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"I Say Nevada, The Government Bailout Edition," opens at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City Oct. 22. No one is safe from this hilarious romp across the great state of Nevada.
From the brilliant mind of local author and musician Bob Reid, the production rocks the foundations of the capitol dome. Directed by BACPAC's Karen Chandler, this musical sketch comedy lampoons the politics and the culture of the Silver State and is perfectly timed for pre-election fun as well as Nevada Day.

"I Say Nevada, The Government Bailout Edition," opens at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City Oct. 22. No one is safe from this hilarious romp across the great state of Nevada.

From the brilliant mind of local author and musician Bob Reid, the production rocks the foundations of the capitol dome. Directed by BACPAC's Karen Chandler, this musical sketch comedy lampoons the politics and the culture of the Silver State and is perfectly timed for pre-election fun as well as Nevada Day.

"I Say Nevada, The Government Bailout Edition," opens at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City Oct. 22. No one is safe from this hilarious romp across the great state of Nevada.

From the brilliant mind of local author and musician Bob Reid, the production rocks the foundations of the capitol dome. Directed by BACPAC's Karen Chandler, this musical sketch comedy lampoons the politics and the culture of the Silver State and is perfectly timed for pre-election fun as well as Nevada Day.

"I Say Nevada, The Government Bailout Edition," opens at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City Oct. 22. No one is safe from this hilarious romp across the great state of Nevada.

From the brilliant mind of local author and musician Bob Reid, the production rocks the foundations of the capitol dome. Directed by BACPAC's Karen Chandler, this musical sketch comedy lampoons the politics and the culture of the Silver State and is perfectly timed for pre-election fun as well as Nevada Day.

"I Say Nevada, The Government Bailout Edition," opens at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City Oct. 22. No one is safe from this hilarious romp across the great state of Nevada.

From the brilliant mind of local author and musician Bob Reid, the production rocks the foundations of the capitol dome. Directed by BACPAC's Karen Chandler, this musical sketch comedy lampoons the politics and the culture of the Silver State and is perfectly timed for pre-election fun as well as Nevada Day.

Dear Editor,

Several negative mailers featuring Assembly candidate Pete Livermore were sent out recently to Carson City homes.

These ads were sponsored by the Nevada State Democratic Party, which hired an outside firm to produce the pieces. They claim Livermore got a "sweetheart deal" from the city when it purchased land he owned in order to widen Clearview Drive.

Frankee Haynes with the Carson City District Attorney's Office talks about the SAVE program to deal with elder abuse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moABrXeSouM

(Editor's note: The following was presented to the Carson City Board of Supervisors during public comments at the Oct. 7 meeting by Star Anderson, General Manager, Carson Nugget)

The Carson City Fire Department will allow open burning, with a valid permit, now through Nov. 14.

The purpose of the open burn period is to provide residents an opportunity to dispose of accumulated weeds and yard debris, according to Carson City fire officials.

For safety reasons, a burn permit with a valid permit number will be required before burning will be allowed. Permit applications can be obtained at the following Carson CIty fire station locations:

A Carson City man died Saturday when the motorcycle he was riding went off the side of the road and crashed about two miles east of Genoa, the Nevada Highway Patrol reports.

Christian Joseph Coleman, 59, was driving east on State Route 206 (Genoa Lane) when, for unknown reasons, his motorcycle went off the right side of the roadway and crashed, said NHP Trooper Matt Kaplan. The accident happened at about 9:45 p.m.

Coleman was riding a 2003 Harley Davidson. He was transported to Carson Tahoe Hospital by Care Flight where he later died.

Join the V&T Coffee Company at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 23 for an official ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by the Carson City Chamber of Commerce. The V&T Coffee Company is located at 3667 South Carson Street. Special include $1 drinks all day, fresh made-to-order donuts for 25 cents and raffle prizes.

If you’re looking for old-fashioned Halloween events, you’re in luck. Two big events will be held in Old Town Dayton on Oct. 29.

Monday is Dollar Day @ Carson Lanes. Bowling is just $1 per game. $1 Food items in Alley's Diner. Happy Hour Daily from 5-6pm. Buy One, Get One FREE. Smoke Free. Bring the Whole Family

Carson Lanes Presents- "Ride On Band" this Friday in our Fabulous new Eleventh Frame Winner's Lounge. This talented trio will be playing all your favorite Rock and Country hits from the 60's-90's. No Cover and Smoke FREE.

Wild Horse Productions is proud to offer a one day workshop guided by D Davis, PhD, Saturday, November 6, 2010 from 10 am – 4 pm at the Children’s Museum of NN conference room (813 N. Carson Street, Carson City).

