I was just finishing up a column about how far the Nugget Project has come, from a vague, unrealistic plan that left the city on the hook for the whole bill, to an exciting, well-designed public-private partnership that deserves our qualified support.

But I was forwarded an email this morning that almost makes me want to change my mind.

A 25-year-old Minden man died Saturday in a motorcycle crash on U.S. Highway 50 east of the Douglas County line on Spooner, seven miles west of Highway 395 in Carson City, the Nevada Highway Patrol reports.

According to NHP Trooper Chuck Allen, Edwin Bruno-Mazariego was riding his green 2008 Kawasaki ZX600P motorcycle east bound on the four-lane highway. For reasons still unknown, he failed to negotiate a left hand curve and departed the travel lane striking the adjacent section of guardrail.

It's been almost two years since I first heard about the Nugget Project.

Back then, the plan was very vague, a public-private partnership that could add up to $90 million. The city's part of this project would be a 1/8th cent sales tax increase and money from the redevelopment fund equaling approximately $25 million.

Good news for South Shore Lake Tahoe casinos to report this morning. Gaming establishments at Stateline saw a 25.42 percent increase in revenue over July 2010 figures, according to figures released today from the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Carson Valley casinos, which include Carson City, Minden, Garderville had a 2.6 percent decline in July. Casinos took in a win of $8,699,046. In July 2010 it was $8,900,097. Statewide, casinos had an overall 3.66 percent increase in "gaming win" for the month.

KOLO Channel 8 Reno reports police have arrested 29-year-old Sparks resident Brian Hobbs and charged him with murder with a deadly weapon and placed on a no-bail hold in connection to the death of Cherissa Davidson who's body was discovered in Brunswick Canyon. Click here for the story.

CARSON CITY – Residents of this capital city, hit with tragedy earlier in the week with the shooting deaths of four people at a local restaurant, gathered at two somber ceremonies today to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
About 300 people gathered at Mills Park for the Patriot’s Day – 9-11 Remembrance sponsored by the Capital Baptist Church.

ROMAN RUINS Mystery Theatre Dinner
813 N. Carson Street, Carson City, NV
October 1, 2011 - 5pm

You are invited to dine with the famous Roman poet, Flabbius Corpus. Join your fellow guests in solving the theft of the priceless statue and the murder in the garden.

Cash Bar
Togas Optional (period dress welcome)

Tickets: $35.00 each
Available at the Children's Museum or call 884-2226.

cmnn.org - 884-2226 - 813 N. Carson St., CC, NV

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Your Children's Museum of Northern Nevada

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Whether the City Center Project will move forward or die will be decided Thursday when the Carson City Board of Supervisors meets.City staff is recommending approval of the $49.6 million project ba...

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Rice Lake Weighing Systems, a Wisconsin company, said last week it purchased a 29,700-square-foot building in Fernley and plans to launch a plant to manufacture truck scales.The facility will emplo...

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Christa McGahuey took a trip to Michigan two weeks ago and came away with a full-ride softball scholarship to the University of Detroit-Mercy.McGahuey has verbally committed to the small Division 1...

A 26-year-old Sparks man was jailed Sunday in the death of Cherissa Davidson whose body was found three miles in the hills off Deer Run Road early Saturday. According to the Sparks Police Depart...

Join us for a Coppola Vineyard’s wine tasting event to benefit the IHOP Victims Families. Please come down and show your loving support to the ones that need you the most.
6:00p - 9:00p $15pp
The Bella Family

A body found in the hills off Deer Run Road late Friday afternoon has been identified as a 29-year-old Sparks woman and authorities are calling her death a homicide. According to Sheriff Ken Fur...

A woman places flowers at the makeshift memorial outside the IHOP restaurant in Carson City where a gunman killed four people and wounded seven others before taking his own life.

In a long awaited ruling, the federal nuclear safety agency has said Nevada can close down Yucca Mountain once and for all.
The Obama administration had asked Congress to zero out the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) work on Yucca as a follow up to the prior  termination of funding at the Department of Energy (DOE) project. The NRC has directed that all project casework be wrapped up by the end of the month.

The Carson City Board of Supervisors will vote Thursday evening on whether to move forward with the revamped City Center/Nugget Project.

An evening session of their regular bi-monthly meeting is planned to discuss the $50 million project, of which $23.7 million would come from the city.

The agenda (attached below) makes reference to "a public commitment to the project of a 1/8th-cent sales tax

A bat in Carson City has tested positive for rabies, according to Carson City Health and Human Services, but there is no known human exposure to the bat. The bat was picked up by Animal Services on...

James-Michael Johnson has seen enough of LaMichael James already."Oh, yeah," the Nevada Wolf Pack linebacker said this week. "We've been studying him all summer long. I watched every play of that L...