Sitemap - 2021 - Our Town Reno Newsletter

Our Photo of the Year and 2021 (S)hero(es) of Reno

Family Soup Mutual Aid Begins New Season of Volunteering

25 Gifts Reno Could Give Itself Now to Become a More Caring Biggest Little City

Savannah, Facing Eviction Amid Gentrification and Rising Rents

7/11s and Jacobsville or Jacobstown?

Karen Foster, A Reverend Pleading with Developers

As if it never snows in Reno in December

Giving a Platform to 775 Queer Pride

On Student Perspectives, Police Intimidation, Million Dollar Murrays and Gentrification in Overdrive

Students Visit a Tent Village Right Behind their Classes at UNR

Of Castaways and Heroes

Bills Sims, with an Unhoused Father Now Helping Others

On a Reno PD Shooting, Notices, Boulders, Park Rangers, Ordinance Ideas and Zines

Seniors in Service Program Matches Foster Grandparents with School Kids in Need

Termed out 2022 Mayoral Hopefuls?

Jane Dunn, Leading the Reno Posse with Outreach for Unhoused Neighbors

Third Acts and "Paul Blarts" at the Park

Ken Stover, a Lawyer Defending Activists and the Unhoused

The Local Specter of Fake News and a Lack of Public Input

Kathy, Unhoused and Swept Repeatedly by Police as Her Partner Died

Shelter Winter Preparations Put to the Test and Another Motel Boarded Up

The Truckee River Runs Through Us, an Expert's Take

While Pushing for Massive Development Agreement, Jacobs Has Been Generously Donating to City Council Members

On Stopping Sweeps and Facing the Constant Threat of Being Swept

Jacobs and Keolis Back in Question

Losing Hope on the Streets

Bargaining Power and More Gentrification in Progress

RTC Washoe Bus Drivers Renew Strike Action Against Keolis

A Case and Whips Withdrawn with COVID at the Top

A Family in Washoe County Shattered by a Police Killing

The Future at the Cares Campus, Safe Camp and Daily Bagel in Question

Alexis Hill, Now Leading the Way to Help the Unhoused in Northern Nevada

The Downtown Dominion of Reno's Casino Operators

Helping Seniors Combat Smoke and COVID Loneliness with Technology

More money and new leadership to help the unhoused, but where are the blankets and towels?

Forced Evacuees of California's Caldor Fire Cross Over into Nevada

Jessica Castro, From Unhoused and Surviving Trauma to Helping Others in Reno

Reno Cracking Down

Anthony Shafton, an Author Tracking Reno Through Famous Artists and Public Spaces

Never Ending Fires and Covid 4.0 at UNR

Richard Bednarski, Covering Fires and Smoke in the West as a Reporter and Photo Journalist

Bus Strike Ends and Dangerous Schooling

Making Public Art More Equitable and Better for Communities

Smoke, Strike, Sweep, a Service and a Survivor

Danielle Barrineau, from Homeless, Addicted to Heroin, Trafficked while Pregnant to Housed and on the Mend

Of Substacks, Jacobs Entertainment and a Fallen Giant from the streets of Reno

How the Pandemic Affected the Unhoused

Futures in Doubt for the Lear Theater, Buses, and the Mayoral Election

Never Forget: Kenneth Stafford, A Black Soldier Killed by Reno and Sparks Police in northern Nevada

Inklings of a Pushback and the View from Anchorage

Eileen Bidwell Advocating for a Safe Parking Program

Squeezing Out

A Visit to the Pilot Safe Camp at the Nevada Cares Campus

Growing Calls for Transparency

At the "Witchy" Coyote Supply Co. Store in Reno

The Scramble at the Campus

Michelle Hamilton, a Local Activist Seeking Support for a Carbon Tax

Mutual Aid in Northern Nevada in Flux

Gallo Chingon, Leaving the Rat Race for Podcasting and Other Pursuits

A Meeting Between Anti-Sweeps Advocates and the Mayor

A Mutual Aid Community Garden

Stop the Sweeps Advocates Confront Police in Reno

A Stop the Sweeps Occupation and Challenging Conditions Inside the New Shelter

Wraith, Helping an Encampment Village Move Again

New Campus Shelter Confusion and Challenges

Project Unity, In the Wake of Black Lives Matter Reno

A Season of Sweeps

Carl, Preparing to Leave Tent City

Tiny Homes, our Podcast gets a new schedule, and our Sister Channel's Reporting

Alex Munoz, Studying the Geographies of the Unhoused

On New Developments, and "Ethical" or "Horrible" Journalism

The Reno Gastro Project, Helping Both Restaurants and People in Need

A Lack of Transparency

Sana Sana, an Artist Protecting Humans, Land and Water

Community Refunding?

Two Women in Tent City Share their Experience

One Versus Six

Lily Baran, Leading a New Garden Project to Heal and Grow

Reno= Run Every Nazi Out?

Laundry to the People, a New Initiative for Neighbors in Need

Mutual Aid Expands and Fights Back

An EMT Speaks Candidly About Working At Night in Downtown Corridors

The Slog of the New "Cares Campus", and one Motel Still Standing

Reno Soup for the Soul Recharges for Spring

Mutual Aid vs. Police Sweeps

Kelly, Trying to Avoid Police and More Sweeps of Her Tent

Hands of Hope, an Ingenious Food Bank Threatened by Relocation

Did We Bury the Lede?

Michael Carson, from Facebook Lives During Sweeps to River Cleanups and a Garage Pantry

An Advisory Board without Lived Experience

Jeremy, Looking to Regain Health on Streets After Heart Attacks

Beware the Poverty Industry!

Street Outreach with the Eddy House in Reno, Nevada

A sweep, an arrest, a war zone of gentrification and a hostile chair in Midtown

Honoring the Godfather of Graffiti in the Truckee Meadows

A new Citizen Movement for the Unhoused Emerges

A Community Comes Together To Provide Motel Vouchers

New Bathrooms and Sharps Disposals

James, the Bike Fixer "Fixing to Move"

The Northern Nevada Community Steps Up in a Big Way for the Unhoused

Troy, In a Tent With a Bad Back while Going Blind

I Dream of a Reno in which we have ... Cheap Housing Ideas, Bernie Mittens and the Return of our Student Reporters

Linda, 70 and Unhoused, Packed and Ready to Leave, but Not Sure Where to Go

Our Town Reno Week in Review

Our Town Reno's Week in Review

Darius, Struggling with Day Jobs without an ID

Skateboarders Unite in Reno