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Dany Bill, a 7-time Muay Thai world champion with an impressive record of 115 wins and 11 losses, is set to bring his unparalleled expertise to the Wild West Training Center in Carson City.

Muay Thai, known as one of the most effective striking systems in Mixed Martial Arts, will take center stage as Dany Bill imparts his knowledge to aspiring fighters and enthusiasts alike.

The Day of Days, the largest celebration of Nevada within the Silver State, returns for its 85th consecutive year Oct. 28, 2023 in Carson City.

This year, the theme is “Home Means Nevada,” courtesy of our beloved state song.

The first group of students incarcerated at Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City stepped into the prison's auto bay Monday, Aug. 28, for their first day of Auto 101, Introduction to General Mechanics offered by Western Nevada College. It has taken four years and the sustained effort and partnership of Campagni Auto Group, Nevada Department of Corrections, and WNC to reach this point.

Are you ready to embark on a fulfilling career with the State of Nevada? State agencies are actively seeking candidates for job openings and are eager to share insights about working for the State. Discover our comprehensive benefits package, which includes paid vacation and sick leave, 12 paid State holidays, public employees’ retirement, and health insurance.

Tuesday 8 Ball BCA Pool League
18 week Summer Pool League Session
Carson City Division August 2023
Week 10 of 18
(1) The Pool Lifeguards (Homegrown Bowl) 8/2 (win/loss) 1878 pts Games played: 128/52
(2) Concussion Protocol (Allstar Bar) 7/3 (win/loss) 1752 pts Games played: 115/65
(3) 3 Dog Night (Ed’s Doghouse) 6/4 (win/loss) 1717 pts Games played: 107/74
(4) Ravens (Allstar Bar) 5/5 (win/loss) 1742 pts Games played: 76/104
(5) Bob's Ball Busters (MJ’s Sportsbar) 5/5 (win/loss) 1705 pts Games played: 70/110

Happy Thursday, Carson City, and say hello to our pet of the week, Mamas!

Mamas is a 5-year-old gal who has been at Carson City Nevada Humane Society for a few weeks. She has been pretty shy in the shelter environment and could use a little love.

Carson City Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating a vehicle burglary that occurred recently at a Carson City residence around E. Nye Lane and Concord Drive.

Halloween Thrills & Chills at the "Odeon Oldies Talk" with the Paranormal Investigative team, "Thin Veil Investigators" (based in Carson City, NV...since November of 2005).

TVI members will narrate on several of their ghostly experiences around the region while on investigations.

Listen to the spellbinding spectral accounts, and watch intriguing and scary video clips via a bonus Powerpoint Program accompanying the lecture.

Odeon Saloon
65 Pike Street Dayton, NV
Wednesday October 25, 2023
7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:30

Tickets: $10.00 Pay At The Door

The October meeting of the Carson City Linux Users Group will be Saturday October 21 at the Carson City Public Library, upstairs in meeting room 1.

Meetings are free and open to the public.

https://www.carsoncitylug.org

The Carson High School Boys 5A Varsity Cross Country Team was named 2023 FALL season State Academic Team Champions, by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association the non-profit governing body of high school athletics in the Silver State. The team will be recognized at the NIAA State Cross Country Championships set for Saturday, Nov. 4, at Rancho San Rafael, in Reno.

Celebrate the Godmonster of Indian Flats' 50th anniversary with us from Oct. 13-15 at St. Mary's Art Center in Virginia City.

Our friends from AGFA and Something Weird have dubbed Godmonster of Indian Flats as "easily the most berserk, out-of-control, and inexplicably deranged creature feature in the history of forever."

The nonprofit Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties holds a public breakfast meeting every other month. The next meeting is Thursday, Oct. 12, 9 a.m. at the Silver Springs Community Center.

Guest speakers include Ashle Doran, who will give a presentation on Comstock Youth Works' successful summer job skills and paid internship program for teens throughout Lyon County.

This Saturday, Oct. 14, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., shop at Evergreen Gene’s Nursery & Garden, Gifts & Toys located at 3060 US 50 E. in Carson City. Gene Munnings, owner of Evergreen Gene’s, is generously donating all proceeds from the sales for the entire day to Meals on Wheels, Carson City.

Fall is upon us. While many of us are enjoying pumpkin spiced lattes and carving pumpkins, we are also strolling along the river corridor to look at the changing leaves in our cottonwoods.

