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They looked like a chain gang.

Through syncopated rhythm, men young and old brought their down shovels and hoes onto the weeds, effectively cutting them off from existence. On the other side of the school grounds, women and children were picking up trash, repairing the track circle and supplying everyone with an unconditional amount of pizza and water.

This event was an Eagle Scout Project headed by David McMasters on June 22 to improve Fritsch Elementary School’s track and playground for generations to come.

Carson City music lovers have a real treat ahead of them this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. when Carrie Rodriguez brings her violin and other instruments to the Brewery’s Outdoor Amphitheater at 441 W. King St.

At the Chamber's Annual Meeting held at Duke’s Steakhouse inside the Casino Fandango on Monday, June 21, outgoing Chairman of the Board Jim Smolenski honored special people who helped the Chamber grow during his tenure.

Honored were:

JOHN HOY – VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR

An Amber alert has been issued this morning. Kimberly Brune abducted both of her children from their father's home in Carson City.

At the time of the abduction she was driving a white 2004 Toyota Rav 4 with Nevada license plate 653 PZF. The vehicle has numerous rear window stickers. The incident happened at 6:54 a.m.

Brune is 43 years old, 5'7, 140 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes.
The children, both boys, are described as age 7, 4'7, 47 pounds and and a 5-year-old, 4'2, 43 pounds.

CARSON CITY – The Republican Assembly Caucus has launched a media suite to keep Nevadans engaged and informed about lawmaker activities as the general election campaign season gets under way.

CARSON CITY – Lame duck Gov. Jim Gibbons not only fell short in campaign contributions in his recent primary loss to Brian Sandoval, but donations to his legal defense fund have dried up as well.

CARSON CITY – The Nevada Council for the Prevention of Domestic Violence is seeking new members. The application is brief and submissions will be accepted now through July 31.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons today announced the appointment of Charles Harvey as executive director of the Nevada Office of Veterans Services. Harvey currently serves as Nevada’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) director.

CARSON CITY – The Republican Assembly Caucus has elected Assemblyman Pete Goicoechea as its new minority leader, replacing the retiring Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert.
Goicoechea, R-Eureka, was the unanimous choice of the 14-member caucus.
Gansert, R-Reno, is not running for re-election to the Assembly.

CARSON CITY – A two-member panel of the state Ethics Commission has decided there is insufficient cause to move forward with a complaint that state Treasurer Kate Marshall used her office to benefit her re-election bid.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons today appointed Anthony Dazzio to the Nevada Commission on Economic Development.

While support grows for extending the empowerment school program in Nevada, disagreements remain as to what causes the program to be successful, and whether the program would work without the $600 in additional funding per student that empowerment schools have been given in the past.

In the latest Carson City Chamber of Commerce calendar update sent to members today, an item in small print stuck out to us like a giant billboard. In announcing the June 16, 5 p.m. Chamber Mixer at Geeks of Nevada, at 520 South Curry Street, there's a surreptitious note, in small type, which reads "behind the soon-to-be-opened Ormsby House."

Making a mess is FUN... Just ask any kid!

Mon-Fri, 9am-11:30am, June 14th - June 18th.

$65 for non-museum-members but only $50 for CMNN members.

Join Miss Penny for a great week of fun art projects and snacks.

Ages 3 and older.

Call 884-2226 for reservations

The Children's Museum of Northern Nevada
813 N. Carson Street
Carson City, NV 89701

CMNN.org
884-2226

Despite the efforts of some citizens to get the Nugget Project to be put to a vote of the people, you won't find it on the ballot when you go and vote today.

But the results of this primary election might tell us a little about the public's sentiment concerning this project.

Out of the nine candidates running for the two open seats on the Carson City Board of Supervisors, only one — Karen Abowd — has expressed full support for the Nugget Project. The rest are either skeptical or outright opposed.

A 78-year-old man, believed to be from Carson City, was killed Sunday morning in a big-rig accident near Tonopah, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
The head-on accident happened shortly before 9 a.m. on U.S. Highway 6, about 22 miles west of Tonopah near Blair Junction. The deceased man's name has not been released.
According to the accident report, Gregory Crain, 51, of North Bend, Oregon, was traveling east on the highway driving a white 2008 Peterbuit tractor-trailer registered to Redmond Transportation of Hollister, Calif.

