Carson Valley resident Frank Dressel captured the purple in the sky in this photo he sent in on Thursday.
Genoa, Nev. — A spokeswoman for the Bureau of Land Management said on Thursday that the agency plans to start closing off the region around Johnson Lane’s upper neighborhoods to camping in February. Other uses in the area will continue.
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels visited Minden Tahoe Airport on Thursday in preparation for their Oct. 1-2 show in the fall. We’ll have more on all that in next week’s edition.
If refusing to settle the VHR lawsuit was county commissioners upping the ante, then they went all in on Thursday with the approval of three new positions. Assistant County Manager Jenifer Davidson said the program’s generating a bunch of paperwork that needs herding.
The effort to purchase a conservation easement on Park Ranch Holdings Lane surrounding the Dangberg Historic Home Ranch Park 1,373 acres was terminated in December due to the inability to obtain an appraisal that was acceptable to the government. The easement on the Van Sickle property is still moving forward.
There are only 10 days left in January, seven of them show no possibility of precipitation in the long-range forecast. It’s a good thing December was so wet, because it looks like it will have to carry this month.
It will be a little breezy today in Carson Valley with northeast winds of 5-15 mph and mostly sunny skies. The high today is expected to hit 45 degrees and stay in the 40s through the weekend.
Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Reach him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com
