Superintendent Richard Stokes

A special joint meeting of the Carson City Board of Supervisors and the Carson City School District Board of Trustees will be held this Thursday, Jan. 19 at 6 p.m. inside the Sierra Room at the Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William Street.

UPDATE 12:31PM: Tonight’s Historic Resource Commission meeting is cancelled due to weather.
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UPDATE 11:25AM: Due to the weather, Western Nevada College campuses will close at 2 p.m. today, Thursday, Jan. 12. Schools in the Carson City School District will observe normal hours and release students at regular times.
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Carson City is experiencing heavy bands of snow late this morning amounting to low visibility and icy road conditions. There have been multiple vehicle accidents and spinouts within the past two hours. Motorists are urged to keep travel around town to a minimal and stay off the roads.

Students in Carson City returned to class Tuesday for the first time in 2017 after a three-week winter break.

The first day of classess immediately followed area flooding over the weekend that continues to affect some parts of the city.

A flood advisory issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) in Reno remains in effect for the area.

The timing couldn’t be any better for individuals considering a career in education in Nevada. Earlier this year, Nevada declared an emergency teacher shortage, allowing teachers licensed in other states to receive provisional licenses to immediately start instruction in the Silver State.


This event may not be as exciting as Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs triumph over the Cleveland Indians, ending a 108 year title drought, but anyone who ever attended Carson High School or Douglas High School knows that its rivalry has lasted equally as long.

A chronic shortage of K-12 teachers isn’t just felt in Washoe and Clark counties, which feature Nevada’s two largest school districts.

The problem is statewide, even in Carson City.

Since 2011, the Carson City School District has seen a long list of accomplishments including free full-day kindergarten at all schools, a mobile device for every student in grades three through 12, a school-based health center and increased accessibility to courses in science, technology, engineering arts and math.

UPDATE 9AM: Carson City School District Superintendent Richard Stokes offered condolences on behalf of Carson High School to family members after it was learned a 16-year-old CHS male student was killed in a rollover crash in Goni Canyon early this morning. An adult also died in the accident. The names of the victims have not been released.

Parents and students will notice a new information system when Carson City schools resume session Monday. The Carson City School District transitioned from the former Power School to a statewide system Infinite Campus.

Streets and sidewalks around Carson City will be busier starting Monday morning as children throughout the district head back to school.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is investigating an incident at Mark Twain Elementary School on Wednesday where a 7-year-old boy picked up a teddy bear with five hypodermic needles. The boy was stuck with one of the needles, which was then tested and found positive for methamphetamine.

Carson City is the recipient of a three-year, $375,000 U.S. Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing grant that will fund three resource officers for the Carson City School District, Sheriff Ken Furlong announced Friday.

Carson City is the recipient of a three-year, $375,000 U.S. Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing grant that will fund three resource officers for the Carson City School District, Sheriff Ken Furlong announced Friday.

The grant award tops off a three-year effort to develop a Carson City School Resource Officer Program, dedicated to the schools and functionally operated out of the sheriff’s office, said Furlong. The grant provides for salaries and benefits of three officers who will work alongside youth 12 months a year both inside and outside the classroom.

This week's It's Your City with Cortney Bloomer features Carson City School District Superintendent Richard Stokes.
With school having started Monday, Stokes talks about the upcoming school year, including laptops for high school students. For information about the district go to www.CarsonCitySchools.com.

Update 1:40 p.m.: The lock down at Seeliger Elementary has been lifted. Carson City School Superintendent Richard Stokes said the sheriff's office was contacted when the man was on school grounds. Several officers responded, going through neighborhoods where the man was seen leaving school property, going over a fence.

With further consultation with the sheriff's office, the school was placed in a lockdown with admittance, which closes the school off for children, keeping them indoors but being able to go from classroom to classroom, said Stokes.

UPDATE: Carson City School District’s Aberasturi Center, a support services, early childhood program adjacent to Bordewich Bray, has flooded and school is closed today.

School staff discovered the massive water leak at around 7 a.m. this morning, said Carson City School District Superintendent Richard Stokes. More than two inches of water flooded the entire building.

During a news conference to launch the Carson City School District’s fundraising organization, President Ian Hill announced the foundation had already been successful in securing donations.
“Before even announcing it to the world, we’ve already raised $27,500,” he said.

