Warm weather, continued care and robust plants have yielded a bounty of beautiful, fresh vegetables - and personal satisfaction - from your garden this season. As the weather cools and fall approaches, it is not time to hang up your hat, gloves and trowel for the year. Autumn provides optimum weather and ample opportunity to keep growing and harvesting delicious, healthy produce well into the season.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Juan M. Garcia announced today that farmers should start receiving notices updating them on their current base acres, yields and 2009-2012 planting history. The written updates are an important part of preparing agricultural producers for the new safety net programs established by the 2014 Farm Bill.
If you lived in Winnemucca in the 1960s, you knew about the Chuck Wagon Buffet. It was in the best casino of the time, the Star, and definitely a favorite with locals. The cook's name was Wes. I'm not sure if it was a nickname, his first name or his last. Everybody called him Wes. At the time he was almost as well known as his buffet.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Sall Business Administration has received more than 800 applications from accelerators and incubators hoping to win one of 50 cash prizes of $50,000 each in the SBA's first Growth Accelerator Fund competition. Aug. 2 was the deadline to submit an application.
WINNEMUCCA -The Humboldt Hospital Auxiliary will host its annual "Klothes for Kids" event - just in time for the start of school.
CARSON CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Nevada Department of Agriculture and the Nevada Department of Corrections on Saturday, Aug. 2, hosted the third of four annual saddle-trained horse adoption events at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Gardnerville, Nev.
Attention nursing students: applications are now being accepted for one of Humboldt County's most long-standing and successful scholarship programs.
LAS VEGAS - Nevada's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation's (DETR) Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation (BVR), Opportunity Village, Desert Regional Center and Station Casinos have partnered to provide vocational training to a group of people with disabilities to help them develop job skills that will allow them to obtain competitive employment.
Battle Mountain resident Prasantkumar "Peter" Bhakta, 49, was arrested Aug. 5 by Lander County Sheriff's deputies at State Route 305 for alleged attempted sexual assault, a felony, open/gross lewdness, first, a gross misdemeanor, battery to commit sexual assault, a felony, and false imprisonment, a gross misdemeanor, according to Lander County Sheriff Ron Unger.
The NV Energy Foundation contributed $1.2 million to 37 nonprofit organizations statewide during the second quarter of 2014. Twenty northern Nevada organizations received grants, including The Nature Conservancy, Sierra Nevada Journeys, KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting, the Food Bank of Northern Nevada and the Girl Scouts of the Sierra Nevada.
Each August The Humboldt Sun celebrates Customer Appreciation Month.
According to Roger A. Baldwin, UC IPM Wildlife pest management advisor, the ground squirrel and pocket gopher are widely considered to be the two most damaging wildlife pests for our area farmers.
The Battle Mountain and Austin airports are continuing to undergo major improvements.
On Thursday, Aug. 14, at 6:30 p.m., the Bureau of Land Management and the Humboldt Museum are sponsoring a presentation by paleontologist Dr. Martin Sander from the University of Bonn, Germany at the Humboldt Museum in Winnemucca.
CARSON CITY - Nevada Tourism is hoping travelers en route to Burning Man will yell "Hallelujah!" when they see the tourism division's welcome stations on Interstate 80 and Highway 395 on Aug. 27-28.