The Western singer/songwriter Brenn Hill plays today at the CVIC Hall as part of the Carson Valley Arts Council's 2010-11 concert series.
Our family would like to personally thank Dr. Todd Gray DDS, The Ridge Tahoe, Les Schwab Tire and Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center for their support of the Sierra Youth Football League Douglas Tigers varsity team. Thank you again for the support.
EDITOR: My name is Norma Freitas, cosmetologist at Shear Heaven Salon. I was out of the country to educate and help make a difference for the ladies there in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Once again, in his letter to the Editor of Oct. 27, Lynn Muzzy makes an incorrect assertion, in this case about my Oct. 15 response to information in his Oct. 8 letter in The Record-Courier about county salary hikes.
EDITOR: I grew up with Republican parents who believed in fiscal responsibility, social justice and equal opportunity. T
God help us if we as an electorate get this wrong. As H. L. Mencken wrote so eloquently in the last century: "The aim of all practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
What's your voter IQ? Why are you voting for a particular candidate and what is their platform? Have you done your homework? Have you met the candidate? Have you researched their past performance and know what their plans for our future are?
EDITOR: The two-party system, with the money and funding (and party agenda), has gotten us where we are today in America, the land of the free.
EDITOR: We moved to Douglas County approximately two years ago, from Missouri.
EDITOR: It's getting close to election day and for those of you who have not decided who to elect for Douglas County recorder, I would like to suggest Karen Ellison.
As a 32-year avid airport supporter and previous owner of two businesses, I urge you to vote yes on the airport use ordinance. The outcome of county question No. 1 will affect other county agencies in our community. This will occur as follows:
Proponents of Question 1 advertise that they want a rural airport for traditional uses like soaring. Yet run a disingenuous smear campaign against Tony Sabino, owner of Soar Minden, who's devoted 30 years to the promotion of soaring here.
I finally figured it out after all the confusing talk on the airport question.
"Enough. Stop all the bickering and take charge of our airport?" Are you yelling at your children? The "handful of the same noisy objectors who specialize in befuddling this issue and others" are the people, the citizens who passed the original airport ordinance.
In my neighborhood and I am in sure yours too, there are many foreclosed homes that are being neglected by the banks that now own them. Just across the street from me there is a home that is just sitting there deteriorating.