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The Leisure Hour Club will begin its 127th year with their first dinner meeting set for Wednesday, September 20. Presenting at the event will be Mark McLaughlin who will speak about “Snowbound! Legendary Winters of the Tahoe Sierras.”

Gold Hill Ghost Tours 2023 Season returns Sept. 14. Plan your Dinner and tour for an exciting and Ghostly deal. Enjoy a 5 star meal at the Crown Point Restaurant. Then join the Northern Nevada Ghost Hunters for a night to remember! The tours run 2 times a night, Every 2nd and 4th Thursday.

The Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED), Tom Burns, will be the featured speaker at the next Rotary Club of Carson City Meeting. Burns will discuss the state’s current economic condition as well as potential opportunities for growth over the next several years. The meeting takes place Tuesday, September 5th at noon in the Brewery Arts Center’s Grand Ballroom. The public is invited to attend.

Bargains and treasures galore at this two-day Community Yard Sale to benefit the historic Silver City Cemetery.

As the Nevada State Museum prepares to celebrate another year sharing Nevada’s unique history, the Friends of the Museum are again offering an opportunity for new and experienced volunteers and tour guides to learn more about our region, history, and the State Museum.

This week, the senior in the spotlight is Anna Turner. Anna is a bright, dedicated, hardworking young woman. Ranked third in her class, with a 5.1 weighted GPA, Anna has never received lower than an A throughout her high school career, while taking an extremely challenging load.

Douglas County Clerk-Treasurer Amy Burgans was recently designated as a Certified Elections/Registration Administrator (CERA), the highest professional achievement for election officials in the country.

The next Carson City Board of Supervisor’s meeting will take place Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023 beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Robert ‘Bob’ Crowell Board Room in the Carson City Community Center, located at 851 E. William Street.

Items up for discussion include opioid settlements, a group living project grant, Nevada Day street closures, and more.

A 30-year-old man was arrested Wednesday for suspicion of felony domestic battery with strangulation, preventing a victim from reporting a crime, and being a prohibited person with a firearm, according to a Carson City Sheriff's Office booking report.

A to Zen is releasing their first CD this September! The Friends of the Zen Den Volume 1 Album Release Concert will be Saturday, Sept. 23 2023, at 7 p.m.

The author and his wife

Author and photographer Stephen H. Provost has released a new historical tour guide for Carson City's own Highway 395.

"Sierra Highway: U.S. 395 and El Camino Sierra in California and Nevada" is the fourth volume in his growing "Highways of the West" series, joining "America's Loneliest Road" (U.S. 50, which also touches on Carson City history), "Victory Road," and "The Lincoln Highway in California."

In a collaborative effort to ensure the safety of all road users as they travel this Labor Day weekend, the California Highway Patrol, Nevada State Police, and Arizona Department of Public Safety are joining forces for a Maximum Enforcement Period. The tri-state enforcement initiative begins at 6:01 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 1, and continues through 11:59 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 4.

Kaboom-Con! Northern Nevada will be hosted on September 7th, 2024, at the Carson City Community Center in Carson City, NV. The event will have almost ten thousand square feet of exhibitor floor space.

There will be Cosplay and Art Contests as well as fabulous raffle prizes. The event will also serve as a fundraiser for multiple local 501(c)3 Non-Profits, including Cold Nose Rescue and Sanctuary, with a portion of the net proceeds going to these fantastic organizations.

Is it a plant? Is it an animal? No, it's a fungus!

Family Fun Saturday returns to the Nevada State Museum in Carson City with a closer look at "Funky Fungi" on Sept. 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Carson Creepy is back, Carson City’s annual short-film contest, in which participants have just two weeks to create their spookiest film.

Summer is coming to an end, which means the Halloween season is upon us. Are you a sinister storyteller who loves to create chills?

Two people were arrested as the result of a drug-endangered child investigation conducted by the Nevada State Police, Tri-NET Narcotic Task Force, with the assistance of the Carson City Sheriff’s Office.

This rare full Super Moon event Wednesday night won't be seen for another 14 years.

Happy Thursday, Carson City! I hope you're enjoying the cooling weather like I am, but it'll still be warm enough to enjoy Labor Day weekend! Let's take a look to see what the weekend has in store for us.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is seeking assistance from the public to identify two suspects for a theft that happened Jan. 15, 2023, at approximately 1:30 p.m. at Costco, 700 Old Clear Creek Road, in Carson City.

If you've been enjoying the Brewery Art Center's presentation of the beginnings of psychedelic rock art and posters, there's an opportunity to see another piece of the era up close and live.

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Division of Insurance and the Nevada Real Estate Division want to bring public awareness and education to an increasingly prevalent real estate identity theft scam. Known as “vacant lot fraud” or “seller impersonation fraud,” bad actors impersonate the owners of a property or vacant lot and attempt to sell it for their own profit.

The Pay It Forward Project partners with local school service clubs and organizations that work to build a better community with community service projects and environmental projects that build for a better community.

While statewide casino gaming figures showed an increase in July, Carson City area casinos saw a 3 percent decrease in gaming revenue for the month, according the latest figures released Wednesday from the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office K9 Unit is proud to officially announce Deputy Ryan Greb and K9 Proton as our newest K9 team.

Deputy Greb has been with the Sheriff’s office for more than seven years, he is a SWAT team lead, and he’s a field training officer in the Patrol Division. His new partner, K9 Proton, is an 18-month old Belgian Malinois who’s fluent in Dutch. Proton specializes in drug detection, tracking, and apprehension.

Carson City is about to get crowned! Beauty, Brains, Glamour and Bling!

Get ready for the ultimate celebration of beauty and confidence at the National Miss Curvy Pageant 2023, where curves take center stage.

Local artist Colleen Reynolds, owner of CRME Exploring Watercolor, and Denise Mack, Director of the Capital City CIRCLES Initiative, will come together to present the donation proceeds check from the 3rd Annual Watercolor Carson City fundraising event.

Changes are afoot at the Nevada Day Parade this year, held on Saturday, Oct. 28, with one major change being highlighted: this year, the parade with be campaign-free.

“Due to the division in our political system, the last few years have brought threats that have kept officials away from the parade,” Executive Director Brooke Santina said. “We’ve seen spectators lunging at or screaming profanities at our elected officials, in front of children, which we do not condone.”

A delightful staging of the ballet “Coppélia” will be performed at The Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts in Reno on Sept. 16-17, 2023.

The Carson City School District will be entering a “Mass Action Lawsuit” against several social media companies, joining districts nationwide.

What the lawsuit is asking for is changes to online practices pertaining to cyberbullying and online harassment on social media platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram, Youtube and more, as well as payment to the increased expense undertaken by schools to deal with higher levels of anxiety, depression and self-harm caused, they say, by social media.

The Donovan Mill, Northern Nevada Antique Power Club and Dayton Silver n' Gold Cruisers are putting on a show at the Donovan Mill on Highway 342 in Silver City.

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