WINNEMUCCA - The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE) is once again offering its "Grow Your Own!" classes to help you get on the path to sustainable, local, healthy living.
WINNEMUCCA - Twenty years ago a proposal circulated the country for "national standards" of education. The premise was that there are certain concepts and abilities that all students must achieve to be successful. These included various grade level expectations for mathematical computation and abstract reasoning, scientific understanding, reading and analyzing text, and writing. Fourth graders should add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Seniors are capable of analyzing and evaluating author's purpose. First graders understand the basics of condensation and evaporation. Such an uproar ensued that few people ever realized the contents of these standards as they held to the tenant that state and community rights in content learning rule.
WINNEMUCCA - RSVP continues its series of training sessions in partnership with the Alzheimer's Association and made possible by funding provided by the United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierras.
WINNEMUCCA -Local residents are invited to "find the hero in you" next week by donating blood. The Humboldt Hospital Auxiliary along with United Blood Services in Reno will host its annual March Community Blood Drive from noon to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, at the West Hall of the Winnemucca Convention Center.
WINNEMUCCA - All Humboldt County residents are invited to "book" it on over to the Winnemucca Grammar School next week for the annual Spring Book Fair.
WINNEMUCCA - Sixth Judicial District Judge Michael Montero issued a bench warrant with a no-bail hold for Steven Wayne Wilson, who pleaded guilty to attempted battery with substantial bodily harm in January but filed a motion to withdraw that plea on March 7, after he failed to show up for his sentencing hearing Monday at 1:30 p.m.
WINNEMUCCA - Several members of Lowry High School's FFA class gave a presentation to Humboldt County's commissioners on the use of animals in ranching and rodeo.
JESSICA POWELL • The Humboldt SunOn Monday morning around 9 a.m. a crew was working to install a new gas line at the corner of Winnemucca Boulevard and Melarkey Street when an existing gas line was accidentally hit and cut. Winnemucca Police Department, Humboldt County Sheriff's Office, Nevada Highway Patrol, Humboldt General Hospital EMS and the Winnemucca Fire Department were on scene. Fire Chief Alan Olson said the flow of gas was stopped, the line was capped and the intersection was reopened by 10:15 a.m. He said there were no injuries, and during the leak all appliances within the Winner's Hotel and Casino were shut off as a precautionary measure.
WINNEMUCCA - NxLeveL is the nation's largest and most effective entrepreneurial training network with more than 300,000 graduates, according to a news release.
WINNEMUCCA - A minor was arrested for DUI on Saturday, March 16, after a hit and run accident on the corner of Palisade Drive and Granada Avenue around 10:15 p.m.
WINNEMUCCA - The average carrot travels over 1,800 miles to get to our dinner plate. Processing and shipment of food accounts for 93 percent of our food cost.
WINNEMUCCA - Feb. 1, 2012, was the date of Melissa Cates' kidney transplant. The year since her transplant has been a year of healing, a year of happily returning to a less restrictive diet, and a year of freedom from the kidney dialysis treatments that had been a fact of life for Melissa for three and a half years.
CARSON CITY - While the nation has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright - the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that guarantees indigent defendants the right to legal counsel - a new study indicates the milestone is not cause for celebration in rural Nevada.
ELKO - The Bureau of Land Management, Elko District's Tuscarora Field Office has released an Environmental Assessment for the proposed construction of support facilities for Newmont Mining Corporation's Midas underground mine located near Midas.
WINNEMUCCA - This picture is of the Barber Canyon "land dredge," another of W.W. Fisk's rescued negatives. This was taken is in the early 1930s. A California company had taken up a thousand acres of claims and set up the dredge. They drilled wells to supply the large amount of water it took to float and operate that dredge. The shovel provided the gravel for the dredge to process.