Minden News

Douglas County deputies rounded up five juveniles Saturday near Minden Elementary School who reportedly ran away from Rite of Passage and stole a vehicle.

The former manager of the Minden Dairy Queen who admitted taking nearly $28,000 from his employer in 2010, is up for a probation violation hearing this morning in Douglas County District Court.

U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell announced on Monday that the agency has issued a notice of intent to award contracts to five companies to provide a total of seven Next Generation airtankers for wildfire suppression. 'We are moving ahead to modernize our fleet as part of our overall strategy to secure the best, safest airtankers available for fighting wildfires across the country in the years to come,' said Tidwell.

Front row; Bob Hickox, Jane Hiatt, Helen Fanning. Back row; Sabina Bye, B.J.Fulmer, Louise Noel, Linda Townsend, Susan Musil and Paul Cote.

There's not enough snow to shred on the hill, so the shredding party is coming to Carson Valley today when A.B.E. Printing and Copy sponsors free onsite paper shredding for Douglas residents and businesses in their parking lot at 1679 Highway 395 in Minden 2 p.m. today.

Shannon Litz/The Record-Courier The empty playground area at the Douglas County School District office on Mono Avenue on Friday.

The Forest Service is acquiring seven advanced firefighting air tankers to help modernize its aging fleet ahead of what is expected to be a bad season for wildfires.

Christi Tolbert/www.tntphotographicmemory.com Miss Douglas County Outstanding Teen Macie Tuell, Miss Eagle Valley Outstanding Teen Jordan Van Worth, Miss Carson City Outstanding Teen Samantha Byassee, and Miss Douglas County Bailey Gumm wave at the end of the pageant held in February.

HOGGAN-KIRBY: To Jessika Hoggan and Bobby Kirby of Reno, a son, April 11, 2013. CHAVEZ-RAMIREZ: To Maria Chavez and Alex Ramirez of Sun Valley, a son, April 12, 2013.

Shannon Litz/The Record-Courier Les Webb of Minden is greeted by a horse from the sheriff's mounted posse on Wednesday.

CIAMPOLI: To Vincent and Chiffon of Carson City, a daughter, April 6, 2013. RENO-EGGERSTEDT: To Britney Reno and Sean Eggerstedt of Carson City, a daughter, April 6, 2013.

Minden Town Board members hired a Carson City firm last week as town counsel, replacing George Keele who retired in January after serving the board for 32 years.

A start-up mining company is hoping to strike it big in an area of Douglas County that has yielded little mineral wealth over two centuries.

Gardnerville resident and 2004 Douglas High grad Chris Honer has joined Brady and Associates in Minden - a financial services firm that focuses on investment planning and wealth management.

Rev. Richard "Dick" Snyder has begun duties as priest in charge at Coventry Cross Episcopal Church in Minden.

Minden went to Carson City for an attorney. The town selected Ryan Russell of the Carson firm Allison, MacKenzie, Pavlakis, Wright & Fagan, Ltd.

As his classmates count down the days to graduation, Douglas High School senior Nolan Sheets has a greater task ahead.

A number of Lyon County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue division members spent over three days in south Lyon County searching for a missing aircraft last week.

A 160 acre mine site in Douglas County is going to see its first activity in decades after a Florida-based company bought the exclusive mining rights to the property.

<![CDATA[MINDEN, Nev. (AP) -- Douglas County deputies say the two bodies found in plane crash wreckage last week belong to a 30-year-old Reno pilot and his 21-year-old girlfriend from Gardnerville. Authorities say Cory Paul Marble and Brittney Calane Hocking-Cangemi were found dead Thursday in the mountains about 20 miles southeast of the Minden-Tahoe Airport. Officials say their Cessna 182 departed from the North Las Vegas Airport about 6 p.m. on April 14, but never arrived at its northern Nevada destination. Marble's mother, Kay Lynn Marble, said her son was returning from a weekend business trip in southern Nevada when he vanished. The disappearance touched off an extensive search that lasted four days. Cory Marble worked as a professional pilot with an air ambulance company.