Former Commission Chairman John Engels submitted this photo he took last year of cowboy Steve Cummings riding Pepper with his nephew riding Lobo on the old Kimmerling ranch last winter.
Genoa, Nev. — Tonight opens the final weekend of Carson Valley Community Theater’s presentation of “Wacky & Wonderful Christmassy Stuff” at the Copeland Building Annex, 1372 Highway 395. Visit www.carsonvalleycommunitytheatre.org for more information.
With a three-day weekend, Douglas County is preparing for a crowd in Stateline this New Year’s Eve. Bottles and cans, no matter what they contain, are banned in public from Sunday through Monday.
There was a time when tens of thousands of celebrants would turn up for New Year’s Eve at Lake Tahoe, but there hasn’t been that big a crowd in quite a spell. Last year’s storms kept the crowd down and New Year’s Eve 2020 saw the first time in decades that Highway 50 remained open through the night.
No matter what you happen to imbibe to ring in 2024, make sure you have a means to get safely home that doesn’t involve getting behind the wheel.
Road controls are in effect for Highway 88 from Mesa Vista to Picketts Junction and on Highway 89 from the Y in South Lake to just over Luther Pass. Monitor Pass was closed on Wednesday in preparation for stormy weather, but not yet for the winter.
I got a report of possible sleet from Minden, which means the weather finally found the official gauge. I can’t tell Genoa received any precipitation this morning, and the Weather Service gauges aren’t showing anything, either.
It’s fairly clear out this morning, with temperatures below freezing in the middle of the Valley, with an almost 10-degree difference between that and the foothills. The cold tends to settle along the river.
The forecast calls for partly sunny skies and a high temperature near 56 degrees. What wind there is will be out of the southeast at 5 mph shifting north in the afternoon. The real storm looks like it will arrive early Saturday morning.
Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Contact him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com or 775-782-5122
