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The Carson City Pop Warner Youth Cheerleading program is looking for financial partners to help fund this year’s team in regional and national competitions.

Pop Warner youth athletic programs offer local children opportunities to compete on top-quality football and cheerleading squads, which teach them valuable lessons about character, leadership, achievement, and teamwork.

Fan Appreciation Days

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Western Nevada College softball fans will be treated to Fan Appreciation Days when the Wildcats entertain North Idaho College Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon at Edmonds Sports Complex in Carson City.

Fans will be admitted free to the Scenic West Athletic Conference doubleheaders that begin at 1:30 p.m. each day.

The Wildcats are fresh off taking three of four games from Colorado Northwestern last weekend.

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Baseball pollsters weren’t reluctant to include a young Western Nevada College squad among the top teams in their preseason rankings, given the Wildcats’ penchant for success over the past several years.

WNC, which made it to the JUCO World Series for the third time in program history last spring, has been ranked eighth in the Collegiate Baseball preseason poll. The honor came despite the fact that Head Coach D.J. Whittemore must replace 15 of his top 18 players from a team that posted a 48-17 record and won the NJCAA Western District title for a third time.

Carson Now is proud to begin its third year of being a host to Western Nevada College Baseball broadcasts. Western Nevada Baseball is now widely known as a national power across the USA. In 2012, Carson Now brought you the exciting season that saw the Wildcats baseball program make it to their third JUCO World Series appearance. This year, the Wildcats will have a strong team that is anxious at retaking that trip to Grand Junction, Colorado.

CARSON CITY – A newly elected Republican state lawmaker plans to push forward with a bill next session to allow students and others with permits to carry concealed weapons on the campuses of the Nevada System of Higher Education.

Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R- Las Vegas, elected to Assembly District 4 in November, has submitted a bill draft request to prepare a measure for consideration in the 2013 legislative session.

I’ll start tomorrow. How many of us have told ourselves this only to have tomorrow never come because the first step is so very daunting? Just 10, 15 or 30 pounds can harm a person’s health, self esteem and sometimes even affect the person’s work and family life.

The Carson High School/Douglas High School Rivalry dates back decades and was voted the best in Nevada.

In the contest being held by USA Today for the best rivalry in the country, The Carson/Douglas received 86% of the vote blowing away the competition while the Moapa Valley/Virgin Valley rivalry got 11% for second place, and the Bishop Gorman/Palo Verde rivalry finished third with just 3% of the vote.

National power Western Nevada College Baseball continues to make more splashes in the NCAA Division I rank. Evan Parker, Mike Umscheid, and Brandon Show have already signed letters of intent to play at 4 year colleges starting in the fall of 2013. This will put the number of WNC Baseball players to move onto higher levels at 95 in just seven seasons.

Eric Abowd and Steve Rose, partners and Carson City lead financial advisors at locally-based Abowd & Rose Financial Group, recently announced they will once again offer a $3,500 college scholarship in May 2013 to a local high school student.

It is time that Carson City gets behind their college’s athletic programs. Western Nevada College has had athletics since 2005. They have had rodeo, women’s soccer, women’s softball, and perhaps the cornerstone of the entire athletics, the men’s baseball. All of these teams have amped up the enrollment of Western Nevada College and yet, the athletics continue to struggle financially because of the lack of local support.

This fall, the Lodge Assisted Living Community is sponsoring SOLEmates, a month long program to help provide new athletic shoes to kids with The Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada. The number of children who need help in Carson City is disproportionately high when compared to other communities of its size. Too many kids don’t have life’s basic necessities; some even tape their shoes to keep them together. The goal of SOLEmates is to acquire 300 pairs of new athletic shoes to help those kids run, play and stay active.

Your recent decision has stunned the residents of Virginia City, and, I hope, has dismayed the residents of Carson City into weighing in on your indefensible action.

On 26 July 2012, your agenda item was as follows:

'In May of 2012 Storey County voted to close the Storey County Public Library, (sic) Carson City Library Board of Trustees should consider a policy on a fee for issuing library cards to Nevada jurisdictions not providing any level of library service to their residents. (Action)'

Carson City, NV—Carson High School football players will receive new helmets, shoulder pads and other equipment this year thanks to the generosity shown during the annual “Kick-Off Dinner” recently held at Carson Nugget.

At the start of each season, the Carson High Athletic Department and the Carson High Football Boosters raise money to support the program. This year the Carson Nugget provided the venue and split the revenue generated through the sale of alcohol to help the group generate income.

