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At a pre-holiday sale last weekend at Oxbow Press, a nonprofit community printshop on Dickerson Road, printer Vicki LoSasso showed one of the presses to sculptor Denise Duarte.

Press view

by Staff November 24, 2010

Only three phone books were dropped in the bin at the Mount Community Center at Valley Road and Highland Avenue on the first day of the annual recycling drive. For every ton of phone books recycled, 17 trees will be planted in local parks. Information on the drive and other drop-off points can be found at http://ktmb.org/programs/phone-book-recycling/.

Recycling drive underway

by Staff November 17, 2010

At a memorial for activist Pat Fladager, Pat Esters led more than a hundred mourners in song. Fladager was one of Reno’s first female police officers, helped found Reno’s senior citizen transportation agency Elderport, and was a leader in the local chapter of Common Cause.

Pat Fladager remembered

by Staff November 10, 2010

After the Nevada Day celebration in Carson City last Saturday, street vendors loaded up their unsold merchandise, presumably to be sold at the next special event.

Street vendors

by Staff November 3, 2010

This pastoral setting—a church and a nearby cemetery—are all that remain of the town of Frankford, Texas. There is a historic marker to commemorate the long-ago town, which died out decades ago. The site has been swallowed up by Dallas. Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle has warned that Islamic law, known as Sharia, has taken over Frankford. “It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States,” Angle said. The Ellis County Observer, a conservative website in the next county over from the former Frankford, endorsed Angle after hearing her views on Sharia.

Ground zero in the war on terror

by Staff October 27, 2010

At a Republican rally in Reno, Nevadans listened to speakers including former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. The event was sponsored by Tea Party Express, a Republican political committee based in Sacramento that promotes Palin’s political career. A block away, Democrats held a later competing rally to get their own message out. Former Nevada attorney general Frankie Sue Del Papa spoke.

Republicans gather

by Staff October 20, 2010

A group of rapt children and their parents watched children’s author (The Amazing Alexander) perform magic tricks at Zephyr Books last week. He may have received an inflated number of requests for his business card because when he pulled one out of his pocket, it was always in flames. Justin Meitz, the magician, is a UNR graduate and 2nd grade teacher at Brookfield Academy.

Magic guy

by Staff October 13, 2010

Members of the local Carpenters Union keep vigil at the Walgreens in Spanish Springs Valley. For months, the giant chain has been plagued with similar protests all around the nation over its unwillingness to pay industry standard wages and its use of non-local workers at construction job sites. Walgreens has more than 7,500 stores and a presence in every state. The company says that a “great number” of its construction jobs use union workers.

Carpenters hammer Walgreens

by Staff October 6, 2010

Quarter moon

by Staff September 22, 2010

The UNR band appeared among tailgaters outside Mackay Stadium last Saturday, and a group of students began dancing to the music. Oh, and there was a game, too. Nevada won over Colorado State 51 to 6.

Fun and game

by Staff September 15, 2010

Baseball fans stood at a counter behind the bleacher seating watching the Reno Aces play. The Aces last week took the last game of the season 5 to 4 against the Portland Beavers before a reported crowd of 8,747 after trailing into the ninth. It’s not the only time this season that the Aces turned the score around in the bottom of the ninth. Without the Aces playing for the next few months, adjacent businesses will have to stand or fall on their own.

Aces closed season with win

by Staff September 8, 2010

New2U Computers manager Robin Krueger, center, spoke at a ribbon cutting for the new headquarters of her organization, which shares space with its parent, Disability Resources. New2U refurbishes donated computers and related hardware and software, selling them to help fund Disability Resources. The new store is at 50 E. Greg St. Krueger is flanked by DR executive director Dana MacDonald and Mark Tulman of the Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce, who served as MC.

New2headquarters

by Staff September 1, 2010