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Posts from ‘October, 2008’

Postal Cafe Offers Dinners

The Postal Cafe in New Washoe City along Eastlake Blvd is now offering breakfast, lunch and Dinner from 4 to 8pm, Wednesdays through Saturdays. Dinners can be eaten in the remodeled dining area or taken out. A cozy new gas-fired fireplace will be completed just in time for frosty evenings.
The dinner menu includes seven varieties [...]

Bonnie Parnell In The News

Members of the Legislative Committee on Education agreed Tuesday to sponsor a bill draft calling for the creation of a new state agency dedicated to charter school oversight.
Lawmakers also said it was time to study ways of streamlining an education bureaucracy they acknowledged was fragmented.
“We have just about everything for anything in public education,” said [...]

Subdivision Site For Sale

I ran across this real estate ad for a 45 acre parcel that is subdivided into 14 parcels described as being in the “Franktown Valley”. It is part of the old Pedroli ranch along highway 395 in the center of Washoe Valley and it’s available to “boutique custom home builder’s” or whoever else has $3.5 [...]

Local Tractor Service

We are now listing local services and free want ads here in the “article stream” and putting together a new “local services” page available from a tab above. Sandy Miller of Washoe Valley sends in this update on her tractor service:
SkidSteer Jobs 4U, LLC is a local Nevada owner operated company. We have a Caterpillar [...]

PVVFD Hosts Haunted House

The Pleasant Valley Volunteer Fire Dept. will host the annual Halloween Haunted House at the community center at the corner of Lakeshore and Esmeralda in New Washoe City. The center will be haunted Friday the 24th and Saturday the 25th. Booths, food, game room, prizes and hair and face painting will all be part [...]

Commute By Horse

High Tech mag Wired has this article on commuting by horseback as an answer to high gas prices. The products intended to make this a high tech endeavor include a bitless bridle, carbon fiber saddle and flexible shoes.

Fire Restrictions Lifted

From the Nevada Dept. of Conservation website:

The Bureau of Land Management, the Carson and Bridgeport Ranger Districts of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and the Nevada Division of Forestry announced today the lifting of western Nevada fire restrictions that have been in place since July 1, 2008.
Restrictions will expire at 12:01a.m., October 6, 2008. Southern Nevada [...]