After a couple weeks of average summer temperatures, Carson City and Northern Nevada will likely experience another heat wave at the end of the week. Strong high pressure will build over eastern California and western Nevada Friday and persist through the weekend, the National Weather Service reports.

Carson City and Lyon County nonprofit agencies have partnered with the United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra for a second round of funding.

The Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada, Friends in Service Helping (FISH) Community Chest, Healthy Communities Coalition, Central Lyon Youth Connections, Lyon County Human Services were named as grant recipients through various partnerships, for the 2012-13 fiscal year.

In all, more than $1.3 million will be distributed to Northern Nevada agencies, said United Way spokesman Scott Walquist.

Oct. 30, 1927 - June 27, 2013 Elenor Candee Frey Fort passed away on June 27, 2013 of natural causes. She was born in Fallon, Nevada to Paul and Virginia Candee on...

Oct. 2, 1945 - July 6, 2013 Barbara “Bobbie” Gayle Meacham, devoted wife, mother, and grandmother has passed from this world July 6, 2013. Born October 2, 1945 to ...

LAKE TAHOE — The possibility of Ernie Els and his part-time PGA Tour caddy, Dan Quinn, both winning their prominent golf tournaments on July 21 is a proposition bet in Nevada Sportsbooks this week.

Els will be defending his title at the 2013 British Open on the same weekend that Quinn, the former National Hockey League star, will be trying to repeat at the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.

Archaeologist Patti DeBunch, with EETZA Research Associates, speaks to a group of kids at the Boys & Girls Club of Western Nevada, in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, July 16, 2013. The event was co-sponsored by the Carson City Library as part of the Summer Reading Program.
Photo by Cathleen Allison / Nevada Photo Source

Dick Campagni's Carson City Toyota-Scion will hold a blood drive with United Blood Services Bloodmobile this Friday, July 19, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

If you donate blood you can enter to win a 2013 Toyota Corolla S.  Set your appointment by logging on to www.bloodhero.com. Put in the code CARSON TOYOTA.

Carson City Toyota Scion is located at 2590 South Carson Street.

A 31-year-old Reno woman faces a felony charge of grand larceny after Carson City deputies were able to look at surveillance video that showed her taking a 2005 Dodge truck on July 10 from the parking lot at Smith's.

Surprise someone with a front yard full of bright, pink flamingos! For a donation, you can have a flock of flamingos migrate to just about any Carson City residential front lawn.

When you order flocking, members of the Flamingo Flocking crew, the "Flockers", will deliver approximately 12 to 60 birds to unsuspecting yards to where they have been directed to roost, usually arriving unnoticed in the cloak of darkness.

John G. Campbell Sr., 89, passed away July 14, 2013 in Gardnerville, Nevada. Arrangements are in the care of Capitol City Cremation & Burial, (775) 882-1766. …

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Caitlynn Marie Sterkel, 6 years old of Carson City, passed away on July 10, 2013. Arrangements are in the care of Autumn Funerals & Cremations, (775) 888-6800. …
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Storyteller Jim Cogan will be at the Carson City Library telling tales on Tuesday, July 16 at 6 p.m. This program is free to the public. Jim Cogan offers storytelling venues that appeal to all ages.

Combining history, folklore, legend, family memories and original perspective, Jim takes audiences on an animated and mesmerizing journey through the magical worlds of stories. Mixing creative use of sound with a kaleidoscopic face, adding his animated physical presence in the creation of visual imagery, Jim transforms stories into dramatic, and often hilarious, adventures.

Carson City Health and Human Services is pleased to announce the success of the 2012–13 Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Community Outreach Campaign, “Beat the Flu Blues.”

The agency conducted 69 community vaccination clinics that provided more than 10,700 influenza vaccinations throughout the quad-county area of Carson City, Douglas, Lyon and Storey counties. Our local clinic provided an additional 1,259 flu vaccinations. In all, CCHHS increased the number of flu doses given during the 2012 season by 10 percent.

A 29-year-old Carson City man with a history of drug-related arrests, faces a felony trafficking charge after officers found a large bag of meth and drug paraphernalia inside a Cadillac in which he was a passenger.

Kameron Keith Mariolo is being held on $25,756 bail. According to the arrest report, officers assigned to the Special Enforcement Team stopped the Cadillac at around 2:47 p.m. Saturday after it was observed Mariolo was an occupant and it was known he had confirmed warrants for his arrest out of Carson City and Sparks.

To celebrate the completion of the Genoa Main Street Enhancement Project, the Town of Genoa along with the Douglas County Redevelopment Agency is hosting a Ribbon Cutting Dedication Ceremony, and Celebration on July 27th at 10 a.m. The ceremony will be held on Nixon Street north of Jacks Valley Road, in Genoa Nevada and will be followed by festivities until 1 p.m. in the downtown area.

Jan. 16, 1971 - June 28, 2013 Matthew passed away on June 28 surrounded by his loving family and friends. Matthew graduated from Carson High School and attended UN...

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Aug. 10, 1951 - July 7, 2013 Marie Elizabeth Dembroge passed away on July 7, 2013 in Carson City, Nevada. Marie was a 41 year Nevada resident and was living in Car...

CARSON CITY — Defense attorneys plan to present evidence questioning the character of Nevada's chief insurance examiner William McCune, who was killed April 2 at his Carson City apartment.

Western Nevada College student veterans are invited to join fellow student veterans from the University of Nevada, Reno and Truckee Meadows Community College for a hiking event on Saturday, July 27, at Spooner Lake, Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park.

The preregistration deadline is July 25. The easy 2-mile hike on the Spooner Loop Trail will begin at 10 a.m., so participants are encouraged to arrive in the parking lot by 9 a.m. Pre-registered participants will be sent a parking pass prior to the event, to avoid paying a $6 parking fee at the state park.

Family and friends of Michelle Marie Stratton, who died Wednesday in a crash on Highway 50 near Six Mile Canyon Road, have establish a fund for the woman's young sons.

Stratton, 43, of Dayton Valley died in the crash, which also killed Ellis Erwin, 73, and Louise Erwin, 72, of Dayton.

Douglas County authorities have arrested a man wanted for a shooting that happened Thursday in Topaz Ranch Estates, said Sheriff Ron Pierini.

Gary Wilson, 44, was taken into custody at 3:45 p.m. Friday afternoon after turning himself into Douglas County Sheriff's Office authorities, according to a news release. He allegedly shot an unidentified person in the shoulder resulting in non-life threatening injuries.

Carson City authorities have detained a man who allegedly cooked up a story to police dispatch that he had been kidnapped in Reno and forced to drive to Carson City.

The suspect told Carson City police dispatch Friday at around 3:15 p.m., that a man forced himself into his vehicle around Victorian Square in Reno and that he was forced to drive from Reno to Virginia City and Carson City. He initially told investigators that he dropped the man off near the exit of College Parkway and the Carson City Freeway.

Health inspections are made weekly by the Carson City Health and Human Services Environmental Health Division.
This report is for the week ending July 12, 2013 and includes inspections of restaurants, take out restaurants, a coffee shop, a wholesale distributor, a supermarket and a mobile food vehicle.
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