March

Good morning Carson City and welcome to the last day of winter. It is Tuesday, March 19, 2019. Expect mostly sunshine and cloudy skies today as a weather system is expected to move into the region later tonight bringing rain showers to the lower valleys and some snow to the Sierra for the first day of Spring. Here's what is happening around town today, including free admission to the Nevada State Museum.

UPDATE: This item has been pulled from the March 21 meeting and has been rescheduled to be heard at the April 4 meeting of the Board of Supervisors. You can check out carson.org/agendas for more information.
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On Jan. 30, the Carson City Planning Committee decided to approve a Special Use Permit for an extended stay RV park on property zoned Tourist Commercial located at 1400 Old Hot Springs Road. The maximum stay would be 180 days.

However, an appeal has been made to the Board of Supervisor's by a nearby property owner asking to revoke the Special Use Permit.

Multiple agencies including the Carson City Sheriff's Office Special Enforcement Team and the TriNet Narcotics Task Force arrested a man Friday in Reno on multiple drug possession and trafficking charges after he had allegedly been transporting large quantities of narcotics to the Carson City area since early January, a sheriff's sergeant said.

The next meeting of the Board of Supervisors will be held Thursday, March 21, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Sierra Room of the community center located at 851 E. William Street.

Items on the docket include runaway youths, the Ross Gold Park Playground Replacement and ADA Access Project among others.

A 27-year-old Carson City man was arrested Saturday night in the 1000 block of South Roop Street for suspicion of gross misdemeanor child neglect and endangerment after his two toddlers were discovered wandering outside late at night without any supervision.

UPDATE 4:25PM: Carson City Parks, Recreation and Open Space is currently working on its master plan for Ross Gold Park. Replacement of the aging picnic shelter will be addressed in the master plan.
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CARSON CITY — The Parks, Recreation and Open Space Department will begin demolition on the existing playground and picnic shelter at Ross Gold Park beginning March 25. The playground is over 25 years old and does not meet current playground safety guidelines.

CARSON CITY — When Hollywood in the first half of the 20th Century set its cameras on telling the story of the Transcontinental Railroad, the search for artifacts led it straight to Virginia City and Nevada’s historic Virginia & Truckee Railroad.

A press conference was held Monday at the Nevada State Legislature in Carson City by Republican Assemblywoman Lisa Krasner and Attorney Gloria Allred regarding Assembly Bill 142, which would eliminate the statute of limitations for the prosecution of sexual assault where there is DNA evidence.

CARSON CITY — Carson Tahoe Health is proud to announce the addition of direct anterior hip replacement surgery to its surgical capabilities, allowing patients the option for a minimally-invasive procedure with a quick recovery time.

Schools in Carson City, Lyon and Douglas counties will participate in Wednesday's statewide Nevada Moves Day, with walking and bicycling events planned for the day.

Hello Carson City and welcome to Monday, March 18, 2019. Are you ready for the work week? For those keeping score there are two days until spring, 95 days until summer and 281 days until Christmas. Enjoy the sunshine and blue skies today and tomorrow as Wednesday may be a rainy one for us here in the valley and snowy in the high Sierra. Stay tuned.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of March 18-24, 2019. Road closures expected at the following locations due to road and utility work:

The CHS teacher of the year is Astronomy, Honors Physics, and head CHS Freshman Football Coach James Bean Jr. Born in Okinawa, Japan where his dad, a Marine, met his mother, Bean moved back to the US when he was 4-years-old.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, Carson City! May the luck o' the Irish be with you on this fine Spring-like Sunday.

Leprechauns may well have had a hand in turning our seasonal fortunes around and making the ground hog look like he knows what he's doing.

As part of an ongoing campaign supported by the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN), this year’s Fix a Leak Week encourages Nevadans to help put a stop to the more than one trillion gallons of water wasted nationally from household leaks each year.

The Capital City Arts Initiative presents an exhibition, "The Lay of the Land," by artist Fred Howland in the Community Center’s Sierra Room, 851 E William Street, Carson City. The exhibition runs now through June 30, 2019. CCAI will host a reception for the artist on Friday, March 29, 5-7pm in the Sierra Room, and the artist will give a brief talk about his photography at 5:30 p.m.

