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Virginia Range Horses Fate To Be Decided Soon

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The Department of Agriculture released an RFP yesterday that would transfer ownership of the Virginia Range Herd to a private group.  The RFP can be seen at the end of this article. This fate of the herd has provoked passionate discussions on both sides of the fence. In October 2017, …

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USPS Responds to Virginia City Highlands Mail Issues

In a former life, we dealt with the United States Postal Service (USPS) on a daily basis with our clients who generated gobs of mail or our mailing houses clients who generated gobs and gobs of mail for their clients. Our experience with the USPS was excellent. While there were …

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SCSO Incident Report January 9th – 21st

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SCSO Incident Report January 9th – 21st   Don’t Mix Vinegar and Bleach… Occurred at B on Main St. , Gold Hill. Hazmat cleaning chemicals – subj mixed vinegar and bleach – subj started feeling dizzy but is now ok after she took a shower-. . Disposition: Assisted as needed …

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Free Cooking Class In Dayton

Healthy Communities hosts a free cooking class and dinner each month at the Dayton Community Center. This month: Monday, Jan. 22 at 5:30. During the 2018 cooking classes, dietitian Kim Mason and chef Cynthia Kroon will focus on Nutrition and the Brain in a series they’re calling Mood and Food. …

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TRIC Effluent Pipeline Financing Pulled From GOED

In what may (or may not) be an epic win for Storey County Taxpayers, the effort to use SB1 to fund the TRIC effluent pipeline has been withdrawn from consideration by the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED). Jeremy Aguero of Applied Analysis announced the decision at the January 18th …

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TRIC Sells All Remaining Property At Center

Mustang Ranch Brothel Owner, TRIC Marketing Manager, and Storey County Commissioner Lance Gilman alluded to “a major deal in the works” during recent Commissioner Meetings. Gilman announced today that all remaining available property owned by TRIC has been sold. Gilman announced yesterday that TRIC has sold the remaining 74,000 acres …

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January 16 Commissioner Meeting Recap – BardeBlog

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Nicole Barde of The BardeBlog has her usual on point recap of the latest episode of the Storey County Commissioners meeting held on January 16th. Many of the items were perfunctory and thus boring. What was interesting to me was the discussion of the County Manager’s Job Description. There continues …

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A Public Apology To Scott Jolcover

On January 13th I wrote a preamble to the Nicole Barde’s VCTC Meeting Report which you can read here. In that preamble I wrote the following paragraph: My sources tell me that Jolcover’s replacement was necessary because the Storey County District Attorney’s office has (finally) acted on the blatant conflict …

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2018 Political Season Starts – Herrington To Run Unopposed

  Filing for Judicial candidates ended at 5:00 on Friday, January 12th and races around the state will offer some excitement this year. Storey County’s Justice of the Peace Eileen Herrington learned at 5:01 this past Friday she will not face an opponent in the primaries this June. “I am …

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VCTC – Losing Money is an Investment.

Nicole Barde posted her synopsis of the recent VCTC meeting (which you can read here). It’s excellent and I suggest you give it a read. Corrado de Gasparis CFO (Chief Flimflam Officer) of Comstock Mining took his seat replacing the departed Scott Jolcover (also of Comstock Mining) as Deny Dotson …

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