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5 days ago | 
recordcourier.com | Sarah Drinkwine
A year after graduating Douglas High school in 2024, Xaraya Fristed found her passion in horse shoeing and returned to the Carson Valley to provide farrier services. Horseshoeing is the craft of fitting horseshoes to a horse’s hooves to provide protection, traction, and comfort for their hooves, especially when they are used to work or travel, and a farrier is the professional who performs horseshoeing.
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5 days ago | 
recordcourier.com | Sarah Drinkwine
A Sparks woman who pistol-whipped another while attempting to get her dog back was sent to jail Tuesday as a condition of probation. Christy Marie Field, 39, was arrested Oct. 4, 2024, for battery with a deadly weapon. Field and her stepson and co-defendant Matthew Americus Field, entered the home of a Gardnerville Ranchoâs coupleâs home brandishing a gun in attempt to retrieve Tattles, an emotional support pit bull.
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6 days ago | 
recordcourier.com | Sarah Drinkwine
The third year was the charm for Douglas High School senior Stella Rae Bradley, who brought home first place in the public speaking event during the Jobs for American Graduates Career and Development Conference “Tomorrow Starts Today,” in Las Vegas in April. The conference was a significant achievement for Bradley and Douglas High School’s JAG Specialist Susan McDonald.
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6 days ago | 
recordcourier.com | Sarah Drinkwine
Throughout April and May Hot Air for Hope kicked off its third annual balloon festival with its community outreach program at Douglas County schools, homeschool students, and even extended to Carson City schools, getting the community excited about the festival scheduled for May 16-18.
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1 week ago | 
recordcourier.com | Sarah Drinkwine
A bench warrant in the amount of $5,000 was issued for the arrest of Shemeca Renee Cottle Monday after she failed to appear for a review hearing. Cottle was arrested Oct. 24, 2024, with co-defendant Bradly Howard Mears. They were pulled over at Stateline for a broken headlight when 9 grams of methamphetamine was discovered in the vehicle, according to court documents.
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1 week ago | 
recordcourier.com | Sarah Drinkwine
Journey Woodcock represented Tumbleweeds Gymnastics during regionals in Roseville, Calif., on May 4, where she placed first in four categories. “This has been an incredible season of growth, strength, and success for 10-year-old Journey,” said a news release provided by Tumbleweeds Gymnastics owner Eddie McClain.
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1 week ago | 
recordcourier.com | Sarah Drinkwine
Douglas High School students were hard at work Thursday in the greenhouse planting and transferring jalapenos, strawberries, tomatoes and more in preparation for their Spring Sale beginning noon Mother’s Day. FFA teacher Rosealee Rieman said due to recent weather, some of the plants prepared for the sale were lost and the variety of plants for sale is a little more limited this year.
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2 weeks ago | 
recordcourier.com | Sarah Drinkwine
A therapist tried to understand her patients and help them find a cure to their issues during an improv game at the Annex on April 23. She helped the Grinch receive a new heart, a woman with a phobia of the floor embrace the much needed surface, and a baguette be not so gluten and more human. The Improv game was part of a rehearsal for the upcoming Improv show, “Yes, and” being put on by the Carson Valley Community Theatre on Friday.
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2 weeks ago | 
recordcourier.com | Sarah Drinkwine
The man accused of shooting Kathy Jean Weiland on Dec. 16, 2024, in Johnson Lane denied the allegations on Monday. Gregory Raymond Ward, 63, allegedly shot Weiland then attempted to shoot himself. Weiland was pronounced dead at the scene and Ward was taken to Renown Medical Center for treatment of serious injuries for what was reported to be a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, before he was taken into custody by the Douglas County Sherriff’s Office.
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2 weeks ago | 
recordcourier.com | Sarah Drinkwine
While in Northern Nevada on tour with Brett Young, performers Keaton Simmons and Tony Lucca are making a stop in Gardnerville for a free concert in support of The Cultural Arts Foundation May 4 at the Sunridge Golf and Recreation. The concert is part of the Art Show & Sale sponsored by Millennium Medical & Spa Suites, Tile Outlet in Carson City, and Palmer Consulting, featuring work from local painters, crafters, and jewelry makers.