Fall is a great time to get out and add to our cottonwood population along the river. Carson City Parks, Recreation and Open Space invites the community to come out and plant young cottonwoods with staff at Carson River Park from 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18.

Clouds form over Carson City on Tuesday.

Family Fun & Fit Day is back at Tumbleweeds Gymnastics in Carson City. 10/22 1-4

Family Fun & Fit Day is back at Tumbleweeds Gymnastics in Carson City. Join us on Sunday, Oct. 22 from 1-4 pm.

When Jenny Haas’ father Gene Anderson began showing signs of dementia, she thought her father was just getting older.

After he received a visit from Adult Protective Services, Jenny’s life was turned upside down as she struggled to find a new home for her father. During his disease, Jenny advocated for Gene’s health and safety until the day he died.

Sierra Academy of Style is hosting a safe trick or treat event located at our main campus at 1851 S Roop St no. 100 from 12p to 3p.

Dress up the kids and come down for some awesome fun!! We'll have face painting and multiple doors to knock on which have their own theme!!

Western Nevada College is delighted to announce the hiring of 2011 WNC graduate Kara Spracklin as the new Realizing Opportunities for the American Dream to Succeed (ROADS) program coordinator.

Helping students succeed has encompassed Spracklin’s professional career as the previous coordinator of Student Success at the University of Nevada, Reno, and now in her new role at WNC: “I’m excited that I’m able to work with students from rural communities, meet new colleagues and expand opportunities for students to be successful academically, professionally and personally.”

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is pleased to announce it has partnered with Carson City Toyota and the Ron Wood Family Resource Center this October to offer all community members from the area to come join us for a child car seat safety check.

Cold, subfreezing temperatures are likely Wednesday night into Thursday morning for Carson City, Carson Valley and surrounding areas, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a freeze watch.

The moon and Venus captured in Eastern Carson City on October 10, 2023.

Join us every Wednesday night, 6 p.m. at Swan Music Hall inside the Nashville Social Club in Carson City for unforgettable evenings of country and line dancing hosted by the renowned Instructor/DJ Tim Renner.

Median home prices in September are up 8 percent in Carson City, 12 percent in Lyon County and 7.9 percent over last year's September figures in Washoe County. Elsewhere, home prices are down in other surrounding counties, according to Sierra Nevada Realtors in its 2023 monthly report.

The next Carson City School District School Board meeting will take place Tuesday Oct. 10 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Robert ‘Bob’ Crowell Board Room within the Carson City Community Center.

Join us every Tuesday night at the Nashville Social Club in Carson City for the ultimate trivia showdown! From 7pm to 9pm, rally your squad for an electrifying DJ Trivia Night experience that'll have you on the edge of your seats. Our fantastic DJ Host will keep the energy high as you battle it out for fantastic prizes, all while enjoying great music and delicious drinks.

Carson City Fire Department and sheriff's deputies were called Tuesday morning to a single vehicle accident where a vehicle drove off a cliff in Combs Canyon.

Carson City’s newest ice cream shop, La Tapatía, will be hosting a grand opening and ribbon cutting tomorrow, Wednesday October 11.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office will be closed to the public due to a police training event from 2 to 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023.

The Saint Vincent de Paul Society is in the middle of a 5-year commitment to provide new winter clothing to our homeless Neighbors in Need in order to protect vulnerable adults and children from our coldest weather. We received a Nevada Covid-19 Grant in 2021 that allowed us to purchase nearly $22,000 of winter coats, gloves, hats, socks and sleeping bags to prevent the spread of Covid-19 within our homeless citizen community.

What is identified as “The Orthodox Church” today is the original Christian Church established by Jesus Christ, handed down to His Apostles, and described in the pages of the New Testament. It was one Church until a split separated Orthodox East from Latin West in the eleventh century but the Orthodox Faith and practice has continued unaltered for two thousand years.

Dress up the kids and pups and come enjoy a fun and free event for the community, Tick Or Treating at MidTown Marketplace on Friday Oct. 27th from 3pm-7pm.

We will have over 30 indoor vendor booths that are decorated for Halloween and each one will be passing out candy for the kiddos and there will also be goodie bags for the pups!

MidTown Marketplace is located at 104 Corbett St.in Carson City.

