The following is the third quarter honor roll for Pershing County Middle School
Lunches are served each weekday at noon and soup and croutons is served at 11 a.m. the Pleasant Senior Center, 1480 Lay Street. Lunches are open to the public. Suggested minimum donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older. Visitors must be 16 years or older. Their meal is $10. Hot soup at croutons served daily with meal. Low-fat milk available daily. Safety of food after it has been served & taken from the center is the responsibility of the consumer.
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Nevada’s senators sent a letter Friday to leaders of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee requesting a hearing for Sen. Jacky Rosen’s (D-NV) Washoe County lands bill.
The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed fiscal year 2025 budget includes $15 million for permanent sterilization efforts for wild horses and burros.
The DMV is rolling out a new mobile appointment system, offering online written driving tests and preparing to close its Henderson location, lawmakers were told last week. DMV officials updated the legislative Interim Growth and Infrastructure Committee on new programs that are being implemented to help direct people toward online services and alleviate long wait times from in-person visits.
As President Joe Biden continues to campaign around the country, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo sent a letter to the president highlighting the state’s housing crisis and requesting Biden streamline the process of making federal land available for affordable housing development. With 85 percent of Nevada’s land owned and managed by the federal government, Lombardo wrote that the federal government’s lack of collaboration with the state had limited Nevada’s ability to build affordable rental housing — a problem Lombardo wrote that Biden’s administration could help solve by allocating more federal land for housing development.
The Nevada Secretary of State’s Office is pushing back its rollout of a long-anticipated, centralized voter registration and election system from April to July amid concerns raised by more than a dozen county clerks who were uncertain that the system could be fully vetted ahead of the June primary.
The union representing a large number of state employees in Nevada has reached a deal to ensure that eligible employees can participate in an incentive program that boosts salaries for the state’s longest-tenured employees.
Standing roughly 6 feet tall at the shoulder with spindly legs and bulbous torsos, moose are lanky, awkward and the second-largest mammal in North America. With a propensity to spend their time in thick stands of vegetation and brush, they are populous in cold northern states such as Alaska (home to 175,000 moose) and Maine.
Mining lithium in Humboldt County has been a hot topic, especially as Lithium Americas has just secured conditional approval of a loan for their multi-billion-dollar project, and another company, HiTech Minerals, has requested a letter of support from the Humboldt County Board of Commissioners to the Department of Energy (DOE) for their funding application.
Republicans are accusing Nevada of voter roll maintenance so lax that the number of registered voters exceeds the number of voting-age adults in certain counties, although the state says the GOP’s calculations are based on unreliable data.
Fifth grade students from French Ford Middle School (FFMS) braved the gray skies and rain on March 12 to release the trout that they have watched grow in their classrooms in Water Canyon.
Battle Mountain General Hospital is inviting sealed bid proposals from qualified suppliers for the design, supply, and installation of one large marquee with programmable digital capabilities, along with two smaller directional marquees.