The Lovelock Frontiers Day parade is this Saturday morning. The paraders line up on Sixth Street by the community center between 8 and 9:30 a.m. At 10 a.m. they will proceed down Dartmouth Avenue to the courthouse park. This year the parade honors Pershing County veterans. Longtime Lovelock resident Pat Patterson was going to be the Grand Marshal. The WWII Navy veteran served on LST-1028, which was torpedoed in the Battle of Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines. Later, he served on the battleship USS Nevada.
Another body has surfaced at Lake Mead _ this time in a swimming area where water levels have dropped as the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam recedes because of drought and climate change. The National Park Service did not say in a statement how long officials think the corpse was submerged in the Boulder Beach area before it was found Monday by people who summoned park rangers.
Students across the state are gearing up for their return to school as registration dates, orientation and screenings are looming. Below, readers will find a list of important upcoming dates for each county’s school district. • • •
Medical care is often different for children than it is for adults — a little more particular, a little more tender and a lot more arduous for families. For more than three decades the Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) has partnered with businesses and organizations to help raise awareness and funds for local children’s hospitals across North America.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The state of Nevada posted record job numbers last month that show several key industries have risen above their pre-pandemic employment levels. The record of 1,452,600 jobs was 3,000 more than the previous peak in February 2020. Nevada added 7,600 jobs last month. The employment numbers were announced Friday.
More than a week after Republican gubernatorial candidate and Reno-area attorney Joey Gilbert filed a formal challenge to his primary loss against Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, it remains unclear precisely when a judge will hear the case. Though two pre-trial hearings were held over video conference last week, no date for a hearing on Gilbert’s case has been set. However, Carson City District Court Judge James Wilson has signaled that the case could be heard as soon as this week (Aug. 1 through Aug. 5) to expedite proceedings in case of an appeal, though existing court scheduling could delay a hearing until the following week.
National Democratic Party officials Friday debated the merits of allowing Nevada and New Hampshire to hold primaries on the same day, while others wondered if the party should give Black voters in the South a more prominent role as the party considers changes to the presidential primary calendar. The Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) 32-member Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) will choose up to five states to hold early primaries and determine the order beginning with the 2024 presidential cycle. Friday’s virtual meeting was the last before the RBC meets in August to render a decision.
RENO, Nev. (AP)— Opposition from friends, not foes, is creating potential roadblocks to President Joe Biden's green energy agenda on federal lands in the blue-leaning, Western swing state of Nevada. Two lithium mines and a geothermal power plant in the works in the biggest U.S. gold-mining state are under attack from conservationists, tribes and others who otherwise generally support Biden's efforts to expedite the transition from fossil fuels to renewables. The conflicts put a spotlight on an emerging reality as the Biden administration tries to meet its goal of having the U.S. power grid run on clean energy by 2035.
Nurses in red T-shirts — some with the word “heroes” crossed out and replaced with the word “humans” — held signs and played music outside of St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center on a June afternoon as passing drivers honked in support. The strike was one of several in the past few years organized by nurses, who are finding themselves overworked amid a staffing shortage. Caitlin McDaniel, a nurse on the surgical-orthopedic floor of St. Mary’s, said that she was out striking for the well-being of her patients, who could face safety hazards on account of understaffing.
Lunches are served each weekday at noon and soup and croutons is served at 11 a.m. the Pleasant Senior Center, 1480 Lay Street. Lunches are open to the public. Suggested minimum donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older.
The Mount Lewis Field Office has extended for 60 days the public review and comment period on a draft environmental impact statement for the Goldrush Mine Project. The comment period now closes Monday, Aug. 29.
Despite the overall decline of deaths by suicide in the state of Nevada since 2019, the Humboldt County community has been stunned by six suicides in the past two months. Amongst the most preventable types of death, suicide claims hundreds of people in Nevada every year, according to the Nevada Department of Human and Health Services (DHHS).
Adopting from a shelter gives many very deserving dogs a second chance. Many of the dogs at the City of Winnemucca/ Humboldt County Animal Control Center are waiting for their owners to come pick them up after they’ve wandered too far from home, others are waiting for someone to take them home and love them forever.
The past couple of weeks, I have been asked to look at numerous trees and shrubs that have dead, dried up leaves. The plants may just have the outer edges turning brown (appear to be burned) or the leaves are completely brown except for the main leaf veins. These symptoms would indicate a condition called “Leaf Scorch”.
Contentious discussion was at the forefront of the July 18 Humboldt County Commission meeting after board members were presented with a request from Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office officials regarding sick leave payout.