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John Robert "Bob" Burnett 71, passed away peacefully in his home surrounded by his family on April 1, 2012 after battling multiple illnesses for many years. Born in Clovis, New Mexico September...

Concetta (Connie) Kulikowski, a resident of Carson City for the past six years, previously of Las Vegas for 36 years, passed away on March 29, 2012 at the age of 90. She was born June 11, 1921 in ...

The annual Kiwanis Easter Egg Hunt is always a fun time for kids, with hundreds scrambling to pick up as many treats as they can from the fields of Centennial Park in Carson City.

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it.

That's the basis of the argument being put forward by some of the more vocal supporters of the Carson City Center Project, aka Nugget Project, as they try to fight back the attempt to put the issue on the November ballot.

They would be wise to follow their own advice.

Edgar J. Artesani, 86, of Carson City, Nevada, passed away April 4, 2012. Washoe Memorial is caring for arrangements.Tammie K. Davis, 51, passed away April 4, 2012 in Carson City, Nevada. Arrangeme...

Katie C. Stumph, 93, passed away April 5, 2012 in Sparks, NV. Katie was born October 30, 1918 in Shell Lake, WI to Henry and Olga Baumgartner. Katie had been a resident of Carson City, NV since...

The first game of the season for these two U10 teams, was exciting. The final score was Tidal Waves 14, Pink Diamonds 9.

For the Tidal Waves, Kailie Lushar pitched 3 fine innings, with 7 strike outs, 1 walk and allowing 2 runs.

Top hitters were: Kailee Lushar (2), Maali DeLeon (1) and Kedre Lushar (1). Scoring runs were: Brigette Quintero (2), Kendal Moore (3), Kedre Lushar (2), Kailee Lushar (3), Maali DeLeon, Sydney Fields, Grace Foster and Jordan Sheppard.

CARSON CITY – While Democrats registered more voters in March than Republicans, a GOP official noted this week that the party has made gains in four state Senate districts that are key to who will control the house in the 2013 legislative session.

A spokesman for Senate Democrats questioned the importance of the GOP analysis, however, noting that Democrats registered more voters than Republicans in two of the seats from February to March.

A Carson City man was injured this morning in a one-vehicle accident on U.S. 395. The Nevada Highway Patrol released the following information about the accident:

The Carson City Emblem Club #507 is sponsoring their annual Second Hand Lil sale on Saturday, April 21, 2012 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Carson City Elks Lodge.

Come by and purchase a prom dress, evening wear, business attire, shoes, jewelry and more. These items are gently used, high quality clothing. The proceeds will be added to our Charitable Funds to help our community. Recently we have donated to Douglas and Carson City High Schools Safe Grad Nites and Camp TLC for hearing impaired children. There will be a light lunch of tea sandwiches available for $5.

Alice Burke, 82, of Carson City, Nevada, passed away April 3, 2012. Arrangements are entrusted to Walton's Chapel of the Valley. 775-882-4965Justine "Noya" Koos, 75, of Gardnerville, passed away Ap...

Carson City Sheriff's deputies involved in the Special Enforcement Team made a series of arrests on Wednesday evening based on an anonymous tip of marijuana plants being grown. Four people were arrested:

  • Justin Lobretto, 29, a Carson City man, for possession of a controlled substance (marijuana - approximately 60 plants). Lobretto was also arrested for a gross misdemeanor allegation of child endangerment and a misdemeanor allegation of possession of drug paraphernalia. Bail is set at $6,000 plus administrative fees.

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The Carson City Sheriff's Office has announced that they will be holding their Citizen Academy beginning May 2. These academies are available several times a year to the public who are interested in learning how the Sheriff's Office operates. Classes will run from May 2 through June 20 and will be held from 6 p.m. through 9 p.m. Wednesday evenings at the Ormsby Room of the Sheriff's Office.

There is no charge for these classes. The deadline for completed applications is 5 p.m. April 27, 2012.

See the full inspection reports below:

As Spring tries to peak through the cold mist of the Sierra Mountain Range, a small ray of hope blossoms in the trees.

CARSON CITY – A member of the state Transportation Department Board of Directors questioned today the proposed selection process for a new agency director.

Diane Hansen, Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer - Hansen Marketing Communica

Local marketing communications expert, Diane Hansen, was featured in PRWeek for her work on GlitzyLips - an international cosmetics brand. Hansen specializes in quick-hit campaigns that deliver fast results. The article is below.

Lip service from Katy Perry puts product on the map

Tanya Lewis
March 30, 2012

Client: GlitzyLips (Houston, TX)
Agency: Hansen Marketing Communications (Carson City, NV)
Campaign: Operation Glitzy Grammy
Duration: February 11 – February 14 2012
Budget: $1,500

Elaine and I just returned home from a special way to celebrate a special occasion. March 30 was our 10th wedding anniversary and we had wanted to do something out of the ordinary for that event.

