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Eastbound U.S. 50 in Dayton is reduced to one lane beginning this week as the Nevada Department of Transportation prepares to repair a depression in the highway.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern Nevada will host a clothing drive this week in conjunction with Western Nevada College's Earth Day activities held at the Carson City campus.

Join the League of Women Voters of Northern Nevada, April 22, Reno & Sparks Chamber, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm. We'll have lunch and will power your passion into advocacy action. RSVP: LWVNNEarthDay.eventbrite.com.
Carpool with a friend!

WNC, Citizens' Climate Lobby and Nevada Green Institute are joining forces to celebrate Earth Day with activities this week, April 19-22, on the Carson City campus. Earth Day is a time to learn about environmental and climate issues, sustainable best practices, recycling, and more.

Western Nevada College, Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Nevada Green Institute are joining forces to celebrate Earth Day with activities April 19-22 on the Carson City campus.

Earth Day is a time to learn about environmental and climate issues, sustainable best practices, recycling, and more.

WNC has planned a number of Earth Day events, including the showing of a Leonardo DiCaprio film on climate change, as well as several environment speakers and information booths. The public is invited to celebrate the following Earth Day events at WNC at no charge.

Big laughs are in store tonight at the Carson Comedy Club featuring headliner Katsy Chappell with guests Roger Diez, and Norah McCoy.

Voted Entertainer of the Year by the Bob Hope USO Shows, Chappell has performed worldwide including comedy tours to Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait and Djibouti Africa entertaining the troops.

El Día de los niños/El Día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), commonly known as Día, is a nationally recognized initiative that emphasizes the importance of literacy for all children from all backgrounds. It is a daily commitment to linking children and their families to diverse books, languages, and cultures.

The Carson City Library is hosting programs during the month of April to celebrate Día to promote diversity, language, culture, and learning in Carson City!

To participate:
Pick up a Día Passport at any Día program. The kick off event is on Wednesday, 4/5/17.

Weed is more or less legal in Nevada and we’re celebrating with a post 4/20 wrap-up at the BAC monthly comedy showcase! Some of northern Nevada’s best stand-up comedians and story-tellers are gathering to talk about their strange and hilarious tells with pot.

The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) reopened Kingsbury Grade (State Route 207) at approximately 4:30 p.m. Saturday following repairs to an eroding roadside slope and extensive rockfall.

State Route 207 Kingsbury Grade in Douglas County will remain closed indefinitely on the Carson Valley side as the Nevada Department of Transportation continues safety evaluation and removal of major rockfall.

UPDATE: Kingsbury Grade, the road that links Carson Valley to Lake Tahoe, has been closed indefinitely due to rock and mudslides. Go here for the full story.
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State Route 2017 over Kingsbury Grade will be closed for at least six hours beginning at around noon Friday for urgent slope repair, according to the Nevada Department of Transportation.

We’ve striven all our lives to embrace positive change.

But we each do so in our own ways. Young Geoff has always been an early adopter of new technologies. Boomer Ron says he’s “a real Twentieth Century guy,” and prefers to see that new technologies are viable and enjoy widespread adoption before jumping on board.

UPDATE THURSDAY: Lane shifts will take place on U.S. 50 near Spooner junction in south Carson City beginning the evening of Sunday, April 2 as the Nevada Department of Transportation reconstructs the intersection to connect to the future Carson City Freeway.

Hello Carson City! If you went through a little column withdrawal last week, I apologize. I was traveling back from Brendon Burchard’s High Performance Academy. A coach and consultant’s education is never done and I am thrilled to come back armed with new insights, techniques, and research to boost your productivity and focus.

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Due to weather, there is a slight change to the dates of overnight closures on South Carson Street and U.S. 50 for freeway sign installation.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of March 6-12, 2017: Road closures expected at the following locations due to utility work. Please follow detours:

Brief overnight road and lane closures will take place on South Carson Street and U.S. 50 near Spooner junction March 7-9 for freeway signage installation as part of the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) Carson City freeway project.

Twenty-eight AmeriCorps members are scattered throughout the Sierra Nevada with the role of restoring and monitoring Sierra watersheds, educating Sierra residents and visitors about environmental issues, and managing volunteers for local watershed programs.

