of the New York Times with the caption "The lake that Mark Twain once called ‘the fairest picture the whole Earth affords,’ looks and smells like the bottom of an ashtray,” well, that was enough to sink my heart to the very bottom of Lake Tahoe.

The Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation, which has served northern Nevada as a non-profit since 1980, has donated a vehicle to Carson Tahoe Health for its behavioral health outreach programs. The vehicle will be used to assist CTH professionals and increase access to care through programs such as Assertive Community Treatment, First Episode Psychosis), school suicide risk assessments and community education around mental health awareness and suicide.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of Sept. 13-19. Closures are expected at the following locations due to road and utility work:

Carson City Fire Department, sheriff's deputies and the Nevada Highway Patrol responded Sunday evening to a vehicle rollover with multiple injuries on southbound I-580 south of the William Street exit.

The Carson City Classic Cinema Club Second Unit presents a night of viewing and voting for the Short Western Film Making Competition.

Carson City Fire Department and sheriff's deputies responded early Sunday evening to a vehicle crash involving a teenager who was reportedly on a bicycle near the intersection of William Street and Saliman.

The Great Reno Balloon Race held this weekend celebrated its 40th year.

With the theme "wildlife" for its monthly photo contest — which also included insects — the Carson City Photo Club announced its August winners recently.

My friend sent me a photo of an insect to identify. The photo was of the common, prolific pests of elm trees, elm leaf beetles. If you have elm trees, most likely you have these beetles. They go together like ash trees and aphids.

Northern Nevada Development Authority will host a free webinar on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021 at 8 a.m. in collaboration with NV Energy. To protect their customers and communities from the risk of wildfires, NV Energy has implemented Public Safety Outage Management in Extreme and Elevated Fire Risk areas of Nevada, including zones within Northern Nevada.

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