Edward Skudlarek, who is married to a school teacher, has filed for School Board District 7, the one currently held by veteran school board member Joanna Wilson. Wilson has yet to file for re-election.

In other school board races, incumbent District 2 Trustee jim Lamaire is still the sole candidate for that seat, and there remains no candidates for District 5, the one currently held by incumbent John McKenna.

Supervisor Richard Staub filed for re-election to his 4th Ward seat saying the city needs a number of steady hands to guide it through its current financial troubles and that he wants to be one of those steady hands. Staub also told NewsCarsonCity.com that he wants to help keep the pressure on NDOT to finish the Carson City Freeway all the way to Spooner. Staub also says he wants to promote and protect Carson City’s economy since it is heavily reliant on sales taxes for funding sheriff, fire, library, streets, parks and recreation and other vital city services. He also said he wants to continue working to create a re-vitalized car and truck dealership center in south Carson City - an “auto row” along south Carson Street complete with Dick Campagni’s dealerships and hopefully soon to locate and consolidate dealerships owned by Michael Hohl.

Two young gangsters with very long criminal records have pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon as they jumped over the counter at a local Jack in the Box to get at who they thought was a rival gang member. The victim was not a gang member but they slashed him anyway with a knife.

A Nevada death row inmate who beat an elderly woman to death with a tire iron in Las Vegas is appealing his death sentence claiming Nevada’s lethal injection proceedures are unconstitutional.

A long drought, a heavy winter and motivated predators have combined to reduce the number of young that elk, deer and antelope have produced this spring. For that reason, the State Department of Wildlife is expected to reduce the number of hunting tags this season.

Over 100 households in Fernley have filed suit against the Federal Bureau of Reclamation and the TCID in Fallon telling them they have no right to re-fill the big canal that broke open recently, flooding over 600 homes. They say the thing still isn’t safe. It needs to be inspected and repaired so it doesn’t blow out again.

Authorities are going to be spot checking boats being launched into the clear waters of Lake Tahoe to ensure those waters stay clear and aqua blue. The TRPA says special sniff-dogs will be employed to check boats for any sign or scent of a very predatory mussel that’s finding it’s way into new rivers, streams and lakes in the west, and which could prove devastating to Lake Tahoe.

Another changing of the guard at Carson High School. As principal Fred Perdomo retires and heads for the Himalyas (we’re not kidding), the district’s current grant and special projects manager Ron Beck is expected to be appointed to replace him. No one in an administrative capacity at Carson High applied for the job, and no other administrator-type anywhere else in the district applied either. Beck has extensive experience as a principal, a coordinator for high risk schools, athletic director and a teacher.

A small but active crowd of folks gathered to give their thoughts about how to insert a new city indoor recreation center onto the site of the new Boys and Girls Club at Northridge and Russell Way.

More terrible news from Las Vegas as state health officials get back more gloomy numbers in surveys of those who received medical assistance at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada…a facility since closed and its “in-charge” doctors stripped of their medical licenses.