Did you feel it? 4.1 Earthquake shakes the sierras Friday morning

Nevada Rural Housing announced it is accepting holiday gift donations for the residents of the Richards Crossing apartment complex in Carson City. Richards Crossing, a 38 single-family unit affordable housing development by NRH, is home to the formerly homeless, displaced veterans and extremely low-income. The donation list will provide residents with essential items around the holiday season, such as gloves, hats and toiletries.

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” (Peter Pan) And so begins an obituary for a human whose true value will only be known by those who knew him.

Bradford Edward Bonkowski was born in 1961 in Redwood City, California, and raised in Corning, California. He moved to Reno, Nevada in 1979 and later lived in South Lake Tahoe, Indian Hills, and Dayton.

On Friday, Nov. 18, Carson City Elks Lodge No. 2177 members Marian and Frank Furnari presented a check for $1,500 to Courtney Warner, director of the Carson City Senior Center.

Comprehensive Life Skills students at Carson High School got into the spirit of Thanksgiving and celebrated being thankful for friends and family last week by helping prepare a Thanksgiving meal for fellow students and staff. With the assistance of some parents and educators, students learned life skills like cooking, place setting and cleaning.

The Nevada Department of Corrections announced on Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, that it will close Warm Springs Correctional Center in Carson City as a means to increase safety and security and reduce overtime.

Two were arrested Friday for multiple alleged felony offenses after an investigation led to a stolen vehicle, methamphetamine and a credit card taken without permission, according to a Carson City Sheriff's Office Special Enforcement Team report.

UPDATE 9:18AM: NV Energy reports power mostly restored throughout Douglas County. The problem appears to be caused by equipment failure at the Buckeye Transfer Station in Douglas County. East Fork Fire units responded to the fire in the equipment area and NV Energy is working on the damage. Power has been fully restored for South Lake Tahoe area customers.
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UPDATE: NV Energy says 12,300 customers remained without power in Douglas County as of 8:03 a.m.
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More than 17,000 NV Energy customers are without power Monday morning, while thousands more across the state line in South Lake Tahoe are also experiencing an outage.

Carson City Fire Department, sheriff's deputies and the Nevada Highway Patrol were called early Sunday evening to a vehicle crash involving a deer on I-580 near the north Carson Street exit and a secondary crash due to traffic backup.

Musician, guitar teacher, and podcast host Eric Stangeland will be featured this week on The Brother Dan Show. A featured performer at Wild River Grille’s (Reno) summer patio concert series, Stangeland will join the host for an interview and musical performance at Bank Saloon in Carson City on Monday, Nov. 21.

Less than 10 percent of Nevada’s 3.1 million residents live outside of the Reno and Las Vegas metropolitan areas, spread out in small communities that dot the tens of thousands of square miles of desert landscape.

CARSON CITY — State transportation contracts announced during Friday's Nevada Transportation Board of Directors meeting are projected to support 1,456 jobs while helping provide a transportation system to keep Nevada safe and connected.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of Nov. 21-27, 2022. Note that road work will not be performed on Thursday in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Closures are expected at the following locations due to road and utility work:

Elementary schools in the Carson City School District took time to observe designated Math Weeks and Math Nights over the course of the past few weeks. The celebrations were designed to change the way students experience mathematics by hosting special events and activities designed to create a passion for and to help foster mathematical thinking.

The Carson City Host Lions Club is pleased to announce that Vanessa Tran, the daughter of Jolene Tran, of Carson City has won the local competition in the Peace Poster Contest. The Peace Poster Contest is an international contest that encourages children, ages 11 to 13, to creatively express what peace means to them.