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Liberty Dogs is responding to an employment discrimination complaint by a former employee indicating, “we are aware of the concerns raised by a former employee.”

The statement attributed to its CEO, retired Major General Ondra L. Berry, added: “While we cannot discuss individual personnel matters with due regard for employee privacy, we take them very seriously and are addressing them through the appropriate human resources process. We remain committed to a workplace culture grounded in accountability, integrity, and support for our employees and the people we serve.”

An employment discrimination complaint filed by James Riley with the Nevada Equal Rights Commission has a date of an alleged discriminatory act on January 26th 2026.

The document indicates Riley was hired by Liberty Dogs in August 2025 and left in April 2026 with his final position there noted as facilities manager.

"I experienced a workplace environment that became increasingly hostile and raised concerns regarding discrimination and retaliation. I observed a service-connected veteran employee being treated without dignity and appearing to be targeted due to a known disability. This treatment contributed to that employee’s resignation. Additionally, I experienced repeated verbal threats from my direct leadership regarding the security of my position. These actions created fear of retaliation and discouraged me from reporting concerns internally. Due to these conditions, I felt unable to safely continue my employment,"
the details section of a disability discrimination alleges.

“I honestly have no idea why I was treated this way, I (was) really good at my job in which I excelled at in the shor(t) time I was there including getting promoted from Maintenance Tech to Engineering Manager and then t(he) title changed to Facilities Manager, I also received 2 substantial pay increases in this short amount of time,” a section underneath “I believe I was treated this way because” indicates.

“I joined this organization because I believed in its mission to serve veterans,” Riley wrote to Our Town Reno in a subsequent email. “Unfortunately, my experience led me to conclude that the organization's practices did not align with the values it publicly represents. Over time, I developed serious concerns about its commitment to the veterans it exists to serve.”

“Liberty Dogs was established by the Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation (DCDF) to honor and support two communities close to the hearts of its founders — disabled military Veterans and loyal canine companions,” the organization with an address at 1215 Damonte Ranch indicates on its website.

It has had recent training and an upcoming one starting July 8th, for what it calls its wellness program which is “no cost for eligible US Veterans.” It also indicates it will have a Liberty Service Dog Training and Placement program launching this summer.

A Tesla electric semi shown here in a promotional photo is being widely reported as the type of vehicle involved in the Dayton crash which killed a married couple in a vintage Volkswagen Beetle this past Sunday morning at the intersection of US 50 and Traditions Parkway, marking the first fatal crash involving the company’s newest model.

National news outlets are reporting the semi involved was a 10 ton Tesla semi truck, being produced about 30 miles away from the deadly crash. The semi driver was reported uninjured, while a third person with life threatening injuries was flown by Care Flight to a local hospital.

The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office initially reported “preliminary statements obtained at the scene suggest the driver of the semi may have fallen asleep.”

Following a slew of one star public reviews and community outcry, a City of Reno Memorandum from today indicates Kurt Stitser with the Eddy has withdrawn a letter of intent to lease and/or purchase Believe Plaza and the adjacent Reno Redevelopment Agency parcel.

"Reno Municipal Code (RMC) section 8.23.012 currently designates City Plaza as a “public plaza” under the jurisdiction of the City’s Parks and Recreation department. RMC section
5.13.040 designates City Plaza as the City’s default location for First Amendment expressive activities," the document from City Manager Jackie Bryant indicates.

"Both code designations present legal obstacles to leasing and/or selling the property for commercial activity. I explained these challenges to Mr. Stitser, and he subsequently
withdrew his request.

The RDA parcel adjacent to City Plaza is not affected by these codes.

Should Mr. Stitser wish to modify and resubmit the LOI to only include the RDA parcel, it will proceed to the Reno Redevelopment Agency Advisory Board (RAAB) to review and make a recommendation to the RDA board for consideration.

Mr. Stitser followed the current LOI process when submitting the LOI.

Due to several Council member requests to change the current LOI process, staff is working on an updated policy to
include Council’s feedback."

The website https://www.futureofbelieveplaza.com/ set up by the Eddy following community anger for any takeover of the plaza remains active.

The plaza is used by community activists, protesters and skateboarders as well as major public events such as right now as Artown kicks off.

