Great Basin School of Photography co-founder Jeff Sullivan submitted this photo of the Aurora borealis at Topaz Lake on Sunday night.
Genoa, Nev. — East Fork firefighters responded to aid Eastern Alpine Fire and Rescue to extinguish a small fire near the water tanks off Hot Springs Road west of Markleeville around 7:30 p.m. Today, Gov. Lombardo is scheduled to hear an update on fire season, which may be delayed this year, but won’t be denied.
Douglas County Public Library trustees will discuss the budget 10 a.m. today at their meeting in the Minden Branch. County commissioners had a lot of questions about the supplemental requests at last month’s tentative budget hearings.
If the testing comes back clear today, a boil water order affecting 50 homes in the southern Gardnerville Ranchos will be lifted. Testing takes 24 hours and whenever a pipe is open they need two clear tests, according to District Manager Greg Reed.
March was hardly a miracle for the Stateline casinos, which posted a 34 percent drop in gaming revenues from March 2022. The casinos brought in $16.78 million, down from $25.4 million, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. The casinos are still up 11.1 percent going into the last quarter of the fiscal year.
The National Weather Service issued a flood watch starting Thursday and lasting through the weekend’s warm spell. The East Fork at Horseshoe Bend looks like it’s slowing down a bit from the forecast, but whatever reprieve that might offer is definitely temporary.
The reason the river slowed down is that the temperature dropped to around freezing in places this morning, which is like turning a very slow tap. Today expect sunny skies and a high temperature near 68 degrees. The wind will start the day out of the north at 5-10 mph and then shift west later this morning.
Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Contact him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com or 775-782-5122.
