July 2014
History of The Beatles Lecture and Beatles Flashback Concert
Submitted by editor on Tue, 07/29/2014 - 8:42am
This year, the United States celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first visit to these shores. The "Jazz & Beyond: Carson City Music Festival" is excited to provide two exciting Beatles events in honor of that occasion.
Live Motown music at Living The Good Life
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Mon, 07/28/2014 - 6:50pm
Event Date:
July 31, 2014 - 7:00pm Live music Thursday night featuring Reecy Lomax & Mick Valentino Motown Hits and Jazzy R&B 7:00-9:00 Come listen and Dance. Free hors d' oeuvres with Cocktails... Come join the fun.
V&T 'Ghost Girl' author to speak, sign books at Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Mon, 07/28/2014 - 4:25pm
Event Date:
August 9, 2014 (All day) A railroad mystery, Nevada history, a dog and a ghost are the central figures in a new book by author Jan Pierson, set to visit the Nevada State Railroad Museum, Carson City, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 9 and 10. The author will sign copies of her book “Ghost Girl in Car No. 9,” the fifth in her series “The Ghostowners,” in the museum store.
It’s Your City: Carson TV News debuts Monday, Aug. 4
Submitted by editor on Mon, 07/28/2014 - 3:58pm
This week’s It’s Your City features Cortney Bloomer who announces a new weekly TV program, Carson TV News, to premier Monday, Aug. 4 on Charter Cable Channel 193, at 4:30 p.m. and again at 7:30 p.m.
Follow Carson TV News at www.facebook.com/carsontvnews for updates, information and to learn more about the program. You can also submit photos and video to CarsonTVnews@gmail.com.
What Works: Going with the flow
Submitted by editor on Mon, 07/28/2014 - 2:45pm
When you live in the stream of life, instead of fighting the current, you find a sense of peace. This is what I realized after a deer ran into my passenger side headlight this weekend on the way back from a little getaway.
Carson City man jailed after police chase ends when car crashes into casino
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Mon, 07/28/2014 - 1:26pm
What began as a battery investigation where a convenience store clerk was hit with a banana, ended with the arrest of a man after he crashed his vehicle into a natural gas line forcing the evacuation of a casino early Sunday morning, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy said.
Osvaldo Ruiz was arrested at 1:41 a.m. in the 2100 block of East Long Street after a vehicle and foot chase. He faces felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon, reckless driving willful conduct and eluding with endangerment as well as misdemeanor charges of DUI, obstructing and hit and run.
Dayton Valley Days calls for crafters, vendors
Submitted by editor on Mon, 07/28/2014 - 12:03pmThe Dayton Valley Days Committee invites crafters, vendors and anyone who wants to reach a large number of people to reserve booth space for the 26th annual street festival held in the heart of historic Old Town Dayton.
Dayton Valley Days is scheduled Sept. 20 and 21 with an expected attendance over 15,000.
Panel to draft bill on energy savings
Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/28/2014 - 8:20amCARSON CITY — A legislative committee Friday agreed to draft a bill for the 2015 session to look at energy-savings opportunities for utility customers, but the panel declined to move forward with the specific recommendations of a public policy group.
Slow executions could affect Nevada cases
Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/28/2014 - 8:19amCARSON CITY — Messy executions in Arizona and Ohio that made national headlines could buoy efforts by death penalty opponents to stave off capital punishment for some 80 Nevada inmates awaiting execution.
The cases could be used to pile on to the ever-growing number of legal challenges to capital punishment in the Silver State, adding the argument that the use of lethal injection should be considered a cruel and unusual form of punishment, said Clark County Deputy Public Defender Scott Coffee.
ERA isn't nostalgia in Nevada
Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/28/2014 - 8:12amCARSON CITY %u2014 Mention the Equal Rights Amendment today and it might bring back memories of the 1970s, from huge protest marches to "ERA Yes" buttons.
But the proposed constitutional amendment, which fell three states short of the 38 needed to win ratification by a 1979 deadline that Congress later extended to 1982, is not a relic in Nevada.
