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People, even Nevadans themselves, often ask why Carson City is our beloved capital. It does seem odd, when you look at the “City,” half rural, half town. Reno has more than double our population, and Las Vegas even more. During the Comstock Boom, Virginia City was arguably the largest, most profitable city in the state.

So how did little Carson City become the central legislative hub of Nevada?

Pin-ups On Tour’s Nationally Touring Production is set to perform in the area thanks to a partnership with Local Venue. Get dolled up and join these gals for a Vintage Burlesque & Variety Show that supports hospitalized Veterans. The group works to recreate the bawdy fun of vaudevillian theaters so popular across America during and post-WWII.

KNVC, found on 95.1 FM, is as community-based and grass-roots as any project could be.

The community radio station serving Carson City, Eagle Valley and Carson Valley, will be celebrating its one year anniversary since going on air Tuesday, Jan. 15. They’ll be hosting an open house with food and drink at their headquarters inside the Historic Adams House on 990 North Minnesota Street.

A social media post on Facebook stating that the historic, ill-fated Ormsby House had been sold to be turned into condos is not accurate, according to the Carson City Building Permits Office.

Weather permitting, California State Parks, California Tahoe Conservancy, and Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District may continue prescribed fire operations over the next several weeks in multiple locations around Lake Tahoe.

Students of Carson City School District are back to school Monday, Jan. 7. Sleeping in will become a thing of the past, and the alarm clock snooze button will become the most used and abused item owned by those whose pituitary glands refuse to follow the built-in clock of the body.

Both North Dakota House of Representatives and Senate in Bismarck will open their February 21 and 22 sessions respectively with Hindu mantras, containing verses from world’s oldest existing scripture.

Reno based Hindu statesman Rajan Zed will deliver the invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures before the North Dakota Senate and House. After Sanskrit delivery, he then will read the English interpretation of the prayer. Sanskrit is considered a sacred language in Hinduism and root language of Indo-European languages.

The Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team, which includes local, state and federal land managers, will resume operations as soon as weather, conditions and staffing allow.

Editor’s Note: CHS Chief Dan Ingram is head of the Naval Science Department at Carson High School. Here is his report: Established by the Air Force Association in 2009, the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Education Program is designed to excite, educate, and motivate students toward careers in cybersecurity and other science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines critical to our nation’s future.

Carson City School District has got to be one of the best places on earth to work, this coming from someone who has been here for 18 years. Some may call this hyperbole, but if someone actually took the time to do the research, he would find hyperbole is not the case as further evidence of this may be seen in the following letter written to all teachers within the school district by a friendly, kind, and professional Superintendent, Richard Stokes.

A 37 year-old Carson City man was arrested Friday evening at 5:49 p.m. in the area of N. Saliman Road and E. Fifth Street on multiple felony prescription drug offenses, a Carson City Sheriff's deputy reported, including the transport and sale of them.

Early Monday morning Daniel Nunez of Carson City was arrested on the charges of Burglary, possession of a burglary tool, and violation of a suspended sentence.

The 28-year-old was arrested after allegedly robbing a local laundromat.

Nevada high schools posted their highest graduation rate ever at 83.17 percent for the Class of 2018, an increase of 2.32 percentage points.

Carson City School District increased 2.05 points in 2018 to 85.98 percent, according to the Nevada Department of Education.

Carson High School football held its annual awards banquet Monday night in Carson City at Casino Fandango's new banquet room. The event was attended by more than 225 players, coaches, family members and supporters. Coach Blair Roman awarded his outgoing senior class various awards for their commitment to Carson football over the past 4 years and discussed the rebuilding process taking place in the program at this time.

Members of Veterans of Foreign War, (VFW), Post 3726 are angered by the damage caused to the new Battle Born Monument on the capitol grounds in Carson City. A handful of skateboarders using the monument as a skate park showed an appalling lack of respect.

We understand that Gov. Brian Sandoval intends to replace the damaged stone by the end of the year. We applaud this decision and fully support him in this endeavor, as this monument identifies Nevadans who have fallen in service to their country.

We thank the governor for his efforts to repair the Battle Born Monument.

Weather permitting, California State Parks, California Tahoe Conservancy, North Lake Tahoe and Tahoe Douglas fire protection districts and the U.S. Forest Service may continue prescribed fire operations over the next several weeks in multiple locations around Lake Tahoe.