Follow the White Rabbit and don’t be late! Wild Horse Children’s Theater invites you to Disney’s Alice in Wonderland,, Jr. on stage at the Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada, 813 N. Carson Street, December 3-18, 2010.

Carsonsports.com reports how the Carson High girls soccer team took a step toward locking up the Sierra League championship with a 4-1 victory at Spanish Springs on Saturday. Meanwhile the Carson High boys soccer team battled for a scoreless tie.

I’ve been a longtime fan of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. This is, up until he moved beyond me into funk and rock, not exactly jazz to my way of thinking. I was still back with his record-selling “King of Blue” CD. Then I saw a listing in Netflix for “Miles Davis: Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue,” and I ordered it. Couldn’t be all bad, I figured.

Join the Carson City Chamber of Commerce for the grand opening and ribbon cutting at Jigsaw Automotive on Friday, Oct. 22, 5:30 p.m. at 301 Hot Springs Road, Suite 7. Refreshments will be served.

The Tahoe Ridge Winery and Marketplace will host the next Carson City Chamber of Commerce mixer. The mixer begins at 5 p.m. with a wine tasting. Tahoe Ridge Winery and Marketplace is located at 1644 Highway 395 in Minden. The cost is $5 for chamber members and $20 for non-members and includes the wine tasting, food and raffle prizes.

The Carson City Arts and Culture Coalition is sponsoring a forum for local candidates running for office on Tuesday, Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. in the Sierra Room of the Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St. The forum is free and open to the public.

f you are brave enough, join "The Festival of the Spirits" with costumed guides as they lead you through Carson City's historic district.
Spirits of the past will appear as you hear the stories of their hauntings on Carson City's Historic Kit Carson Trail.
There are two tour choices; the Curses Tour and the Rumors Tour. They depart from 3rd and Carson Street. First tour at 10 a.m. (departing every 30 minutes) and last tour at 2 p.m.

The Carson City Symphony, conducted by David Bugli, leads into Nevada Day with a special concert, Halloween and Harmonicas, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Carson City Community Center.
Featured guest soloist is harmonica virtuoso Jia-Yi He. Tickets $15 general admission; $12 students/seniors; free age 16 and under. For information click here or call (775) 883-4154.

The Carson City road construction report for the week of Oct. 18-24 continues to highlight the Roop Street widening project which is expected to be finished by the end of the year. The following impacts are expected this week:

— Roop Street is now open between William Street and Robinson Street.
— Roop Street will have intermittent lane restrictions from Robinson Street to Washington Street for striping.
— William Street will have intermittent lane closures at Roop Street on Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. for westbound traffic.

Carson City may get at least a quarter to a half inch of rain with a weather system that will make its way through the region beginning Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service in Reno and carsonweather.com.

Significant rainfall is expected with the system that is now making its way through the central and southern California coast and heading east.

Hundreds made their way to the Carson City Courthouse today, the first day for early voting in Nevada.

A record number of people could be voting in this election, said Alan Glover, Carson City Clerk-Recorder.

"I think it's going to be high again, just like 08. I see maybe a 90 percent turnout when this is done," Glover said. "I think the Senate race is cranking them out."

Halloween is coming up, and it looks like Carson Mall is making the most of it. Last year, there was a haunted house inside the old Gottschalks store. It's back this year, with the addition of the Spirit Halloween store, which has relocated from the now-demolished red barn on South Carson Street where it was last year. And now, there is a pumpkin patch set up in the parking lot, along with a couple of bouncy houses for the kids.

The Obama Internet policy is taking a bit of a different turn besides calling for increased internet connection accessibility. Currently, the Obama administration and law enforcement and security agencies are pushing for new regulations of the Internet and the telecommunications industry. If these new laws pass, it will grant the government greater access for surveillance purposes. Washington already has accessibility to a broad array of communications for monitoring purposes, and this will expand that access.

Carsonsports.com reports on Friday's night's Carson Senators football victory against Spanish Springs and the team effort it took for the win. The Senators remain undefeated. Click here to read the story.

Pat Wiggins, director of Animal Services for Carson City, has resigned after 10 years of service.

According to a news release by Carson City Health and Human Services, Wiggins is responsible for recently bringing the progressive “Trap Neuter Release” program for feral cats to Carson City and was a regular presenter at Capital City Farm Days, an annual educational program for students held at Fuji Park.

A Carson City man was arrested after he anonymously and falsely called 911 and reported that his estranged wife was driving erratically, blowing stop signs and was possibly under the influence.

