STEVE LYON • The Humboldt SunWinnemucca Volunteer Fire Department officials say the cause of a fire in the backyard of a house on the 1600 block of Harmony Street was accidental. The Thursday fire broke out about 12:05 p.m. and was quickly put out. The fire burned a utility trailer, some equipment in the backyard and some power lines. It also scorched a vinyl fence. There were no injuries, according to Winnemucca Fire Chief Alan Olsen.
MICHAEL MICHAELSEN • Special to the SunAn unattended, runaway car caused no damage but made for a few hectic minutes last week. The vehicle was parked at the fuel pumps at the Shell gas station on Winnemucca Boulevard Sept. 19, when, according to witnesses, it rolled across the street. It ended up at the C & M Auto Clinic. An employee said it did not hit the building. The owner of the vehicle tried to stop it but it rolled across Winnemucca Boulevard. Luckily, there was no traffic at the time.
WINNEMUCCA -Colin Ross is set to return to The Martin on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m.
WINNEMUCCA - Humboldt County commissioners will meet Monday, Oct. 1, at 9:30 a.m. in room 201 of the courthouse.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - PFC Kade D. Mader, 19, son of Kirk and Donna Mader of Winnemucca, graduated from United States Marine Corps boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on Sept. 21.
WINNEMUCCA - Scrap Domestic Violence (ScrapDV) is set to launch No More, Know More in northern Nevada on Oct. 1 with plans to maintain the campaign throughout National Domestic Violence Awareness month.
WINNEMUCCA -Winnemucca Domestic Violence Services and local athletes are gearing up for the annual Natasha Eden Memorial Tryathlon.
Choirs, school choruses, glee clubs, small groups and soloists are invited to sign up. Joan Munk, the choir's director, said, "I would like to see more involvement from all areas of the community (and outside the community as well) -- children through adults, large groups through individuals, vocal and instrumental, church groups, schools, neighbors and friends, amateur through professional. It would be great to also get some holiday music from other cultures. Music is a universal language to be enjoyed by all ages, backgrounds, and cultures."
LAS VEGAS - The Nevada Press Association honored Winnemucca Publishing, a group of print and online publications that includes the Humboldt Sun, the Battle Mountain Bugle, the Lovelock Review-Miner and Inside Northern Nevada, with a dozen advertising and editorial awards last weekend.
WINNEMUCCA - Twelve dancers from Encore Dance Academy are excited to have to opportunity to travel to New York City and take classes at Broadway Dance Center in Manhattan. BDC offers over 200 classes per week in a variety of classes and levels. Also, while in the city they will be taking a master class with principal dancers from American Ballet Theatre at Lincoln Center.
WINNEMUCCA -Next week, local residents are invited to learn the latest information on memory loss, dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
4-H youth participated in the Humboldt County Livestock Show on Saturday, September 1, 2012. The results for the Large Animal Show are as follows:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2012-Officials from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) have signed two memorandums of understanding (MOU) designed to foster improved access to USDA and BIA programs by tribes and tribal members.
RENO - The Bureau of Land Management announced its tentative fall-winter schedule for gathering wild horses and burros from overpopulated herds on drought-stricken Western public rangelands.