The unmistakable squeak from sneakers has livened up the Multipurpose Athletic Center (MAC) for the past two nights as Carson City plays host to the D'Ville Youth Basketball Tournament, which runs through Sunday, 6-8 p.m.

Weather permitting, California State Parks, North Lake Tahoe and Tahoe Douglas fire protection districts and the U.S. Forest Service may continue prescribed fire operations over the next several weeks in multiple locations around Lake Tahoe.

An 18-year-old Carson City woman was arrested early Monday evening for violating a stalking and harassment temporary protective order, a gross misdemeanor, and violating bail conditions after allegedly harassing someone on Instagram about a Pokemon Nintendo cartridge.

Jordan Brown lived up to his five-star status in an 87-59 Nevada basketball victory Friday over Little Rock at Reno’s Lawlor Events center.

Good day Carson City. It is Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. We are exactly one week away until Thanksgiving. Today is the early deadline for the annual Turkey Trot so be sure to sign up to assure a t-shirt and goodie bag. Also on tap today are networking opportunities, the Peace Officer Standards and Training graduation, an artist reception for Louise Noel at Artsy Fartsy and more.

The death toll continues to climb and the number of homes and structures destroyed grows from the Camp Fire wildfire in Paradise, Calif. Fires are also raging in Southern California. Here are a few ways you can help.

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.

UPDATE 9:40PM: 100 percent of ballots for Carson City have been counted, including absentee and early voting. Here are the final results for the contested races:

Carson City Board of Supervisors Ward 1
Stacey Giomi: 14,373 (66.54 percent)
John Wood: 7,228 (33.46 percent)

Carson City Justice of the Peace Department 2, Nonpartisan, 6-year term
Kristin Luis: 11,079 (50.92 percent)
Ryan Russell: 10,680 (49.08 percent)

Carson City Sheriff
Kenny Furlong: 17,536 (78.86 percent)
Lorne R. Houle: 4,700 (21.14 percent)

Go here for results of how Carson City voted in state contested races. Those include races for State Senate District 16, with Democrat Tina Davis Hersey and Republican incumbent Ben Kieckhefer; State Assembly District 40 with incumbent Republican Al Cramer and Democrat Autumn Zemke.

Statewide election results from the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office can be found at www.silverstateelection.com and include races for U.S. Senate, House District Representative District 2, Governor and other state offices.

The Nevada Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, also known as POST, will hold a ceremony Nov. 15 for 21 graduates from 14 Nevada agencies who will accept their peace officers’ oath as POST Academy Class of 2018-02.

I am writing this with a heavy heart tonight. My 7 year old Chihuahua Squirrel was killed tonight by two pitbulls at the old Boys and Girls Club located on Stewart Street. My father took our dogs to the park like always, and when he got there, two pitbulls, a brown one and a white one charged at Squirrel. Both pitbulls got a hold of him and the nightmare began. My dad began screaming frantically and there was nothing he could do. One of the owners, a lady came up to my dad and said "oh no your dog is bleeding" my dad responded, in tears, that your dog did this!!!

Happy Halloween! I thought I would hold this column for the scariest day of the year because, if you don’t plan alternative communication or business strategies during the low points of your business cycle, you could scare yourself into bad decision making.

Carson City Parks, Recreation and Open Space hosted its first Post Nevada Day Trash Mob on Sunday, Oct. 28. Twenty-five volunteers of all ages gathered at the Farmer’s Market parking lot at 8 a.m. Together, the group gathered more than 1,000 pounds of trash.

When it comes to industry, Nevada has been known since its infancy for the three majors: gaming, mining and ranching.

However, in the last decade, we’ve seen an expansion into many other industries as well, with technology quickly becoming the most prevalent since Tesla relocated to our desert and began the trend of big tech companies building in our region.

Following are all of the entries for the 2018 Nevada Day Parade, to take place on Saturday, Oct. 27 starting at 10 a.m. The parade starts at North Carson and William streets, and ends at South Carson and Stewart streets. There are 215 entries in this year's parade.

Entries line up on the following streets by division before the start of the parade:

Division 1 - Bath St

Division 2 - Adaline St

Division 3 - E Long St

Division 4 - W Long St

Division 5 - E Adams St

Division 7 - E Park St

Division 9 - Fleischmann way

Division 10 - E John St