“Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain

In memory of the 113th anniversary of the death of Mark Twain (aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) join Lt. Governor Stavros Anthony and the Carson City Chamber of Commerce in a double toast on Thursday, April 20.

In response to record level snowpack in the mountains, the Lyon County Office of Emergency Management is partnering with the City of Yerington and Walker River Irrigation District to host a Flood Preparedness Town Hall meeting for the Yerington and Mason Valley community on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 5:30pm located at Yerington City Hall, 14 E. Goldfield Avenue, Yerington, Nevada, 89447.

Carson City Historical Society (CCHS) is proud to host a free lecture called "A History of a Prison" on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. in person and via Zoom.

We are excited to offer this new Summer Camp Program for Douglas County! Space is limited! Please register with Tara at Tansotegui@unr.edu while space is available.

For the first time, the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum in Carson City will be hosting a heritage and culture class for the community. This inaugural class's topic is Cooking with Nettles.

Nettles are an important traditional food across many indigenous American cultures, and are highly nutritious, high in calcium, iron, potassium, magnesium, and Vitamin A.

Happy Thursday, Carson City! We're seeing mild, sunny weather this weekend, so get outside and enjoy the vitamin D!

Let's take a look at what this weekend is bringing!

Come join the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce at our April Networking Mixer, Thursday, April 20, 2023, 5:30pm at the Antique Mall in Mound House.

Meet owners Jannette Hoffert, Don Sexton and Ruth Small.

Saturday, April 15th come to the Nevada State Museum to learn about Nevada’s diverse reptiles.

Children and adults can learn why reptiles are cold-blooded, examine snake and lizard skins in the lab, discover our state reptile, the desert tortoise, and sculpt and paint a lizard or snake to take home.

The Carson City Host Lions Club will be hosting the Annual Kids’ Fishing Day at Baily Pond in Fuji Park on Saturday, April 22, from 9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event is free and provides a good opportunity to introduce kids under the age of 12 to fishing and conservation. Volunteers will be available to answer questions and to help kids in need of assistance with fishing.

Senior Citizens are invited to participate in a free "Oral History Theater Workshop" at Dayton Library. The performance workshop will be based on Senior Citizen's personal stories from their lives. Seniors will share memorable stories from their past and we will transform a selected group of these stories into a theatrical performance.

It is last call for those interested in attending the annual Carson City Father-Daughter Dance on April 21, 2023 at Carson High School. This event is open to all community members. However, there are only 50 sets of tickets left for this event. This year's event will be sold out and no tickets will be sold at the door.

Sunday, April 16 at 1 p.m., Sorensen’s Resort in Hope Valley continues its local history series with a 50-minute slide show, “Going for the Gold: Lake Tahoe and the Olympics.”

Alex Cushing and the State of California brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the Lake Tahoe area. Walt Disney brought the Olympics to the World.

DEBAUCH-a-ReNO returns with a two-part festival in Reno, NV, from June 16th - June 18th, and in Virginia City, NV, at Piper's Opera House on July 14th with performances by The Mummies, Wild Billy Childish, The Kids, The Zeros, and many more.

Melissa is the Executive Director of Nevada Right To Life and a graduate of Reno High School and holds a BS in Marketing and a MA in Political Science from the University of Nevada. She represents Nevada on the Board of Directors of the National Right to Life Committee. Nevada Right to Life is a grassroots network of Nevadans who advocate for life issues with their elected state and federal representatives and advance appropriate legislation that helps protect the right to life of all innocent human beings and oppose anti-life legislation.

University of Nevada, Reno Extension is offering free online courses this May to teach gardening basics. Extension's Grow Your Own, Nevada! Program will livestream eight classes via Zoom to help Nevadans who want to get on a path to more sustainable, local and healthy living by growing and preserving more of their own food.

Douglas County is hosting a Pollinator Month logo student contest to help raise awareness of how important our pollinators are to the region, with cash prizes for the winners.

VIRGINIA CITY/RENO, NV – St. Mary's Art Center is proud to present the opening reception of Meaning: The Search For, a large-scale solo exhibition by Las Vegas artist, Nancy Good, on Sunday, May 14, 2023, 1-4pm. The exhibition explores the range and evolution of Good’s contemporary work and features paintings, sculptural canvas, and murals. The exhibition is on view now through August 13, 2023.

Sandie La Nae, Nevada author (of 30 volumes) will be at the Mark Twain Days, April 21 - 23, in the booth with the "Comstock Foundation" and "Northern Nevada Ghost Hunters."

After two very successful plays, and sold out audiences, CVCT is bringing you Rhythm and Rhyme, a night of the Music of Burt Bacharach! This musical will take place in an intimate setting, where you can feel the talent of the musicians as they make their performance “sing."

Line dance with Kaytlain, have the time of your life. Second gate entrance is always open. 15 dollars per person, includes a drink ticket. Two-three lessons and open dance. We will have a guest instructor this well from Olivia Pearl Line dance.

Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties’ April meeting is Thursday, April 13 at 9am, via Zoom (connection details below). HCC’s public meeting includes coalition and group partner updates and introductions, discussion of matters of regional importance to health and wellness, plus presentations by guest speakers.

Veterans Healing Camp will celebrate the theme “Roaring 20’s” at the 7th annual Nowruz “New Year” Celebration Feast on Saturday, April 15. Join us on our trip back in time to revive some good times. You are invited to join us from 5 to 10 p.m. at the Casino Fandango Grand Ballroom in Carson City.

On Sunday, April 16, 2023, Capitol City Gun Club in Carson City, will host a Fun Shoot from 9:00am to 4:30pm. Target fees will be discounted all day. Everyone is invited to come! The Club is located at 3590 Arrowhead Drive. For additional information, visit: https://www.capitolcitygunclub.org/ or call (775) 882-9904.

In this Class Carol Foldvary-Anderson will show you how to create unique art, looking like watercolors, and even silk paintings, depending on the colors you choose to work with. The Oil Pastel Smudge technique is thinking in the basic shapes and designing your own templates.

Thirty-six students from Carson, Dayton, Douglas, and Pioneer high schools have their work in "Spring Forward 2023" art exhibition at the Brick. This delightful exhibit presents an array of imaginative projects based on students’ years of classroom study and their amazing craftsmanship.

The featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon will be Sara Manns of Compassion & Choices. She will lead a detailed discussion of the End-of-Life-Options Act currently before the Nevada legislative.

On March 14th, Senate Bill 239 had a hearing in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. Below is April Corbin Girnus' report on the hearing, as it appeared in the March 16 Nevada Current...

Democratic lawmakers are once again attempting to legalize the use of life-ending medication for terminally ill patients in Nevada.

Happy Friday Carson City! While the weather today might be murky, blue skies and warmth are on their way! Sunday marks the beginning of some more "normal" Spring weather with highs in the 60s through Tuesday.

Let's take a look at what this weekend is bringing!

Providing safe drinking water to communities around the globe is a high priority for Rotary International. The Rotary Club of Carson City is helping fulfill that goal with a project in Panama.

Local Rotarian John Copoulos just returned from the project site in Sofre, Panama where residents and Rotarians celebrated the project’s completion.

You are invited to join us for a QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) Talk: 3 Steps to Help Save a Life from Suicide, Tuesday, April 25 from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m at the UNR Extension, Carson City/Storey County Office, 2621 Northgate Lane, Suite 12, Carson City.

In conjunction with Mark Twain Days, join the Carson City Classic Cinema Club on Friday, April 21 as we view "The Adventures of Mark Twain" (1944).