CARSON CITY - The Nevada Division of Insurance's new website (doi.nv.gov.) provides Nevada consumers with comprehensive information about insurance and healthcare reform in Nevada. Members of the insurance industry will also find a wealth of information about doing business in Nevada.
CARSON CITY - In celebration of National Mental Health Month, Michelle Sandoval, mental health counselor, Kathleen Bailey, psychiatric nurse and Kim Hone, mental health tech, employees at the Battle Mountain Rural Mental Health Clinic, invited the public to view Joe Pantoliano's documentary "No Kidding Me 2."
In the spring of each year, all ninth graders take several practice tests to help prepare them for the high stakes state tests at the end of their 10th grade year. The results are also used to help teachers make informed instructional decisions and adjustments within their classrooms. The students with the top scores in reading, mathematics and science are rewarded with a trip for ice cream with their teacher. Students with top scores in two or more tests had lunch with their principal, Susan Baldwin.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - For the second year in a row, the Lander County Community Health Nurse Office received the Silver Syringe Award. This year, it was for the "Greatest Improvement Rate for 2-Year-Olds" for immunizing a greater number of 2-year-olds in 2012.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Battle Mountain High School currently has an opening for its spirit coach.
RENO - They're cute, they're furry and they love to eat - your landscape that is. If you are battling with rabbits, deer, groundhogs or other wildlife, don't give up.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - The Mining Foundation, in conjunction with Battle Mountain High School, presented its Mine Incentive Awards May 20.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Community leaders need your help as they plan for better high-speed Internet services across the county.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Lander County commissioners unanimously approved at their May 23 meeting the signing of a final draft of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the county and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for the county to coordinate its efforts in the development of a Resource Management Plan (RMP) and Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Greater Sage Grouse National Planning Strategy.
AUSTIN - Long before the Internet, the Lincoln Highway began connecting us 100 years ago when it became America's first paved coast-to-coast road for the automobile paralleling many parts of the Pony Express route.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Senior Recognition Night was held June 3 at the Battle Mountain Civic Center. More than $70,000 in scholarships were awarded. The exact total was not given.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - On April 12, the Longhorn Youth Team, in conjunction with Kayla Mauldin, of Frontier Community Coalition, and Johna Reeves, Battle Mountain High School counselor, conducted a simulated house party drill in which community responders participated.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Fifth grade Students at Eleanor Lemaire Elementary School recently participated in a different kind of science fair called the Invention Convention.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN - Former Battle Mountain resident Alexander Steven King, who pleaded guilty to first degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon, filed a motion at his May 28 sentencing hearing to withdraw his latest guilty plea.
