On this week's Friday Evening News Magazine, KVMR News Correspondent Lydia Thomas brings us a tale of two cities with a look at how Nevada City and Grass Valley’s respective city councils broached the passing of ceasefire resolutions. Lydia brings us an examination of the symbolic nature and history of small towns weighing in on global conflicts. Then an excerpt from the second episode of the new series, “Fresh Voices of the Foothills”, spearheaded by Graham Gardemeyer, a 2024 KVMR Youth News Corps graduate and current junior at Nevada Union High School. He’s joined by two fellow NU students to discuss this week’s topic tobacco and nicotine use. And to close it all out, an essay by Nevada City poet Molly Fisk in her ongoing Observations from a Working Poet series. This week, some strong words about Molly’s feelings towards a particular condiment.

KVMR News Correspondent Lydia Thomas brings us a tale of two cities with a look at how Nevada City and Grass Valley’s respective city councils broached the passing of ceasefire resolutions. Lydia brings us an examination of the symbolic nature and history of small towns weighing in on global conflicts.

In this second episode of “Fresh Voices of the Foothills”, Graham Gardemeyer, a 2024 KVMR Youth News Corps graduate and current junior at Nevada Union High School, is joined by two fellow NU students, Baylee Johnson and James Thomas Griffin III to discuss tobacco and nicotine use.

Although high-country reservoirs are full and spilling over, that water will not make it to foothill reservoirs like Scotts Flat and Rollins due to PG&E's ongoing repairs of the Spaulding 1 and Spaulding 2 powerhouses.

If you’d like to look at a map of where they’re planing to spray and learn more about the opt-out program at nevadacountyca.gov/roadsidevegetation.

Any questions you might have can be directed to the Department of Public Works at public.works@nevadacountyca.gov or (530) 265-1411.

National Weather Service meteorologists issued a tornado warning just before 2:30 Tuesday afternoon after Doppler radar indicated that a passing storm was beginning to rotate.

7-year-old Adelyn Grimes was pronounced dead at the scene after being struck by a falling boulder.

On this week's Friday Evening News Magazine we’ve got weather and basketball. Okay, it’s not love and basketball but it’s still helpful to know. KVMR’s Paul Emery and Retired Fed Economist Gary Zimmerman talk Trade wars, consumer confidence, and how to know when the economy is in a recession on tonight’s Economic Report. KVMR Science Correspondent Al Stahler speaks with a medical radiologist about cell phone towers in Nevada County. And Molly Fisk brings us her musings on slang in her ongoing Observations from a Working Poet series.