Minden News

Douglas County commissioners approved a timetable July 2 to draft language for a 2010 ballot question leaving it up to voters whether to bring the Minden-Tahoe Airport into compliance with weight regulations or risk losing millions of dollars in federal funding.

Minden Plaza Merchants will host a community support event for City of Refuge 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Minden Plaza near the intersection of highways 88 and 395 in Minden.

Minden attorney Evan Beavers has been appointed a new Nevada attorney for injured workers by Nevada Department of Business & Industry Director Dianne Cornwall Beavers assumed his duties on July 1, replacing attorney Nancyann Leeder.

The sounds in the forest near the Mt. Rose Highway these days are more of chainsaws than flames.

The C.O.D. Garage on Esmeralda Avenue. Minden Town Board members turned down a request from the developer of the proposed C.O.D. Casino that businesses and residents help pay for a parking lot and landscaping around the former automotive garage.

Ricardo Gonzalez or 'Little Ricky,' as the nurses call him in the hospital, needs a new heart.

Kacey Coleman prepares her bike for the 2008 Johnson Lane bike parade. This year's parade is 5 p.m. Sunday.

Sarah Hall At the end of May, I had the pleasure of meeting the owner of Carson Valley Inn.

Terrence Howell and his daughter, in pink, celebrate in this undated family photo.

Many of the retail spaces in the Center at Waterloo remain vacant. Sarah Hall Carson Valley drivers aren't the only ones lamenting the loss of the Gardnerville Department of Motor Vehicles, which is closing today as a result of state budget cuts.

MINDEN, Nev. - Two teenagers and two adults are facing open murder charges for the beating death of a Gardnerville man in Douglas County.

MINDEN, Nev. Staff Reports The Douglas County Parks & Recreation Department continues its 13th year of the Family Summer Concert Series with the Shane Dwight Band, 6:30-8:30 p.m. June 26, at Minden Park.

Third-grader Blythe Crossley with her first-place award from the Space Science for Schools art and essay contest.

Work on a new home for the East Fork Fire & Paramedic Districts could be completed by the end of September.

The state Department of Motor Vehicles is closing its three express offices in Northern Nevada, agency officials announced today.

The future Minden site of Tahoe Ridge Winery, Marketplace & Bistro. Tahoe Ridge Winery is in the process of trading in Nevada's oldest settlement for Highway 395 frontage in Minden.

MINDEN, Nev. Staff Reports The Douglas County Public Library in Minden presents An Afternoon with Local Authors, 2-4 p.m. June 27.

EDITOR: The Minden/Douglas Elks Lodge No. 2670 held their annual follies and fashion show on March 30.

Staff Reports MINDEN, Nev. Brenn Hill is performing a benefit concert for Relay for Life and his son, Briggs, at the Carson Valley Inn on Saturday.

Carson Valley Days marks the beginning of festival season in Carson Valley, which essentially wraps up in September with Candy Dance.