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Stories for December 2003

Wednesday, December 31

Stateline, Carson City New Year's celebrations relatively crime-free

Few brave snow for opening day at Topaz Lake

Tasers replace Wild West-style defense

Tuesday, December 30

Phyllis A. McKillip

Calendar of events

New year, new reasons for optimism

Carson boys stun McQueen in finals

City, state prepared for snow removal

Beef: It's what's for baby

Six residents tested positive for strep

Hope Esperanza Posas

No clues in gun store robbery

Edna May 'Mert' Klawsnik

Silvana cooks up New Year's special

John M. Ferry

Off the couch

Michael Alan Shearer

Margaret Walsh

First C-TH baby pending; last doing well

Wandering sheep, shoe shines on city sidewalks no longer a problem

Jeremiah Schenzel to take over as student body president

Washoe officials defend higher Incline Village tax assessments

Proficiency exam on 2003 events

Technology helps snowplows battle winter

Monday, December 29

New Year's Day closings

Dean M. Hoffman

Ruby Ellen White

City grows slightly in '03 after readjustment

Snow packs abundance of moisture

Beef safe, local authorities say

Progress on freeway sets pace for city's work in '04

Carson City top stories

High court rules mining company can't have it both ways on tax break

Rail route only hints at Yucca problems

Eric Eisele

Kent Edward Cartwright

Audrey E. Theobald

Calendar of events

Elke Hoppe

Robert Edward Lamkin

Lucille Mary Johnson

Arts projects in western Nevada awarded $2,655

Ruth East

Chris C. Loreno

John E. Wipfli

Martin Rosso

High court allows adopted sisters visitation

Police: 20 guns stolen in burglary

Roads buzzing with increased patrols this New Year's Eve

Truck stolen from gas staton

Shine second, Senators are seventh

Galena boys place third in tournament

Baer makes his case before Rotary Club

Historical Society celebrates 100 years with gala

Sunday, December 28

Stephanie Denise Green

Police: Stolen decorations recovered

Grace Juanita Cliburn

Evergreen deficiencies noted and corrected

Land may be reserved for Yucca rail route

Norman 'Dusty' Buechel

Rough weather to continue through the week

Fred Winkler

Design concept approved for new state building on Stewart Street

Helen Christine Douglass

City to hire consultant to plan for disasters, terrorist acts

Bette C. Watkins

Alexander Grotophorst Bodenstein

Calendar of events

William Vernon Johnson Sr.

Missing-mom suspect to be returned to Nevada

Single mom wins holiday lights contest

State OKs Las Vegas psychiatric hospital plans

Thanks for supporting U.S. soldier

Tracy Owen Chapman

Jobs spur growth in 2004

Gold price shines in mining's new year

Housing market to remain hot

Strong industry may spark consolidation

Time to seize tech opportunity

Tourism stats show signs of slow growth

New office buildings in pipeline

Despite job growth, manufacturing weak

Industrial projects head to outlying areas

Retailers expect their hot streak to continue

Gary J. Karsten, Nick Butler, Margarita Genio

Shelly Webb

Onna Earle, M.D.

GameTech: Revenues, net increase

Workforce and the creative class

Saturday, December 27

Calendar of events

Lester Dale Lawson

Tahoe Biltmore to get Vegas-style face-lift

Trash burning outlawed in most of California

Friday, December 26

Resolutions to keep - if I remember

Woman crashes car into video store

New laws ready for January debut

Civil War re-enactors bring new movie to life

Reed girls defeat Carson

Shopping rush continues - with returns and gift cards

Thursday, December 25

Tax issue will still be a hot topic in 2004

Tahoe residents act as bear vigilantes

Population of birds steady, counters say

Victims take the heat in celebrity trials

Can we keep recreational vehicles off the streets?

