MICHAEL MICHAELSEN • Special to the SunStaff at Winnemucca Grammar School would like to recognize the following fourth-grade students for their achievement in academics for the fourth quarter of the school year. Each student had to maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher, including citizenship. Front row, left to right: Alethea Houston, Brooke Howard, Dania Monroy, Mayra Rivas, Kaylie Shafer, Gauge Thompson, and Ethan Wray; second row, left to right: Layne Barela, Martin Bidaurreta, Bailee Brinkerhoff, Tre Bronson, Jessica Dixon, Natosha Drake, Daniel Fernandez, Erick Garcia, Blake Gregersen, Sequoyah Hanks; third row, left to right: Jaylon Cano, Lauren Fentress, Jordan Hornbarger, Triston Jeffery, Garrett Jensen, Sirada Kringkarthok, Joanna Peroso, Natalie Peterson and Connor Tiffany; fourth row, left to right: Michael Bricker, Colton Brooks, Taylor Cordero, Gracie Garrett, Sawyer Gregersen, Sean Herrera, Alesha Houston, Lorsix Silva, Angelina Solorzano-Zamora and Novalee Vanosdall.
WINNEMUCCA - The following students at Grass Valley Elementary school were named to the fourth-quarter honor roll.
ELKO - Detours began June 3 on Interstate 80 through the Carlin Canyon area for the Carlin Tunnels Project, the Nevada Department of Transportation has announced.
WINNEMUCCA - Rattlesnakes are a well-known reality of the desert environment.
If you're any kind of an outdoorsman you better get up in the mountains and get hunting. And I'm not talking about bears or turkeys.
WINNEMUCCA - The local offices of the U.S. Forest Service, BLM, and NDOW, along with the Wilson family, are hosting a fun-filled day of fishing for kids and their families.
CARSON CITY - In celebration of National Get Outdoors Day (GO Day) June 8, Nevada State Parks are waiving entrance fees and the need for a fishing license to encourage kids and families to explore America's great outdoors.
WINNEMUCCA - Although he says he's not yet ready to announce the format for the new radio station he plans to base locally, Ken Sutherland says he's excited about the prospects of expanding his Ruby Radio Corporation (RRC) into Winnemucca.
The first-ever rib cookoff sponsored by Mike's Waterhole in Golconda was held May 18. Proceeds from the event benefitted the Wounded Warrior Project. The "Gopher Girls" won the grand championship prize, with team members (left to right) Brenda Lee Holm, Peppermint Patti and Chrissy Andergg. Right, the winning team received a plaque for their efforts.COURTESY PHOTOS
WINNEMUCCA - The Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca District, Black Rock Field Office, has prepared a Preliminary Environmental Assessment for the BLM's proposal to acquire 320 acres of private edge holdings bordering the East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness.
WINNEMUCCA - Summer is here - fun in the sun. If you and your best four-legged friend will be spending time outdoors there are precautions that should be followed.
WINNEMUCCA - Domestic Violence is a misunderstood community issue. Misconceptions of domestic violence are reinforced in media every day. Popular shows will blame victims, movies depict a family living in poverty struggling with the effects of an abusive environment, and media outlets neglect to address incidents of domestic violence for what they are - conscious choices to commit acts of violence against a partner.
RENO - Great Basin Federal Credit Union is now a U.S. Small Business Administration 7(a) lender and is the first new addition to the SBA Reno-Tahoe lender network in the past nine years.
GERLACH - A 26-year-old man was struck and killed by a westbound Union Pacific locomotive 15 miles northeast of Gerlach early Monday morning, according to Pershing County Undersheriff Thomas Bjerke.
RENO - The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension will host a "How to Create a Successful Produce Business" workshop, addressing a variety of topics from production and harvesting to marketing and business.