BATTLE MOUNTAIN - On March 27, the Lander County School Board recognized Joe Quintana, who has been involved with kids and sports since he has been out of school.
ELKO - Great Basin College will hold its 45th Commencement Ceremony on Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Elko Convention Center. There will be 442 baccalaureate degrees, associate degrees and certificates of achievement awarded this year, up from 430 last year.
RENO - The Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GBLCC) is providing more than $198,000 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to fund five projects within the Great Basin.
RENO -The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and the Nevada Department of Agriculture will be hosting the Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Training for food safety June 5-7 at the Nevada Department of Agriculture in Sparks. The free, three-day program, sponsored by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service Farm-to-School Grant Program, will focus on on-farm food-safety practices related to fruit and vegetable production. Participants will learn principles of good agricultural and handling practices.
RENO - The University of Nevada, Reno's spring commencement will confer 2,168 degrees and certificates.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - After being shut out of the state championships all together a season ago, the Battle Mountain High School boys golf team is back in the state tournament after its performance at the Division III North Championships on Wednesday, May 8, in Elko.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - The Battle Mountain High School track and field team had a handful of athletes qualify for the NIAA State Track and Field Championships presented by the Farmers Insurance this Friday and Saturday at Silverado High School in Las Vegas.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - The Battle Mountain High School baseball team is returning to the state tournament after an absence of a couple of years.
LAS VEGAS - ESPN Regional Television, a subsidiary of ESPN, and the Las Vegas Bowl have announced that the 2013 game will be played Saturday, Dec. 21, at 12:30 p.m. at Sam Boyd Stadium.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Austin High School's Emily Young qualified for the NIAA State Track and Field Championships this weekend at Silverado High School in Las Vegas.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - The Lander County Convention and Tourism Authority will be holding a geocaching event on June 15 between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. to showcase the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Shoshone Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) trail.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Eleanor Lemaire Elementary School Principal Amy Nelson and Alan Hooper, of Western Educational Consultants, Inc., gave a presentation to school board members at the May 8 Lander County School Board meeting on the MindPlay reading intervention program.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Jacob's Well hosts youth bingo every third Thursday of the month, which is free for youth 12-18 years old.
WINNEMUCCA - A rattlesnake avoidance clinic will be held in Winnemucca at the 4-H arena at 1085 Fairgrounds Road on Sunday, June 9.
ELKO - Dorothy S. Gallagher, a regent who represented rural Nevada for more than 28 years, has died at the age of 87.