Chinese monks present unusual king fu extravaganza at Eldorado

Winter brings out hungry coyotes

There is more we can do to prevent drunken driving

Wednesday, December 24

Owner of state's oldest franchised auto dealer sells business to retire

Richard Oliver Adams

Six hospitalized in Cave Rock vehicle crash

Woman honored for 30 years of service with Douglas County

Locals dispute mad-cow threat

Off the couch

Family celebrates Christmas, freedom

Deputies plan exhumation to ID man

Tuesday, December 23

Russell Ray Hearold

Velma Mae Ruecker

Judge gives Hamdogs robber 20-year sentence

Calendar of events

Man chained to rail raises $24,794 for V&T project

Grinch, Cat in Hat join Santa in ice sculpture

Taxable sales up by double digits again

Man arrested in purse snatching

Dovie E. Quinton

Geneva Belle Noland

Ada M. Green

Reuse and recycle the holiday heap

Tahoe lament: 'Can you hear me now?'

Sheriff's department to begin new programs, fine-tune existing ones

CHS student body president looks back

School officials look ahead

Adrenaline keeps players coming back

Monday, December 22

Richard Dean Allison

Caliente rail corridor named by Yucca supporters

Truck wreck blocks Highway 50 for three hours

County commission applications to be forwarded to Guinn

Fear and loathing of traveling

Local officers safe from faulty bulletproof vest

Staff cuts part of Brewery's master plan

Cecil Edwin 'Ed' Valterra

Calendar of events

Health inspections

Orange does not mix with green and red

Memories of a 'Beverly Hillbillies' Christmas

It's all part of being Santa

RV parking rules draw reaction

Grover Hot Springs still an attraction after 150 years

It can cost you dearly to love a $13 mutt

Library and Archives decked the lobby with 12 days of Christmas

Arts center set to move forward on its master plan

Sunday, December 21

Out-of-bounds boarders found safe

Robert T. 'Bob' Davis

City may remove restrictions on RV parking

Inez Henderson

Charity gives holiday meals to 2,700

Calendar of events

Developer buys Dayton depot for chamber

Flu found in Evergreen Center death

Man not responsible in deaths

Pets pampered during holidays

Bob's Texaco becomes a Shell service station

Rosy predictions for Carson business in '04

Jazz, Internet are what's hot at coffee shop

Superbowl Jell-O, African drumming and joint jazz

Geothermal map

Bec's Frozen Custard

Motion Potion

River park

Palomar stock will trade on Berlin exchange

Collins named to Bonaventure Enterprises board

Dealing with reporters in good times and bad

Stremmel Gallery

Sierra Spirit

Patrick R. Clark, Donald W. Smit

Anne Lazarus

Clay V. King

Work smart, work hard and take time for fun

'Tis the season for strategizing

Retailers' season not over

Reading struggle turns into passion of a lifetime

Building hope for children in need

Chix with Stix

Lost dog/Sept. 1

Gostin Photography

Airport retail

Aphrodite

Minden winery

NevadaMax

Fluke Biomedical

Go-Ped

Pilates Place

Reno 911

Ice dome

Spanish Springs Business Center

Turbo cool

P.F. Chang's/Feb. 24

Shoppers Square

Raz-Air

MetalMatrix

RibicRescue

Nordstrom's

Sharon Haugen

Wendy Calva

Martin R. Gross

Saturday, December 20

TRPA allows guest, rental units on smaller lots

Shortest day celebrated in Tahoe

Toys for Tots still offering Christmas help

Calendar of events

Martis Valley project protested

S. Lake holiday economy holds its own

Looking for a New Year's party?By Karl Horeis Appeal Staff Writer From an old-fashioned, no-electricity celebration with acoustic music to rounds of double Monte Carlo bowling - there's a lot to choos

