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.
WINNEMUCCA - Public lands and resources managed by the Bureau of Land Management contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy while supporting more than 600,000 American jobs in Fiscal Year 2011, BLM Acting Director Mike Pool announced today at a Public Lands Commemoration Forum in Phoenix, Arizona.
WINNEMUCCA - Practicing conservation during tough economic times will be the focus of the annual meeting of the Nevada Conservation Districts in Winnemucca on Oct. 23-24.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Great Basin College is offering an online driver's education course beginning Oct. 9. Course topics include: rules of the road and traffic laws; defensive driving habits; how to navigate a roundabout; and buying, insuring, and maintaining a vehicle.
Robert Steiner, an artist from San Francisco, Calif., is the winner of the 2012 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. The announcement was made today by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Director Rowan Gould at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, during the annual art contest - the only juried art competition sponsored by the federal government.
WINNEMUCCA - Humboldt General Hospital is reminding its patients that it takes complaints very seriously.