Posts from ‘April, 2009’

According to the Wall Street Journal, other Nevada locales are gearing up for another Mormon Cricket invasion due to the mild winter. Places like North Reno and ghosttowns such as Tuscarora are being creative in their defense strategies against the sea of 2 inch insects. Residents of Tuscarora, all 13 of them, claim that the [...]

Reno Evening Gazette, October 30, 1880
A Grand Illumination.

Franktown was blazing last night. A procession with torches, banners and transparencies marched up and down. There were many ladies in the procession. Huge bonfires blazed at every corner. A unique feature was vast illumination on the mountainside west of town. A fire had been raging there for [...]

The San Francisco Call, January 14, 1896
Carson Opium Smugglers
Officers Find Fifty Pounds of the Drug and a Counterfeit Mixture in a Cache
Carson, Nev. Jan. 13. United State District Attorney Jones to-day found fifty taels of opium buried in one of the stalls at the racetrack. Lee Brooks, who hid the drug there, recently left town [...]

Just a note to let you know that we had two groups of “Valley Girls” win at the state level at U.S. History Day.  They have decided to go to the National competition in Washington DC.  There is a fund raiser on April 23 at the Postal Cafe. The girls are going to wait tables [...]

From Dr. Monte Sanford’s blog (see photo there):
“Currently in the western USA, another spectacular painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) migration is in full swing.  In late March, millions of these butterflies were passing through northern Mexico and southern Arizona on their way northward.  In the last week here in the Reno, Nevada, area we are [...]

According to emails we’ve received, the South Valley’s Area Plan was passed by the County Commissioners at their last meeting on April 8th. Don’t know the particulars but we hear the Washoe Valley Working Group folks put on a great presentation. Word is that the Regional Planning Board will consider it again in May.
If anyone [...]

This News 4 article is mostly about driving safely in NDOT construction zones but mentions that “US 395 from Pagni Lane to Bowers Mansion Road: Resurface roadway beginning in July and completed in November.” Pagni Road is in the south end of Pleasant Valley and Bowers Mansion Road is, umm, right over, uh, dunno. Do [...]

This RGJ article further confirms that our local pool will be closed this summer but the rest of Bower’s Mansion County Park will be open. The parks dept. is looking for groups or companies to “sponsor a park”.

From an email circling the valley:
“The NEW COOL RIVER BAND just had another great practice on this past Sunday up in the spectacular setting of the Virginia Highlands; – up by Virginia City and where the wild horses roam! We here in Reno – Tahoe – Virginia City and near to the wild open areas [...]