Mayor Robert Crowell

Following his re-election for a third and final term, Carson City Mayor Robert Crowell is optimistic about what's ahead for the Nevada state capital in 2017.

He delivered his State of the City speech Monday night to dozens inside the Bob Boldrick Theater at the Carson City Community Center, reviewing the city's successes and challenges from 2016 while also reassuring residents about the future.

The new year keeps rolling along, and tonight we’ll hear from Mayor Bob Crowell what we can expect in the upcoming months. The State of the City address, "Carson City - A Community Working Together," will be presented in the Community Center’s Bob Boldrick Theater and is open to all. One thing we can expect is an influx of legislative staff, lobbyists, and lawmakers flooding Carson City. The next Legislative session begins in one week, so expect a little more traffic on the roads and our new downtown crosswalks to get a lot more use.

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What a difference a year makes. Carson City has come a long way and has made many changes during 2016, but still has miles to go. Mayor Robert Crowell will present his annual State of the City address, free and open to the public, Monday evening Jan. 30, 6 p.m. at the Carson City Community Center Bob Boldrick Theater.

Please join on us to honor our Veterans and commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor at two special events this Wednesday. There will be a special ceremony at 10:51 a.m. conducted by the USS Nevada Memorial, Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison and Carson City Mayor Robert Crowell to honor and acknowledge the contributions of the USS Nevada and her crew, raise the American flag, and solemnly read off the names of the 76 crewman who perished during Pearl Harbor. The ceremony will be held at the Capitol Grounds in Carson City, at the USS Nevada Memorial.

This week's It's Your City with Cortney Bloomer features Ronni Hannaman, executive director of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce to discuss the Silver and Snowflake Festival of Lights this Friday, Dec. 2 and several other events planned for the holidays.

At 8:51 AM on December 7th, 1941, The USS Nevada got underway to face a Japanese onslaught at Pearl Harbor. Later dubbed by President Roosevelt as "a day that will live in infamy," the USS Nevada was the only American battleship to get underway during the assault. Still, she was beached during the attack after sustaining six bomb strikes and a direct hit from a torpedo.

For more than a quarter century, Carson City’s own Silver and Snowflake Festival of Lights has rung in the holiday season for residents and visitors of the Nevada state capital.

On Tuesday, Senior Judge John W. Ray was the recipient of a proclamation from the Nevada Supreme Court signed by Chief Justice Ron D. Parraguirre and all six Associate Justices. Carson City Mayor Robert L. Crowell and Justice of the Peace Judge John Tatro presented Senior Judge John W. Ray with the proclamation in his home with his wife Geniel Ray by his side. The proclamation reads:

The U.S. Navy on Friday accepted delivery of the seventh expeditionary fast transport USNS Carson City during a ceremony held aboard the ship at Austal USA’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama.

EPF 7 is the second U.S. Navy ship named for the city in Nevada. The first Carson City was designated PF-50 and commissioned March 24, 1944. She was loaned to Japan in 1953 and served for nearly 20 years in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Carson City received two battle stars for World War II service.

Choosing the candidates who will advance to the general election is extremely important. And, the only way to be able to choose wisely is to see the primary candidates in action as they answer questions posed by board members of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce on May 24 beginning at 6 p.m. at the BAC Performance Hall.

There are only 4 days left to purchase tickets for the “Under the Stewart Stars” fundraising event on Saturday, May 21st in Carson City, NV. Tickets are still available for just $60 per person or $600 per table. Remaining tickets can be purchased online or by mail through 6:00 pm this Friday May 13th.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine — a nonprofit of 12,000 doctors — has placed two billboards warning Carson City residents that cancer-causing processed meats such as hot dogs don’t belong in school meals.

The U.S. Navy christened its newest fast-transport ship, the USNS Carson City EPF-7 at a ceremony Saturday in Mobile, Alabama. Susan Asbury Crowell, wife of Carson City Mayor Robert Crowell, and sponsor of the ship, officially introduced it with a bottle of champagne during the ceremony, which also featured Nevada Congressman Mark Amodei.

Carson City Mayor Robert Crowell announced this morning he will seek a third term. “Today I am going to announcne that I am going to run for a third term for mayor,” Crowell said at a break ...

Mayor Robert Crowell will seek a third term, he announced Friday.The mayor, during a breakfast meeting that included a range of ethnic and business people at La Posada Real restaurant, said ...

The Carson City Chamber sponsored the inaugural Footgolf Tournament to benefit Carson High Culinary, raising $1,500 to send teams to competition. Shown left is Terrie McNutt, General Manager of Silver Oak and Mayor Robert Crowell along with CHS Culinary teacher Penny Reynolds and her team of students. 100 percent of monies raised in the tournament went to the culinary program.

Fifteen sailors from Carrier Air Wing Three of Virginia Beach, VA will be in Carson City on Saturday, Oct. 3 and Saturday, Oct. 10 to perform volunteer work at some of our most historic sites.

