Mound House News

The Lyon County Commissioners have appointed several members to new terms on the Central Lyon County Parks and Recreation Board, including Jack Richmond, Scott Keller and Melinda Cash, who were confirmed as regular members and will serve through Dec.

It's snowing in Genoa, adding to the half inch that fell last night. Snow tires or chains are required over Kingsbury Grade and on Highway 50 from Stateline to Mound House.

Carson City The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court: A 27-year-old unemployed Carson City man was arrested at 3:45 p.m. Thursday at U.S. 395 and Arrowhead Drive on suspicion of misdemeanor violation of a suspended sentence and driving without a license.

ElectraTherm, a Carson City-based manufacturer that makes waste heat energy generators, will move its facilities to a new Reno location by early next year, said company president Steve Olson on Friday.

Fernley's Joe Mortensen has been elected to serve as the chairman of the Lyon County Board of Commissioners for 2010, while Chuck Roberts of Mound House was chosen as vice chairman.

Submitted Story Santa will be on hand to greet children and to thank people who bring unwrapped, new toys and gifts to stuff a Lyon County police cruiser on Sunday, Dec.

Lyon County will seek federal funding to assist with its jail project, a pair of others, and possibly a fourth.

There are more children than ever before in west-central Lyon County who face the possibility of not having a package to open on Christmas morning.

The Las Vegas Sun seems to have a new business plan. The idea is to fire most of the staff and then fill the now empty pages of the hard-copy version with reprints of Reno Magazine's interview with Dawn Gibbons.

Carson City The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court: Paula Marie Snow, 45, a state Department of Child and Family Services worker from Mound House, was arrested at 9:58 p.m. Wednesday in the 3300 block of Highway 50 East on suspicion of gross misdemeanor child endangerment, ...

Gold miners form a human chain while digging an open pit at the Chudja mine in the Kilomoto concession near the village of Kobu, 62 miles from Bunia in northeastern Congo, Feb.

Holiday Packages for Area's Deployed Troops: Hugs from Home, a Dayton-based troop support group, is seeking donations to help ship holiday care packages to local deployed troops for the holiday season.

Can you believe that it is almost the end of the year? Thanksgiving and all the end of the year holidays will soon be upon us.

BARNARD: To Roy W. and Monique A. of Reno, a daughter, Oct. 22, 2009. GARLAND: To Warren D. and Kristina L. of Mound House, a son, Oct.

A leftover piece of comet debris lit up the western sky about 11:10 p.m. on Tuesday as it burned after entering the earth's atmosphere, a Fleischmann Planetarium spokesman said.

A suspect in the killing of four people in Oklahoma City, including a Mound House prostitute featured in the HBO reality series "Cathouse," turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday, police said.

Jose Baptista, a resident of Wylie House, a Friends in Service Helping family shelter, paints the trim on a windowsill Saturday at the shelter in Stewart.

High unemployment, hunger, the coming holiday season and the looming cold weather are just a few of the topics discussed by a room full of about 40 concerned people last week in response to a call for action from Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties.

Denis Hof, the owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch in Mound House, said Thursday he fears one of his employees is among the four people whose bodies were found in a burning house in Oklahoma City.

The City of Fernley's approval of a bill to collect room or transient lodging taxes from establishments within the city limits will significantly impact room taxes collected and available for the Lyon County Room Tax Board.