WINNEMUCCA - The Crooked Jades are on a mission to reinvent old-world music for a modern age.
Sometimes blessings just fall in your lap. I was doing a consulting job for a company in Kansas. They sent me down to check out some equipment in Florida. As soon as I walked in the owner's office, I knew that I was in trouble. You could tell by the mounted fish and pictures that Dave Raska was a hardcore fisherman and we got sidetracked for a few minutes talking about fishing.
Lexie Greathead is thrilled she caught a bug to put in her jar.
COURTESY PHOTO On Saturday, Oct. 12, the local VFW Post 12116 held a barbecue and presentation of adoption papers to the local National Guard. The papers were presented by VFW Vice Commander Sheldon Rehberg to NCOIC Sgt. Marisa Aceves. With the adoption, the VFW pledges to offer assistance to any members of the National Guard stationed in Winnemucca or their families back home if help is needed. The great food was provided by the Pig BBQ and side dishes were made by VFW members and their families. The barbecue provided an opportunity to meet the 593 MTC and their families.
WINNEMUCCA - Winnemucca Hotels LLC has requested a zoning variance from the city to increase the building height to 45 feet to accommodate a proposed three-story hotel at 460 East Winnemucca Boulevard.
WINNEMUCCA - If you went through Winnemucca Junior High School in the late '70s or early '80s, you may remember the librarian Barbara Foree, and if you don't recognize the name from that time it may come to mind when on one of the occasions your regular teacher was out you tried to play sink the sub, but she didn't go under.
WINNEMUCCA - The Humboldt County School Board of Trustees will be holding its next meeting on Oct. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in the district office meeting room.
WINNEMUCCA - The 12th Annual Veterans Day Parade is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. Parade participants will congregate on Railroad Street in front of the Mineshaft beginning at 10:30 a.m.; the parade will begin promptly at 11 a.m. and end at the parking lot of Kafoury Armstrong on First Street.
WINNEMUCCA - The annual Saddle-up for St. Jude's horseback ride was held on Oct. 13 at C-Horse Ranch. The weather could not have been better for the leisurely 11-mile ride through the desert, organizers said. After the ride, participants were treated to a BBQ with more games and prizes back at the ranch. There were a total of 19 riders.
WINNEMUCCA - Nicholas Henry Holley, 20, of Battle Mountain, was arrested Saturday evening after deputies and other law enforcement officials were notified that he fired a handgun at an individual on his front porch that morning, according to a Humboldt County Sheriff's Office news release.
WINNEMUCCA - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be hosting a public meeting this Tuesday, Oct. 23, to bring McDermitt residents up to date on its studies of arsenic and mercury levels in area soils.
WINNEMUCCA -The Humboldt Hospital Auxiliary has kicked off its first annual "Koats for Kids" drive-just in time for the cold winter months.
WINNEMUCCA - Marci Leanne Sorensen, one of the three defendants suspected of stealing copper wire from Union Pacific Railroad, was sentenced to 12 to 36 months jail time, suspended, with probation for 60 months in court Monday.
WINNEMUCCA - Great Basin Arts and Entertainment is bringing a wonderful, and sort of twisted, old time band back to the Martin on Friday night. For the first time since 2008 the popular Crooked Jades from San Francisco will appear at 7 p.m. in the banquet room at the Martin Hotel on Friday, Oct. 26.