Gov. Joe Lombardo announced Monday that he would lower the flags to half-staff and light the Nevada State Capitol Building blue in honor of the victims of the terror attacks in Israel.

Learn more about Western Nevada College's manufacturing program during Manufacturing Month on Tuesday, Oct. 10.
The Workforce, Career and Technical Education department is presenting an open house for its manufacturing program from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Technology at the Carson City campus.

The University Women’s Club will host guest speaker, Judy Schumer, on Saturday, Oct. 14, 1:30 p.m., at the Douglas County Community Senior Center, 1329 Waterloo Lane, Gardnerville.

Training sessions for volunteers will be held by Night Off the Streets, Inc., warming center on Oct. 17 and again on Oct. 21 at the First United Methodist Church in Carson City.

For the seventh year, NOTS will provide a place for those without homes to sleep during the winter nights from Nov. 1 through March 31. A different church in Carson City hosts the warming shelter each month. All community members are welcome to serve as volunteers.

The Carson City Intuitive Center is a branch of the Reno Psychic Institute.
We are a safe place to explore your psychic abilities without having to go to Reno.
Carson City Intuitive Center offers classes, healings, and readings right here in Carson City.

NEW CLASS STARTING SATURDAY October 28th
Women’s Energy – 6-week class
Book online, walk-ins always welcome!

CARSON CITY INTUITIVE CENTER SATURDAY SCHEDULE
Aura/Chakra Healing Clinic – 1st & 3rd Saturday
10am - 1pm – walk-in’s welcome – by donation

Pet Healing Clinic
Every 1st Saturday of the month (weather permitting)

Rather than tossing used tennis balls in the trash, Carson High School boys tennis team player David Sulik had a different idea and suggested the CHS teams donate the used ones to an animal shelter at the end of the season.

Two Yerington men have been identified in a fatal crash that happened Oct. 1 on USA Parkway, State Route 439 in Lyon County, according to Nevada State Police Highway Patrol Division.

Donna Lee West, 83, of Carson City, Nev., valiantly fought and decided to let go on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023 surrounded by her family, lovingly at her side.

With multiple state job openings and a need to fill those positions, the state is holding hiring fairs at the Nevada State Library & Archive building in Carson City. The next hiring fair is this Wednesday, Oct. 11.

A 42-year-old man was arrested Saturday for a felony warrant alleging burglary, according to a Carson City Sheriff's Office booking report.

Mile High Jazz Band presents "October Jazz at Gina's," an evening of big-band music with singer Jakki Ford, on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Gina's Good Life Music & Lounge, 507 N. Carson Street, inside the Carson Nugget.

The music is free, donations are welcome. Gina's is a smoke-free, air-conditioned venue, and has a well-stocked bar.

Celebrating nearly three decades of turning the round, orange members of the squash family into memorable Halloween carving traditions, Seeliger Elementary School in Carson City will host its 29th annual Pumpkin Patch Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023.

The State Board of Education voted last week to move forward with a proposed regulation to address high school start times earlier than 8 a.m. but changed its target implementation date from next school year to the 2025-26 school year to gather more data and public input on the shift before the policy is finalized.

On Thursday, Oct. 12, Valhalla Tahoe presents a Chautauqua performance of the father of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the despot of the Eastern Sierra, William Mulholland.

The USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit has begun the annual process of closing National Forest recreational facilities around the Lake Tahoe Basin for the winter season. Seasonal closures apply to many recreation areas and sites including beaches, campgrounds, forest roads, parking lots, and picnic areas.

On the 30th of September, trembling like an Aspen in Autumn, I stepped onto the stage at Piper’s Opera House in front of a packed Virginia City house. What in tarnation was I about to say? I had two hours of information to cram into 90 minutes, some things had to go, but what? I can’t remember now what I decided, but our trusted friends at PBS Reno will air a portion of it on Oct. 15.

In late summer, rabbitbrush, a gorgeous plant despite its unflattering specific name which means “nauseating,” lines the highways and clusters in clumps between the sagebrush with a striking combination of golden flowers and silver-green foliage. — Elna Bakker, An Island Called California.

A weekend of fall events are lined up at Greenhouse Garden Center in Carson City, beginning Friday and Saturday with an old fashioned apple cider press available for anyone with apples, plus a pumpkin growing contest and free pesticide waste collection on Saturday.

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