This is from our Substack which is a recap of our recent reporting, plus additional content, you can get via your email here: ourtownreno.substack.com

Starting tomorrow, a former star student reporter Amanda Avilla will be at the controls of our social media, as our main coordinator and co-founder goes mostly off the grid for a full gap year, for some surfing, bike riding and working on two books, with one tentatively called from the Warlords of West Africa to the Trolls of Northern Nevada, a Reporter’s Journey (guess which ones are more spiteful?)

Reporting is not easy, wherever you do it, however you do it, with attacks against reporters coming from all sides in many forms, but this team believes it’s important to document our changing lives, and that’s what we’ve been doing with our experimental, social media and hyperlocal driven initiative looking out for Reno’s underdogs since 2016.

Thanks to our many generous Substack, Facebook and Instagram subscribers and other donations we’ve received recently we will be able to pay Amanda on a daily basis to keep the community informed through all the crowdsourced content sent via messages on our social media and our contact page https://www.ourtownreno.com/contact

Amanda has already been the talent behind our website’s recent makeover at ourtownreno.com and new graphics across our social media which have given our feeds a more unified look.

We are currently looking to hire and train another local reporter to back up Amanda on days she isn’t available.

Our coordinator has been at it for ten years pretty much every day volunteer documenting the 775 from #randomreno to #sheroesofreno, from the trivial to the terrible, from the delightful to the dismal, from investigative reporting to street photography, with plenty of important citizen contributed content to curate as well.

While we will remain active on all our channels, we might have fewer Substacks, fewer articles, fewer social media posts over the next few months, but we are still very much here with Amanda, a talented photographer, writer and multimedia producer, ready to receive all your new messages, photography, content, questions and concerns to relay to the community at large.

With your many contributions, from wildlife photography to crashes, fires, the weird, the sublime, the worrisome, the awesome, alerts and tips we can pursue, we will keep being a monitor of this community’s pulse.

Our timing might not always be as fast for the next few months as it has been in the past, but we promise we will remain diligent in pursuing our mission to document this beautiful region always with the #helpeachother mantra and waving flags against looming storms.

After being asked about a public comment from September 2025 which was recently brought to our attention, alleging hidden missed bus trips by transit contractor Keolis, which could have led to required damages of about $1,000 for these, a public information officer for the Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County, Josh MacEachern, wrote back to Our Town Reno ensuring “all inquiries involving the use of public funds” are taken seriously.

“RTC tracks vehicle activity continuously and reviews trip performance data monthly. There is no mechanism for missed trips to go unreported — every missed trip is automatically captured by RTC's own tracking, independent of the contractor reports,” MacEachern wrote.

“For example, in … August 2025: 68 missed trips out of 39,248 scheduled — 99.8% completion / September 2025: 44 missed trips out of 38,190 scheduled — 99.9% completion.

These are RTC's own tracked figures. Each missed trip is automatically assessed as a liquidated damage under our contract with Keolis. RTC's investment in real-time vehicle tracking exists precisely to protect taxpayer dollars and ensure full accountability for every trip we pay for.”

Daniel Golightly, a former bus dispatcher for Keolis, made his allegations public at an RTC meeting chaired by Washoe County Commissioner Alexis Hill on September 19th 2025.

A summary of his comment said he “described a practice in which operations managers instructed dispatch staff not to report or to minimize the number of missed trips on the Lincoln and Virginia lines, claiming this resulted in hundreds or thousands of unreported missing trips during his four years with the company. He urged RTC to investigate and hold management accountable, publish liquidated damages paid by Keolis, and ensure public transparency.”

As an example, the former employee showed Our Town Reno alleged text messages from late 2022 with a Keolis general manager indicating six VLs (Virginia lines) had to be “parked.” In the screenshot shared with us, Golightly asks if those alerts need to be posted, with the general manager telling him to post just three.

“The company is supposed to report that to RTC, and RTC is supposed to charge the company,” Golightly wrote to us in a follow up email.

Per RTC’s response, Golightly says he believes many buses aren’t tracked in the RTC’s system for different reasons, and that it didn’t address his accusations that “management instructed their employees to hide missed trips.”

“One of my responsibilities was documenting and reporting trips that were not going to operate. Missed trips were supposed to be reported and posted through RTC's public alert page,” Golightly who was previously a bus driver explained as to how he views the overall situation.

“What management began doing was shifting operators away from the Virginia Line and Lincoln Line to cover other routes. Because those missed Virginia and Lincoln Line trips were not being reported, management could prioritize other service while reducing the number of officially reported missed trips,” he alleges.

