By Paul Kiser
On Monday night I sat in a back room of a restaurant in downtown Reno (that shall remain nameless) at the Rotary Club of Reno New Generations meeting. The restaurant had decided to pack the back room with patrons who were not part of the meeting and who seemed to be oblivious that someone was...
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RENO, NV – Nationwide, tens of thousands have made deposits and are on waiting lists for the all electric 2010 Nissan LEAF (a battery electric vehicle or BEV), the 2011 Chevy Volt (an extended range electric vehicle or EREV) as well as a myriad of other xEV offerings from large automakers to...
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Railroad Museum Seeks Original Riders of the McKeen Motor Car
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Carson City, Nevada. The Nevada State Railroad Museum will celebrate the delivery of the historic McKeen Motor Car May 9, 2010 marking the 100th year anniversary of its arrival in Carson City. The museum seeks individuals who remember riding the McKeen Car during...
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Thirty of the Biggest Little City Losers’ remaining 33 members met recently at the South Reno Athletic Club to step on the scale and find out how successful they had been, individually and collectively, during the first month of the challenge.
With a total group weight loss of 224 pounds, the Biggest Little...
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It’s just a few weeks until Carson Valley’s annual Eagles & Agriculture celebration and tours are starting to fill. As is the tradition, the Owl Prowl was the first to fill, followed by this year’s new Raptors Highways & Byways tours. But there are still spaces available for the heart of the...
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Washoe County Regional Parks & Open Space and University of Nevada Cooperative Extension present a series of free workshops aimed at helping you to become a better gardener. “Gardening in Nevada” programs will be held from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday in February and March to provide information and answer general...
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The Reno Bighorns are teaming up with Susan G. Komen For the Cure this month, culminating in Breast Cancer Awareness Night, presented by St. Mary’s Medical, during Reno’s matchup with the Utah Flash this Saturday at 7 p.m.
The team has made pink Bighorns T-shirts available throughout the month for a $10 donation,...
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SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE Legendary Paiute leader Sarah Winnemucca stood for peace between the races at a time when European settlers and the native peoples were caught in a deep divide. The documentary “Sarah Winnemucca: In Her Footprints” which chronicles the Nevada chapter of the life of this pioneering woman will be screened Wednesday, January...
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Gallatin Road Productions, the company that brought John Doe & The Sadies and Richmond Fontaine to Hawkins Amphitheater at Bartley Ranch this past summer, is starting 2010 with two new shows that can’t be missed.
On Saturday, Jan. 23, Las Vegas-based alt-country rockers The Clydesdale are coming to The Biggest Little City Club...
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Five area professionals will leave Reno this Saturday, Jan. 16, on a four-week cultural exchange to the southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamilnadu. The team was selected by representatives of local Rotary clubs and made possible by donations of local Rotarians through The Rotary Foundation. The program is known as Rotary...
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