Heather Jackson was appointed to the Douglas County School Board on Tuesday.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
Genoa, Nev. — A winter weather advisory has been issued for Western Nevada as snow started falling from a winter storm. We could see up to an inch on the Valley floor and 1-3 inches above 5,000 feet. The advisory expires at 10 a.m.
A big rig is stuck in a patch of snow near Silver Creek Bridge on Highway 4 in Alpine County after the driver failed to realize that Ebbetts Pass is closed. The tow truck is on its way. Road controls are in effect in the mountains this morning as snow started falling in Carson Valley early this morning.
Heather Jackson is back in the pages of The Record-Courier as Douglas County’s new Area 6 school board trustee. The Douglas High graduate was appointed by trustees on Tuesday night by unanimous vote.
Planning commissioners approved 6-1 a special use permit for a 159-manufactured home project proposed for the Muller Lane Parkway roundabout.
So far, 21,939 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been administered in Douglas, Carson, Lyon and Storey out of the 25,150 received by Carson City Health and Human Services. They got their first 1,000 doses of the single-shot Janssen vaccine that will be distributed over the coming weeks.
The outbreak is running low and slow, with three new cases and three recoveries in Douglas on Tuesday to bring the county to 433 active cases. With a week to go until the anniversary of the lockdown, the county has had 2,561 total cases and 33 deaths.
After the clouds pass later this morning expect partly sunny skies with a high temperature near 42 degrees The 5-15 mph wind will shift from south to west in the afternoon, gusting to 25 mph.
Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Reach him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com
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