CARSON CITY — Nevadans interested in training to become foster parents in rural Nevada have an opportunity to join a four-session virtual training beginning Jan. 20. The Nevada Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) is working to recruit and train foster families in Nevada’s 15 rural counties to support children in need.
By Kris Stewart Great Basin Sun Contributor As many of you know, I lead a grief recovery group in Winnemucca twice each year. It’s called Griefshare and it’s a program that started twenty nine years ago and is currently used in over 15,000 churches/communities worldwide. It’s a program that relies on God’s Word for structure, support and success. It is specifically for adults who have lost a loved one to death and need help to constructively process their grief and move beyond the shackles of mourning to a place of peace and joy in their lives.
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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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Longitude and atitude
Longitude and atitude
LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — U.S. presidential elections have been rocked in recent years by economic disaster, stunning gaffes, secret video, a Russian collusion hoax, Hunter’s laptop and a pandemic. But for all the tumult that defined those campaigns, the volatility surrounding this year’s presidential contest has few modern parallels. Not since the Supreme Court effectively decided the 2000 campaign in favor of Republican George W. Bush has the judiciary been so intertwined with presidential politics.
For the first time in more than four decades, Nevada will hold presidential primaries — rather than caucuses — on Feb. 6, 2024. The transition comes after a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled Legislature and Gov. Steve Sisolak approved a 2021 law requiring that a presidential preference primary election be held for each major political party on the first Tuesday in February of a presidential election year.
More than 80 laws passed by the Legislature in 2023 went into effect Jan. 1, including measures that restrict the use of solitary confinement in Nevada prisons and expand Medicaid coverage for postpartum care and adults with autism. The group of the roughly 540 bills signed by Gov. Joe Lombardo after this year’s 120-day legislative session also include measures implementing higher penalties for selling tobacco products to people younger than 21 and expanding voting access for people in Nevada jails.
The high school gym was the happiest place in town after the Pershing County High School boys basketball team beat the visiting North Tahoe Lakers 73-67 last Friday night.
The PRCA Xtreme Broncs returned to Winnemucca on New Year's Ever with 30 of the best saddle bronc riders in the world. Kade Bruno, who finished third in the world in 2023, won with a ride of 86.5 points.
RENO — The blank canvas of desert wilderness in Northern Nevada seemed the perfect place in 1992 for artistic anarchists to relocate their annual burning of a towering, anonymous effigy. It was goodbye to San Francisco’s Baker Beach, hello to the Nevada playa, the long-ago floor of an inland sea. The tiny gathering became Burning Man’s surrealistic circus, fueled by acts of kindness and avant-garde theatrics, sometimes with a dose of hallucinogens or nudity. The spectacle flourished as the festival ballooned over the next three decades.