"It made sense not to charge the company during extraordinary circumstances like COVID and the strikes. But the practice continued afterward because management relied on it to reduce labor costs, maintain appearances, and ensure that more visible routes continued operating,” he added as part of his claims.

Golightly made the public comment shortly after being fired from Keolis on August 1st, 2025, with a document related to that saying his actions related to efforts to get staff to work during understaffed hours were “unacceptable and created issues for our workforce and service and invited unsafe conditions.”

The document shared with Our Town Reno indicated that his “advising drivers to file complaints about our basic and essential policy for recruiting help on days off to fill service is gross insubordination. Further at a time when we are appealing to have drivers alter their plans to ensure safe operation your negative manner only works against our efforts to fill all available service. In addition, pessimistic, complaining, and defeatist attitude you demonstrated to the workforce on these calls only adds to the stress that our drivers face.”

Concerning his firing in August 2025 and the reasons given for that, Golightly alleged to Our Town Reno that “dispatchers were also instructed to call operators on their day off as early as 3:00, 4:00, and 5:00 a.m. to fill open work. This frustrated many operators. When drivers complained, I explained that these directives came from management and encouraged them to raise their concerns with HR. I reported my concerns to Corporate HR, but no meaningful action was taken.”

He says the public deserves to know what exactly is going on.

“My goal is not personal. I believe there should be an independent audit to determine whether service interruptions were accurately reported and whether RTC received complete and accurate information regarding system performance. If the reporting was accurate, an audit would confirm that,” Golightly says.

We contacted different people at Keolis repeatedly by phone and email throughout this past month but did not hear back from them.

During our back and forth messages, Golightly said he was currently looking for a lawyer and for more public records

Aaron Sims, 33, who lost several local election campaigns, is now formally facing a felony theft charge, after allegations were made against him two years ago that he stole nearly $20,000 from the Rural Nevada Democratic Caucus organization for personal use.

In this Our Town Reno photo, he was being interviewed for his failed 2022 run for Nevada’s Senate in the 16th district.

He turned himself in last week after being formally charged in a criminal complaint by Senior Deputy Attorney General Melissa Rosenthal.

Two members of the Democratic Caucus had filed a police report in 2024 accusing Sims, who was then the organization’s chair, of stealing donations for his own use. Expenses under scrutiny ranged from restaurant bills to gas fill ups, entertainment expenses, general merchandise, paying off his personal credit card as well as paying for plane tickets, hotels, personal care items and medical supplies.

Sims has said some of the purchases were “maybe too personal,” and that he mistakenly used the organization’s card rather than his own.

He was asked to resign from the organization in 2025.

The bull at the center of a Reno rodeo racism controversy has had its given last name dropped in its profile, after MoPuWe wrote on the Reno subreddit last week “Since when are we doing blatant racism at the rodeo?”

Nick put together with what was the last name previously sounded out a racial slur.

In a statement released to local media today a PR official for the Reno Rodeo said it “does not condone racism, discriminatory language, bullying or language intended to demean any person or community.”

It also indicated these names are assigned by stock contractors, and that “at this time we do not believe the name was intended as a racial slur. That said, we understand the concern about how the name may have sounded over the PA system.”

Big Bend Flying 5 Rodeo, the rodeo stock contractor in question, is based in Ritzville, Washington, with that bull having used the full name at another recent rodeo in Oregon.

The Reno Rodeo did not end well for one family, with one woman’s partner being handcuffed and led outside the rodeo grounds, and then sat down and interrogated inside a fenced off area, as shown in screenshots from two videos shared by her with Our Town Reno.

As he is being walked away, on one of the videos, a male law enforcement officer is heard saying “every gang associate, every gang member, every gang affiliate …” as a woman disputes that he is related to any gang.

They say this all happened in front of of their children, after they had all gotten tickets, had their wristbands and had entered the rodeo grounds without any issue until then.

“After we had already entered the event and walked through the grounds, we were approached by members of the Gang Unit,” the trespassed man indicated today in a message relayed to Our Town Reno sent prior to the videos.

“I immediately informed the officers that I would comply with their instructions and leave. I respectfully asked why I was being required to leave after being admitted into the event. I was told that the Reno Rodeo was a private event and that I was trespassing. I questioned how I could be trespassing after legally purchasing admission, being allowed to enter, and already complying with their order to leave.