Hill, a business owner and motivational speaker, addressed the crowd gathered Wednesday morning in Carson High School’s Senator Square to explain the purpose of the foundation. He told the students in the audience to review their goals for their lives.

A foundation to help raise money for the Carson City School District will be launched next week during a reception at Carson High School.

“Our only mission is to support the kids in the community,” said Ian Hill, chairman of the foundation’s board. “For the first time, we’re going to be joining together all the people who care deeply about the Carson City School District.”

The 10th annual Holiday with a Hero was held Wednesday at Walmart in Carson City with 190 school children from kindergarten through fifth grade having a Christmas to call their own, thanks to the astounding response from Carson City donors and volunteers.

Nearly 300 volunteers were at the event to help the Carson City area school children shop at Walmart using gift cards paid for by donations from around the community. Each child was given a $100 gift card and paired with a "hero" to spend on clothing, shoes and a toy.

UPDATE 1:24PM: Carson City Fire Chief Stacey Giomi said the leak which forced an evacuation at Fremont Elementary earlier today may be anti-freeze that was released in the boiler room heating and ventilation system.

Firefighters went through with sensors to determine if there was anything hazardous and there wasn't, Giomi said. At first it was thought to be a water softening agent, he said, but it turned out the agent was well within its containers.

"Because it was an early release day anyway, it worked out where the children were released on time, and teachers are able to go back into the school to get their things," he said. "School maintenance is looking into the boiler room and we expect there will be school tomorrow."

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UPDATE: Parents are allowed to pick up their children this afternoon, which was already scheduled to be a half day at Fremont Elementary. The school was evacuated at around 12:30 p.m. due to fumes, believed to be from the boiler room that were originally reported to be a water softening chemical agent.

Library Director Sena Loyd announces the grand re-opening of the Carson City Library and its newly repurposed auditorium, now known as The Digitorium. The event will be held Thursday, Oct. 23, from noon to 7 p.m. The public is invited to explore reconfigured spaces at the library’s 900 North Roop Street main branch.

The annual National Honor Society Induction Ceremony took place in the Carson High School gym Monday. The event included 80 new inductees and 79 returning members to make the combined 159 members in the National Honor Society class.

Along with the honored members were some very exclusive guests. Of those guests were a handful of counselors from Carson High School, Carson High School principal Tasha Fuson, Carson City School District Superintendent Richard Stokes and Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell.

Carson High School officially opened its new, very modern engineering computer lab Friday. The room's previous purpose was the old weight training facility but with the new addition of the wrestling room the logical place to break ground for the new lab was the old weight room.

UPDATE 1:30PM: The second juvenile who ran from sheriff's deputies this morning has been located. Officers are meeting with him and his parents, according to dispatch. He had led officers on a foot pursuit that went through neighborhoods, over fences and through backyards, and briefly led to a lock down at Mark Twain Elementary after the teenager was seen running through the school.

Authorities were called earlier to a business on Long Street after two juveniles were harassing owners and customers. When officers attempted to make contact with the juveniles, they ran.
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The latest edition of Capital Crossfire features Carson City School District Superintendent Richard Stokes and educator John Eppolito. The topic of the discussion is "Common Core, a curse or cure for American Education."

Make time to visit The Greenhouse Project and a few things come clear: Agriculture is, after nearly 15 years defunct, alive and well on Carson High School’s campus, and the student population whose class time is integrated here, are developing life skills that will serve them in future, while currently realizing they have a hand in making a difference in their community.

Carson City elected leaders and officials including new city manager-designate Nick Marano lined pedaled the west side of town Monday morning for the annual Carson City "Celebrity" bike ride.

Hosted by Carson City bicycle group Muscle Powered, the spirited group of cyclists dusted off their bikes and shared the road with motorists as part of a month of activities planned through the bicycle advocacy group Muscle Powered.

The Carson City High School community is mourning the loss of one of their teachers, Debbie Elder. Maricopa County Medical Examiner's office told KRNV that Elder died in Arizona on Saturday. The Mesa Police Department said her death appears to be a suicide.

Carson City School District Superintendent Richard Stokes said Mrs. Elder was a 24-year teacher of the school district, teaching math at Carson High School and before that, Carson Middle School.

While the tentative plan for next year’s budget is to keep spending the same, Superintendent Richard Stokes warned that certain expenses can’t go on being ignored.

The budget plan for next year will likely be to maintain the status quo, Superintendent Richard Stokes told the Carson City School Board during its meeting Tuesday evening.