The Nevada Day Parade in downtown Carson City drew tens of thousands to Carson Street today to watch and celebrate the Silver State's statehood.
Parade-goers were treated this morning with an air show above the Carson City skies, including the traditional F18 Hornet fly-over.

Click here for more photos. Festivities continue today with the annual Nevada Day Beard Contest at the Capitol Amphitheater. This begins immediately following the parade.

A Carson City tradition, the Halloween Haunted House hosted by Rafael Adrian, is back on after a delay.
The Haunted House is located at 1137 Lindsay Lane in Carson City. Doors open tonight, Friday, at 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. The Haunted House will also be open each night through Halloween, 7 to 10 p.m. The cost is a non-perishable food item that will be donated to the Ron Woods Family Resource Center.

Judy Whites letter about John McKenna's job at Access TV is right on the money. John MckEnna was the teasurer on the Board of Trustees for the Carson Access Television Foundation when over $500,00 dollars was embezzeled by Craig Swope. I remember this story now because I was so outraged that Craig Swope got a slap on the wrist while any Joe Smo would have got years in prison. The president of that Board was Tom Baker. Mr. Baker had been in office longer than the by laws permitted.

Carson City School District Superintendent Richard Stokes talks about the school bond question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s63SDhf038

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – Senate Democrats are running a slate of candidates across the state in the hopes of winning a 14-seat, veto-proof majority for the upcoming 2011 session.
But Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Reno, said he does not expect it to happen, and he has not discounted the possibility of the GOP winning the majority.

As reported in the Nevada Appeal and Carson Now, Doppelganger’s bar and restaurant downtown has new owners, and will be changing its name.

The old Lucky Spur building downtown has gone through some changes over the years, from the vacant rats' nest, to Stew's Sportatorium, to its current identity of Doppelgangers. And under it's current name, it's seen many changes.

But now it looks like it will have a new owner and new name. Jim Phalan, owner of Firkin & Fox, will be taking over Doppelgangers and converting it to the Knee Deep Brewing Company.

Boy Mr. Farmer and Mr. Joiner must have struck a very sensitive nerve with Mr. Neighbors. Steve Neighbors had a commentary article a week before Guy Farmers article telling us how concerned he is for Carson City's future. He proceded to tell us who he would vote for if he lived here. He endorsed Williamson and Abrowd (both for the Nugget Bail Out Project), but did not list any other issues (School Board candidates, School Bond, Governors race ect). Keep up the Good work Farmer and Joiner in making Neighbors accountable for all the facts not just the facts that benefit the Nugget.

Can't come to the Nevada Day Parade this year? You can watch the parade LIVE at WeShootVideo.com at 10am on October 30th.

We Shoot Video, a local video production company will webcast the 2010 Nevada Day Parade live online via internet streaming.

Carson City paramedics were called Wednesday to the Aquatic Facility on Roop Street after a child was pulled from the water and not breathing, authorities said.

Care Flight transported the 11-year-old boy from Carson-Tahoe Hospital to Renown Medical Center in Reno, according to Sheriff Ken Furlong. The child was taken by ambulance from the aquatic center to the hospital.

At the time the child arrived at the hospital he had a pulse and was breathing on his own, Furlong said.

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
RENO – Secretary of State Ross Miller said today there have been no complaints filed with his office about suspicious voter activity despite email rumors and media accounts that at least some electronic voting machines are pre-programmed to support U.S. Senate candidate Harry Reid, D-NV.

Thank you, Dayton, for supporting the Dayton Food Pantry!

The yard sale to benefit the Dayton Food Pantry raised over $1400! This will go a long way toward providing nutritious foods to families in the Dayton Valley.

Thank you to all those who helped feed their neighbors by donating items for sale and/or braving the stormy weather to shop at the sale.

The Dayton Food Pantry is run entirely by volunteers, and made possible because every part of the community- clubs, nonprofits, schools, county services, businesses, faith groups, etc - works together to stop hunger.

Super-cold temperatures have allowed Heavenly Mountain Resort to begin making snow at nights this week.

Signaling that the Lake Tahoe snowsports season is just days away if temperatures continue to cooperate, the West Coast’s largest snowmaking system gives Heavenly’s guests confidence that they will be skiing and snowboarding on Heavenly’s opening day, scheduled for Friday, Nov. 19, weather and conditions permitting.

Wendy Madson of Healthy Communities Coalition will facilitate an open meeting on Monday Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. at the Dayton Community Center at 170 Pike Street for any groups that are or would like to be involved in any community assistance for Dayton during the holidays (gifts, coats, hats, mittens, etc.)

There’s a herd of buffalo living in the Carson Valley, right by the highway. Most of the time they’re kept in a little pen back where you can’t see them. Today they were out in the big field, though, making a rare appearance. For more photos, go to aroundcarson.com.

Back in August, the little yellow house at the corner of Curry and Seventh burned. The fire actually started in the trailer that was parked out back, and most of the trailer was destroyed, along with the shed next to it. The house itself didn’t get a whole lot of damage, mostly just in the back. But back then I wondered if maybe that little bit of damage was enough to spell the end of the house. This week we got our answer.

Eighteen members of the local chamber's popular Leadership Carson City program now join more than 300 graduates, having successfully completed the program earlier this month.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2011 session, which begins Jan. 13. The Leadership program has been offered annually by the Carson City Chamber of Commerce since 1989.

A Carson City man wanted by authorities as a fugitive, buried himself inside the insulation of an attic crawl space in an attempt to hide but was instead found and forced out by a police K9 dog.

Gregg Rowland, 45, an unemployed man who's address listed is 114 S. Division Street, was arrested on Monday by Carson City Sheriff's Office deputies. He faces several charges, including failing to register as a convicted sex offender.

Red Ribbon Week is the nation’s oldest and largest drug prevention campaign in the nation reaching millions of Americans near the last week of October every year. By wearing red ribbons and participating in community events, young people pledge to live sober and thus healthier, lives.

During this year’s Red Ribbon Week, Healthy Communities Coalition asks adults to respond to the growing epidemic of prescription drug misuse among youths by keeping medications locked up, and properly disposing of old medications.

Carson Mall and Paradise Cove Cafe host a Halloween Costume Party on Friday, Oct. 29 at 6:30 p.m. There will be live music with Bad Intent. For more information, call 841-1199.

Northstar-at-Tahoe can now be added to the Vail Resorts ownership roster.

Company officials announced today that a $63 million deal was struck between the Colorado-based ski giant Vail Resorts and Booth Creek Resorts, owners of Northstar-at-Tahoe.

By Nevada News Bureau staff
CARSON CITY – A survey of more than 600 chief executive officers who rated the best and worst states for business in 2010 has scored Nevada highly at fifth place, an improvement of one spot over 2009.