While I was in the process of leaving, one of the officers grabbed me, placed me in handcuffs, and escorted me to an area where I was detained and questioned before ultimately being released. Throughout the encounter, I repeatedly stated that I was already leaving as instructed and that I had not violated any laws or any rules of the event. I am a free citizen. I am not on parole or probation. Any mistakes I made in my past have already been addressed through the legal system, and I have completed my sentence. Today, I work seven days a week, support my family, and strive to live as a productive member of the community,” he writes.

“During this encounter, officers photographed my tattoos and documented me as a gang affiliate based on information from my youth. From my perspective, I was treated differently because of a historical gang classification rather than because of any conduct at the event. I also witnessed another individual, who was attending with his young daughter, being removed from the event under similar circumstances.

After being forced to leave, I requested a refund for the admission fees and wristbands that my family had purchased. My request was denied,” he added.

“I believe the Reno Rodeo should review the manner in which these removals were handled. If individuals are going to be denied entry based on predetermined criteria, those policies should be clearly disclosed before people purchase tickets and enter the event. Allowing families to pay for admission, enter the event, and then removing them without prior notice is, in my opinion, unfair and causes unnecessary embarrassment and financial loss.

I encourage anyone who experienced a similar situation to come forward and file a complaint with the Reno Rodeo. At a minimum, individuals who were required to leave after purchasing admission should be refunded. While private events may establish their own policies, those policies should be communicated openly and consistently before attendees pay for entry so families can make informed decisions.”

When asked if he was considering a lawsuit, he wrote back: “We definitely want to … it was extremely humiliating, people were laughing, not knowing what was even happening. We’re hoping with more members of the community stepping up we can come together and get some justice for what happened.“

Do you think the harsh sentencing earlier this week of Antifa protesters in Texas will put a chill on the movement locally? Here in this photo a protester carries a sign in favor of Antifa, which is short for anti-fascist, at a recent No Kings rally in downtown Reno.

One of the Texas convicted Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving a box of anti-government pamphlets and zines he didn’t even make himself, after the prosecution said he did this to conceal evidence in the case against his wife Maricela Rueda after she had called him from prison. He had not been present at the protest.

His wife who did attend the July 4th protest last year at the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, where a police officer was shot, was sentenced herself to 70 years.

Benjamin Hanil Song, a former Marine reservist, who was convicted of the attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, was sentenced in Fort Worth to 100 years in prison. 

Five others were sentenced to 50 years in prison, including two who were not involved in the planning of the protest, arrived after it started and then left when they were asked to do so by guards.

First Amendment advocates have expressed deep concern about Sanchez Estrada’s case in particular.

During sentencing, one of the presiding judges, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, called the demonstration "an assault on democracy," adding "the need to deter this type of conduct is high."

All those sentenced are likely to pursue appeals, while another defendant is scheduled for sentencing next month.

During the protest a dozen people were dressed in black outside the ICE facility, with some spray painting graffiti on a guard shed and a car, setting off fireworks and doing damage to a surveillance camera. Song who stood at a distance with an AR-15-style rifle at one point shot at Lt. Thomas Gross of the Alvarado Police Department striking him and injuring him with a bullet above his collarbone.

In January 2025, we posted this photo of what 265 Keystone looked like then (without the overlaid photos and document) in an article about how City of Reno Planning Manager Mike Railey had written to Kimley-Horn and Associates granting a conditional use permit to develop the Ward 1 Keystone Data Center, with future overnight business operations.

More than 20 people at the time posted in opposition “with concerns ranging from increased energy and water consumption, a strain on Reno’s power grid, reduced quality of life for nearby residents and needing more clarity on local regulations concerning data centers, to counter a growing number of projects presenting as warehouses to become data centers," we wrote.

This was 18 months before the Reno City Council decided to vote for a moratorium on data centers within city limits.

Yesterday, a group called No Desert No Data NV, which includes Bree Kasper and Krista George forwarded us an email asking that the permit be pulled, alleging in the subject line that the project’s deviations from its original planning now exceed 10%, the threshold for an official review.

This is “grounds to have their permits revoked and construction immediately halted. Currently there are hundreds of community members emailing Planning Manager for the City of Reno, Mike Railey and cc'ing over 14 other City officials to hold them accountable for these deviations,” Kasper wrote to Our Town Reno.

Kasper says nearby residents “have been doing public records requests as well as deep diving into all the permits and research for weeks.”

