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Get a taste of LA Bakery at its grand opening on Friday, June 15. Delight in complimentary baklava, pastries, and sandwiches as a celebration for LA Bakery. Mayor Robert Crowell will be attending to cut the ribbon of the new bakeshop. The event is located at 220 West John Street from 11 A.M. until 2 P.M.

Final results are in for two Carson City Supervisor election seats that will result in November runoffs.
In the Carson City Supervisor Ward 2 race Brad Bonkowski and Dennis Johnson will face off and in Ward 4, incumbent Molly Walt will take on Jim Shirk for the seat.

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Early voting and absentee votes for Carson City are in:
In the Supervisor Ward 2 Race, Brad Bonkowski is ahead 33.14 percent, followed by Dennis E. Johnson at 27.21 percent, followed by Stacie Wilkie McCullough, 23.41 percent, and Maurice White, 16.24 percent.

Carson City Supervisors Ward 4 Race has incumbent Molly Walt garnering 39.07 percent of the vote; Jim Shirk, 37.02; Amy Clemens, 23.91 percent.

The other races for Justice of the Peace (John Tatro); Mayor (Bob Crowell); School Trustee District 5 (Steven Reynolds) were uncontested.

LAS VEGAS — Six-hundred or so of the state’s Democratic party faithful this morning attended their annual state convention at the Bally’s Hotel conference center in Las Vegas. Five-hundred sixty-two delegates were credentialed but about two dozen vendors lined both sides of the room and guests were also welcomed.

CARSON CITY – Two Democrats seeking to succeed Steven Horsford in the 4th Senate district in Clark County disagreed today in a televised debate on a business margin tax sought by teachers to fund public education.

The Carson City Mall celebrated the grand opening and ribbon-cutting event of Crimson Moon, a new fashionable boutique and intuitive arts center, on Friday, June 1, from 5 P.M. to 9 P.M.

More than 350 scientists, environmental policy makers and economic stakeholders will discuss Lake Tahoe and its environmental and economic future at the annual Tahoe Science Conference “Environmental Restoration in a Changing Climate” May 22 to 24 at Incline Village.
The conference, this year being held at Sierra Nevada College, features a scientific poster session and the opening of “Visualizing Change, a photographic exhibition,” on Tuesday evening followed by two full days of seminars and workshops covering more than 20 topics in three main areas:

Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell and UNR mascot Alphie joke around at the Carson City Chamber mixer.

Last Sunday May 6th was Bike Habitat‘s Tour of Carson, an annual event that this year celebrates the shop’s 5th anniversary in business! The Tour of Carson began in 2008 as a way for the shop to say thank you to its customers and the community for their support. The event begins with a 27-30 mile ride around the perimeter of Carson City, and then finishes back at the Bike Habitat for a BBQ.

A combination of great weather and growing enthusiasm for cycling in Carson City is getting getting people out there on their bikes, and the ride with Carson City’s Leaders on May 7th was no exception.

The celebration of Bike Week continued today with Muscle Power Carson City taking Mayor Bob Crowell, Sheriff Kenny Furlong, school Superintendent Richard Stokes, supervisors Shelly Aldean, Karen Abowd and Molly Walt and others on a bike ride around the west side of Carson City.

The group met at Telegraph Square and ventured out to Omsby Boulevard to Ash Canyon Road, over the Winnie Lane, returning to on Nevada Street.

The new C-A-L Ranch Store on North Carson Street had its official grand opening today, with Mayor Bob Crowell helping to cut the ribbon.

A big crowd was on hand for the event, completely filling the parking lot of the old Safeway building.

The store features a huge variety of products, everything from guns to dresses to live poultry.

The store has 32 employees.

CARSON CITY – A consultant hired by the cities of Henderson and Las Vegas to analyze the process used to distribute taxes to the counties and cities told lawmakers today the formula now used to make the allocations has weaknesses.

There will be two events today in Carson City dedicating new solar generation installations.

This morning at 11:30 a.m., Officials with Western Nevada College, Black Rock Solar and NV Energy will be celebrating completion of a 200-kilowatt solar project at the WNC college. NV Energy will be presenting a check for $940,000 to the college as part of the company's SolarGenerations program to help offset the cost.

Mayor Robert Crowell is teaming up with Nevada’s First Lady Kathleen Sandoval, Immunize Nevada, and the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services’ Maternal Child Health Division for Mayors and Mommies Month starting April 1.

Mayors and Mommies Month is a statewide initiative encouraging Nevada’s mothers to sign up for Text4Baby, a free national health information text messaging service. The goal of Mayors and Mommies Month is to have 4,000 mothers signed up for Text4Baby by Mother’s Day, May 13.

Proscenium Players is holding open auditions for their August production at the Brewery Arts Center of “Steel Magnolias” directed by Abbey Gardner and produced by Melissa Knight.

