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Three late-inning errors snapped a tie and sent College of Southern Nevada to a 5-2 series-opening baseball victory over Western Nevada College on Thursday in Carson City.

The win pulled the Coyotes (8-5) within one game of the first-place Wildcats (9-4) in the Scenic West Athletic Conference standings. CSN ace Phil Bickford, the 10th pick in the 2013 Major League Baseball amateur draft, is scheduled to pitch the opening game of Friday's doubleheader set for noon at John L. Harvey Field.

It’s Veterans and Military Day at the Legislature today, complete with a display of the various services available to our Veterans set up in the front foyer. On this day in 1982, a ground-breaking ceremony was held in Washington D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Carson City has a Vietnam Veterans Memorial of its own located in Mills Park. The memorial will be the site of a Welcome Home Celebration this Saturday for Vietnam Veterans Day.

The start of a pivotal Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball series between first-place Western Nevada College and second-place College of Southern Nevada begins Thursday, one day earlier than originally scheduled.

The four-game series begins at 4 p.m. Thursday at John L. Harvey Field in Carson City. On Friday, the teams will play at doubleheader at noon and then conclude the series with a single game at noon Saturday.

Can I just designate this Steve McQueen Day? After all it is his birthday, but it’s so more than that. The Great Escape, one of McQueen’s most iconic films, is based the true story of 76 Allied prisoners of war and how, on this day in 1944, they began breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III. I wonder if the casting directors knew of the connection.

The Charity Golf Tournament of the Spring is almost here. The second Kilroy Klassic Holes for Heroes fundraising tournament for Honor Flight Nevada will be on Saturday, April 25, 2015 with an 8:30am shotgun start at Silver Oak Golf Center in Carson City.

The tournament is an adjusted handicap 4 person scramble format that offers fun for golfers of any skill level.

The eighth was a special inning for Western Nevada College's baseball team on Saturday in Carson City. WNC scored five runs in the eight to pull away from Mount Hood Community College of Gresham, Ore., in a 10-3 win in the opener of a nonconference baseball doubleheader at John L. Harvey Field.

Freshman left-hander Matt Young on Friday nearly became the third Western Nevada College pitcher to throw a no-hitter. Young no-hit Mount Hood Community College of Gresham, Ore., until catcher Louis Wolf bunted down the third-base line for the Saints' first hit with two outs in the seventh inning at John L. Harvey Field in Carson City.

Young and reliever Kyle Johnson combined on a two-hit shutout as the Wildcats won the opening game of the doubleheader, 3-0. Both hits never left the infield.

People think of elephants, tigers and sharks as a bellwether for how the environment is doing, but monster fish, two dozen species of large freshwater fish weighing more than 200 pounds, are an alarming indicator of the health of aquatic ecosystems around the world.

“These big fish are in a steep decline,” Zeb Hogan, conservation biologist and researcher in the University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Science, said. “The disappearance of aquatic animals is a freshwater extinction crisis.”

Baseball fans saw something out of the ordinary on Saturday at John L. Harvey Field in Carson City.
Clinging to a two-run lead in the eighth inning, Western Nevada College coach D.J. Whittemore calculatingly shifted his relief pitchers from the mound to left field and first base to preserve a 3-0 victory over Colorado Northwestern Community College in the final game of a Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball series.

D.J. Whittemore and his Western Nevada College baseball program hit another milestone Thursday when the Wildcats secured the team's 400th all-time victory by dispatching Colorado Northwestern Community College, 9-6. Now in his 10th season, Whittemore has guided the Wildcats to an average of nearly 44 wins per season.

"To be able to share it with (assistant) Aaron Demosthenes, who is a great friend of mine, tremendously loyal and very talented coach, for him to be here for all 400 wins is really special," Whittemore said.

Finding a way to win games that require a concerted comeback effort is one of many reasons why Western Nevada College coach D.J. Whittemore is on the cusp of his 400th victory with the Carson City baseball program.

WNC Wildcats baseball resumes at noon today with a double-header at John L. Harvey Field in Carson City. Fans who are unable to attend Wildcat home games can follow Charles Whisnand's play-by-play broadcast of the action by going here.

Meanwhile, in Thursday's baseball action: Hitters don't often receive the sign to hit away on a 3-0 count with their team trailing.

It’s not often high school band students have the opportunity to play with a professional orchestra the size and quality of the United States Air Force Concert Band of Washington, D.C.

Yet several CHS band and Chamber Choir students played and sang along with the USAF Concert Band and Singing Sergeants during a sold out show at the Bob Boldrick Theater inside the Carson City Community Center on Wednesday night.

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Now part of the ruling party in Washington, D.C., U.S. Congressman Mark Amodei of Nevada's second congressional district, which includes Carson City, will bring to light what is happening in the nation's capital since the election and give his unique insight into changes, if any, now that the Republicans are in charge of both the House and the Senate.

