Preserve

Former Director of the Nevada Department of Corrections and current Nevada State Prison Preservation Society President, Glen Whorton and Society Vice President Robin Bates will update the Leisure Hour Club membership on the current status of the historic Nevada State Prison located in Carson City. The presentation on the NHP to the Club will occur at their dinner meeting on Wednesday, May 18.

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.

A road safety audit that the Federal Highway Administration released this week for U.S. Highway 50 in Meyers, Calif., documents safety concerns for motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians that agencies are now working together and with the public to improve through the Meyers Corridor Project.

The project called The Vintage At Kings Canyon was presented by the managers in an open meeting at the Fritsch School on April 7th to a crowd estimated at 250-400 people.

On April 25 it was again the topic of another public meeting at the school. This time the meeting was called by the neighbors, and drew over 200 highly interested people, along with the mayor, two candidates for mayor, a supervisor, a candidate for supervisor, a reporter, a retired reporter, and other retired reporter also a candidate for supervisor.

The Nevada Department of Transportation will host a public hearing on Tuesday, April 26 to provide information on an upcoming project to construct a shared-use path and enhance safety, accessibility and water quality on State Route 28.

The Stewart Father's Day Powwow Committee in partnership with the Nevada Indian Commission is hosting the 2016 Stewart Father's Day Powwow at the former Stewart Indian School in Carson City, June 17-19, 2016. The Stewart Indian School was the only off-reservation boarding school in Nevada for American Indian students over a 90-year span.

Since the early 1980s, May has been a month for celebrating historic preservation and archaeology in Nevada. This year, the theme acknowledges the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, which helps to stabilize neighborhoods and downtowns, contributes to public education, attracts investment, creates jobs, generates tax revenues, supports small business and affordable housing, and powers Nevada’s heritage tourism industry.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency defended its landmark 2012 Regional Plan to restore Lake Tahoe’s environment in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Tuesday during oral arguments against a lawsuit by the Sierra Club and the Friends of the West Shore organization.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Hearings Officer will hold a public hearing Thursday, March 31 for Nevada Department of Transportation’s proposed project to install a 60-foot-long tunnel extension and rock fall shelter on the north side of the westbound Cave Rock tunnel to better protect the traveling public.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, in its capacity as the Tahoe Metropolitan Planning Organization, on Wednesday adopted an active transportation plan that will help communities continue to improve transportation options for bicyclists and pedestrians in the basin.

Carson City – Amid increased campaign momentum, Carson City resident Chris Forbush officially declared his candidacy for Assembly District 40 on March 18th.

Since being the first candidate to announce his bid for the Assembly seat back in January, Forbush has been building a strong organization prepared to reach every Republican voter in the District in person before the Republican Primary on June 14th.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) commended the House Natural Resources Committee’s unanimous passage Wednesday of his bill to allow public land to be held in trust for six different tribes throughout Nevada. H.R. 2733, the Nevada Native Nations Land Act, would greatly benefit the people of these regions by providing increased opportunities for economic development.

University of Nevada, Reno Assistant Professor of Anthropology Sarah Cowie was recently named one of 105 Presidential Early Career Award recipients for Scientists and Engineers by United States President Barack Obama.

“I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy … geography … commerce and agriculture in order to give their children the right to study painting, poetry, music and architecture …”

Lake Tahoe, Stateline, NV – The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency will conduct travel surveys with visitors and residents at several recreational and commercial locations throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin starting today, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016.

Key free-throws late in the game helped the Carson High varsity boys basketball team pull away from Bishop Manogue, 50-40, to preserve their unbeaten record, now at 15-0 in the Sierra League.

The visiting Miners cut Carson’s lead to just two points, 40-38, with about three minutes left to play in the fourth period.

But the Senators went on an 8-0 run, including six straight free-throws to build a 10-point advantage with just over a minute left in the game.

A day after battering the South Mountain pitching staff for 18 hits and 15 runs, Western Nevada College struggled to put the ball in play on a chilly day in Phoenix.

Justin Wick no-hit the Wildcats into the fifth inning and WNC hitters fanned 11 times as the Cougars held on to win the nonconference baseball game 5-3 on Monday.

