CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval today announced Gerald Gardner has been named chief of staff effective September 5. Gardner takes over for Heidi Gansert who has served as the governor’s chief of staff for the past twenty months and who announced her resignation yesterday.

United Blood Services invites you to a Free Health & Beauty Fair on Wednesday August 29th from 11:00Am-5:00PM
Join over 10 vendors for a fun,informative,and beautiful day!
From a free chair massage to a free Bio Photonic health scan that measures your antioxidant levels. Come enjoy lunch or a snack with us as you visit with our vendors. Free hourly raffles donated by the vendors.
You can call us to set up an appointment time for your chair massage and/or blood donation.

United Blood Services
256 E Winnie Lane
Carson City
887-9111

Candace Lee Kirkland passed away on August 12, 2012 in Carson City. Funeral Services will be held on Monday, August 20, 2012 at 10:00AM at Autumn Funerals & Cremations, burial will follow at Lon...

Would You Like To Give a Hand Up...Not a Handout?

Join us at any one of our upcoming informational meetings to learn
how you can make a positive change in the life of a family/individual living in poverty by volunteering a few hours per week.

Sept. 11, 2012
5:30PM
2621 Northgate Lane, Suite 10

To attend this event or for more information please call Brenda Silis, Circles Coordinator at (775) 883-6506.

www.capitalcitycircles.org

RENO – GOP Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, at one time a resident of Las Vegas, rallied supporters for Sen. Dean Heller’s election bid today at an area nightclub.

Rubio, who earlier in the day held a rally with Heller in Las Vegas, toured a local business, the Great Basin Brewing Company, before arriving at Mambo’s next to the Atlantis hotel-casino.

Several hundred supporters turned out for the Reno event.

The newspaper headline on page one on Aug. 15, 2002 said it all:
“They made it!”
Yes, they did! And, they did it in record-setting style.
Four athletes, who are personal friends of Elaine and I, completed 10 very physically and mentally-demanding challenges in a period of 10 grueling days, way back in 2002.
I know because we were there for each and every one of those 10 memorable days that resulted in the very first Nevada 10-in-10 Challenge going into the Nevada record book.
Those four were Karl Horeis, Jeremy Evans, Rick Gunn and K. M. Cannon.

CARSON CITY – A board overseeing the creation of the state’s health insurance exchange opted today not to seek general fund support to subsidize the fees charged to participants in the program.

The Finance and Sustainability Advisory Subcommittee of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange Board had proposed subsidizing the monthly fee paid by enrollees with a general fund appropriation from the state Insurance Premium Tax.

The names of the four fatality crash victims in the horrific fatality crash involving three vehicles in Lyon County on US Highway 50 this past Tuesday morning have been released today.

The three victims traveling in the GMC pickup are as follows:

Driver: Troy Sibson, 47 of Fernley.

Passenger: Noel (Mike) Sotka, 52 of Fernley.

Passenger: Douglas (Jason) Counterman, 30 of Fernley.

All three men were employees of the Pioneer Crossing Casino properties based in Fernley and Dayton.

Catch the live video here. The agenda is here.

Students receive introduction in drawing and painting in various mediums. Small class size will ensure that each student will receive individualized attention geared towards his or her ability level. All materials are included in tuition.
For more information or to register, visit out website www.breweryarts.org or call the Brewery Arts Center @ (775)883-1976 x116.

Tuition: $105 ($95 BAC Members)

Wednesdays 3:30pm-5:30pm November 7-January 2 (6 weeks)
Instructor: Lee Netzel

Location: Painting Studio

All ages welcome, no partner necessary. Learn various styles and have fun at the same time. The classes will start on September 16th with dancing every Sunday thereafter. Payment for class is made to the instructor at time of class.
For more information, please call the Brewery Arts Center @ (775)883-1976 x116.