Friday, December 19

Missing mom search continues in Lyon

Cold rain shortens 'Peanutcracker' even more

Shine, Roman place in Reno TOC

Shoppers swarm stores in last-minute pursuits

Six teens in crisis center still lack Christmas gifts

A good life is what you make of it

Thursday, December 18

Capitol Police buy 16 bicycles for children

Ranchers, state, federal officials clash over grazing

Jail escapee found hours later in motel

Disease center doctors probe elderly deaths

Firefighters save man, gun club

Court allows jurors to use own expertise

Project to save V&T gets boost in pledge

Carson to see new charge on water bills

High court: Lawyers can advertise as specialists

Christmas dinner for 700 on menu today

Wednesday, December 17

Boy admits his part in bus bomb scare

Off the Couch

Carson City finds onramp to prosperity

City gets $1 million to prepare for disasters

YOU CAN HELP

Nevada voter registration passes 900,000

Zola Bridges

Carson lawyer accused of malpractice

Supervisors award Carson City manager $6,200 bonus, salary raise for performance

Salvation Army requests more toys for program

Boy struck by vehicle listed in critical condition

Peruvian musicians visit area schools

Dayton couple's in-law gets Postal Service stamp of approval

Wild about wild horses

Guatemalan's detention sparks terrorist rumor on I-80

Tuesday, December 16

Wal-Mart makes plans for No. Carson store

Grinches abound with Carson burglaries

Teen charged with offering money to girl, 8

Calendar of events

Agnes M. Tessler

Raymond F. Karlenzig

Martha Elizabeth Gaskins Kreger

Harold 'Red' Moates

Ona G. Cooksey

Kathryn 'Kay' LaVerne Wilson

Officials still awaiting flu test results from center

Prison extras unpaid after filmmaker loses funding

19-year prison guard counts days to retirement, reflects on life

Holiday dance classic in a nutshell

Preston Charles Dean Newman

Homeless kids go shopping for Christmas

Permit granted for Lakeview care home

Ski enforcers keeping slopes, skiers safe

It's game over for these tomb raiders

Edward George Goddard

Senior Center growing for 2004

Monday, December 15

Kay F. Perry

Hanukkah services set

Calendar of events

Tough to crow about student survey

Planning commissioners consider special permit tonight

Alfred Maurice Goddard

Gloria Henry Van Epps

James Russell Thurmond Jr.

Health inspections

Wind blows down golf course poles and nets

Pre-trial conference set for man charged with not paying employees

Vaughn E. Gramms

Celebrate a century of flight with plane ride

Relic looters get prison

Thomas Wayne Scott

Carl Kevin Wheat

Tax opponents knowingly using erroneous facts

Valley's first radio station sold

Sunday, December 14

We must take our time turning over Saddam

Annemay Oliver

Violet Mary McCartney

In Adwar, mourning is tinged with recriminations

Iraqi's call for quick trial for Saddam

Raymond Andrew Bolzerek

A4 12/16 calendar

Drug czar: pot guards endanger public lands

Blood in truck may be Anguiano's

Soldiers happy about capture, wary about future

A4 crimes

Still time to mail holiday packages

100 guard members headed for Southwest Asia

Seniors' bodies embalmed before essential samples taken

Mabel A. 'Toodie' Robertson

Reward offered in case of missing Silver Springs mother

Holidays a potent time of year

Classified employees settle contract with school district

V&T proponent chains self to track to raise cash

Restaurant to reopen as casino

Steamship Tahoe to be on National Register of Historical Places

Candy Dance organizers to scale back Genoa event

Glamis gets go ahead on mine

Group toils to find work for disabled

Homeowners to help meet portfolio quotas

Is this a good time to sell, lease back?

