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All winter I have said, wait to prune your roses. April 15 is time to prune roses. While there are general rose pruning principles, the different types of roses: hybrid teas, floribundas, shrub, climbers, ramblers and miniatures, all have special requirements.

Students can learn coding and 3-D modeling at a camp offered at the Carson City Library over spring break next week. Sixth- through eighth-graders can attend the Tuesday camp while a camp for fourth- and fifth-graders will be held Thursday. Both camps will run 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Digitorium. Breakfast and lunch will be provided both days.

There’s a new and free recreational youth baseball league beginning this spring and summer for boys and girls in Carson City. The Junior Giants, the flagship program of the San Francisco Giants Community Fund, serves more than 25,000 boys and girls in 88 underserved communities throughout northern and central California, Nevada and southern Oregon.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of March 21-27: Work will continue on the Downtown Corridor improvement project on Carson Street in the following locations:

When I got back from vacation, I was thrilled to see my daffodils growing. I looked more closely and realized they already had flower buds even though they were only a few inches tall. My bulbs have been in the ground a number of years and have always been tall before. What’s going on?

Carson City District Court Judge James Wilson reversed a Justice Court decision that resulted in Foodies Bystro being kicked out of the Brewery Arts Center last summer, calling it "a clear error of law and must be reversed."

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You may consider Muscle Powered a hiking and biking organization, and you wouldn't be wrong. But Muscle Powered's motto is "Walk, Bike, Build," and it is the "Build" part of the motto that is sometimes overlooked. With the official opening of the Ash to Kings Trail last season, the building aspect of Muscle Powered's motto was highlighted. But along with building comes maintaining. Volunteers from Muscle Powered often assist with maintaining the area's trails, cutting back encroaching brush, or building sustainable features into a trail in order to prevent erosion.

Western Nevada College is kicking it up a notch to expand campus activities by introducing club soccer teams to the college beginning in Fall 2016, officials announced Thursday.

The program will be directed by the Associated Students of Western Nevada, with support from Student Life, and will be open to all students. Both men’s and women’s teams are envisioned. WNC hopes to field soccer teams at several levels of play: Recreational, Competitive and Premier, if interest is strong enough.

January’s finalists in the local Parent-Teacher Student Association Reflections Art Contest at Carson High School put their creative works up against the state’s best for a chance to compete at the National PTA Reflections awards ceremony held this summer.

All of the Carson High artists placed in their respective categories, receiving statewide recognition for their entries.

The Carson City Arts & Culture Coalition is accepting photographs for “Focus on Carson," a large-scale public art installation. The contest is open to all Carson City residents. The winning 20 to 30 photographs will be displayed as 3-by-5-foot images on a long vinyl mesh banner along a construction-site fence on the Hop & Mae Adams Foundation’s project at Curry and Telegraph Streets during summer 2016.

Carson High School’s HOSA — Future Health Professionals, one of four Career Technical Student Organizations that are part of the CHS Career and Technical Education program, sent more than 100 students to compete in the state HOSA Future Health Professionals Leadership Conference in Las Vegas this month thanks to a $4,400 grant from Partnership Carson City and fundraising efforts by students.

Speaking from a platform of practical experience, Milton Chen, Ph.D., knows what it takes to be cutting edge.

As executive director and senior fellow emeritus with the George Lucas Educational Foundation, producer of the award-winning Edutopia.org web site, Dr. Chen has been at the forefront of innovative K-12 learning for four decades.

More than 550 rat rod cars are expected for Rockabilly Riot’s debut event in Carson City this June, tourism officials confirmed Tuesday.

“This is a four-day party wrapped around a car show and celebrating a culture,” said Joel Dunn, executive director of the Carson City Visitors Bureau.

Carson City is changing daily as work progresses to create a more walkable and bike friendly downtown. Changing the face of the downtown is the core of the many projects the city has undertaken to provide a better quality of life for the city’s citizens.

Motorists are being reminded of ramp closures as the Nevada Department of Transportation continues construction of an auxiliary merge lane from Alternative U.S. 395/Eastlake Boulevard to southbound I-580 in north Carson City.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of March 14-20: Work will continue on the Downtown Corridor improvement project on Carson Street. Motorists this week can expect the following work areas:

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Dick Campagni presented a check for $4,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Nevada, which provided Club-branded warm long-sleeve shirts and beanies to Club members at both the Carson City and Carson Valley locations.

“The kids are so proud to wear their Club gear,” Katie Leao, chief professional officer at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Nevada, said. “Dick Campagni’s Carson City Toyota and Scion and the Campagni Auto Group are our best community partner. They always are there for our kids.”

It's Your City host Cortney Bloomer welcomes David Ruf of Greenhouse Garden Center in Carson City. They discuss getting your gardens ready for the coming spring and summer.

Recently, we’ve been reflecting on our experiences over the past year of public service together and the lessons we’ve learned.

Many of those lessons are unique to the particular functions of the Controller’s Office and include managing the departments of the office. But we also made more topical observations about our experience and how it has helped to shape and refine our views.

The Sierra Lutheran basketball program is firing up. This year, both the varsity and JV girls set new school records, along with the JV boys. The Falcons were successful in the classroom, too, because both the girls and boys varsity teams were honored as Nevada Division IV State Academic champions on Feb. 27 at Lawlor Events Center in Reno. The girls team compiled a combined 3.87 grade point average, and the boys a 3.72 grade point average.

Carson City is registering Nevada's lowestprice, at $1.95 agallon. “Refineries are also reportedly beginning to reduce production in preparation for the ...

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The Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada will be throwing open its doors to the public next week to celebrate National Boys & Girls Club Week, with events each evening March 7 – 12, Monday through Friday, beginning at 4 p.m. each day. The Club is located at 1870 Russell Way in Carson City.

Western Nevada College’s Nursing Department will host a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Open House this Friday, March 4, from 1-5 p.m. The event is free to the public. Visitors will learn about training and employment opportunities for CNAs. The Open House will be in the Cedar Building, Rm. 100-Marlette Hall on the Carson City campus, 2201 W. College Parkway.

Nevada had 13,742 initial claims filed for unemployment insurance in January, down 5.4 percent from December as the state’s seasonal layoff period began to slow, according to figures released Wednesday by Nevada’s Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

Nevada’s welcome signs are about to get a complete refresh thanks to a Welcome to Nevada Design Contest. The contest, which is now underway, challenges Nevada’s high school artists to create official Welcome to Nevada signs that depict the Nevada brand and create a friendly welcome for travelers.

Enjoy the sunshine and late winter warm weather this weekend. Next weekend may be an entirely different story as we head into what many weather watchers dub “Miracle March.”

More than 30 volunteers and University of Nevada, Reno staff and students spent a sunny, yet windy, winter day last week building six hoop houses that will be used to grow vegetables year-round to benefit Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada food programs.

CARSON CITY, NV. – Western Nevada College’s Nursing Department is hosting a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Open House on Friday, March 4, 1-5 p.m. The event is free to the public. Visitors will learn about training and employment opportunities for CNAs. The Open House will be in the Cedar Building, Rm. 100-Marlette Hall on the Carson City campus, 2201 W. College Parkway.

Event participants will tour the college’s nursing labs, learn about entrance requirements and hear from guest speakers such as local employers and both previous and current CNA students.

Ray Bonneville, a New Orleans-influenced guitarist/songwriter, will perform in Silver City on Sunday as part of a benefit for the Silver City School House.