The Nevada Highway Patrol has released the name of the victim in a Nov. 11 motorcycle crash on Stewart Street in which a Carson City man died while attempting to cross the road in a crosswalk.

Dick Campagni’s Carson City Toyota’s first week of its annual Toys for Tots campaign has been a tremendous success.

Now through the holidays, drop off any new and unwrapped toy and sign up for a drawing to win a $250 gas card. Drop off your donations at Carson City Toyota, 2590 South Carson Street. Follow Carson City Toyota’s updates on the campaign at its Facebook page here.

A 23-year-old transient, Sean Paul McCracken, was arrested Tuesday, 4:05 p.m. at Selby and La Loma streets on suspicion of felony possession of methamphetamine and misdemeanor carrying a concealed weapon, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy said.

According to the arrest report, an officer stopped the vehicle for an expired license tag and made contact with the driver. The officer smelled a light odor of marijuana and asked the man about it. The man told the officer he had a “roach” in the ashtray. The officer asked if that was all he had. The man said yes.

This Friday, Dec. 12, Save Mart will match donations to Ron Wood Family Resource Center, a local Feeding America-affiliated food bank, through their Holiday "Give. Share. Care" program, for a total dollar-for-dollar matching grant of up to $5,000 for the day.

This initiative could not come at a more critical time for local food banks. Already stretched heading into the holiday season, recent cuts to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamps) significantly dented the food budgets of thousands of local, low-income households.

Nov 11, 1943 - Dec 01, 2014 Wayne Orville Ellison went home to be with the Lord on December 1, 2014. He was born in Schurz...

Dunkin' Donuts will open its new Carson City restaurant on Tuesday, December 16th. The first customer in line in-store, and at the drive-thru when it opens at 5 a.m. will receive free coffee for a year.

The improving economy is fueling an increase in sales tax revenues. That, combined with ongoing business expansions in Carson City, had allowed the Board of Supervisors to lower the property tax rate. We lowered the property tax rate by $.02/$100 of assessed value in 2014. Doesn’t sound like much, and some criticized it as a political ploy, but in reality we can only lower it in small increments or we jeopardize placing too large a deficit in the General Fund budget.

Two new members of the South Lake Tahoe City Council were sworn in Tuesday as was a longtime council member who was reelected, plus the city's clerk and treasurer. The council also agreed to retain its current mayor, Hal Cole.

Councilmember Tom Davis was reelected in the Nov. 4 General Election and Wendy David and Austin Sass were both newly elected and all will hold their seats in City Council through November 2018. City Clerk Susan Alessi was reelected as well as City Treasurer David Olivo for additional four-year terms.

The Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation has granted the League to Save Lake Tahoe $35,000 to support its land-use planning program, which ensures strong environmental regulation surrounding development at Lake Tahoe. The foundation has also bolstered its named endowment at the League with a $200,000 donation.

We sometimes get the question, “Can I deduct the mortgage interest part of the home mortgage payments I paid even if I am not the owner?”

A new Tax Court Memo decision (Puentes, TC Memo 2014-224) tries to clarify the answer. The facts seem to be: L’s brother B bought a house in California in 2002 with a down payment and a mortgage loan secured by the property. B was the sole legal owner of the property. B paid all of the required mortgage payments until he lost his job. In 2010 L (and her father) lived in the house and paid the property taxes, insurance premiums and mortgage payments.

In this week's edition of It's Your City, Carson City Ward 1 Supervisor Karen Abowd provides an update on the actions taken by the Board of Supervisors at its Thursday, Dec. 4 meeting.

Among the items, the board:

Cara Collins from Carson City is one of the dedicated Salvation Army bell ringers helping raise money for the less fortunate in Carson City, Nevada.

Two are in custody this Monday afternoon after a brief pursuit that ended when a vehicle crashed into two Carson City sheriff's patrol vehicles.

The incident happened shortly after 2 p.m. with the suspects being arrested at the intersection of Molly and Millennium streets in a housing complex located off of East Long Street. None of the officers were injured. A taser was deployed after one of the suspects attempted to flee.

USA Today readers, who in recent years have picked Tahoe as America's favorite lake and ski destination, now have Carson City as an option to choose in a contest to find the best travel worthy state capital.

Now through Jan. 5, 2015, readers can pick their favorite state capital city destination by casting a vote. Each week USA Today online asks readers to help pick the "10 Best" in a single category which can range from food, lodging and destinations to travel gear and things to do. Travel experts select the 20 top nominees and then readers like you make the final selections.

Remember when you were a kid and your parents played “peek-a-boo” with you? The reason why it was so much fun is quite interesting. You see, to a child, the face ceases to exist when it’s not seen. This concept is called object permanence.

Kids, developmentally, can’t grasp the concept that even though the face is out of view, it is still there. Unfortunately, we can’t play “peek-a-boo” with people, problems, and uncomfortable situations that enter our lives. Even if we walk away or cover it up, it’s still there until we face it.

The success of the pilot program for fire cameras at Lake Tahoe has prompted the University of Nevada, Reno’s Nevada Seismological Laboratory to pursue funding to build out its fire camera network that rings the majestic mile-high lake.

“We’ve seen the system avert potentially large fires this summer at Tahoe, even with its minimal presence,” Graham Kent, director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory, said of the prototype system with its four cameras. “It makes sense to build this system out now to help protect the basin from devastating fires.”

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“Come Together” at the Brewery Arts Center on Dec. 12 for this Holiday celebration with The Beatles Flashback Band. Your "Ticket to Ride" is available at the door of the Performance Hall and at the Brewery Art Center office for $15 general admission, $12 for seniors and BAC members, and $8 for kids 12 years and under; children under 6 are free.

Don't miss the Blanchette School of Irish Dance's Celtic Christmas on Dec. 13, 2014, 7 p.m. in the MHJ Black Box Theater at the Brewery Arts Center. Tickets are $8 for BAC members, $10 in advance, $15 at the door. You can purchase tickets online here.

Good news from the North Pole: Santa Claus is coming to the Children's Museum of Northern Nevada on Friday Dec. 12 from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Bring your cameras because photo-ops and crafts are included in the $5 per child admission. Parents are admitted free. Please note: special event admission is not included in membership.

Dr. William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA for 12 years, will discuss abolition of the death penalty and the future of human rights at two Reno talks Saturday.

“Abolishing the Death Penalty in the United States: A Conversation with Dr. William Schulz” will be held in the Joe Crowley Student Union, room 423, at the University of Nevada, Reno, Dec. 13 at 11 a.m.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of Dec. 8-14, 2014. On Thursday, Dec. 11, Carson Street will be reduced to one lane in each direction at the intersection with Spear Street from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Beginning the afternoon of Wednesday, Dec. 10, through the evening of Thursday, Dec. 11, there will be no parking on the west side of Curry Street between Telegraph Street and Proctor Street.

A 21-year-old Carson City man was arrested Sunday, 2:21 a.m. in the area of North Plaza and East Caroline streets on misdemeanor charges of being an intoxicated pedestrian, obstructing an officer and resisting arrest with violence, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy said.

According to the arrest report, officers were dispatched to the 500 block of North Carson Street for a vehicle accident in a parking lot. Dispatch alerted officers that the subjects involved in the accident were confrontational and getting violent with casino security.

A two-car crash Saturday on Highway 50 in Dayton sent one person to the hospital via Care Flight with non-life threatening injuries, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.

The late afternoon accident tied up traffic on the highway for more than an hour. It happened on Highway 50, east of mile marker 6 and involved two vehicles, a 2002 Saturn View and a 2012 Ford Focus, said NHP Trooper Tappan Cornmesser.