CFO Atkinson resigns from Sierra Pacific

SEC's rules more harm than good

Heller selects Sequoia voting system

Gostin offers seminar for photographers

Don Welsh, Mark Keyzers, J. Michael Houck

Sharon Uithoven

Susan Lowe

Michael Scott

CCIM Board of Directors

Rebecca Wagner

Granite completes Boomtown project

Rich Hoskins

Tech talent flocks to Tahoe

SBC shakes up local TV service market

Hotel targets business traveler

Banks' role key in Rail City acquisition

Long-vacant Reno retail space leased

Harry's defined by service, not technology

Literacy learning helps earnings

Northern Nevada businesses honored

Tahoe resort group puts rental bookings online

Magnolia Village now fully leased

EICON donates to Ronald McDonald

Reno's Preston Hale pens autobiography

Insight Technology to wire up Dickson

State to run new tourism ads on TV

Laughter is best medicine at work

Saturday, December 13

Help keep Tahoe blue with Web site

Florida man killed in Highway 50 rollover east of Fallon

Nevada residents excited, wary after capture

El Dorado honored for support efforts

Young would-be Nevada voters sought

Trainees learn to help blind skiers

Homes tour goes on despite snow

Friday, December 12

Eleanor E. Anton

Maple Allen 'Mutt' Gossett

Rotarians help kids buy gifts for families

Woman says she's Strom Thurmond's daughter

A4 crimes 12/13/03

Mildred Elizabeth Elsey Swan

Vegas regents hire interim college president

Scientists warn of worldwide flu outbreak

Thursday, December 11

Wesley Dale Laursen

Four deaths at center probed for influenza

Dayton man admits raping baby sitter

Nevada regents refuse to rescind vote on two community college officials

Chorus joined by bells, oboe, flutes

Court date set Carson man in Utah assault

Carson girls defeat the Creek

A4 crimes

A4 SAT calendar

Clinton saga as network docudrama

Clara L. Weisser

Higher gas prices, fewer dollars for city

Lompa Lane closed for at least three weeks

A4 SUN 12/14 calendar

Last day for 'live steam'

Gingerbread auction raises $301 in VC

Property owners sue over huge Clear Creek project

Calendar of events

City finds $1.4 million extra from last year's budget

Christmas Holidays and New Year's Eve Appetizer Ideas

Smile when you say Ne-va-da

Wednesday, December 10

Mary A. Kusarik

Robert Thomas Ryan

Snow, ice cause of 50 traffic accidents

Recent deaths may be flu-related

Appeal letter writer's pen falls silent

Stanley R. Menesini

John Phillip Nowak

Regents get open meetings law twisted

Off the couch

Carson girls hoops win a pair

Evelyn Lamoureux

Leona Jessina McCarty Monroe

Marie 'G.G.' Lowy Goodrich

High court: Give jurors more leeway

Officials forecast $1 million more for Roop project

Margaret Teresa Sumner

Making sure every child gets a gift

Wayne A. Evenson

Carson judge OK after car crash

Amber Alert Plan committee set up

Drop off extra turkeys for FISH

Driver in Spooner search jailed

Tuesday, December 9

Rehabbed hawk released at Ormsby House

Take horse-drawn carriage on Victorian Christmas Tour

Heller: Clerks must use Sequoia voting machine

Carson City gaming numbers up

Minority task force adds facilitator, students

Trade food for fare today and Friday on PRIDE

Sister: Tellez innocent in missing-mom case

Man rescued after becoming disoriented in snowy mountains

Resorts welcome snowfall

Ellsworth Allen Funk

Robert F. Lewis

Leslie Hugh Knott II

Emma Gibbons

Richard Virgil Bibbero

David S. Robertson

Wenford Randolph Luttrell

Leona Jessina McCarty Monroe

Surviving the office Christmas party

Hells Angels just need a catchy lil' theme song

Dayton bus service loss isolates woman

Group helps parents cope with child's death

Taxes, presidential politics to dominate state elections

Monday, December 8

Verla Rose

'Miracle' family's story to be shown on TV Dec. 19

$1.5 million saved with refinanced school bond

Legislation we like, spam we don't

Pottey leads locals in West Regionals

Calendar of events

Louise Clark Linn

Cold storm could bring snow to Carson

Carson company wins contract for fire planning study

Injured deliveryman entitled to benefits

Dorothy Parlanti

Construction crew causes gas leak

State approves money to help fund teacher health plans

Fritsch second-graders study Carson River

Probation revoked for Resendiz case

Sheriff won't say if mom is dead; interview futile

Yerington boys hoops beats Wooster

Chamber of commerce drive seeks new members

A holiday memory in Gold Hill

Trade a new toy for a Christmas concert

Sunday, December 7

Sometimes, all you can do is laugh

Saddam regime executed 61,000

First United Methodist Church brings 'Road to Bethlehem' to life

Go with voting machines Nevadans know

Going away for the holidays?

