The owner of a Las Vegas company that has purchased the Nugget hotel-casino calls the Sparks property a sleeper and says he has plans to wake it up and make it shine through an extensive renovation. “I think the Nugget’s a sleeper,” Anthony Marnell III, owner of Marnell Gaming, told the Sparks Tribune. “It should be one of the top three products in that market not only in … [Read more...]
Relatives of wheelchair-bound man killed in traffic accident say police ignored them
Donald Duckett was struck by a car while riding his motorized wheelchair in a crosswalk on Prater Way at Lillard Drive shortly before 6 p.m. on Sept. 19. The 77-year-old man, known by neighborhood children as the “Red Rocket” because of his red wheelchair, was taken to Renown Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead the next day of multiple blunt-force … [Read more...]
Sparks Tribune attracts eager class of readers
The Sparks Tribune signed up 30 new subscribers in a single transaction last week. No sales pitch was required. They were eager to get the newspaper, and all of them expressed that eagerness in handwritten letters addressed to me. Delivering the Tribune every Tuesday will be a breeze because they share the same address: 3570 Waterfall Dr. Yup, that would be the … [Read more...]
Official: Sparks not seeking warranty replacement of artificial turf at Golden Eagle Regional Park
The city of Sparks is not pursuing the replacement of artificial turf on three multi-purpose fields at the Golden Eagle Regional Park sports complex under the turf’s warranty, a city official said. Dan Marran, contracts and risk manager for the city, said the city doesn’t think the turf is defective. “I think it may have been a tough assumption eight years after … [Read more...]