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With a little over a week remaining before this year’s Wreath Across America remembrance, the Nevada Veterans Coalition is still seeking donations for the Dec. 14 event at the Winnemucca Cemetery. “We should be OK, but we never know,” said Richard Crombie, spokesman for the NVC which sponsors the annual remembrance. The annual event begins at 3 p.m. at the cemetery at 1811 W. Winnemucca Boulevard.
WINNEMUCCA – Nevada Outdoor School (NOS) is excited to announce it has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the NV Energy Foundation. The generous support will enhance NOS’s youth outdoor education initiatives, support the AmeriCorps program, and operational capabilities to reach more communities throughout rural Nevada.
Senate Democrats’ focus for the next three weeks? Judges, judges, judges. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has vowed to use his remaining time controlling the floor to fill judicial vacancies, adding to the 220 that the upper chamber has confirmed through Joe Biden’s presidency. Senate Republicans are throwing roadblocks in their way — forcing full roll calls to proceed with votes, for example — but have been hampered by absences. Therefore, Democrats have been able to confirm numerous judges, and Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) have voted yes on the more than 20 judicial vacancy-related votes the Senate has held since the election, from ending debate on various nominees to their actual confirmations.
On Tuesday Nov. 26, Pershing County High School hosted its annual fall sports awards night in the high school auditorium. The JV and varsity football and volleyball teams attended. The PCHS girls soccer team treated its athletes to a dessert buffet earlier in the month in the middle school cafeteria.
Now Notre Dame waits. The Fighting Irish will find out next Sunday if they’ll play at home in the first round of the College Football Playoff. They all but clinched an at-large spot with their win at Southern California on Saturday and, combined with Ohio State’s loss, strengthened their position to be a host team Dec. 20 or 21.
College football was dominated by flags on Saturday. Not the ones thrown by officials — the ones planted by players in the middle of the field. Michigan, North Carolina State and Florida celebrated road wins by displaying flags on the logos in the middle of their rivals’ stadiums. Arizona State put its own twist on the day with a trident.
Not surprisingly, there were plenty of football awards to go around on fall sports awards night in the revamped Pershing County High School auditorium Tuesday, Nov. 26. The football team displayed the state trophy they won by beating Incline 26-6 in the NIAA 2A state championship game at McQueen High School in Reno. Their video expert Landon Smith, a senior, placed hand beaded lanyards around each coach's neck.
There was a ton of hardware and success on Pat Hart Court on Saturday afternoon, as the three-time reigning 3A state champion, Lowry Buckaroos hit the floor for the first time this season. On the other side, Pyramid Lake made the trip to Winnemucca for the second time in three years.
The U.S. Justice Department last week moved to stop a $3.3 purchase of a home health and hospice company by a massive conglomerate that is already operating in that and many other parts of the health sector. It’s one of several antitrust actions taken after a long era of corporate consolidation. The Justice Department — along with attorneys general from Maryland, New York, New Jersey and Illinois — filed suit in a Maryland federal court to stop the purchase of Amedisys Inc. by UnitedHealth Group, the fourth-largest corporation by revenue in the United States.
Amid stalled negotiations over how to manage the troubled Colorado River in the coming decades, the federal government offered clashing states four different management options for the river Wednesday. The highly anticipated proposals released by the Bureau of Reclamation will serve as the foundation of new water management rules to replace the current ones set to expire in 2026.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Department of Education announced Thursday that high school graduation rates increased for the Class of 2024 compared with the previous year. The statewide graduation rate was 81.6% — up from 81.4% for the Class of 2023. In total, 31,978 students graduated this year.
The 2024 presidential election featured sky-high turnout, approaching the historic levels of the 2020 contest and contradicting long-held conventional political wisdom that Republicans struggle to win races in which many people vote. According to Associated Press elections data, more than 153 million ballots were cast in this year's race between Republican Donald Trump, now the president-elect, and Democrat Kamala Harris, the vice president, with hundreds of thousands of more still being tallied in slower-counting states such as California. When those ballots are fully tabulated, the number of votes will come even closer to the 158 million in the 2020 presidential contest, which was the highest turnout election since women were given the right to vote more than a century ago.