On Thursday, July 30, Google co-hosted an online workshop with the Nevada Small Business Development Center and the Connected Commerce Council for Nevada as part of the tech company’s ‘Grow with Google’ initiative. ‘Grow with Google’ aims to help create economic opportunity in communities across the United States by providing free training, tools, and expertise for people across their country to grow their skills, careers, and businesses.

A special session was meant to be held Thursday, July 30 which would discuss COVID-19 issues, problems with unemployment, voting reform, and possible police reform, among other issues.

Bonnie Bulla, who was appointed to Department 3 of the Nevada Court of Appeals by Governor Steve Sisolak in February 2019, and is running to retain that seat in the November general election, will be the featured speaker at Monday's virtual Democratic luncheon. She is opposed by Susan Bush, a Las Vegas attorney in private practice.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — After much discussion and deliberation, the USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit has made the difficult decision to cancel planned interpretive programs and visitor services at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center through the end of October, including second- and third-grade conservation education field trips. In addition, we have made the decision to cancel the Fall Fish Festival this year, an event that typically draws up to 12,000 visitors over the weekend.

The Brewery Arts Center normally provides the Levitt-Amp concert series throughout the summer, but due to COVID-19 the festivities were cancelled this year. The BAC, however, along with several Carson City community partners, stepped up to bring safe family fun to the capital city, including the Flatbed Concert Series and drive-in movie nights.

CARSON CITY — It’s a new era for wildland conservation. In Nevada, taking a proactive, science-driven approach to inform habitat conservation and management decisions is the foremost priority of the Nevada Division of Natural Heritage.

In a controversial open letter to the Douglas County Library Board that has since made national headlines, Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley threatened to withhold emergency services from the library after they proposed to support Black Lives Matter in an agenda item.

The Carson City School District School Board of Trustees approved the district’s proposed School Reopening Plan Tuesday night by a 4-3 vote. The trustees also voted to update the 2020-2021 Academic School Calendar, moving the official first day of school for students to begin Monday, Aug. 24, a week later than the day previously set for Monday, Aug. 17.

CARSON CITY — Nevada Department of Public Safety Director George Togliatti appointed John Letos as Chief of the DPS Capitol Police Division. Chief Letos began his official command on July 15, 2020, and succeeds Dale W. Liebherr, who recently retired.

In the midst of an unexpected recession and staggering job losses across the country, NV Energy has proposed a massive new transmission infrastructure project that it says will create jobs, boost the economy and help promote renewable energy development.

The Carson City School Board voted Tuesday in favor of the reopening plan proposed by the school district with a 4-3 vote, which includes pushing the starting date to Aug 24, with a few alterations from the original plan.

A 46-year-old Carson City man was arrested Tuesday in the area of South Curry and Fourth Street for suspicion of gross misdemeanor child endangerment and misdemeanor DUI, a sheriff's deputy report states.

With casinos reopening statewide on June 4, gaming revenue showed signs of rebound for the month, including those establishments around Carson City, which were among the state's best climbers, according to figures released Wednesday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

Carson City Health and Human Services is reporting Tuesday, July 28, 2020 that there are 21 new positive cases and 16 additional recoveries of COVID-19 in the Quad-County Region. This brings the total number of cases to 636, with 477 recoveries and ten deaths, 149 cases remain active.

Tonight beginning at 6 p.m., the Carson City School Board will be voting on the re-opening plans for all schools in the Carson City School District, which is slated to open on a proposed hybrid schedule. Families are also given the option of 100 percent distance learning, but there is no option at this time for 100 percent in school learning, except for certain special education students.

To watch the meeting live beginning at 6 p.m., you can tune in on Carson.org by following this link, which should be activated just before 6 p.m.: https://www.carson.org/transparency/meeting-agendas-minutes-and-recordings

CARSON CITY, Nev. — U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings, released its 2020-21 Best Hospitals rankings Tuesday, naming Carson Tahoe Health No. 1 for Best Hospitals in Nevada.

UPDATE 6:23PM: On July 28, 2020 the Douglas County Library Director Amy Dodson and Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley met to discuss the Douglas County Public Library’s proposed statement of diversity. The library board was scheduled to discuss the statement at a public meeting scheduled for July 28, 2020. Sheriff Coverley submitted a written letter for public comment in opposition of the statement.

UPDATE 11:04AM: At approximately 9:21 a.m., the Sheriff’s Office received an anonymous report of a dead body in a vacant field at the corner of Silver Sage Drive and Stafford Way in South Carson City. Patrol deputies responded to the area and located the body of an adult male near the center of the field, said Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong in a news release.

With ongoing uncertainty about the school year, families are prioritizing more technology in this year's back-to-school budgets to accommodate online and distance learning.

It is my honor and pleasure to offer this endorsement of Maurice White for Carson City Supervisor, Ward 2. It takes only a moment talking with him to realize that Mo has outstanding qualifications for this office. He is passionate about Carson City, and he is very knowledgeable of local issues, down to the minutest details. He has the patience and friendly disposition to discuss them to any depth of understanding that you would care to tolerate. And he’s equally able to discuss them at the policy and philosophical level, if that’s your preference.

Keith Alan Barnett is back at Bella Vita Bistro this Friday, July 31 starting at about 4:30 p.m. Your favorite Oklahoman, KAB will be playing his unique renditions of your favorite and original songs on the back patio.

Be sure and stop by for a cocktail (Ask Courtney to make you one of her specials) or stay and order dinner from the yummy selections. Always a fun time!

Bella Vita Bistro is located at the Carson Mall, 1304 S Stewart St, Carson City.

CARSON CITY — Last week, the Emergency Nurses Association announced that Carson Tahoe Health Emergency Department received the esteemed Lantern Award for 2020, which will span until 2023. The ENA recognizes just 25 emergency departments worldwide that exemplify exceptional practice and innovative performance in the core areas of leadership, practice, education, advocacy and research.

CARSON CITY — Girl Scouts of the Sierra Nevada and Girl Scouts of the USA announced Monday there are 24 new badges designed to help girls practice ambitious leadership in the crucial areas of automotive engineering, STEM career exploration, entrepreneurship, and civics, many of which remain male-dominated.

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