The 45-year-old man faces a gross misdemeanor charge of misusing 911 emergency dispatch and a misdemeanor charge of being in violation of a restraining order after allegedly using the Carson City Sheriff's Office under false pretenses to make contact with his spouse. His bail was set at $2,500.

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
A much-anticipated face-to-face debate between U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and his GOP opponent Sharron Angle on Thursday displayed stark contrasts between the two candidates but provoked little in the way of controversy.

By Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – Nevada state GOP treasurer candidate Steve Martin did say on a local television program in September that he had clients that lost money in the financial meltdown in the fall of 2008. But Martin reiterated this week he was not providing investment advice to his clients at that time.

Saturday is National Boss's Day and since it is Friday you may have not seen the memo about this.

Yes there is a day for the Michael Scott's and Bill Lumbergh's of the world, though the "The Office" and "Office Space" characters are more than likely the parodied exception to today's corporate culture rule.

Chances are that today's bosses are as overworked as you, waiting for the hammer to drop on them just as much as you. Yes they're human, unless, of course, they're sociopathic.

Don't forget that tomorrow is free flu shot day in Carson City, with three locations dispensing the vaccinations from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. You can find all the info here.

Carson City and portions of Western Nevada could see heavy rain by the end of the weekend, the National Weather Service in Reno reports.

A weather system should move through central California into the southern Sierra on Sunday night into Monday morning bringing "abundant moisture" for the region, including snow in the Sierra above 8,000 feet.

You can watch the debate between Sharron Angle and Harry Reid on KNPB Channel 5 which will re-air it beginning at 8 p.m.

Click here to read a preview by the Reno-Gazette Journal.

You can keep up with debate comments on Twitter below the fold.

Don Quilici at Carsonsports.com gives a great overview today on some of the best places to see the "quakies" (quaking aspen trees) with a wonderful photo gallery by wife Elaine Quilici.
Now is a perfect time to make your way into the hills for some spectacular colors. Click here to read the story and view the photo gallery.

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – A national group that supports judicial restraint is opposing a measure on the Nevada ballot to change the way judges are selected from direct elections to appointment and retention.
The Judicial Crisis Network also presented a survey of Nevada voters’ views on the change that shows a majority oppose the idea of appointing instead of electing members of the state Supreme court.

HENDERSON, Nev. – The Henderson Chamber of Commerce’s IMPAC Committee has announced its support of ballot questions 3 and 5.

IMPAC serves as a comprehensive, non-partisan political committee that contributes to the creation of a favorable business climate in Henderson as it relates to issues at the state and local level.

 

Winter classes are coming to a close but never fear! Spring is here!

The new list of classes will be available very soon!

Classes starts April 1!

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
A debate Wednesday between Democrat Secretary of State Ross Miller and his Republican opponent Rob Lauer spent most of the time on past controversies, including Lauer’s alleged assault of a woman in a bar and Miller’s track record of prosecution as a Clark County deputy district attorney.

By Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto is joining a 49-state bipartisan mortgage foreclosure working group as part of a coordinated national effort by states to review the practice of so-called “robo-signingâ€� within the mortgage servicing industry.

C-SPAN fans take note. The C-SPAN Digital Bus will make its way to the Carson City Library on Saturday Oct. 23 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0t-KSYlatk&feature=channel

A Minnesota man who violated his probation after a 2005 conviction was extradited to Carson City by the state's Department of Public Safety division of Parole and Probation.

Scott Steven Ralidak, 55, is in the Carson City Jail with a no-bail order. He was brought to the jail by extradition transport at about 2 a.m. Wednesday.

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – A Nevada lawmaker has asked for a bill to be drafted to require bottled water to be subjected to the state sales tax.
Assemblyman Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, said bottled water is included under the sales tax exemption for food in Nevada even though it has no nutritional value.

Join us every Wednesday for Country Line Dancing Lessons with Cowboy Bob in our fabulous new Eleventh Frame Winner's Lounge @ Carson Lanes. Beginners to Advanced welcome. No Cover & Smoke-Free. Happy Hour Daily from 5-6pm. Buy one, Get one FREE.

Construction near the intersection of Northridge Drive and Russell Way in Carson City prompted a Carson Now reader to ask what kind of work is being done in the area.

The reader writes: "What is going on with the protected wetlands area north of Northridge Street between the freeway to the east and behind the houses on Eastridge to the west? It looks like they are trying to fill it in with dirt with the equipment that arrived this morning. All public access was closed off as of Monday. Please investigate and report."

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