In the seventeenth century Galileo looked at Copernicus’ findings and published scientific evidence that the Earth revolved around the Sun. He was an ardent member of the Roman Catholic Church. The Church gave him two options: recant his ideas or face execution! Even if he recanted his books would be banned and he would be put under house arrest for the rest of his life. He chose the latter! But that didn’t change the fact that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

As the Earth warms from climate change, the risk of lethal dehydration and mass die-offs of songbirds during heat waves will increase in many areas of the world, according to a study published Monday in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Artist Gil Martin talks with Jill Brugler during a reception for his “From the Ground Up” art exhibit at the Courthouse Gallery on Friday, Feb. 3. The exhibit, presented by the Capital City Arts Initiative, will be on display until May 24. Martin creates his own paint from natural earth pigments he digs up.

Read more about Martin and his work here.

The Nevada Department of Transportation has reached a milestone 50 percent completion of construction of the USA Parkway extension connecting Interstate 80 and U.S. 50 in Storey and Lyon counties.

Art lovers will have two receptions to attend in Carson City on Friday evening. Gil Martin, who makes his own paint from natural earth pigments that he digs up from various sources in the western United States, will feature his work in the “From the Ground Up” exhibit presented by the Capital City Arts Initiative Friday through May 24 at the Courthouse Gallery.

On the way to work I passed a couple of people with signs saying “not my president”. I agree with them. Trump is not their president. Trump is my president. I am a citizen of the State of Nevada and I was sorry that Nevada chose to vote for Clinton. I am proud of the States that elected Trump.

The Capital City Arts Initiative presents its exhibition, "From the Ground Up", by artist Gil Martin at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery. CCAI will host a reception for the artist on Friday, February 3, 5-7pm; Martin will give a talk about his work at 5:30pm. The exhibit will be in the gallery from February 3 – May 24, 2017.

Are you yearning for a connection to God? Wonder what his eternal plan is for you?

Now Forming a Noahide spiritual Community prayer group and bible study, located in Carson City.

Noahides are caretakers of our precious planet earth and accepting responsibility for peace and oneness in our world as accepted by Adam and Noah and transmitted by Moses and his people throughout the ages.

We will be studying the seven Noahide historical biblical laws that God gave to all mankind.

Learn the knowledge and wisdom of God.

CARSON CITY, Nev. – In just the first days after several northwestern Nevada state roads were damaged by flooding, the Nevada Department of Transportation has let out emergency contracts and contractors are already being dispatched to repair erosion and other flood-related roadway damage. The repairs follow tours of the damage taken by Governor Sandoval and local officials both before and after the flood.

8AM TUESDAY: From Nevada Highway Patrol: Highway 395 southbound lane in Carson Valley from Sunridge to Stephanie now open in the No. 1 (left) lane. Traffic now running both north and south.
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UPDATE 6:08AM TUESDAY: Highway 395 through the Carson Valley remains closed southbound, but open northbound, according to the Nevada Department of Transportation, NDOT. Southbound detour at Jacks Valley Valley Road to Foothill.
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UPDATE 5:15PM: Traffic continues to crawl along Jacks Valley Road and Foothill due to the Highway 395 closure.
One lane of Highway 395 northbound has reopened at Stephanie. Southbound is still closed.
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UPDATE 2:45PM: Both the northbound and southbound lanes on Highway 395 are closed due to flooding along the Cradlebaugh Bridge in Carson Valley, said Carson City Undersheriff Steve Albertsen. Southbound Highway 395 motorists are advised to take Jacks Valley Road and connect to Foothill Road. The Nevada Highway Patrol is turning people around at the RV park, he said.
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Cradlebaugh Bridge near Stephanie Way in Carson Valley is beginning to flood into the southbound lanes of Highway 395. Traffic controls on Highway 395 are in effect and a portion of the road is now closed.

There's an old idiom that goes, "Walk the talk, don't talk the walk."

Talking sort of comes with the territory for me. I spend most of my time writing words.

But it occurred to me as the holidays approached this year that I wasn't doing much else.

This had to change, I told myself.

As I write this article, the Electoral College is deciding the route of the American Presidency and of Donald Trump as President-Elect. The Russian ambassador has been shot and killed in Turkey by a fanatic. Another European terrorist attack has taken place in Berlin, Germany, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens of others during the Christmas shopping season. Back in Aleppo, Syria, the Assad government is finishing off the horrific killings of its own people as well as rescue helpers and hundreds of Christians — many of whom are women and children.