The Carson City Band Association will host its third annual night of music, food, and fun to raise funds for Carson High School band programs. Guests will be treated with an intimate evening of performances from talented musicians from Carson High and the community.

The Douglas County Board of County Commissioners approved the adoption of Resolution 2019R- 011, a resolution informing the 80th (2019) session of the Nevada State Legislature that the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners opposes any state legislation which exceeds federal firearm transfer requirements or infringes on the United States Constitution or Article I, Section 11 of the Constitution of the State of Nevada.

St. Patrick's Day is a day to celebrate Irish heritage, excellent music, food, and of course, drinks galore. Check out the list for St. Paddy's events and other happenings throughout Carson City this weekend.

Retired Vice Admiral Lee Gunn, U.S. Navy, Vice Chairman of the CNA Military Advisory Board, is the featured speaker at the National Security Forum’s breakfast Thursday, March 21, 2019, at the Sands Regency Hotel & Casino, 345 N Arlington Ave, Reno.

After February's weather delay, the Carson City Classic Cinema Club has rescheduled its screening of "It Happened One Night" for Tuesday, March 26.

The film stars Cary Grant and Claudette Colbert in a lighthearted "road movie" long before Hope and Crosby came along.

The doors of the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall (511 W. King Street) open at 6 p.m.; intro and trivia at 6:30 p.m. and the film showing at 7 p.m. General admission is $4 per person and the popcorn is always free!

Carol Beeson Cronenberger: November 7, 1937 to March 14, 2019. Born to Harold and Evelyn Beeson in Oroville, Calif., Carol spent her childhood in the hard scrabble lumber camp of Grays Flat in the Feather River Canyon and later in Marysville, where Harold continued his life’s work as a sawmill planer. The Beesons moved to Reno in 1951, where Carol graduated from Reno High School in 1955 and the University of Nevada, Reno in 1959.

The Nevada State Museum continues its months-long celebration leading up to the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Carson City U.S. Branch Mint with lectures and other special events in March.

Recognizing March is also Women’s History Month, the museum is presenting the lecture “Women Workers of the Carson City U.S. Mint,” as its March “Mint150” event. The museum’s curator of history, Bob Nylen, will present the lecture at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 16.

The Carson City Fire Department will allow open burning beginning Saturday, March 16, 2019 to April 14. The purpose of the open burn period is to provide residents an opportunity to dispose of accumulated weeds and yard debris.

Well we're here Carson City. We're heading into March 15, the last Friday of winter 2019. While March 20 may be the first day of Spring, the weekend ahead is about the Irish and their spring. The exception is tonight where the Western Nevada College Chapter of the National Student Nurses' Association will be going Italian style with a fundraising spaghetti feed spread. Read on for more.

Idealists of Carson City, a club for positive change that meets monthly at the Brewery Arts Center, will have its next meeting on March 16, at 3 p.m. and the public is invited.

We have scheduled a self-defense class. The class will be upstairs in the Brewery Arts Ballroom, 449 King Street, Carson City. The instructor is Sean Morey, a martial arts teacher. Please wear comfortable clothing, and invite anyone you think would benefit from and enjoy this presentation. This event is free, however a $5 donation for the instructor is appreciated.

Say hello to Snickers! Could he be the one for you? Snickers is a six-year-old short coat Chihuahua mix, and he is looking for his new fur-ever home. He is currently up for adoption through the Nevada Humane Society, located at the Carson City branch.

CARSON CITY — Next week, March 19-22, Carson High School will encourage students and staff to disconnect from technology to better reconnect with each other as part of CHS’s Second Annual Carson Unplugged, sponsored by the Social Emotional Learning committee.

Hello Carson City and welcome to Thursday, March 14, 2019. The warmup continues today with sunny skies ahead. We're six days from hitting the first official day of Spring. Are you ready? We're also counting down the hours for the weekend ahead and all the St. Patrick's festivities around the area. Read on for what's happening today.

Silver Strike CrossFit is hosting a 5K "Will Run for Treats" event this Saturday, March 16 at Centennial Park in Carson City to benefit the Carson Animal Services Initiative, also known as CASI.