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Sixteen Northern Nevada high school graduates were recently awarded $1000 scholarships from Greater Nevada Credit Union. Over 100 students applied for the program which the Credit Union has offered to local students for the past decade.

“We are always proud to help some of the region’s finest students with financial support for their continuing education,” said Wally Murray, President/CEO for Greater Nevada Credit Union.

Gov. Jim Gibbons will defend his plan to close Nevada State Prison in Carson City at a Board of Prisons meeting tomorrow afternoon, saying that they do not expect to lay off any employees.

The governor's office has provided the following talking points to defend Gibbons' decision to close NSP, which were made available to Carson Now:

Nevada State Prison in Carson City has approximately 310 full-time employees (all classifications). Of those employees, only 40 percent actually reside in Carson City. The breakdown by percentage is:

Shoppers perused the fresh fruits and vegetables at the first farmers’ market of the season at the Pony Express Pavilion in Mills Park on Wednesday.

More than 20 vendors were on hand offering fresh produce, baked goods, crafts and flowers. For the first time in the market’s 16-year history, there are also vendors selling fresh meat and prepared foods like lumpias, wraps and sandwiches.

RENO – One Democrat running for lieutenant governor criticized the GOP incumbent for being invisible in the job, and all three Democrat candidates appearing at a debate Wednesday evening took jabs at each other as the June 8 primary election day draws near.

Hannah Dudley won the girls discus, setting a meet record in the process, to lead a small contingent of Carson High athletes that competed at the High Desert Invitational in Sparks on Friday.

MINDEN -- It's time for the stretch run.

With the Northern 4A Regional Championships just two weeks away, the Carson High track and field team will be looking to make its final adjustments at the High Desert Invitational on Friday in Sparks and then the Sacramento Meet of Champions on Saturday. The latter meet will offer competition at an elite level for a handful of Carson's top athletes.
 
 

Three runs was the difference for the Carson High softball team when it was knocked out of the Reed Easter Tournament with back-to-back losses on Saturday morning in Sparks.

Saturday will be a new day and a clean slate for the Carson High softball team at the Reed Easter Tournament in Sparks.

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It's mid-April and the Carson High baseball team stands fifth in the Sierra League with some ground to make up if it wants to qualify for the Northern 4A Regional Tournament. Don't count the Senators out just yet because they're looking to move up.

CARSON CITY – Despite being described as a “wounded” senator who has not been effective in representing Nevada in Washington, DC, state Republican officials and candidates surveyed by the Nevada News Bureau for the most part are still not calling on U.S. Senator John Ensign, R-Nev., to step down.

Alex Fallon had no intention of settling for third-place as she prepared for her final attempt in the triple jump at the Reed Sparks Rotary Invitational on Friday.

Facing a budget shortfall about half of what Carson City faces over the next two years, Sparks City Council members say they will cut their own pay just like they've asked city workers, including police, fire fighters and their engineers that their pay be cut 7.5% each year for the next two years. Meanwhile, Carson City Supervisors have laid down the law that there will be layoffs in both the Sheriff and Fire Departments although the deputies labor association says it would prefer furloughs or pay cuts instead. There's been no mention by the Superivsors that their own pay should be cut.

After a number of years of drier than normal winters, it appears that Carson City may be in for a more normal summer water season in 2010.

Former CC planner and redevelopment director Rob Joiner filed Friday in a very crowded race for City Supervisor Ward 1. Joiner said although he left the city eight years ago to finish his governmen

A Sparks truck driver was killed Thursday as he drove a Sherwin Williams semi on Oregon Highway 58 seven miles west of Oakridge, a small town southeast of Eugene. Oregon State Police say Gregory Mu

A long-standing bank in the Reno-Sparks area is about to set up shop in Carson City.

Despite recent snow storms, the snowpack in the Carson River drainage remains below normal at 92%.

Editorial by Dave Morgan

An article in the Nevada Appeal this morning attempts to get new information from the Nugget Project’s “go to guy,” Steve Neighbors. Neighbors, who is now the owner of the Nugget, is quoted as saying that the project still lacks a developer to shoulder the “private industry” half of the project. That’s about all that’s new from Neighbors, that they STILL don’t have a private partner.

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What was supposed to be a rebuilding season is turning out to be one of the most memorable years for the Carson Senator bowling team.

In todays day and age we need no new library. The library Carson has already is great and accomplishes the needs of the community.

by Scott Schrantz

Two recent snowmakers have left additional snow in the Sierra, bringing snowwater levels along the Carson River to 107% of normal.

by Scott Schrantz

Winter Storm Watch Remains In Effect From Wednesday Afternoon
Through Late Wednesday Night…
Warning Message:A Winter Storm Watch remains in effect from Wednesday afternoon
through late Wednesday night

by Scott Schrantz

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Sparks shooting leaves 1 deadStaff Writer