The Wildcats of Carson City employed a patient approach at the plate against Wick, drawing five walks through four innings. But without a hit, the Wildcats couldn't exploit the free passes.

For more than seven years Virginia City has been having fun with “Cemetery Gin” a Nevada-made spirit available at local saloons, bars and stores throughout Northern Nevada which celebrates a tall tale from the Comstock’s rich mining days of the 1850s.

Spearheaded by the Virginia City Tourism Commission, the gin is a product of Frey Ranch Estate Distillery, located in Fallon, Nev., where all the ingredients were grown, distilled and bottled.

Improving transportation options for bicyclists and pedestrians is one of the most effective strategies to conserve and restore Lake Tahoe’s environment, revitalize the economy, enhance recreation opportunities, and improve public health, according to Tahoe Regional Planning Agency officials.

With the New Year upon us let me begin this document by wishing you and yours a Happy New Year. May the year 2016 bring peace and happiness to each and every one of you.

This New Year will be a busy one for Carson City. Foremost on our minds, perhaps, is the Downtown Street Narrowing Project due to begin early February/March depending on weather conditions. One of the goals stated by Carson City staff is to have this project complete in time for the Nevada Day parade. We should, however, keep our chief consideration foremost: “Let's do it Right.”

The Nevada State Prison Preservation Society’s annual membership meeting will start at 10 a.m. Saturday in the old prison’s courtroom.

The meeting is open to non-members as well as members and will include a presentation on development of historic prisons across the country, in addition to reports on the NSPPS’s progress.

More information about NSPPS is available at the organization’s web site, www.nspps.org, including an application to join the group.

The Geminids- the king of meteor showers- is soon approaching. On December 13 and 14, the sky will glow with up to 120 multicolored meteors per hour.

The Nevada Department of Transportation says it is nearly finished with a $1.2 million storm drainage enhancement and water quality project that began this summer along a 4.5 mile stretch of Highway 50 from Spooner junction at South Carson Street to Tahoe Golf Club Drive.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of Nov. 2-8, 2015. Division Street will be closed between Fifth Street and King Street during daytime hours Monday through Friday due to road construction. Detours will be signed.

The California Transportation Commission announced this week that it will award nearly $9 million in Active Transportation Program grant funding to help complete three major bike and pedestrian projects in the City of South Lake Tahoe and Tahoe City.

Members of the Lake Tahoe Bikeway Partnership applied for the grants. The partnership formed several years ago to secure funding for critical trail segments to improve bicyclist and pedestrian safety and complete the Lake Tahoe Bikeway, a comprehensive multi-use trail network for the Lake Tahoe Region.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, El Dorado County, and members of Tahoe Backcountry Alliance announced Monday they've partnered to create a coalition of stakeholders to maintain and enhance public access for winter backcountry skiing and snowboarding around Lake Tahoe.

“We’re optimistic about this opportunity to work together to get back some of the access that we have lost in the past, and work to enhance access in the future. Let’s together reclaim and preserve backcountry access in the Tahoe Basin,” said Mike Schwartz and Todd Offenbacher, of Tahoe Backcountry Alliance.

Here is this week’s Carson City area road report for the week of Oct. 5-11, 2015. The Nevada Department of Transportation will continue bridge maintenance on the Carson City Freeway (I-580) with nightly lane closures and intermittent on and off ramp closures during weeknights from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.

The Nevada State Prison in Carson City is the latest addition to the National Register of Historic Places, with its listing Friday by the National Park Service. The National Register is the nation’s official list of properties worthy of preservation.

In the tradition of Winterail, Silver Rail 2015 is an informal gathering of railroad photographers, artists, writers, historians and preservationists. The event will be Oct. 3 at the Brewery Arts Center and will feature a full day of multimedia presentations of documentary and creative railroad photography and fellowship.

The Historical Marker Legacy Project, a part of Nevada’s year-long Sesquicentennial celebration of the State’s admission to the Union through more than 500 official, signature and legacy events, has been finished in record time thanks to the work of the Nevada 150 Commission, YESCO and other community partners.