One document titled Mechanical Design Change Permit Resubmission from February 13th by Burdette, Koehler, Murphy and Associates Kasper referred to in public comment earlier this month indicates “it was determined by THE OWNER to make a mechanical system design change that differs from the previously submitted permit documents,” then stating “we are switching to a closed-loop, chilled water cooling system for the data center whereas the previous design was refrigerant based and air cooled.”

“In the close loop system it’s not just water, it has glycol. Where does the glycol go when there is a need for maintenance discharges? Glycol is highly erosive and needs to be cleaned. The antifreeze in open or evaporative sections of the loop can evaporate over time in dry warm climates. Operators must regularly sample loop water typically from every 100 – 150 days to check concentration levels, PH, and depleted inhibitors. Which department is responsible for the regulation of this?” a document looking into “major deviation” territory asks.

Other bullet points that document raises include the power demand initially stated as 3MW now advertised as 12 MW, construction work starting earlier than the previously written out 7 a.m., with one morning in late May with work beginning as early as 4 a.m. according to neighbors, and other instances of early work noted in a letter to city staff.

The document also asks to see an updated soil test, and wonders why David Giacomin listed as a civil engineer for Kimley-Horn and Associates approving projects was appointed to the Reno City Planning Commission and then the Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Commission in May 2025.

“We want the planning department to pull the permit due to the deviations, which would be cleaner than any of the other options,” Kasper wrote in a follow up email to Our Town Reno.

“We are cc'ing the other 14 officials in hopes that either Mayor (Hillary) Schieve or the legal team will be able to assist moving this forward toward that end.”

From the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. to .... Virgnia Lake and Teglia's Paradise Park.

No talk of related vandalism, arrests or peeling paint here though yet.

"Okay, nobody panic, but visible algae has been reported at Virginia Lake and Teglia’s Paradise Park, and we would be grateful if you would please not drink it or swim in it," the City of Reno writes with this photo.

"These blooms are common during the summer and early fall, especially when water levels are lower, nutrients like phosphorus are higher, and water circulation is limited. While testing has not confirmed the presence of harmful toxins, the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection has listed both water bodies under advisory based on visual confirmation.

As a precaution, residents and pets should avoid direct contact with the water until the blooms subside. City staff is coordinating water quality sampling with NDEP through its Harmful Algal Bloom program.

No algae blooms have been observed at Lake Park, which has experienced them in the past.

Although the water may look different, these blooms are temporary, and they will go away as the weather cools. Again, please don't drink or go into the water."

It’s Pollinator Week right now until tomorrow at the Washoe Lake State Park with a final insect bingo and scavenger hunt tomorrow free for families with no registration required.

“Join us at the park office during Pollinator Week to learn about our pollinators! We owe one out of every three bites of food to pollinators. These activities are family friendly, free, and fun!” Washoe Lake State Park indicated on its social media.

“Managed by the Pollinator Partnership, this year's theme is "Life on a Leaf: Celebrating Caterpillars and Host Plants," putting a special spotlight on the Swallowtail Butterfly as the Pollinator of the Year,” the Nevada Native Plant Society indicated asking people to join collaborative efforts on the https://www.inaturalist.org/ website.

“UNR Extension's 2nd annual iNaturalist Bug and Flower Hunt is a Nevada-wide community science initiative that supports Pollinator Week. We encourage participants of all skill levels (gardeners, naturalists, students, and families) to photograph and record sightings of bees, butterflies, beetles, hummingbirds, and other pollinators in their natural habitats.

Contributing observation to iNaturalist provides valuable data which helps scientists track pollinator diversity, population trends, and habitat use across Nevada’s high desert and mountain ecosystems. The project focuses on native flowering plants, pollinator-friendly gardens, and critical habitats that support these essential species.”

Construction is expected to start soon on the $20 million Biggest Little Bike Network project, with over four new miles planned for connected bike lanes and some additional micromobility infrastructure and enhanced pedestrian features in the downtown area.

This federally funded program is aimed at protecting bicyclists, pedestrians and micromobility users, while making their commutes easier and safer.

Any thoughts about this?

If you yourself are a bike / scooter commuter, were you expecting more from these long talked about improvements or are you happy with the plan?

"This project will change the roads in Downtown Reno to make it easier and safer for people to bike, walk, and use scooters to get around," RTC writes with this graphic and using the word "scooting."