Tuition: $8 per session
Sundays 4:00pm-5:30pm September 16-December 30
Instructor: Larry Ward
Location: Ballroom

Instruction in the use and application of pastel medium along with general art principles. Pay teacher at time of class

Open enrollment: $18 per session
Fridays 9am-12pm
Instructor: Lee Netzel
Location: Painting Studio

CARSON CITY – Nevada retailers and their online counterparts expect to see $245 million in spending on back-to-school merchandise for public school children this year, a 15.4 percent increase over spending levels in 2011, the Retail Association of Nevada (RAN) reported today.

CARSON CITY – More than $27 million in federal job training funds were awarded to two local workforce development boards by the Board of Examiners today despite ongoing concerns about how the money is being spent by the Southern Nevada board, called Workforce Connections.

CARSON CITY – Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., said today that any “green energy” policy that leads to higher electric bills for Nevadans who are looking for work in tough economic times is the wrong energy policy for the state.

“Nobody is anti-green,” he said. “We struggle to compete with the cost of a kilowatt hour when we talk about economic development. And economic development has something to do with jobs.”

Comstock Conflagration: Exciting Adventures During the Fabulous Virginia City Bonanza

CARSON CITY, NEVADA-Carson City Library will host author Larry Wilcox Tanner on Tuesday, August 21st at 6:00 p.m. “Comstock Conflagration: Exciting Adventures During the Fabulous Virginia City Bonanza”, published by Kettlebelly Enterprises in 2010, is a historical novel about a sheriff in Virginia City during the era of the Comstock Lode. His book will be available for purchase. This program is free and open to the public.

Here is an interview I did with Steve Neighbors, Hop and Mae Adams Foundation trustee and president of the Carson Nugget, talking about the new business incubator. Sorry, it took awhile to get the video up. Neighbors talks about how the foundation bought the old Stewart Title building in downtown Carson City and plan to locate the much-talked-about business incubator there. He also mentions they are looking at other locations to put other incubators to help people start new businesses.

Talk about a “dog with a bone”!

The Republican House of Representatives has once again voted to eliminate the Corporation for National and Community Service (“CNCS”). The first time they did this, the Senate voted it down and you would have thought that’s that.

CARSON CITY – The Nevada Department of Transportation is offering a new feature on its website making it easier to find information about Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) and for the businesses to provide detailed information about the goods and services they provide.

The agency’s Civil Rights Division unveiled the advanced search feature to simplify the process of identifying DBEs.

Expert guitarists Terry Scott, Steve Hayes, and Dave Bell provide music, conversation, and insights on playing guitar as part of a band. This is a great festival event for guitar students, musicians at all levels, and music fans who want to learn more about guitars and jazz. The event includes raffle drawing; grand prize is a guitar from the Guitar Center of Reno, custom adjusted by Terry Scott. They will wrap up the afternoon with a guitar jam.

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Lake Tahoe will be thrust in the spotlight again when scientists, public agencies and elected officials meet Aug. 13 for the 16th annual Lake Tahoe Summit. To be discussed with great interest is the protection and health of Lake Tahoe's fragile environment and economy.
“The health of the environment and the health of the economy at Tahoe are linked,” Derek Kauneckis, political science professor and researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno said. “And the collaborations that have been established at the Lake have set the stage for future efforts.”

The Carson Nugget unveiled its newly remodeled banquet facilities to members of the Carson City Chamber “Breakfast Club” this week.

Star Anderson, General Manager of the Carson Nugget told the group; “The old, dated colors are gone and what you see now is a clean, modern facility that can serve a variety of needs from gatherings as small as 10 to as large as 400.” She added; “This type of facility is one that is very much needed in the Carson City area and we are happy to fill that need.”

Natural forces and human actions have affected the lake s clarity, physics, chemistry and biology since 1968, when UC Davis first began continuous monitoring of Lake Tahoe.

Gaming revenue, known as "win" for Carson City area casinos, saw a slight increase of 1.11 percent for the month of June, the Nevada Gaming Control Board reported Thursday.
Carson City area casinos, which includes Minden and Gardnerville in Douglas County, took in in $8,229,305 in June compared to $8,136,730 during the same period last year.
Meanwhile South Shore Lake Tahoe area casinos posted a 17 percent increase for the month of June, taking in a "win" of $16,555,235 in June of this year compared to $14,128,801 during the same period in 2011.