August 2012
Carson City Host Lions sponsored Tom Brooks Memorial Fishing Day
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 1:23pm
Event Date:
September 15, 2012 (All day) A free fishing day sponsored by Carson City Host Lions Club and supported by several other organizations for local youngsters will be held at Baily Pond, Fuji Park. Saturday September 15 from 08:00 A.M. to 01:00 P.M. Free food and cold drinks, teeshirts, and raffle prizes will be available. There will be a fish cleaning station and an archery range. Local dignitaries will open the Tom Brooks Memorial Fishing Day at 08:00. Let's get the kids into the outdoors and teach them to fish. Children twelve years and older will need an NDOW fishing license.
Nevada Attorney General settles with Johnson and Johnson over Risperdal disclosure
Submitted by editor on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 12:32pm
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto announced Thursday that she and 36 other AGs reached a record $181 million settlement, the largest multi-state consumer protection settlement of its kind reached with a pharmaceutical company, with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson. Nevada’s share of the settlement will be $3.3 million.
Nevada Attorney General Announces Two Nationwide Settlements Over Anti-Psychotic Drugs, E-Books
Submitted by Nevada News Bureau on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 11:39amCARSON CITY – The Nevada Attorney General’s Office has reached two separate agreements this week, one with a pharmaceutical firm over the marketing of anti-psychotic drugs and another with three book publishers over e-book price-fixing allegations.
Trains, burgers and the Civil War this Labor Day weekend
Submitted by editor on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 11:22amUnlimited train rides for the single-ride price are designed on Labor Day weekend to entice railroad and history buffs to the Nevada State Railroad Museum.
Rides will involve the 1905 Steam Locomotive No. 25 and will highlight the holiday weekend celebration at the museum.
NDOW offers youth hunts for upland game
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 2:47amThe Nevada Department of Wildlife is offering a special two-day upland game season for youth hunters.
Scheduled for Sept. 29 – 30, the statewide season is open to hunters 15 years of age or younger.
Youth hunters 12 -15 years of age are required to possess a junior hunting license with an upland game stamp for the hunt.
Any youth participating in the youth hunt must be accompanied by an adult who is at least 18 years of age.
Cave Lake nominated a Top State Park in America
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 2:44amFans of the Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation’s Take Me Fishing campaign took to Facebook this summer, to participate in Nature’s Waterpark Showdown.
Each fan was invited to help determine the top eight natural “waterparks,” or state parks, for boating and fishing in America. They could also enter for a chance to win the grand prize: a vacation to a state park for a family of four.
Outdoors with Don Q: A return trip to a remote British Columbia lake
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 2:21am
This is the first in a three-part series of articles about my second, fly-in, trout fishing trip to Mitchell Lake, which is located in the Cariboo Mountains Provincial Park in British Columbia.
This three-part series will consist of:
Series No. 1: The flight from Dayton, Nevada to Mitchell Lake, B.C.,
Series No. 2: The people, accommodations and meals at the lake,
Series No. 3: The trout fishing.
How the trip originated:
It began about three weeks ago, when my first-cousin’s husband (Bob Scholes of Dayton) asked if I was interested in returning to Mitchell Lake.
First for Wyatt Law
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 2:10am
Wyatt Law, son of Kevin and Amber Law of Carson City, with his first-ever mule deer, a 3X2, taken with bow and arrow.
Photo courtesy of Kevin Law.
Bomb threat reported at Kohl's, building evacuated
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Wed, 08/29/2012 - 4:48pm
A bomb threat reported Wednesday afternoon at Kohl's department store in Carson City prompted an evacuation. Nothing was found after an intense search of the store, authorities reported Wednesday night.
The threat was phoned in by a man said to be angry and speaking with a raspy voice, according to a 911 dispatch report.
Nevada Records Two Straight Years Of Taxable Sales Increases With 7.9 Percent Gain In June
Submitted by Nevada News Bureau on Wed, 08/29/2012 - 2:57pmCARSON CITY – Nevada recorded two straight years of increases in taxable sales through June, with a statewide gain of 7.9 percent over June 2011, the state Department of Taxation reported today.
Taxable sales totaled $3.9 billion in June compared to $3.6 billion in June 2011. For the 2012 fiscal year, taxable sales rose 7.6 percent over 2011.
Clark County taxable sales were up 8.9 percent in June and Washoe County saw a 3 percent gain.
