Good morning, Carson City.

Nevada Day celebrations bring a hot air balloon launch at 8 a.m. and the Nevada Day Parade at 10 a.m. today along Carson Street starting at William and North Carson streets, plus a powwow at the MAC (grand entries 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.) and steam train rides at the Railroad Museum through the weekend.

Dark Prison Haunted House has its final night today in Carson City with indoor scares and tickets available; Lanterns Over Lone Mountain ghost tours run tonight through the city’s most haunted historic sites, tickets $26 for adults.

Local author Andrew Charles Dewey published In a Cloud of Dust in May, a fast-paced historical fiction that uses the Carson City Mint from 1870 to 1893 to introduce younger readers to coin collecting, and he plans eight more books in a nine-book U.S. mints series.

Carson High government students toured the Carson City Community Center during early voting on Wednesday, Oct.

28, where Clerk-Recorder Scott Hoen and teacher Angila Golik demonstrated ballot handling and poll operations, and students later cast votes in a classroom mock election to practice the process.

Bishop Manogue beat Carson High 3-1 (25-19, 19-25, 17-25, 17-25) in the Class 5A North regional final Friday at Carson High, clinching the No. 1 seed while Carson (27-5) will be the North's No. 2 and will play the South regional winner Thursday at the Virginia Street Gym in Reno.