A Carson City motorcycle gang member faces gross misdemeanor weapons charges after bringing a concealed knife into a concert attended by more than 200 people.
Dave Ernest Herrick, 46, faces charges of possession of a dangerous weapon and carrying a concealed weapon. Bail was set at $5,000.
According to the arrest report, Gold Dust West security officers alerted Carson City deputies that there was a man with a concealed weapon attending a Saturday night concert.

I sent an email to all of the members of the Carson City Board of Supervisors for their reaction to the initiative petition filed on Friday to put the Nugget Project to a vote in 2012.

We now have responses from the four supervisors, and I just added Mayor Bob Crowell's comment below.

June 5, 2010 – 2:00pm & 7:00pm
June 6, 2010 – 2:00pm
June 11, 2010 – 7:00pm
June 12, 2010 – 2:00pm & 7:00pm
June 13, 2010 – 2:00pm

William Shakespeare’s tale of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is being performed by the Brewery Arts Center Stage Kids at The Maizie Harris Jesse Theater in the Brewery Arts Center. The story tells the adventures taken by four teenagers who get lost in a magical forest.

General Admission: $9 per person,
Students, Seniors, & Brewery Arts Center Members: $6 per person

CARSON CITY – A proposal to simplify, broaden and stabilize Nevada’s tax base by expanding and reducing the sales tax to include services from haircuts to legal advice is generating some support and plenty of questions from lawmakers and interest groups.

CARSON CITY – Nevada Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty said a program the state initiated a few years ago to pardon selected illegal resident inmates so they could be deported to free up space in the prison system was in his view successful.
Hardesty said the review resulted in 106 nonviolent inmates being granted conditional pardons in exchange for a waiver of any immigration hearing and agreement to be deported to their country of origin.

by gpoppinga Source: http://aroundcarson.com/2010/05/28/defunct_businesses_abandoned_records_threat_to_data_security

With early voting under way for the Nevada primaries, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chad Christensen yesterday maintained that he will come out on top, despite polls showing him trailing well behind candidates Sue Lowden, Sharron Angle, and Danny Tarkanian..

With the faltering economy, many businesses are shutting their doors – and sometimes improperly disposing of their records, putting their former customers at risk for identity theft. Examples from just the past month include:

•In late May, two decades’ worth of customer records from a recently closed boat company in Portland, Oregon, were discovered in a dumpster. The records contained personal information, including Social Security numbers, according to Portland television station KGW, which had received a tip about the abandoned records.

CARSON CITY – In what took many members of the Nevada state Senate by surprise today, Majority Leader Steven Horsford accepted the resignation of the body’s top staff member, Secretary of the Senate Claire Clift.
Word of Clift’s departure, which occurred today while Horsford was in the capital attending a meeting of the Interim Finance Committee’s Subcommittee for Federal Stimulus Oversight, circulated quickly among members of the Senate.

Whether they plan to enter the work force or continue on with their education, the 451 Western Nevada College graduates walked away Monday and Tuesday with one certainty: It's up to them to use their education to push ahead in one of the most trying economic times in Nevada's history.

With the state's 13.7 percent unemployment rate for April, it may be "tough out there" to find a job, but the education the graduates earned at WNC is top-notch and will take them far if they apply themselves and are patient, College President Carol Lucey told the class Tuesday night.

CARSON CITY — Despite cool weather and Friday night's snow showers, hundreds of children and their parents turned out today for the seventh annual Cops and Kids Sheriff’s Open House safety, crime and substance abuse awareness fair held at the Carson City Sheriff's Office.

CARSON CITY — Despite cool weather and Friday night's snow showers, hundreds of children and their parents turned out today for the seventh annual Cops and Kids Sheriff’s Open House safety, crime and substance abuse awareness fair held at the Carson City Sheriff's Office.

Part 2 of a Series on Key GOP State Senate Primary Races
CARSON CITY – While Republican voters have a rare chance to chart the course of the GOP Senate caucus in the upcoming primary, the candidates described by some political observers as the establishment choice say they too are true fiscal conservatives who believe in core party values.

CARSON CITY – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden has a new ad attacking her GOP rival Sharron Angle over her past votes in the Nevada Legislature to raise lawmaker pay as the June 8 primary draws near and early voting is set to begin tomorrow.