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The characters from Alice in Wonderland will come to life this Thursday and Friday at the high school auditorium when Lovelock Elementary School presents “The Trials of Alice in Wonderland.” Twenty-nine third through fifth-grade students have rehearsed their parts for two months. Tryouts were before Christmas break and they started learning the songs and dances when school resumed. Their dedication showed at their dress rehearsal earlier this week.
Last weekend, Will DeLong was named the 2025 “Ranch Hand of the Year” before the kickoff of the 36th annual Ranch Hand Rodeo. The event was held Saturday and Sunday, March 1-2, at the Winnemucca Event Center. The “Ranch Hand of the Year” award is sponsored by the Agricultural District No. 3 as a way to recognize men and women who make their living in the ranching industry. Agricultural District No. 3 Chairman Kent Maher said Will DeLong’s life was the epitome of what the ranch hand award represents.
The Pershing County High School girls basketball team finished the year with 22 wins and the Northern 2A championship but victory eluded them last Friday in the semifinal round of the state tournament at Faith Lutheran High School in Las Vegas. The Mustangs lost 48-47 to Lincoln County, as it meant the end of the road for Pershing County until next year. The Panaca girls went on to face Needles, Calif., in the championship game at Cox Pavilion which Needles won 48-25.
With Mother Nature fighting between holding onto winter and spring arriving, the Nevada High School Rodeo Association started its second half of the season with a stop in Pahrump on Feb. 15-16. Humboldt County’s Taylor Hill posted a 10th-place finish in the average in the barrel racing with a time of 43.081 seconds. She knocked down a barrel in her first run but bounced back to place fifth in the second performance at 18.685. She also placed eight in girls cutting with 60 points in each performance.
After facing Pyramid Lake in the 1A State Championship in 2024, the McDermitt High School girls basketball team had the tough and tall task of facing the two-time reigning state champion in the quarterfinals of the 2025 championships this past Thursday at Faith Lutheran High School in Las Vegas.
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The Nevada Division of Outdoor Recreation has announced the launch of its newly designed website — ndor.nv.gov The new site offers an intuitive and user-friendly platform designed to promote outdoor education and recreation opportunities, conservation efforts, and economic benefits tied to Nevada’s diverse outdoor spaces.
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Rolling Credits
Every two years, Nevadans have 120 days to weigh in on state policies and laws as policymakers convene in Carson City for the state’s legislative session.
A Nevada district court has ruled that sections of a 2023 bill that essentially forced the Elko County Commission to earmark a portion of property tax proceeds for schools in exchange for funding to build a new Owyhee school are unconstitutional because they single out the county. Elko County Manager Amanda Osborne said in a Wednesday statement that the Feb. 7 ruling in Carson City District Court only strikes the sections of AB519 mandating Elko County levy a tax for school facilities, and otherwise doesn’t touch the Nevada Legislature’s $64.5 million appropriation for the construction of a new Owyhee school to replace the run-down original campus on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation near the Idaho-Nevada border.
President Donald Trump’s Unleashing American Energy executive order — designed to “unleash America’s affordable and reliable energy and natural resources” — has put the brakes on financial disbursements under the former administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs and Inflation Reduction acts, a move that affects dozens of initiatives across Nevada. A list compiled by the Nevada Conservation League and shared with The Nevada Independent shows an expansive number of nonprofit organizations, state and local agencies, agricultural producers, small businesses and others across Nevada that rely on federal funding for projects ranging from programs that provide low-income households with firewood to those that enhance street safety.
The 2024 election may be over, but the legal battle about how long Nevada can count mail ballots — a proxy battle over the future of mail-in voting — remains ongoing. On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee asked a federal appeals court to deny an appeal filed in a nearly yearlong legal case brought by state and national Republicans seeking to end Nevada’s practice of accepting mail ballots as many as four days after an election, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day.
WINNEMUCCA — The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Spring Valley Gold Mine project in Pershing County. It is located approximately 20 miles northeast of Lovelock and 70 miles southwest of Winnemucca.