The sailors will be training at Fallon Naval Air Station and when in any community perform volunteer duties to “leave each place we visit in better condition,” according to Lt. Robert D Fasnacht, group leader.

Carson City residents gathered Friday in Mills Park with law officers and firefighters to remember the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The service was held surrounding a I-beam memorial that was given to Carson City in 2010 by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Among the flowers placed on the beam was as an American flag presented to the Carson City Fire Department by Michael Manfredo. The flag was given to the Carson City man by a son of one of the 343 fighters killed at the World Trade Center that day.

A memorial service to remember the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks will be held at Mills Parks Friday beginning at 8:30 a.m. The service is at the World Trade Center Steel I Beam located at the eastern edge of Mills Park in Carson City.
The beam was given to Carson City by the Port Authority of New York to mark that fateful day. The public is invited.

The #CarsonProud Campaign kicked off in high gear Saturday thanks to the cooperation of Costco General Manager Bob Tote and all his dedicated employees. Every Costco employee proudly wore their #CarsonProud t-shirts from opening until closing.

Mayor Robert Crowell and Supervisors Jim Shirk and Lori Bagwell greeted incoming customers at the Costco entrance while asking all to be #CarsonProud and explaining the campaign. Costco is the first local retailer to have embraced the #CarsonProud campaign.

Long time Carson City restaurant, The Cracker Box, is celebrating 35 years in business over Mother’s Day weekend. To mark the occasion Carson City Mayor Robert Crowell and the Board of Supervisors joined a representative from Congressman Mark Amodei's office to recognize the restaurant Friday morning with certificates and congratulations.

This Saturday, May 9 from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. the employees of Carson City Costco will be #CarsonProud and proudly wearing their #CarsonProud t-shirts throughout the workday.

Costco is the first major retailer to embrace Carson City’s #CarsonProud campaign and is looking forward to assisting Mayor Robert Crowell and other Supervisors in getting the word out about all the positive changes to take place in the near future in the downtown core.

In 2009, Carson City poet Teresa Breeden wrote: “Listen. These soldiers were all children once…they stood in that first pair of shoes, released supports, leaned into the wind of unknowing, wobbled that first step toward war.” Literary work by Breeden and other Nevada writers accompany photographs of the nearly 7,000 U.S military Iraq and Afghanistan war dead since Sept.11, 2001, all part of the nationally touring arts and humanities exhibition “Always Lost: A Meditation on War.”

The Western Nevada College arts and humanities exhibition Always Lost: A Meditation on War returns to the Nevada Legislative Building ​April 6-22 ​during the 2015​ Legislative​ session.​ Always Lost will be on display in the second floor atrium​ of the Legislative Building​. A special opening ceremony is planned for Monday, April 6 from 10-10:30 a.m. in Room 1214.

Scheduled to speak at the opening are ​Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson, Assembly Speaker John Hambrick, Nevada Military and Veterans Policy Director Caleb Cage and Carson City Mayor Robert Crowell.

After the Carson City Chamber's Soup's On! luncheon on Wednesday, Mayor Robert Crowell donated a dog biscuit to add to Nevada Humane Society Executive Director Kevin Ryan's one-of-a-kind treat jar designed by Linda Ritter of Pinyon Pottery. Photo by Beverly Eiswert.

Mayor Robert Crowell and other dignitaries gathered to officially cut the ribbon to announce the grand opening of Lake Tahoe Brewing Company on Wednesday evening. Owner Mike Candelaria is holding the scissors while manager Morgan Davis (left) holds on to the ribbon. The Brewery is located at 302 N. Carson Street, Carson City.

Tickets for the USAF Band performance in Carson City on March 4 have sold out, said Chamber of Commerce Director Ronni Hannaman.

A line formed outside the Carson City Chamber of Commerce at around 7:30 a.m. for the free tickets to the USAF Concert Band that will play in Carson City March 4.

A bit of Americana now and then to remind us all of the great country in which we live is always appropriate and welcome. Mayor Robert Crowell, representing the City of Carson City, and the Carson City Chamber of Commerce is collaborating to bring the United States Air Force Band of Washington D.C. to the Bob Boldrick Theater at the Community Center for a free concert on Wednesday evening March 4 at 7 p.m.

RSVP now for the Carson City Chamber of Commerce Soup’s On Luncheon, Wednesday, Jan. 28, at Gold Dust West in Carson City.
The featured speaker is Carson City Mayor Robert Crowell. The topic: “Time for Change. 2015 will bring about many changes, many already set in motion.”
The event is $17 per person RSVP in advance and $20 at the door. Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m.
To RSVP call (775) 882-1565. Go here for more information. http://www.carsoncitychamber.com

Carson City leaders were sworn into office today at the Carson City Courthouse. Carson City Mayor Robert Crowell presided with the oath of office taken by District Court Judge James T. Russell and James E. Wilson Jr.