Steel Magnolias is a comedy–drama play about the bond among a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana. It is written by Robert Harling, based on his experience with the death of his sister. The title suggests the "female characters are as delicate as magnolias but ...as tough as steel".

There were a few surprise candidates who threw their hats into the ring for this year's elections on the last day of filing.

(Update: Change in the candidates for school board, below)

Stacie Wilke-McCulloch, who currently serves on the Carson City School Board, filed to run for Carson City Board of Supervisors Ward 2. She joins three other candidates looking to succeed current Supervisor Shelly Aldean, who decided not to run again. Brad Bonkowski, Dennis Johnson and Maurice White are the other candidates.

Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell announced today that he will see reelection this fall.

Here is the statement he released:

The Carson City Chamber of Commerce's Home and Garden Show will take place on April 28 at the Carson Mall. The show begins at 10 a.m. with ribbon cutting by Mayor Robert Crowell & Chamber Board of Directors.

Liz Teixeira has announced she is running for the Ward 2 supervisor seat being vacated by Shelly Aldean. Her husband Marv served three terms as mayor of Carson City, and Liz is a former city hall employee.

That makes two announced candidates for the Ward 2 seat, with Maurice White announcing his candidacy last week.

Representatives from the Vietnam Veterans of America, Carson City Sea Cadets and U.S. Navy League gathered at the Carson City Library Friday to donate a Bluejackets Manual and a 1942-1943 USS Nevada Cruise Book. Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell and Library Director Sara Jones were on hand for the event.
Photo by Cathleen Allison

The City of South Lake Tahoe and the League to Save Lake Tahoe have entered into a Settlement Agreement in which the League agrees to drop its appeal of their lawsuit against the City regarding the General Plan Update and the City agrees not to seek payment for legal fees.

Carson City Supervisor Shelly Aldean announced that she will not be seeking reelection to the Ward 2 seat she has held since 2003.

Aldean was appointed to the board in January 2003 after the death of Supervisor Jon Plank. She ran and won elections in 2004 and 2008.

Maurice White, first vice chair of the Carson City Republican Central Committee, plans to announce his intentions to run for the Ward 2 seat at a fundraiser on Feb. 11.

A group of local activists have filed a petition the the county clerk to stop Carson City from using public money on the City Center Project (aka Nugget Project) without getting approval from the voters.

Attorney Day Williams, a long-time opponent of the project, said the group started talking about it last week before filing the paperwork on Friday.

“We filed the petition because the city continues to move forward with this boondoggle,” Williams said.

The petition asks for the adoption of a city ordinance that reads:

A recent report commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Mayors awards Carson City the dubious distinction of being the only metropolitan area studied that is predicted to not recover any jobs this year.

Add to that this morning's unemployment report showing the rate for Carson City climbed to 12.2 percent in December, and one can't help worrying about the economic outlook for our area.

I would like to know why Carson Tahoe Hospital & Clinic goes through Doctors & P.A.'s like people drink water?

RENO, Nev. – Kate McGee has joined 88.7 FM KUNR – Reno Public Radio – as a broadcast journalist, coming to northern Nevada from the East Coast. She recently graduated from Fordham University in the Bronx, N.Y., with a dual bachelor's degree in American studies and history. She started her public radio career at Fordham’s WFUV Radio as a reporter, anchor and producer, where she covered everything from Mayor Mike Bloomberg to stickball tournaments.

The Carson City Chamber of Commerce presents the State of the City forum on Friday, Feb. 10 at 7:30 a.m. at the Gold Dust West. Speakers include Mayor Bob Crowell, Supervisor Shelly Aldean, Sheriff Ken Furlong and City Manager Larry Werner. Cost is $20. Please RSVP before Feb. 7 by calling 775-882-1565.

Echos of gunshots from Eduardo Sencion had barely subsided when the chatter began that the Carson City IHOP would never open again, forever tarnished by a gunman's murderous rampage.

But this week the IHOP did reopen, with the governor, mayor and sheriff in attendance to reassure residents that we will not let the acts of a madman control our lives, that we can put this tragic episode behind us.

Three months after the deadly shooting rampage that left four diners dead, the Carson City IHOP is once again serving up breakfast this morning.

One of the first diners at the reopened restaurant is Sheriff Kenny Furlong, who is currently enjoying his morning meal in a place that holds some bad memories for him and his deputies who responded to the the shooting on Sept. 6. Four people who were sitting inside the restaurant died after being shot by Eduardo Sencion, who killed himself minutes later in the parking lot.

Gov. Brian Sandoval, Mayor Bob Crowell and Supervisor John McKenna were also among the first diners at the restaurant this morning.

A proposal to add a deputy city manager to the staff at Carson City Hall will be pulled from the agenda for Thursday's meeting.

Mayor Bob Crowell said he that after discussions he has had over the past few days since the proposal became public, he will ask that the item be pulled from the agenda.