The Suzuki dealership in Carson City has dried up and blown away. This is the dealership that was started a year and a half ago by the Rajun Cajun (“Where nobody walks!”) and made news mostly for also selling Smart cars.

The dealership was built on this dirt lot on south Carson Street, and it was supposed to be a temporary arrangement. There were plans to build on this acre and a half lot a five-story parking garage to hold all the cars, and the dealership would have had solar panels to make it a completely green building. But they set up a temporary sales office inside a mobile home at first, just to get the dealership off the ground, and the building was to come later. It was supposed to be open by now.

According to News Carson City, the city government got tired of waiting. They got tired of the excessive delays in getting the building put up, and didn’t appreciate the fact that the setup looked like nothing more than a cheap used car lot. So they pulled the special use permit that was allowing the dealership to operate out of the mobile home. Now the Rajun Cajun is off the land, presumably until he can get things together and build a permanent structure on the site.

Red Kittell has finished a book he’s worked on the past 25 years. Red grew up in Carson City and now lives in Reno with his wife Connie.

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The books title isNow in print?. a historic prequil to the Da Vinci Code? A tale told at low breath from mouth to ear for seven hundred years.

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Rich Moreno in Backyard Traveler has a list of Nevada roads that are far lonelier than Hwy 50, the supposed “loneliest road in America”. Turns out the loneliest is actually State Route 121, with a whopping 10 cars per day.

Carson Times has a story on the effort in Carson City to get a dedicated dog park, somewhere that’s fenced in where dogs can run off-leash without worrying about running away. Right now the few dog-friendly parks in Carson are also parks for people, and have no fences so your dog can run out into the street any time he wants. This new park would either fence off part of an existing park, or find an entirely new location where dogs could run. A group of dog owners has organized and raised a little bit of money, but it’s just the start of the process and they have a long way to go before they’ll see any results.

The article also has the list of dog-friendly parks in Carson City, where your dog is allowed off-leash as long as you clean up after them.

• Fuji Park
• Mayor’s Park
• Carson River Park
• Sonoma Park (before 4 p.m.)
• Blackwell’s Pond Park
• Steinheimer Park
• Fulstone Park
• Long Ranch Park
• Ronald D. Wilson Memorial Park

The Nevada Appeal has the story of State Archivist Guy Rocha, who has been battling glaucoma for several years and has decided to go public with his story. Guy has lost vision in his left eye, and is having increasing trouble with his right. And since much of his job involves poring over old newspapers and historical documents, this is a huge obstacle for him. I’ve been a big fan of Guy’s, from his Myth A Month articles to his writings in the Nevada Appeal and beyond. So let’s wish him luck and hope he can fight this thing.