"The Biggest Little Bike Network is made for people who want to bike or walk but are afraid because the current roads feel unsafe or too close to cars. The new road designs will have more space between people walking, biking, scooting, and driving, so everyone can feel safer and more comfortable. For example, with the new network, families will be able to comfortably ride their bikes to the Aces Ballpark or go to events downtown without worrying about parking. People living downtown will be able to ride their bikes or scooters to grocery stores and jobs easily. The network will also connect places like the University of Nevada, Reno, Downtown, and MidTown, so students can comfortably get to school, and visitors and residents can enjoy entertainment and other nearby places by biking, walking, or scooting."

While we’ve focused most of our attention of late on social media posts, from documenting mudslides to dangerous speed racers, as our reach has grown on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram we’ve decided to use those to also showcase excellent reporting by two important regional media entities, the Sierra Nevada Ally and the Nevada Current.

Both allow the resharing of their important work with noncommercial Creative Commons licensing republishing guidelines.

Several of the reporters and team members for the Sierra Nevada Ally were former Our Town Reno reporters including Scott King, who helped us start the Share Your Story concept at the downtown library, and Richard Bednarski, who was tireless in documenting post pandemic motel destructions and early morning sweeps of encampments.

Two of the Ally articles we recently promoted were by Lynn Lazaro, another former Our Town Reno reporter and local media entrepreneur, who is looking into the difficult hiring environment right now for educated Gen Zers.

The Ally’s about page indicates its vision is “to revitalize the relationship between news media and the communities they serve through a collaborative approach that facilitates free access to high-quality, fact-based journalism and engaging multimedia content that informs and empowers communities across the Sierra Nevada to actively participate in – and contribute to – the democratic process.”

The Nevada Current which has its own unique way of looking at statewide issues says it seeks to “Demonstrate how policies, institutions and systems make life harder for Nevadans than it needs to be; Document how things got that way, and; Explore what it might take to fix them.”

As part of our goals of documenting the 775 in our own way to help make it a more caring and compassionate place we’ve been pleased to see that our highlighting of some of this recent reporting by these two great newsrooms led to stimulating commenting on our own platforms, making people debate and ponder how they view our area’s challenges and act upon the provided information to help with progress.

Below in our Substack this week were some of the articles we highlighted from the two organizations over the past week. For our own recent reporting, including this past week, please go to ourtownreno.com and delve through our News and Features, Keep Reno Rad section, Ideas for Progress and Citizen’s Forum.

Subscribe to our Substack here: https://ourtownreno.substack.com/p/highlighting-the-important-reporting

The Northern Nevada Literacy Council is announcing on its website it will no longer be providing services after June 25th. "If you are looking to enroll in English Secondary Language (ESL) Classes or Adult Basic Education (ABE) classes to obtain your High School Equivalency (HSE) please follow the links below:” it indicates pointing to TMCC and Rise Academy.

It partnered with the American Job Center and provided free adult education and career training helping adult learners, with free classes for high school equivalency, English as a Second Language and citizenship.

Other pages on the website no longer work including the donation page.

Its address still listed on Facebook was at 1400 Wedekind Road, where free adult education programs used to be offered, including U.S. Civics classes.

The organization had recently mentioned trying to relocate to the Reno Town Mall to have bigger classrooms, but said it was struggling with uncertainty over funding since the start of the second Trump administration.

Its latest available financials showed total revenue of over $2.6 million and assets of $854,551, with Shannon Chambers listed as chair/treasurer, Ann Silver as Secretary, and Mark Neu and Erica Roth as members in its 2024 tax forms.

Adrienne Santiago has on her LinkedIn her tenure as Executive Director of the Northern Nevada Literacy Council ending in March 2026.

“I am responsible for overseeing the administration, programs and strategic plan of the organization. My duties include grant writing, grant management, fundraising, marketing, and community outreach. I reports directly to the Board of Directors,” her description on LinkedIn indicated for the NNLC position she no longer has.

Santiago now writes she is open to new opportunities as a “driven professional focused on growth, efficiency, and impact.”

Several community members reached out to us indicating there have been allegations of fraud and grant mismanagement at the non profit, which may undergo a rebrand to reopen, but with adult students in the middle of classes now having to pursue them elsewhere.

We have reached out to Ann Silver and Erica Roth listed on the non profit's recent tax forms to find out more but have yet to hear back.

"My name is Miranda. I went into Whole Foods today 6/22 at 3:08 to use the Amazon Drop Off and saw a mouse trap. This does not sit well with me in a grocery store. I understand it’s summer and hot but still."