Western Nevada College pitcher Dylan Baker made history for his Wildcats team Tuesday while his own dream of becoming a professional baseball player came true. The Cleveland Indians selected Baker in the fifth round of the Major League Baseball draft, making him the highest-ever selection out of WNC.

The unbeaten hurler from Juneau, Alaska, was the 173rd pick of the 2012 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.

Facing elimination Sunday at the National Junior College Athletic Association World Series, the Western Nevada College Wildcats turned to reliable sources to continue their record-setting season.

Sophomore right-hander Dylan Baker struck out 10 and kept the Cisco Wranglers guessing while Dylan Ness knocked in three runs with a seeing-eye double en route to a 9-2 victory in Grand Junction, Colo.

University of Nevada Reno football coach Chris Ault spoke at the Carson City Chamber of Commerce monthly mixer tonight at Carson City Toyota.

Ault spoke about the school's transition from the Western Athletic Conference to the Mountain West Conference, and his outlook for the coming season.

Also in attendance were members of the UNR cheerleading squad, along with UNR mascot Alphie.

The Western Nevada College softball team got close, but didn’t bring home the wins over the weekend. Two one-run defeats and two squandered leads stunted the Wildcats momentum during an April 20-21 road series at Snow College.
Snow edged the Wildcats 2-1 and 7-6, then completed the four-game sweep with 8-0 and 8-5 victories in Ephraim, Utah.

For bad luck Friday the 13th news, let's start with the hundreds of down-on-their-luck kids who are enrolling in the Carson City School District's Students in Transition program for children without permanent homes. The director of the program, Peggy Sweetland, estimates there will be 650 kids who qualify this year. To quote the "newspaper": "That number is nearly triple the 333 students enrolled at the end of last year." (Don't be too hard on the reporter who wrote this. If journalists like us were any good at math, we would be working in jobs that paid a lot better than journalism.) The program runs on federal grants and donations. Those interested in contributing can call Sweetland at (775) 283-1537.

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The city's long-planned multi-use athletic center is scheduled to be completed by fall 2013, according to Parks and Rec Director Roger Moellendorf. The $5.8 million that will be used to build the 42,000 square foot facility behind the Western Nevada Boys and Girls Club on Russell Way comes from voter-approved Question 18 funds.

Have a fun Friday the 13th. Don't walk under any ladders.

Four Western Nevada College baseball student athletes are signing with Division I programs during the early signing period that began this week. Players include:

Strange how fiction (or movies) sometime match up accidentally with the real world. An example of this is "In Time," a film currently playing at the Fandango Galaxy multiplex in Carson City.

RENO - That old Pack magic is alive and well at Mackay Stadium.The Wolf Pack outlasted the Fresno State Bulldogs 45-38 Saturday afternoon in a wild Western Athletic Conference game. The Pack, which...

RENO - Both the Nevada Wolf Pack and Fresno State Bulldogs want to leave the Western Athletic Conference a little something to remember them by."Our goal is to win a WAC championship," Pack coach C...

Supervisors on Thursday will consider approving an amended agreement between the city and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Nevada for the purchase of property along Russell Way to build an indoor ...

The city's plans for sharing a proposed Multi-purpose Athletic Complex with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Nevada have been revised.The Carson City Parks and Recreation Department agreed Tuesday...

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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — The Heavenly Ski and Snowboard Foundation has opened registration for the 2011 – 2012 Alpine, Freestyle, Freeride and Snowboard Programs. With a variety of options from the One-Day Program to the Full-Time Competitive Program, the Lake Tahoe foundation has something for all ages and levels of skiers and riders. Registration packets are available online, at the HSSF building, or by calling the HSSF administration office. Those who register and pay in full now will receive the early registration pricing; prices increase $100 on November 1, 2011.

OK, we get it. This year's Nevada Wolf Pack football schedule is a cruel joke."This is a unique schedule," Wolf Pack coach Chris Ault said recently at the Western Athletic Conference football media...

Sports fodder for a Friday morning...What did going 13-1, shocking Boise State, winning the Western Athletic Conference and winning a bowl game last season accomplish for the Nevada Wolf Pack footb...

It's Tyler Lantrip's job to lose.Chris Ault made it perfectly clear this week during the Western Athletic Conference's media gathering in Las Vegas about who will be the Nevada Wolf Pack's starter ...

Sports fodder for a Friday morning ... The Western Athletic Conference coaches and media have just handed the Nevada Wolf Pack all the motivation they need to repeat as conference football champion...

Carson City officials have approved a conceptual site and building design plan for a Multi-purpose Activity Center adjacent to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Nevada, but have held off moving ...