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Good day, Carson City. It is Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. Snow overnight has left roads on the slippery side, so be careful out there during your morning commute. Today is also a national day of mourning to honor the late former President George H.W. Bush. Flags are half-staff in Nevada now to Dec. 30. Here's what's happening today:

Good Day Carson City, it is Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. The winter weather continues today albeit without any storm watches or warnings this morning. Light snow showers will continue today and and pick up tonight with less than an inch possible. As always be careful out on the roads. You'll be able to warm up at a number of venues today, including a holiday swing party with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at Casino Fandango's new Grand Ballroom and at the Carson City School District Orchestra Program concert at the community center.

Hello Carson City and welcome to Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. A busy week ahead will start off chilly with sunny skies today and chances of snow daily through Thursday. Otherwise, bundle up and enjoy the late fall weather. Winter officially arrives Dec. 21.

Who would imagine attending a Carson City School District’s Board of Trustees meeting could be so darn fun as it was filled to standing house only with community members, parents, children, and smiling faces; everyone was having such a wonderful time listening to Trustees excitedly converse with one another.

The skies above Carson City are forecast to be mostly sunny and blue Sunday, but the air near freezing at 35 degrees for a daytime high. Bundle up if you decided to recreate outdoors today.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the Nevada state capital, and there is no shortage of holiday events and activities to make the season bright.

For six years now, the Carson City community has been helping to feed the hungry through Empty Bowls, an international project to combat hunger worldwide, with an annual fundraising event during the Christmas season.

With winter weather having arrived, it seems only appropriate the last Friday of November is when Carson City celebrates the holiday season in a big way by ringing in the spirit of giving with the annual Silver and Snowflakes Festival of Lights.

Holding with tradition, Virginia City is once again putting on its festive hat for a holiday celebration with music, lights, and heaps of holiday spirit.

Good day Carson City, it is Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. With steady rain in the city early this morning, slushy snow in the foothills and heavy snow in the Sierra, we are on our way to winter even though it is still technically fall. It sure is beginning to look like Christmas, especially as we head into the weekend, with Friday's Silver and SnowFlakes Festival of Lights at the capitol and Saturday's downtown Holiday Crawl.

The Carson Mall Craft Fair is open now for the holiday season, with local crafts, toys, clothes, and more!

Carson High School drew a crowd of Christmas shoppers looking to get a jump on holiday gift-giving and Yuletide decorating Friday night at the 24th annual CHS Holiday Craft Fair held inside the school at 1111 N. Saliman Road in Carson City.

This weekend appears to have gone to the dogs — and cats — as Maddie's Pet Adoption Days continue Saturday at venues throughout the Carson City area.

Welcome to the last day of this work week. It is Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, which means it is Salvation Army's annual Turkey Drop Drive. Pick up a frozen turkey and drop it off at Max Casino, where your effort will help a local family enjoy Thanksgiving. Also today is the 24th CHS Holiday Craft Fair, which begins tonight and continues Saturday. Also tonight begins the last weekend of "Mamma Mia!" at the Carson City Community Center. Read on, there's more.

One of Carson City's longest running holiday events for buyers and sellers of all things creative, the Carson High School Holiday Craft Fair, begins this Friday, Nov. 16 and continues Saturday in the CHS gym.

Winners of the 91st National FFA Nursery and Landscape Career Development Event held in Indianapolis were announced at the annual awards banquet, and students Connor Arnold, Alexsandra Knowlton, Maritza Filson, and Hayden Story took home some medals.

The Carson High School Library was packed with students Nov. 1 for a special occasion guest speaker, author and CHS graduate Teri Case. She gave students who attend College Connections some practical and realistic advice on writing applications for both local and national scholarships.

How about a high temperature of 74 degrees in the Nevada state capital on the first Sunday of November? That's according to the National Weather Service in Reno, and it ought to be motivation enough to get outside, soak up the warm weather and enjoy all that the Carson City area has to offer.

Take advantage of the extra daylight while it lasts. Saturday is the final day of the year for Daylight Savings Time. Be sure to "fall back" one hour on your clocks Saturday night into early Sunday when Standard Time takes over.

There will be a Holiday Craft Fair at Comstock Mobile Village 2601 E. College Parkway, Carson City, across the street from The Carson City Airport. The craft fair is Friday, Nov. 2, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 3, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 4, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

We have a lot of unique items our residents have created and a lot of items great for holiday gifts. Hope to see you there.

Though no one knows for sure who said “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”, CHS teacher and Air Force veteran Tod Jennings, in his respectfully fun and playful manner, challenged CHS teacher and Navy veteran Daniel Ingram to a bet.

After a spectacular sunset and the rise of the Hunter's Moon last night, you know greatness is ahead. Good morning Carson City, today is Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. Ahead today is a morning coffee networking event, a craft fair in its 18th year at the Carson Valley Inn, a haunted hayride in Dayton, family night at RSVP's Nevada Day Carnival held through Sunday at Mills Park, a lecture on Nevada names and much more.

Kelly Gustafson, a Carson High School Health Science teacher and HOSA adviser in the Career and Technical Education Department at CHS, provides this week's news regarding a health career competition. She reports the following:

Nevada Day and the big parade are just one week away, but first is the annual Carson City Ghost Walk this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in downtown Carson City.

Every spooky Halloween or family friendly fall themed event in Carson City, Gardnerville, Virginia City, Reno, Sparks, Dayton, and more.

Families braved crisp, chilly temperatures in the thirties Saturday morning to participate in the 26th annual Seeliger Elementary Pumpkin Patch Fall Festival in Carson City.

The thunderous roar of jet engines will rumble across the skies above Carson City and the Carson Valley this weekend as the famed U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight team headlines the 2018 Aviation Roundup at the Minden-Tahoe Airport.

Happy Friday Carson City! Today starts the sunny weekend ahead, with a high of 67 and cloudless skies.

On the books today is the Loud as Folk concert at the Brewery Arts Center, a tour of the Carson River, a morning walk of the newly opened Linear Ditch Trail, Moon Lectures, and more!

Celebrating more than a quarter century of turning the round, orange members of the squash family into memorable Halloween carving traditions, Seeliger Elementary School in Carson City will host its 26th annual Pumpkin Patch this Saturday, Oct. 13.

Celebrating more than a quarter century of turning the round, orange members of the squash family into memorable Halloween carving traditions, Seeliger Elementary School in Carson City will host its 26th annual Pumpkin Patch this Saturday, Oct. 13.