Western Nevada College non-credit Community Education classes not only offer job skill preparation, they also help build life skills and provide help with personal health. Several classes are on tap this spring that will provide benefits to local residents.

Final-inning comebacks don't ever get old, even for 10th-year Western Nevada College coach D.J. Whittemore.
Even after College of Southern Idaho decisively swung the momentum to its side by scoring the tying run in its last at-bat and forged in front on Mikey Ortega's home run an inning later, the Wildcats didn't flinch Friday in the first game of a Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball doubleheader.

Come on over to Morley's Books in Carson City for the Book Signing from Sandie La Nae's new book...."The Historic Edward D. Sweeney Building In Carson City, Nevada" - which is where Morley's Books is housed.
La Nae's newest book (her 12th!) is filled with interesting history of the building and who owned it, and also has many paranormal accounts from the Paranormal Investigative team Sandie is a part of - Thin Veil Investigators - from their investigations of the building.

Having sold out for a March 4 show in Carson City, fans of the USAF Concert Band of Washington, D.C. are in luck. The renowned instrumental musician group will perform Friday, March 6 at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno beginning at 7:30 p.m. No tickets are needed for this event and the public is invited to just show up.

Corey Pool homered as Western Nevada College slammed five extra-base hits in defeating College of Southern Idaho, 7-4, in its Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball opener Thursday at John L. Harvey Field in Carson City.
CSI, however, bounced back to take game two, using a small-ball approach that its counterparts have succeeded with in the past. The Golden Eagles beat out three bunt singles and executed two sacrifice bunts to overcome home runs by Pool and Kody Reynolds in an 8-4 victory.

Nevada represented both sides of the country's immigration debate today at separate events discussing President Barack Obama’s stalled immigration deal ......

For the first time in the seven-year history of the Western Nevada College softball program, the Wildcats will open their conference season at home. WNC will meet 13th-ranked College of Southern Idaho in doubleheaders scheduled at 1 p.m. Friday and noon Saturday, weather permitting, at Edmonds Sports Complex in Carson City. Coach Leah Wentworth said the series starting times could be adjusted if the predicted wet weather moves into the area.

Some of Las Vegas’ most influential players don’t have offices in the Capitol or answer to constituents. They’re lobbyists, political strategists and former lawmakers — players in a $3 billion industry trying to win over lawmakers for a cause. Here’s a look at six of Nevada's strong team of behind...

After permitting just one run in 25 innings over four games, Western Nevada College gave up six runs in a game-turning seventh inning on Saturday in Henderson.
Brandon Eyring stroked a tiebreaking two-run single and Hadley Thorpe smashed a three-run homer as Utah State University Eastern rallied for a 6-3 nonconference baseball victory over the Wildcats of Carson City.

Legislation making extensive changes designed to reduce the number and impact of construction defects litigation won final legislative passage Friday.Assembly Bill 125 now heads to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s d...

A gem by sophomore pitcher Max Karnos along with offensive executive and aggressive baserunning added up to a 12-0 Western Nevada College baseball victory over College of Southern Idaho on Thursday.

Karnos (2-1) no-hit the Golden Eagles through six innings and Kody Reynolds and Jake Bennett supplied three hits apiece as the Wildcats stemmed a five-game losing streak in Henderson. The Wildcats of Carson City stole eight bases, including two by Bennett and Austin Andrews, and put down three successful sacrifice bunts.

Western Nevada College didn't take any cuts against 2013 Major League Baseball top-10 draft pick Phil Bickford on Wednesday night in Henderson, but the Wildcats did face some quality pitching.
Anthony Martine and three relievers combined to limit the Wildcats to six hits and second-ranked College of Southern Nevada held on for a 5-4 nonconference baseball victory.

"We schedule good teams on purpose so our mistakes get exposed," said WNC coach D.J. Whittemore. "We have to work on a lot of things to improve."

The words of great poets come to life on stage across the state as more than 3,100 high school-aged students compete to represent their county at the 10th Annual Nevada Poetry Out Loud State Finals at the Siena Hotel in Reno on March 14, 2015 from noon to 3 p.m.

It’s official: Gregory D. Cassell is now chief of the Clark County Fire Department....

It was a NCAA Division I baseball debut worthy of national and Big West Conference recognition. Former Western Nevada College pitcher Rayne Raven hurled seven shutout innings and fanned 16 hitters in his first outing for Cal State University, Northridge in a 6-0 victory over Utah Valley on Saturday.

Two days after the overpowering performance, the junior right-hander was among Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's National Players of the Week and was the first pitcher of the week for the Big West Conference for the 2015 season.

Mar. 15, 1932 - Feb. 8, 2015Pete was born in North Bend, Oregon and lived in Coastal Oregon...