When we were married 10 years ago, we took a 19 day honeymoon in Southeast Asia, which included Hong Kong, China; Singapore, Malaysia; Bangkok, Thailand; and the last eight days at Bali, Indonesia.

Most interesting, we took my new mother-in-law, Mary Bottoms, with us!
I bet that very few of you took your mother-in-law on your honeymoon!

Josephine Pickens Varner, 73, died peacefully surrounded by her family on March 28, 2012. She had valiantly battled the debilitating disease Inclusive Myocitis for 12 years. Born in San Francis...

Ellen McAndrews, 79, of Carson City, Nevada, passed away March 30, 2012. Fitzhenry's Funeral Home is caring for arrangements.Bernard Walter Daniel, 69, of Carson City, passed away March 30, 2012. W...

Norma Ruby, 72, a resident of Indian Hills community, died Sunday, March 25, 2012. She was born April 19, 1939 at Annapolis, California to Douglas and Dessie Holt. She was a Carson City area resid...

Dorene Jessie Bergendahl, 75, passed away March 30, 2012 in Carson City, NV. Dorene was lovingly called 'Scottie' by her friends and family. Scottie was born January 22, 1937 in Glasgow, Scotlan...

Mayor Robert Crowell is teaming up with Nevada’s First Lady Kathleen Sandoval, Immunize Nevada, and the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services’ Maternal Child Health Division for Mayors and Mommies Month starting April 1.

Mayors and Mommies Month is a statewide initiative encouraging Nevada’s mothers to sign up for Text4Baby, a free national health information text messaging service. The goal of Mayors and Mommies Month is to have 4,000 mothers signed up for Text4Baby by Mother’s Day, May 13.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency announced the schedule of public meetings and workshops for public input on the Regional Plan Update draft and environmental documents for Lake Tahoe being released later this month.

CARSON CITY – Nearly 1,000 state and local government workers, many of them firefighters and police, make over $200,000 a year when all pay and benefits are counted, according to a 2011 pay analysis published today by the Nevada Policy Research Institute.

Thomas J. Huddleston, Nevada's state fire marshal from 1977 until 1987, died March 22 in Poulsbo, Wash., after a lengthy illness. He was 69. As fire marshal, Huddleston was instrumental in the com...

Here is this week's fishing report for rivers, lakes and streams in Nevada, Northern California, the Sierra and Southern Oregon. This report is for the week of April 4.

The Eastern Sierra Back Country Fishing Guide is designed to provide anglers with a quick, informative and accurate account of the distribution of fisheries in back country high elevation lakes.
This guide does not address front country waters, defined as lakes and streams that are accessible by vehicle.
The individual lake information is based on DFG surveys conducted from 2001 to present, with some surveys dating back to 1995.
More than 3,000 lakes have been surveyed for fish and amphibians and related habitat features.

This is a first reminder that if you're one of many tens of thousands of big game hunters interested in drawing a 2012 hunting tag for Pronghorn Antelope, Mule Deer, California Bighorn Sheep, Desert (Nelson) Bighorn Sheep, Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Rocky Mountain Elk and Rocky Mountain Goat in the State of Nevada, be advised that the final deadline for RECEIVING your application(s) is 5 p.m. on Monday, April 16.

The drawing results will be made available to the public by June 11. If you want to apply, you can do so by one of two different methods: 


Here are the most recent fish plants in Western Nevada by the Nevada Department of Wildlife.

March 26: Squaw Creek Reservoir north of Gerlach in Washoe County: 1,506 rainbow trout: 10.0 inches in length.
March 26: Truckee River in Washoe County: 7,002 rainbows: 8.6 inches.
March 28: West Walker River in Lyon County: 10,383 brown trout fingerlings: 1.9 inches.
March 28: Wilson Common in Washoe Valley: 502 rainbows: 10.0 inches.
March 28: Davis Creek Pond in Washoe Valley: 502 rainbows: 10.0 inches.

Today several people staged a protest in front of the Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto's office in an effort to show solidarity and that Masto's office has abused her privilege to serve Nevada.

CARSON CITY – Nevada’s Office of the Military figured it would be money ahead after entering into a contract with a firm to build solar panels on three of its sites around the state to supply it with electricity.

But today officials with the office won approval from the state Board of Examiners to seek $46,284 from a legislative contingency fund to pay excess utility costs. The reason is because the solar energy being provided under the contract is costing the agency more than if it purchased electricity directly from NV Energy.

Feel free to download the press release below.

The annual Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Ceremony will be held at noon May 3, 2012, at the Nevada State Capitol. The ceremony will honor the 120 peace officers who have been killed in the line of duty in Nevada.

Three officers have been killed in the line of duty over the last year: Deputy Sheriff Jack D. London, Clark County Sheriff's Office; Special Agent Don C. Ware, US DEA, Las Vegas; and Correctional Officer Tracy A. Hardin, Nevada Department of Corrections.

The Annual Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Run will begin on April 26.

