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Nevada Appeal: Library looking to fund new building with 2010 ballot question. This fight has been going on for years, to get the Carson City Library out of the cramped space it's in now and on to somewhere else. They wanted to buy that building downtown, but the government wouldn't sell it. So now they want to build a new one, but they have to go to the voters scrounging for money. I hope it works out, because the library is important and the space they're in now is kind of dismal. I have no idea, though, if it will ever happen.

The Nevada Appeal had an article in Sunday's paper, by Sue Ballew, about the Foreman-Roberts House, that yellow house along Carson Street north of Hwy 50, where the road climbs up a small hill. That house is the headquarters of the Carson City Historical Society, of which Ballew is a former president. So she should know the history of the house quite well. And the article was very in-depth and detailed, and if you're wondering why I haven't linked to it yet that's because the Nevada Appeal hasn't put it up on their website. So you can't read it in the usual way.

You can read it, though, for the next four weeks using the e-Edition of the paper. What you need to do is go to this website, select the 9/28/2008 version of the paper, and then browse to page C3. Then you can read it, even though it's a convoluted process to get there. And, those archives seem to disappear after four weeks, so hurry up and read it while you can!

Update: The article has been posted now.

It seems like they've been working on the roads all over town this summer. They were working on Hwy 50, getting it ready for when the second phase of the freeway opens in the next year or two. Which makes you wonder, why didn't they do all the work they needed to on Hwy 50 all at once, back when they finished the first phase of the freeway? Might have saved a bunch of money overall, and saved us all a lot of headache this year. At least they're almost done, this time for good. So they say.

Also Fairview Drive has been a mess all summer, as they've been widening and repaving it to be able to handle all the new traffic that the freeway will generate. This has involved digging down about three feet below the road grade, and rebuilding it up from scratch. The road has been down to one lane, one way through all of this.

Then there has been the job over the last couple of weeks to resurface Carson Street all the way through town, which seems to have been put on pause for a short while. At least I hope it's only on pause, because it sure doesn't look like they're done with it yet. They're probably waiting until these other two projects are finished.

And now News Carson City reveals the two new projects that are going to be starting this week, making things even worse. The Fairview project is going to be shifting gears, and will soon involve the intersection of Fairview and Carson. This intersection has to be rebuilt from the ground up too, since once the next phase of the freeway is finished all that freeway traffic will be flowing right through here by Office Depot and the Railroad Museum. So the turn lanes are going to be beefed up in just about every direction, and that means a lot of digging up what's already there.

Also, the plan to widen Clearview and rebuild that intersection is also finally going to get underway. This has been in the pipeline for at least three years, when the relatively new A&W restaurant that sat at the corner was demolished back in 2005. Back then the plan was for Clearview to be widened in the spring of 2006. So what's two and a half years anyway? This project will also involve a lot of digging up the intersection, widening lanes, and putting in more efficient turn lanes. All to keep traffic flowing more smoothly.

Update: Photos from before construction starts.

Fairview and Carson

Clearview and Carson

Clearview and Carson

The Sierra Gold casino project, which was first announced last February, got approved by the Carson City Planning Commission yesterday. This new casino will be located at the corner where Hwy 50 meets the new freeway. If it's all built as planned it will end up as the largest hotel-casino in Carson City. With a 100,000 square-foot casino, and an 8-story, 220-room hotel. The tip of the hotel tower will be eight feet higher than the Ormsby House, making it the tallest building in town. And there will be about a thousand employees on the property.

But now, the project just got approved and already they're looking to delay it. The economy's not really good enough right now to build a project of this size, so they want to put it off for a year or two, or three, or four. So it could be some time before we actually see any earth being moved at that corner.

It's just a small update this time, but crews have been working a little bit on the outside of the Ormsby House. This is your update for the end of summer, 2008.

The Nevada Appeal today has an article listing some of the different blogs about Carson City that are out there. The article naturally focuses on the blogs that are hosted at the newspaper's website, but also lists a few sites out in the community. Around Carson included.

Here are the blogs they list:

• Uniquely Nevada
• On Guard with Sgt. Stu
• A Little Off the Top
• WAC Notebook
• The Underbelly
• Carson, Etc.
• The Chalkboard
• Around Carson
• Bike Carson
• Fire Sign Farm
• Nevada Outside

Coming tomorrow to Carson City: bikini baristas! Just in time for winter!

There's an article today by Sue Ballew about Treadway Park, a ranch and picnic grounds that used to sit along Washington Street on the site of the old hospital. Back in the 1800s it was the popular hot spot where everyone would go on their day off. People from Reno and Virginia City would even take the train to Carson just to go to Treadway Park. Aaron Treadway, the proprietor, was a genial and well-liked host who was very popular around town. Treadway also planted many trees on his ten-acre property and a lot of them are still around on the old hospital property. There is still a small patch of grass at Minnesota and William that is called Treadway Park, a tiny remnant of the former ranch.

One of Treadway's original trees still stands at the corner of Division and Washington, where it's been designated the "Nevada Bicentennial Tree". Although, as Guy Rocha points out, the tree isn't 200 years old, but probably dates back to the days of Treadway.

If you're looking to get out and do something good for the community this weekend, you might want to sign up for the Carson River cleanup that will be taking place tomorrow. A group of volunteers will be heading down to the river to pick up and haul out whatever trash and debris they're able to. Of course they wouldn't have to do this if people would just stop dumping in the river in the first place, but the Carson River Canyon east of town seems to be a popular place to toss off whatever old junk you have lying around. Up to and including the family car.

If you want to be involved, call BLM at 885-6000 or Kiwanis Club at 885-7302 or at 882-3075. The cleanup job starts tomorrow at 8am.

Followup: The Nevada Appeal has a story about the cleanup, and how they pulled three dumpsters worth of trash out of the canyon, plus "a few couches and an old car."

We're supposed to be getting more bloggers in Carson City, not fewer. But this week one of the pioneers of Carson blogging announced that he's folding up shop. Bob at No Safe Place is putting his blog "up on cement blocks" after three and a half years. He's hinted that he'll be back one day, but still it's a loss when a blog like his goes dark. His Old Nevada posts alone were worth the price of paying attention to the site.