Group of “Black Lives Matter” supporters marched in downtown and at the Governor’s Mansion

by carsoncityjournal | Jun 20, 2020 | Uncategorized

Up to 100 Black Lives Matter marchers in Carson City Friday.

Supporters cheered on the marching crowd going down Carson and then to the Governor’s Mansion.

Black Lives Matter group arrives at Governor’s Mansion.

Governor Sisolak came out later to say he supports their stand…

A fight outside a tavern on Rice Street Friday evening – one stabbed in the head…CCSO looking for his attacker…

by carsoncityjournal | Jun 20, 2020 | Uncategorized

Tap Shack
On Rice Street, east of Carson Street

Preliminary information on a stabbing on Rice Street in downtown Carson City has landed one person in the hospital and the other reported to be still at large.  (Earlier reports indicated that he was in custody.  He was not.)  Very preliminary information indicates that two men outside The Tap Shack got in to an argument.  One of them pulled a knife and brutally stabbed the other in the head.  The victim was rushed to Carson RMC.

Meanwhile there was a report that the stabber was hold up a block away in an upstairs apartment.  Deputies climbed the stairs and ordered him to come out.  When they got no response they swung into action…

CCSO Deputies ordered suspect out. No answer.

The deputies stormed inside the apartment but did not find the alleged assailant. And so they’re still looking for him.

Saturday:  Suspect is in custody in the Carson City Jail

Pay raises for many hourly workers in Nevada beginning July 1st!

by carsoncityjournal | Jun 19, 2020 | Uncategorized

A well read community is a well led community…

by carsoncityjournal | Jun 19, 2020 | Uncategorized

Carson City Library

The Carson City Board of Supervisors is seeking applications from persons interested in serving on the Carson City Library Board of Trustees

Covid-19 update – Carson City and the region

by carsoncityjournal | Jun 19, 2020 | Uncategorized

Corona Virus

Quad-County COVID-19 Update: Five New Cases and Two Recoveries

 (Carson City, NV)- Carson City Health and Human Services (CCHHS) is reporting five new positive cases and two additional recoveries of COVID-19 in the Quad-County region. This brings the total number of cases to 271, with 197 recoveries and seven deaths, 67 cases remain active.

The new cases are:

• A female Douglas County resident in her 30’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Lyon County resident in his 40’s with a connection a previously reported case.
• A female Carson City resident in her 20’s with a connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Lyon County resident in her 50’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Carson City resident in her 30’s with no connection to a previously reported case.

Carson City Health and Human Services is working to identify close risk contacts to prevent further spread of the disease. Due to medical privacy requirements and to protect their identity, no further information about the cases will be released.

County	Total Cases	Active Cases	Recovered	Deaths	Hospitalized
Carson City	126	30	91	5	5
Douglas County	48	13	35	0
Lyon County	96	24	70	2
Storey County	1	0	1	0
TOTAL	271	67	197	7

Gender and age break down of the cases by county as well as the cases by zip code is available at https://gethealthycarsoncity.org/novel-coronavirus-2019/. Statewide numbers can be found at the Nevada Health Response website (nvhealthresponse.nv.gov/).

Drive-Thru COVID-19 Testing for Quad-County Residents Without Symptoms

There is one more drive-thru COVID-19 testing event for Quad-County residents without symptoms this week. Testing is first come, first served, no appointments or reservations.

• June 19, 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.
  • Dayton High School (335 Dayton Valley Rd, Dayton)
  • 200 tests available.

For those who are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 or have questions, call the Quad-County COVID-19 Hotline Monday through Saturday, 8 am to 5 pm. Spanish speakers are available. The phone number is (775) 283-4789.

How to prepare for school in the fall? Let us count the ways, please…

by carsoncityjournal | Jun 19, 2020 | Uncategorized

The Carson City School District is making plans to re-open school this fall and is seeking parent and family feedback through an online 10-question survey. Given various school-related experiences caused by the pandemic, the school district is inviting families to take a few moments to share their thoughts, ideas and suggestions about returning to school. Participation is voluntary and responses are anonymous.

Available in English or Spanish, the survey may be completed using a desktop computer or mobile device.

As part of the school district’s Strategic Plan, Goal 3 (Engaged Parents and Families), the district is seeking to empower and inspire families to positively impact their child’s education in a welcoming, informative and collaborative school culture. Part of that includes Strategy 3.1.1: Assess the effectiveness of shared responsibility for student success using an annual survey.

Please take the time to offer input. The school district emphasized all feedback will play an important role in supporting student achievement and contributing to student and school success.

The online survey is open from June 17 through June 26, 2020. Access the survey by clicking here. Community feedback is valuable, and the Carson City School District hopes that parents and guardians will take a few moments to participate.

Take the survey in English here.

Take the survey in Spanish here.

A message from Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong – Navigating challenging times…

by carsoncityjournal | Jun 19, 2020 | Uncategorized

Sheriff Ken Furlong

It’s been months of challenging circumstances for our community, businesses, families and schools, but I saw us beginning to emerge from the darkness. Then, without warning, the horrific death of George Floyd reignited the unresolved wounds of racism, police use of force, and unequal treatment of minorities in this country. The frustrated public demanded answers, change, and resolution – not later but now.

Amid uncertainties created by the Covid-19 pandemic, peripheral personal and political agendas arose and residents began expressing themselves at demonstrations across America and in this town. Then suddenly, in the community of our northern neighbors, unacceptable levels of violence erupted with substantial property damage; we had reached a breaking point.

