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Carson City School District is pleased to announce Educator Kristina Britt, speech language pathologist at Bordewich Bray Elementary School, as a winner of GreenNevada’s Growing Resources for Environmental Education in Nevada 2019 Golden Pinecone Sustainability Award.

An 88-year-old Carson City woman who has dedicated the past 15 years helping people throughout Northern Nevada learn English and become American citizens is among 10 finalists selected by CNN as a Top Hero for 2018.

Adopt a Demo-CAT or Re-PUP-lican for FREE This Weekend, October 19-21 at Nevada Humane Society. The Race to the Right House is on!

Arnold Carbone of Glorious Garlic Farm recently taught a workshop on growing garlic at the Foothill Garden, on the Carson Tahoe Health Campus.

“Garlic is very forgiving,” was how Arnold started his class.

During the winter, the homeless population of Carson City can find warm beds to sleep at our rotating local churches nightly, but during the summer, no such places exist.

This is why Carson City Sheriff’s Office Chaplain Craig LaGier, who is also a deacon for St. Teresa of Avila’s Catholic Church, as well as the St. Vincent Advisor and Homeless Ministry, said sleeping bags and Y Athletic socks are the most important item he gives to the homeless.

CARSON CITY — Signups are underway for the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's new 4-H club for children ages 9-12. Kids who enroll will be able to be involved in the science of gardening and will learn what it takes to grow their own tomatoes and more.

A 27 year-old Carson City man was arrested early Saturday morning at 12:25 a.m. in the 1000 block of North Saliman Road on charges of felony battery with a deadly weapon, misdemeanor domestic battery and a misdemeanor violation of Carson City Department Alternative Sentencing terms, a Carson City Sheriff's deputy reported.

Leadership Douglas County (LDC) is a long-standing educational program provided by the Carson Valley Chamber of Commerce.

CARSON CITY — The 10th annual Concert Under the Stars, A Benefit for the Greenhouse Project, takes place Wednesday, July 11 at Brewery Arts Center, featuring Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s Jefferson Starship and Terrapin Crossroad’s house band, Midnight North.

The next time you see honeybees pollinating the flora in your yard, you may want to thank your neighbor, says Heather Angeloff, owner of The Beekeeper in Carson City.

I just returned from visiting beautiful gardens filled with amazing tulips, pansies, flowering cherry trees and many other lovely blooms.

They are the Crystal Hermitage Gardens located on the outskirts of Nevada City.

When organizers formed the Greenhouse Project 10 years ago in Carson City, their vision was to establish a sustainable program that provided wholesome, natural produce to the community.

What Carson City has benefited from over the past decade is exactly that.

About a decade ago, a group of community members organized a sustainable horticulture program targeting food insecurity in Carson City. They called it the Greenhouse Project, a not-for-profit effort to improve the quality of food available to the area’s most hungry.

Lodging properties in Carson City saw a nearly 27 percent increase in revenue in 2017 — the highest in the city’s history — according to numbers released Monday by the Carson City Culture and Tourism Authority.

Thank goodness that there won’t be any school traffic on this very cold and icy morning. Presidents Day is a day off for the kids, so let them stay in their warm beds. Dollar days at the Gold Dust West and Carson Lanes Bowling Alleys can be a fun activity if you venture out. The Proscenium Players are still looking for members of their Repertory Theater troupe, so don’t miss their last audition event this evening. The Empty Bowls Project Soup Fest is a delicious part of the Silver and Snowflakes Tree Lighting Ceremony in December, but the planning begins now.

Often, gardeners focus on the plants in their landscape. However, successful plants rely on healthy soils to support them.

In Northern Nevada, soils are extremely variable and can provide challenges for the gardener. Before any planting comes soil preparation.

‘Tis the season to both give and receive. I am so grateful, having come back sick from my trip to see family in Texas, that I am surrounded by such a loving and supportive community. Carson City, words cannot express how grateful I am for you – as individuals, as a community, and as a place I proudly call home.

We have leaves, lots of leaves. I used to pile all the leaves on my shrub and flower beds. I wanted them to decompose and feed the soil, but with the extreme winds here in Washoe Valley, they continually blew back against the door. We ended up raking and moving the same leaves over and over again. Well, that’s not happening anymore!

Hoping to at least double the proceeds from last year's annual Pets of the Homeless fundraising campaign, a pair of Carson City businesses have teamed up for a third consecutive year in an effort to help the pets of homeless people across the United States.

Two were arrested Friday and face multiple felony charges including maintaining a drug house, providing drugs to a minor, possession of drugs and child endangerment, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy said.

Carson Tahoe Health is excited to announce that the most advanced robotic surgical system, the da Vinci Xi, will be available at the Regional Medical Center beginning mid-November 2017.

University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, Carson City office announces a new 4-H club beginning October 18. This project club will be focused on youth gardening with workshops on best garden tools for kids, what materials make the best beds, raised beds or not, seeds and how to start them, what grows in the Great Basin, how to plant a garden, the 3 sisters – a Native American way to plant, selecting a site, container gardens, micro climates in the garden, designing a garden and so much more.

On Wednesday, Sept. 20, author Bonnie Boice Nishikawa will share her ‘life experiences’ related to growing up in the Nevada State Children’s Home. Located in Carson City, the facility provided a ‘home’ to hundreds of children, including Ms. Nishikawa and her brother and sister, between 1870 and 1992.

I’m going to suggest that you keep this weekend’s plans flexible. There’s only a chance of rain, but the chance of it showing up at the wrong time is always high. The very early morning is best spent watching the hot air balloons against the Reno skyline, but you’ll probably want a sweater for the pre-dawn chill. Head up the hill to Virginia City this weekend. If you’ve never been to the annual International Camel Races, you’ve been missing out. Keep reading, there’s something for everyone on this list. Find your fun.

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Carson City/Storey County, NV – University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s fall Grow Your Own, Nevada! Program presents eight classes statewide to help Nevadans get on the path to more sustainable, local, healthy living by growing and preserving more of their own food.

Recently, James went to Portland, Oregon for a concert and to celebrate his 17th wedding anniversary with his lovely wife, Vicki.

One of the first things he noticed driving around the area was the traffic nightmare. After one miserable attempt to drive eight miles in an hour, it was time to put the car away and rely on public transportation. It was clean, on schedule, and very reasonable at five dollars per person for unlimited rides.

As one of only two certified diabetes education programs in Northern Nevada, Carson Tahoe Health in Carson City has once again been awarded the prestigious American Diabetes Association Education Recognition Certificate for providing an outstanding diabetes self-management education program.

Carson Tahoe Cancer Center in Carson City opened a new blood and bone marrow transplant care clinic on Monday with support from the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. Under the collaboration, a Bone Marrow Transplant physician and nurse from HCI will travel to Carson City once a month to treat patients both before and after they receive a transplant.

UPDATE: A ground-breaking ceremony for the new Classy Seconds Thrift Store was held Thursday at the site located at 3591 Gordon Street in Carson City.

Among the great social changes that drove economic growth in the latter half of the 20th Century was the large-scale entry of women into the labor force. With more Americans working, family lifestyles changed rapidly.

But this growth of the female labor force required families to find ways to care for their children while both parents were at work. Although some parents could rely on grandparents or others to watch their kids, that option was unavailable to many.