Paula and Jon Corley hold hands at the 7th annual Basque Fry on their ranch south of Gardnerville on Saturday. Photo taken by Mary Ann Middleton
Genoa, Nev. — I estimate there were at least 350 people at East Fork Justice of the Peace Cassandra Jones service at the Douglas County Community & Senior Center on Saturday, including Douglas County’s entire sitting judiciary.
I spoke briefly to Chief State Appeals Judge Michael Gibbons on Saturday, who said he’d attended the Basque Fry earlier that day. The biggest difference, he said … No smoke. “You couldn’t see the mountains, last year.”
There’s smoke on the other side of the Sierra from a lightning complex in Northern California that started on Aug. 5. It hasn’t wafted this way, as yet. The 3-acre Joy Lake Fire in Galena is close to containment after it claimed a home.
Work to reopen Highway 89 between Markleeville and Woodfords is expected to be done by Aug. 22, barring mishap. Escorts around the work will run seven days a week until then. There’s a bunch of forms online at alpinecountyca.gov for claims related to the flooding both in Markleeville and the portion of Alpine County above Foothill Road.
I expect to find out who’s up for Genoa Town Manager at some point today. The agenda for the 8:30 a.m. Thursday special meeting is up on the town website at genoanevada.org. The names will show up in the link for the packet.
The monsoons are back this week with a chance of rain or thunderstorms across a wide swath of the Sierra eastern front and into Nevada. Even if the storms miss Carson Valley entirely, they could set fires.
It’s going to be a smidge warmer today with the high temperature forecast to hit 94 degrees with the wind 5-10 mph out of the west this afternoon.
Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Reach him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com