Looking back over the past several months, it’s no wonder that toilet paper disappeared from the shelves of grocery stores, since without a belief or confidence in a better tomorrow, human beings may react often without reason. We all should have seen the empty shelves as a critical warning of what was to come. Americans were in a panic.

As Sheriff, I believe we are now beginning to emerge from the darkened forest and light is beginning to reappear on the horizon.

Although we have a long economic and social reform path in front of us, I am certain that together our community stands shoulder to shoulder to ensure the public’s safety, whether from pandemic or violence, and as is true of Carson City, the seat of Government for the State of Nevada, we will continue to respect one another’s opinions, listen without prejudice, and build upon communications and positive activism.

From the onset of the pandemic to the most recent demonstrations, public safety agencies from the entire region have been working together at levels of intensity not seen in ages. Health agencies, law enforcement, and governing bodies intensified communications and coordination with one another, and focused on the critical needs of the community.

Supporting agencies such as fire and police jumped in with full commitments, while at the same time implementing backup plans to ensure that first responders would always be available to the public. Then, atop the state and community disaster declarations, the undeclared national disaster struck with the death of George Floyd.

Ultimately, government, law enforcement, fire and medical/health officials were forced to prepare for civil unrest and extraordinary violence. The disasters were mounting atop one another.

For nearly three months, the Carson City Sheriff’s Office has been in an “emergency operations” configuration and has met with other law enforcement and health authorities daily.

Law enforcement agencies, including the Nevada Department of Public Safety, carefully and continuously scrutinized intelligence information for threats to our residents, as well as best practice approaches to the evolving circumstances.

Throughout the crisis, first responders committed themselves to protect everyone, support our neighboring jurisdictions, respect the rights of demonstrators, and avoid interference that is often brought on by the mere presence of a uniformed officer.

At my direction, the Sheriff’s Office directed a community wide response policy of “de-escalation”, a strategically planned response that was actively supported by our Mayor, local governing body, city management, and city disaster managers. (more…)

Took a while to count them…but all the ballots are in. And the winners are….

by carsoncityjournal | Jun 18, 2020 | Uncategorized

Final primary election tallies show that local businesswoman Lori Bagwell will rise from her position of city supervisor to the Mayor’s seat on the Carson City Board of Supervisors.  She barely won the position outright and will not have to run for the mayor’s position in the November General Election.  Same for Supervisor Ward 4 position, Lisa Schuette, who won by a large margin.

The race for Board of Supervisors Ward 2 will appear on the November ballot between two candidates that did not achieve a majority of voters – candidates Maurice White who garnered 35% of the primary vote and Stacie Wilke-McCullough who tallied 31%.  Both will face off in the November Election.

Firefighters battle a series of mini grass fires on south Lompa Ranch, south of 5th

by carsoncityjournal | Jun 18, 2020 | Uncategorized

Several spot fires burning at south end of Lompa Ranch off 5th Street

Carson City Firefighters had to drive through a section of Lompa Ranch, south of 5th street, just to get near several spot fires. A Brush rig drove through the muck and mud to get to the small blazes which were burning in tall weeds – or at least what looked like tall weeds through long-range binoculars. No cause yet released. Probably be released sometime Thursday.

Historic Dayton Railroad Station burns to the ground – arson suspect arrested

by carsoncityjournal | Jun 18, 2020 | Uncategorized

Dayton Depot going up in flames. Fire likely caused by an arsonist. Photo: Lyon County Public Facilities

Fire totally consumed the old passenger/freight depot.

Intense heat ignited a rail box car just behind the depot building.

Restoration of the depot was well underway. Arson or accidental exposure to flame were mentioned at the scene. Fire Department officials say the cause is being investigated.

Dayton Depot building as existed prior to the fire. A huge loss for the Dayton Community.

Kurt Selzer, 63
Accused arsonist
LCJ photo

Update: A suspect in the destruction of the Carson and Colorado Railroad Depot in Dayton is behind bars in the Lyon County Jail on charges of Arson. Kurt Selzer, 63 of Ventura, California was spotted by neighbors after he had allegedly set several wildland fires in the Dayton area. He was finally apprehended in Dayton State Park in possession of a lighter and a container of a very flammable liquid. Neighbors report that Selzer admitted to them that he set the fires.  Selzer was transported to the Lyon Jail where he is being held on $10,000 bail.

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The town of Dayton is mourning the loss of one of it’s prized historical legacy buildings – the Carson and Colorado Railroad Depot that had been moved from its original spot to its new location at Main and Lincoln Highway. A fire broke out at the Depot Wednesday afternoon and burned like a torch, as all old buildings burn, which destroyed every element of the Depot.

The Carson and Colorado Railroad Depot Committee appeared to be in somewhat of a state shock as they looked over the incinerated debris pile that had been in the process of being fully restored as the historical treasure it was envisioned to become. Committee members said that just before the fire, an elderly man was seen inside the very publicly accessible “museum to be.” A short while later it was going up in flame. The fire leveled the building and torched a railroad box car just to the north.

The destruction was doubly tragic since so much care and energy went in to moving the venerable old building slightly north of its original location and that state and federal government grants had been approved to make the Depot a legendary point of pride for Dayton and the region. A sizeable quantity of brand new building materials now lay inert never to bring the old Depot back into its heyday and for generations to come.

As a side note, the hugely hot fire sent sparks up into the afternoon winds which ignited a number of trees. But between fast acting residents and firefighters, no structures were damaged. A bit to the southwest corner of Dayton there were reports of some structures caught fire from an unidentified source. A roof of a home was said to be slightly damaged.