For general information about feral and stray cats, visit https://www.alleycat.org/.
Dress to impress for this year’s Father Daughter Dance at Sonoma Heights Elementary School (SHES) on Feb. 9 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Communities In Schools of Nevada (CIS) is collecting gently used and news dresses, fancy shoes, and hair accessories for students in kindergarten through fourth grade until Feb. 2.
Although it has great potential, the Battle Mountain Duck Pond is only accessible to some and has an ecosystem that is out of balance. As it sits, domesticated ducks and geese have been abandoned at the pond and invasive Russian Olive trees grow unkempt around the rough perimeter. Andrew Warwood, a local and husband to Battle Mountain High School (BMHS) Vice Principal Cori Warwood, discovered a grant that could help with the restoration and proposed that BMHS apply for it, according to Mrs. Warwood.
A workforce housing unit for Lithium America’s planned Thacker Pass mine in Northern Nevada is set to open in Winnemucca this year. Lithium Americas is constructing housing for the roughly 2,000 workers it expects to employ during peak construction of the mine’s first phase. Housing units began arriving in October and the final structures are set to arrive by February.
The road to Martin Creek runs right through a 28-acre parcel of land that has been in the trust of the Humboldt County Treasurer’s Office since 1967 for nonpayment of taxes. At the regular meeting of the Humboldt County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 16, the Board approved a request for the County to take possession of the parcel and maintain it with all members of the Board present.
Every Monday from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. beginning Feb. 5, Nevada Rural Counties Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) is hosting an opportunity for seniors and adults with disabilities to meet new friends, learn something new, and provide respite to their caregivers during Friends Day Out (featuring Java Music Club).
In a county where water is always a major concern, it is important that the community knows how it can be both protected and have a plan that makes sure everyone will have access to clean drinking water in the future. Both Humboldt County and the City of Winnemucca adopted the Community Source Water Protection Plan (CSWPP) in 2016, which helped outline how the community would make efforts to protect public drinking water, but the CSWPP was recently updated and adopted in 2023. With the help of the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection (NDEP), Humboldt County was able to secure high-level advisers, such as Resource Concepts Inc., to help put together the CSWPP.
RENO — The blank canvas of desert wilderness in Northern Nevada seemed the perfect place in 1992 for artistic anarchists to relocate their annual burning of a towering, anonymous effigy. It was goodbye to San Francisco’s Baker Beach, hello to the Nevada playa, the long-ago floor of an inland sea. The tiny gathering became Burning Man’s surrealistic circus, fueled by acts of kindness and avant-garde theatrics, sometimes with a dose of hallucinogens or nudity. The spectacle flourished as the festival ballooned over the next three decades.
Don Kalkoske — former Public Works Director — plans to hit the ground running as the new Humboldt County Manager, chosen by the Board of Commissioners on Dec. 11 from a final pool of candidates. He began his formal duties on Jan. 8.
The times and locations for the 2024 Cattlemen’s Update are as follows: Jan. 8 — Virtual Webinar via Zoom. Register for the webinar. The presentation begins at 10 a.m. Jan. 9 — Fallon Convention Center, 100 Campus Way. Jan. 9 at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will be provided. Jan.10 —Ely Convention Center, 150 W. 6th S., Ely. Jan. 10 at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will be provided. Jan. 11 — Great Basin College, 1500 College Parkway, Elko. 12:30 p.m. in the GBC Theater. Dinner in the GBC Reynolds Solarium Jan. 12 — Paradise Valley Community Hall, 50 S. Main St. Paradise Valley. 10 a.m. Lunch will be provided. Times given for the in-person sessions are registration times with the program beginning 30 minutes later.
WINNEMUCCA — Nevada Outdoor School (NOS) received $25,000 from the NV Energy Foundation to support their Nature in My World school-based programs in Pershing, Humboldt, Lander, Elko, Eureka and White Pine Counties. This funding will help provide rural Nevada students with high quality outdoor learning experiences that increase their “Time Spent Outdoors” and strengthen their critical thinking, problem solving and observation skills.
ELKO — Great Basin College has partnered with BetterMynd, an online therapy platform, to offer enrolled GBC students, 18 and older, access to free teletherapy sessions from a diverse network of licensed mental health counselors. Dr. Amber Donnelli, Associate Vice President for Faculty Success, helped spearhead the new service to meet what she says is a growing need among students for mental health support.
Jeffrey Martin returned to delight and devastate the audience’s eager ears and hearts with his thoughtful and poetic songs during his show at The Martin Hotel Dec. 5. Once a high school English teacher, Martin turned to writing songs and touring full time, continuing his love of words and stories. Martin has three intensely lyric-driven albums under his belt, two of which were released on the Portland indie-label, Fluff & Gravy Records.
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Overnight eastbound Interstate 80 traffic will be detoured to travel over interstate ramps at West Winnemucca exit 173 during the week of Dec. 18 as the Nevada Department of Transportation makes bridge repairs.