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CARSON CITY — In collaboration with Carson Tahoe Health, The Greenhouse Project will be conducting free garden workshops throughout summer and fall at the Carson Tahoe Health Foothill Garden site to help enhance your home gardening skills.

Each Monday morning, I host a show called Drive Time: Your Motivational Drive in the Morning on KNVC 95.1 FM. This morning, considering President Trump’s latest tweet to the president of Iran, I found it appropriate that the topic I had prepared for today was emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence, in short, is how you manage yourself and how you interact with others.

When Maria Watson walked back into the manufacturing facility that she and her husband had built, she felt so small and alone.

The 55,000 square-foot building was empty, and so was a part of Watson.

Nearly 25 years ago, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and dozens of partners embarked on an unprecedented mission to conserve and restore the Lake Tahoe Basin’s treasured natural resources through the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program.

Tesla announced an initial $1.5 million in funding grants at Thursday's Nevada Board of Education meeting. The grant is the first funds towards its agreement to contribute $37.5 million over five years to K-12 education in Nevada.

The seasonably hot weather continues this week with a weather pattern change that may bring thunderstorms to the Carson City region, and along with that, the danger of lightning strikes, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a Fire Weather Watch.

CARSON CITY — Signups are underway for the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's new 4-H club for children ages 9-12. Kids who enroll will be able to be involved in the science of gardening and will learn what it takes to grow their own tomatoes and more.

The Jump Around Carson transit system permanently relocated its administrative office and bus yard to the former site of the Carson City Animal Shelter.

Brothers Jeff and Paul Young planned a soft opening of their brewery as a way to ease into the business before the official opening.

Now that it’s summer, you may be asking the age-old gardening question, “To fertilize or not to fertilize?”

Plants do need nutrients to not only maintain existing leaves, roots, flowers or fruits, but also to develop new ones.

But is this the time to fertilize?

CARSON CITY — Nevada was recently awarded $968,595 ApprenticeshipUSA State Expansion in grant funds by the U.S. Department of Labor, Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Thursday.

With hot, dry conditions and gusty winds expected to arrive in the Carson City region Wednesday afternoon, the National Weather Service has issued a red flag fire weather warning, the second one this week.

Sticky, drippy aphid goo covers the plants under my ash trees.

Aphids insert their sucking mouth parts into a leaf and draw the sap out to feed as if they are sucking through a straw.

They pull out so much ‘juice’ from a plant, they can’t absorb it all. The excess is ejected out two pipes on their hind ends called cornicles.

Three hot air balloons are scheduled to launch early Sunday morning from East Fork Fire Station 12, located at 3620 North Sunridge Drive in South Carson City, part of a retirement celebration for a firefighting veteran with the East Fork Fire District in Douglas County.

The Dayton Farmers Market has opened for the 2018 summer season. The market takes place every Saturday through September from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 60 Second Avenue and Highway 50.

Did you know that approximately one out of every three bites of food you eat depends on the work of a "pollinator?” Bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, and hummingbirds are keystone pollinator species in Nevada, supporting healthy wildlands, ecosystem diversity, and a nutritious food supply.

CARSON CITY — Northern Nevada Development Authority is now accepting nominations for its 2018 Pioneer Awards, which recognizes individuals and business professionals who have made outstanding contributions in economic development and have helped to grow Nevada's Sierra region.

With an event-filled weekend ahead across the Carson City region, skies will be mostly clear and sunny, however it will be especially windy Saturday, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a red flag fire weather warning for the Western Nevada Sierra Front below 5,000 feet.

A building permit to open a new Smart Foodservice wholesale food distribution and service store at 222 Fairview Drive, right next door to Office Depot, is currently under review by the Carson City Planning Division, according to the June report of the Carson City Community Development Department.

Managing weeds, particularly with chemicals, is more complicated than most people realize.

A neighbor was spraying cheatgrass recently. He didn’t realize that with the cheatgrass already going to seed and turning brown, his use of chemicals was ineffective and costly in time and money. The seeds will still spread, and he will still have to mow or weed-eat the dead plant residue.

It’s National Trails Day, so community partnerships and over 30 volunteers teamed up with shovels in hand to finish work on the Foothill Trail behind the Carson Tahoe Cancer Center in Carson City.

Author Teri Case has sent out a warm thank you to Carson City residents for their support in her debut novel "Tiger Drive and an invitation to a June 8 book signing.

RENO — In addition to navigating pristine wild rivers and dirt roads, big-fish wrangler Zeb Hogan of Nat Geo WILD’s “Monster Fish” show also had to navigate a maze of dangerous military zones in order to tell the story of his travel and research in the remote and wild Salween River that runs through China, Thailand and Myanmar.

Whether light lavender, dark purple or even white, I love the color and scent of common lilac, Syringa vulgaris. I often see bushes densely covered in blossoms, yet my lilac bushes are sparse with few blooms.

Each day, Nevada Humane Society has dozens of cats and kittens arrive at the shelter. This time of year, those numbers are especially high — and right now your help is needed as the supply of cat and kitten food is running critically low.

The Carson City Fire Department is holding a Green Waste Collection Day this Saturday May 19, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Residents can bring pine needles, pine cones, branches and other vegetation to Carson River Park, located at 5013 Carson River Road.

Sofia Valenzuela hasn’t been afraid of change and crossing gender norms during her college education.
Valenzuela started as a civil engineer major at the University of Nevada, Reno, then transferred to Western Nevada College to pursue a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Construction Management.

Little Monsters Children's Resale Store in Carson City is closing permanently May 25 after almost five years in business, said the Chambers family, who opened the retail operation in the fall of 2013.

Thanks to a grant from Hilton Corporation, the Carson City Chamber Board of Directors is offering Carson City residents enrolled in one of the local high schools or currently employed within the hospitality and tourism industry the opportunity to apply for three $1,165 scholarships to attend the new Truckee Meadows Community College Hospitality and Tourism Management program.

Jan Whitemore, Executive Director of the Carson City Literacy Volunteers, will be the featured speaker at the Leisure Hour Club’s next dinner meeting on Wednesday, May 16. The Leisure Hour Club will also announce the donation of $500 to the Literacy Volunteers at the event in recognition of the organization’s outstanding work.