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Heavenly Village in South Lake Tahoe is reopening over the Memorial Day weekend and having a four-day locals-emphasis celebration after being closed since March due to the coronavirus pandemic. The event has been scaled back from previous years as city and state officials grapple with phase 2 reopening, which allows second-home property owners living outside the area to return to the California side of South Lake Tahoe, but not allowing for non-essential travel and visitors.

Hello Carson City! It has been a while since we’ve had a Pet of the Week, which isn’t necessarily bad! Our shelters have been relatively empty thanks to the shutdown.

However, we have a special boy to introduce you to today. Meet Capone!

Since I started walking instead of running I'm enchanted by the simplest things. I guess trading "runner's high" for "walker's enchantment," is not such a bad trade.

The Sierra-Tahoe Auxiliary of the Fleet Reserve Association is now accepting donations of items for their Annual Rummage Sale, to be held September 26,27, 2020. The proceeds from this event provides funding for the many service projects the organization offers throughout the year.

Carson City Public Works Streets Supervisor Justin Tiearney participated in a duckling rescue operation Thursday. Around 10 a.m., a Carson City resident called in a report to the Nevada Humane Society concerning baby ducklings in a neighborhood storm drain.

Another great deed: A huge thank you to Lisa Hollenbeck, the President of Cap City Passport Rotary Club and Joe Lushina, the President of Carson City Rotary Club for this kind and generous donation from our local Rotary Clubs.

These funds will help us to provide food at our three different food banks and our Carson City dining room, which has vastly increased in demand due to COVID-19.

Carson High School's Future Business Leaders of America claim five State Championships as well as 40 top 10 awards in spite of pandemic. CHS FBLA students just finished competing in the Nevada State Business Leadership Conference. Originally, the event was scheduled to be held in Reno, but had to be held digitally due to Covid-19.

If there ever were a silver lining amid a pandemic, many parents, forced into homeschooling their children via Remote Learning, may have discovered a new found appreciation for teachers. For National Teacher Appreciation Week in Carson City, principals, office managers and administrators alike have also found novel ways to recognize and celebrate educators.

Save Mart Stores has donated $2,051 to the Ron Wood Family Resource Center in Carson City for emergency food relief for families.

The Aviation Roundup Air Show is a community-oriented event that strives to bring an exciting and affordable family event to Douglas County.

The personnel and financial assets required to produce and host such a show are significant, and the air show would not be possible without the outstanding sponsors and amazing volunteers that work with us every year. We thank them again for making this show possible over the past years.

Quad-County Emergency Operations Center in Carson City reported Monday, May 4 of 1 new positive case and 1 additional recovery of COVID-19 in the Quad-County region. This brings the total number of cases to 104, with 58 recoveries and one death, 45 cases remain active.

Quad-County Emergency Operations Center in Carson City is reporting Sunday, May 3, 2020 that there is one new positive case and four additional recoveries of COVID-19 in the Quad-County region. This brings the total number of cases to 103, with 57 recoveries and one death, 45 cases remain active.

Quad-County Emergency Operations Center (Quad EOC) is reporting six new positive cases and three additional recoveries of COVID-19 in the Quad-County region. This brings the total number of cases to 102, with 53 recoveries and one death, 48 cases remain active.

Quad-County Emergency Operations Center (Quad EOC) is reporting four new positive cases and four additional recoveries of COVID-19 in the Quad-County region. This brings the total number of cases to 96, with 50 recoveries and one death, 45 cases remain active.

Hello Everyone! It’s that time of year again! China Spring Youth Camp’s Annual Plant Sale is upon us! We will begin sales early this year on May 4, 2020 and continue through the summer and/or until supplies last!

Editor’s Note: This week's guest writer is Bridget Gordon-Johnson. She is a counselor at Carson High School. This is her report.

Staying connected to students, virtually, is the biggest challenge every educator is facing right now. Teachers, paraprofessionals, school counselors, administrators, school secretaries, custodians, and everyone for that matter is missing the energy and life students bring to our worlds.

Lori Morris and Intimate Designs Floral have been giving back to the local community for years with Angels With Flowers, which Morris founded in order to donate floral arrangements to hospitals and senior care centers throughout the Carson City area.

Today, the Carson City Department of Arts & Culture in partnership with the Carson City Clerk-Recorder’s Office announced the winners from the ‘I Voted’ sticker design competition.

The competition was open to students grades 9-12 enrolled in any high school in Carson City, Nevada. Students were encouraged to submit creative designs that excite and encourage voting participation.

Sgt. Benjamin Jenkins was killed in the line of duty on March 27, 2020 on US-93 and White Pine county mile marker 106 near Ely. The following is a statement released on behalf of the Jenkins family:

We all know who our Governor Steve Sisolak is, but we did not know him until he did his press releases during this COVID-19 Crises.

UPDATE: According to Animal Control Officer Stephanie Baeta, the dog is safely in custody at the Carson City Humane Society.

What was relayed to Officer Baeta by the shepherds is that the dog attacked the sheep, and the presumed owner of the dog attempted to pull the dog away, at which point the dog attempted to bite the owner, so the owner abandoned the dog on the scene. The shepherds were left to contain the dog, and animal control arrived on scene shortly after.

The dog, who Officer Baeta reports has been very gentle and sweet with animal control staff, is in a ten day bite quarantine. If no owner comes forward to claim the dog after ten days, it will become property of the humane society and they will be evaluated for adoption.

She also said they were able to save one lamb following the attack.

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Two ewes (mother sheep) and four baby lambs were killed Thursday after an unleashed dog attacked the herd of firefighting sheep that are currently working their way through Carson City's foothills mowing down cheat grass.

Nevada State Parks and currently following the governor's directive to help stop the spread of COVID-19. They're asking the public to please, stay home, so we can all get through this together.

To protect the health and safety of park visitors and staff amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Cathedral Gorge State Park, including Miller Point, will be fully closed, effective April 16, until further notice. The park will be closed to the public for all activities, including camping and day-use.

MINDEN — The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is pleased to debut its new upgraded, mobile-compatible website. The new website was scheduled to launch in March prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, and will serve as an online information resource even more now for the public to connect to the Sheriff’s Office.

This week is designated National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, honoring those in the field of emergency call-taking by recognizing them for their quick thinking actions as they navigate telephone lifeline responses between those needing help and those first fire and sheriff's office responders arriving on scene.

Joe and Marge Dolan have been giving back to the Carson City community for more than 50 years and they have a message for us all about beating this current problem.
Thank you, Joe, Marge, Lynzie and friends for sharing a much needed positive outlook with us all.

If you know Shanell Cavener, then you are tremendously lucky. If you work with her, or she taught you, then the luck is multiplied tenfold (hopefully this is the right math to use, Shanell?).

Shanell Cavener is this year’s Carson High School Teacher of the Year, and she could not be more deserving of the honor. Shanell is quiet, often working behind the scenes in ways people would not even realize in order to benefit the lives of all who enter CHS.

Even though Friends In Service Helping or FISH, has been part of the community for over 40 years, a lot of people still don't know that FISH is more than just a thrift store.

MINDEN, Nev. — Effective immediately the Douglas County Sheriff’s Offices,( Records and Administration) located at 1038 Buckeye Rd, Minden and 175 Hwy 50, Stateline will be closed to the public for 30 days.