Marilyn J. Morris

Man dies of natural causes behind store

Heller rules Wednesday on voting machines

Meier scheduled for first parole hearing

Dayton Valley Days' founding member dies in Carson

Margaret E. Vogele

Reservoir search for missing mom proves fruitless

Ex-NHP troopers sue state, Kirkland

Robber hits gas station; slots play continues

A4 cal 12/09

Medicare changes

Baer goes to court

Clyde Dean Boliver

Preserve the past & present

District to focus on English-language learners

Former CHS coach still enjoys preps

Holiday safety tips

Operators extend life of dump up to 30 years

Safety tips

Christmas carols melt away the differences

Saturday, December 6

Kingsbury commuters want weather updates

Survivors remember day of infamy

Friday, December 5

Dayton rallies to beat Sparks for title

Editor doesn't mind telling tall tales to please VC readers

New site to honor Krystal proposed

Nonprofits collect gifts for needy

TNT had to wait for Charo

Mountain biker injured south of Mound House

Saudis put out list of 26 terror suspects

Crowd gathers for VC lights parade despite cold wind, rain

Senators supreme on the mat

Harley Davidson Financial breaks ground

Bomb scare halts UNR graduation

Thursday, December 4

'Miracle' crash featured on TV

Price tag grows in abandoned street case

Southwest Gas asks for rate hike

Local calendar

Majority of Nevada school districts placed on 'watch list'

Carson High School teacher to display art in Italy

Homeless get food, clothing at outreach program

Dayton boys hoops reaches finals

Another try at legalizing marijuana

Supervisors move to protect an asset

Veteran held prisoner by Japanese in Pacific War

Historic Carson house to become postmark

Grants available for electric 'net metering'

Calendar of events

Casting call for reality TV show slated for Carson City

Humbug? Not for the true spirit of Christmas

War hero arrives home for holiday

Wednesday, December 3

Parade of Lights brings Christmas to Comstock

Lawrence 'Larry' Bruce Scott

Warrant says blood from woman

John Mayer

Governor lights up the Capitol

Benefits panel refuses to let NHP troopers, workers out

Remembering the attack on Pearl Harbor

Carson man survived Pearl Harbor

City reaches agreement with Carson auto dealers

Off the Couch

African custom teaches individuality

Supreme Court rejects four requests for new trials

A. Ruth Thurman

Compromise on No Child Left Behind

Economy looking better all the time

The best gifts last the longest

The scariest Christmas lesson

Tuesday, December 2

City seeks agreement with auto dealers

Verna Mae Black

Carson school choirs plan performances for holiday season

Medical complex in Dayton built by C-TH

Man dies after driving off road near Virginia City

City workers hatch plan for holidays

Officials meet to discuss voting machines

Businesses taking toys for Salvation Army program

Factors to be considered as you shop

PUC wants to keep close tabs on Nevada utilities' finances

Legislative Commission OKs new business, banking, entertainment regulations

Enjoy time with your family - or grab a drink

Calendar of events

Join the governor and mayor for Capitol tree lighting, live reindeer

Last chance for flu shots at mall

Real issue for taxpayers in Williams firing

Through the eyes of 1932 Carson City

Strangers in the night: the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr.

Monday, December 1

Nora L. Cooley

Man to be tried in death of firefighter's wife

Pharmacy links to international market

Obituary: Aleandrina Pardini

Court could set foundation for gun laws

New bus service goes to Wal-Mart in no. Douglas

Teddy bears raise funds for school

Douglas to consider harnessing wind power

Health inspections

Doctor's retirement leaves void at FISH clinic

Edward Zaven Lilian

Obituary: Jennie Blank

NHP begins study to improve effectiveness of troopers

Evelyn Fuller Peddicord

James Charles 'Chuck' Brisby

Be a part of the Toys for Tots campaign

Janet L. Larson

Man pleads guilty in sex assault of girl, 9

Calendar of events

Mom pleads guilty to ripping out fingernails

Board approves event fee increase