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KVMR's Weekday Newscasts, Features, Regional and Local Updates.
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Al Stahler Talks Rockets: A Conversation About Artemis II
Apr 200:07:59Tap to summarizeNASA successfully launched the Artemis II mission on Wednesday. KVMR Broadcaster and Science educator Al Stahler discusses the historic event with Cláudio Mendonça.
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Construction Of The Deer Creek Behavioral Health Center To Begin In June
Apr 100:03:44Tap to summarizeThe 16 bed facility will cost around $23,000,000 and will be located behind the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility on the Nevada County Administrative Center campus in Nevada City.
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Local Authors Create Self-guided Tours Highlighting Regional History
Mar 3100:05:18Tap to summarizeLisa Redfern and Rose Murphy have created over a dozen free, self-guided walking tours focusing on local history. Tour topics range from “Women, Saints, and Sinners” to “From Bandits to Badges”. And three tours in Grass Valley and one in Nevada City focus on the areas' once thriving China Towns. Redfern and Murphy take KVMR News to the start of the “Grass Valley Chinatown” tour.
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Thousands Turn Out For No Kings 3 / Local Fire Scientist Debuts Documentary
Mar 3000:03:24Tap to summarizeNevada County was counted among the thousands of No Kings 3 demonstration sites organized across the country. Although no official tally is yet available, multiple sources are estimating the total attendance to be around 8 million. Standing Dead - Overstocked. Overgrown. Overdue. premiered at the Don Baggett Theater on Saturday. The film screening and panel discussion were organized by the Wildfire Ready Coalition Nevada County.
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Standing Dead Documentary Panel Discussion
Mar 2901:36:42Tap to summarizeOn Saturday, March 28th, after the debut of Standing Dead - Overstocked. Overgrown. Overdue., a panel of 5 sat down to discuss wildfire in Nevada County. The panel included fire scientist Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman of the The Wildfire Ready Coalition of Nevada County, Bill Jacks, executive Director of Terra Fuego, Zeke Lunder, founder of The Lookout, Jason Moghaddas, forester and fire ecologist with Spatial Informatics Group, and Mike Sherman, former Superintendent of the Plumas Interagency Hotshot Crew based in Quincy California.
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Springtime In The Sierra: The Tulips Are Blooming And Skaters Are Skating
Mar 2600:05:04Tap to summarizeWarm spring weather is coaxing thousands of tulips into flowering earlier than expected at the at the Crystal Hermitage Gardens at Ananda Village. Tulip Festival organizers are encouraging people to visit early if they want to experience "Peak Bloom."The construction fence around the new Condon skatepark came down early last week. Members of Grass Valley's skate community shared their thoughts with KVMR's Claudio Mendonca.
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K9 Riggs Honored At BOS Meeting / Cedar Ridge Land Preserve Not A Done Deal
Mar 2500:05:28Tap to summarizeK9 Riggs served with the Davis Police Department until 2021 before joining the NCSO in 2024.If acquired the Cedar Ridge Preserve could eventually add 140 acres to Empire Mine State Historic Park. Learn more by contacting Bear Yuba Land Trust's Executive director Erin Tarr at (530) 272-5994 x 205
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Airplane Crash Closes Five Lakes Area / Petaluma Man Drowns In The Truckee River
Mar 2400:04:08Tap to summarizeThe Five Lakes Closure Area is a 1/2 mile from the crash site. At this time going into or being in the Five Lakes Closure Area including National Forest System Trail 16E13, commonly known as the Five Lakes Trail, is prohibited. The body of 19-year-old Brian Marcellino Gallardo of Petaluma was recovered from the Truckee River near Floriston.
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Caltrans Resumes Work On Yuba Pass Separation Overhead Bridge Project / Half Of Nevada Union Freshman Reading Below Grade Level
Mar 2300:07:17Tap to summarizeCaltrans says the Yuba Pass Separation Overhead Bridge Project will keep east and westbound I-80 to one lane in each direction from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. each workday until April 15th. Motorists traveling the I-80 Sierra corridor should expect delays.For the past three decades the United States has been trending down when it comes to high school reading levels. This year Nevada County’s largest high school received previously unavailable testing data that confirmed over half of the school’s 9th graders were reading below grade level. Nevada Union’s librarian speaks about the reading struggle ripple effect and how this isn’t a problem confined to the school campus. In an attempt to bolster a community of reading, the county library has a new resource available to residents. We hear from the project’s creator, the Adult Programming Coordinator at the Grass Valley Library branch.
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Yuba Watershed Institute and Nevada County OES Awarded Wildfire Prevention Grants
Mar 1900:06:05Tap to summarizeThe Yuba Watershed Institute and the Nevada County Office of Emergency Services have been awarded more than $3,000,000 to reduce wildfire fuels in the South Yuba River Canyon.
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