Johnson Lane resident Mike Nevius chats as Flyin' Brian Campbell signs the petition opposing the Painted Rock Mine on Tuesday.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
Genoa, Nev. — It’s going to be a rocky day for Douglas County commissioners, who are scheduled to hear an agreement with Knox Excavation over the Painted Rock Mine at 1 p.m. I counted around three-dozen comments opposing the mine on the county’s web site this morning and the petition drive sounds like it may have a couple of hundred signatures.
Commissioners met at 10 a.m. in the Douglas County Courthouse and the agenda is fairly light, likely in preparation for a lot of public comment regarding the main item. They listened to slightly more than a half hour of public comment this morning and are in recess for lunch.
I’m anticipating an update on Tuesday’s hangar fire at Minden-Tahoe Airport today. A 5:30 p.m. Wednesday report of smoke coming from a window off Mica Drive in Indian Hills was determined to be from an oven cleaning.
There were a couple of collisions on Wednesday, one around 6:30 a.m. at Mottsville and Highway 88 and another at 11:30 a.m. near Johnson Lane and Fremont. I didn’t hear that anyone was transported from either.
A National Weather Service thermometer in the Gardnerville Ranchos indicated the high temperature for the Valley of 95 degrees 2:45 p.m. Wednesday. Most of the rest of the Valley came in at 88-91 degrees.
Minden came within a degree of the 93-degree record high temperature for Oct. 2 set in 2001. Despite the temperature, the skittering of dead leaves across pavement provided a slight hint of autumn on Wednesday.
There’s a fire weather watch north of us, but that could creep down this way on Friday. The excessive heat warning and heat advisory for the Bay Area and the Sacramento Valley continues.
Forecasters said that the high pressure over Western Nevada isn’t budging much and expect today to be another scorcher, for October, at least. The prediction for today is sunny with a high temperature of 89 degrees with the zephyr picking up at 5-10 mph gusting to up to 20 mph.
Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Contact him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com