Carson City Sheriff's deputies arrested the following individuals for felony allegations:

  • Charity Michael Rife, 35, a Sparks woman, was transferred to the Carson City Detention Facility from the Northern Nevada Correctional Facility on the following warrants out of Carson City: obtaining and using a false ID to avoid imprisonment; theft; burglary (two counts; uttering forged instruments (three counts); and theft from $250 - $2,500 (two counts). Bail is set at $50,000.

CARSON CITY – State AFL-CIO leader Danny Thompson said today his labor group is moving forward with a broad-based business profits tax ballot measure to raise money for education.

Thompson, interviewed on the Nevada NewsMakers television program, said the proposal will go forward as a petition to amend state law, which would first be considered by the Legislature in 2013. If the Legislature did not approve the measure within 40 days, it would go to the voters in 2014.

CARSON CITY – A lengthy legal dispute with the contractor who built the first phase of the Carson City freeway bypass was settled today for about $13.6 million by the Board of Examiners.

With $5.9 million in additional legal costs incurred by the state Department of Transportation to defend itself from the lawsuit filed by Ames Construction in 2008, the total cost to resolve the matter is $19.5 million.

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Test yourself and have some fun solving the mystery of what these great wines are! Includes light appetizers. 6pm-9pm, $15pp

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Come taste them straight up or with mixers, your choice! Includes light appetizers.
6-9pm. $20 per person.

The Bella Family
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Corner of 3rd & Curry Sts, Carson City
775-888-9463 (WINE)
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Lawrence E. Lathrop, 62, passed away March 29, 2012 in Carson City, Nevada. Capitol City Cremation & Burial is handling the arrangements. 775-882-1766Copyright 2012 -. All rights reserved. This mat...

Ernest D. Gilmore, Jr., a resident of Carson City for the past 42 years, passed away on March 29, 2012 at the age of 54, after a life long battle with diabetes. He was born June 18, 1957 in Sonora,...

Daniel B. Moran, a Carson City, resident passed away on March 29, 2012. Funeral services will be held on April 4, 2012 at 10:00AM at Autumn Funerals & Cremations, Burial will follow with Military H...

Carson City Sheriff's deputies arrested the following individuals on felony or gross misdemeanor allegations over the weekend:

  • Michael Eric Irwin, 26, a Carson City resident, was transported to the Carson City Detention Facility for allegations of lewdness with a child under 14, and two allegations of sexual assault of a child under 14. Irwin was arrested in Washoe County and transported to the CCDF at approximately 9:30 Friday evening. A warrant for Irwin's arrest was issued on March 26, 2012 by the Carson City Justice Court. Bail is set at $150,000.

CARSON CITY, Nev. – The Nevada Departments of Public Safety and Transportation are reminding motorists to always drive safely after Nevada traffic fatalities rose by nearly a third in the first three months of 2012 compared to the same time last year.

Preliminary numbers show that 57 traffic fatalities occurred on Nevada roads in the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 11 deaths over the same time last year.

A Carmichael, Calif., man has been arrested in the 31-year-old murder case of Richard Swanson, South Lake Tahoe police report.
On March 28, 2012 Andrew Sanford, 50, of Carmichael, was arrested and booked in the Sacramento County Jail for the murder of Richard Swanson. The robbery/homicide occurred on Aug. 14, 1980 in South Lake Tahoe at what was then the Shell Gas Station located at the “Y” on the corner of Lake Tahoe Blvd and Emerald Bay Road.

A man, a plan, a bathtub:

Local race fans will soon get a taste of live racing, as two dirt tracks, a road course, and a drag strip all begin their seasons this month. Next Saturday night the quarter mile dirt oval at Fallon’s Rattlesnake Raceway will open their season, with Hobby Stock, Pro Stock, GenX, Rat Mod, Super Four, and 360 Sprint divisions in action, as well as four divisions of Outlaw Karts. General admission is $10, with $5 tickets for seniors, kids less than 64” tall, and kids under 5 years old free.

The 99% Spring

Join Occupy Carson City participants and other community members in Downtown Carson City on Monday night, April 9th, during a nationwide 99% Spring Training week initiated by MoveOn.org.

We'll learn more about what happened to our economy, more about the history of non-violent direct action, and make plans for using that knowledge on grassroots campaigns to win change.

History is calling; it’s time to step up! Please join us and RSVP at:
http://moveon.org/event/99spring/128542

The same event is also happening in Reno on Sat. & Sun. April 14-15:

A father of 5, loving husband, and devoted Christian, is in the hospital right now after suffering multiple strokes and will be needing spinal/brain surgery. He was diagnosed with Klippel-Feil syndrome. This is a rare disorder in which the spine has abnormalities in it that are formed in the womb. His skull and first two vertebrates are fused together, and multiple more further down his spine. The abnormality is putting pressure on part of his brain. He currently has no health insurance. In an effort to help I have put together a raffle fundraiser to help towards his medical bills.

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