It was a mixed bag of results for the Lowry High School girls basketball team, who faced a pair of Northern 3A West schools in crossover play. The games do not count for the league standings. Lowry started red hot against South Tahoe on Friday night in Winnemucca, leading by as many as 17 points in the opening quarter, eventually winning 54-39. It was a quick turnaround, as Lowry boarded the bus on Saturday morning to for Reno play North Valleys.
If there is anything we have learned in the first two weeks of the season, the Lowry High School boys basketball team is going to be a fun group to watch. With new coach Brandon Eastman and long-time assistant Dave Schwartz helping, the Buckaroos have shown new excitement on the floor, after struggling the past few years to find a cohesive unit. That was no different last week, as Lowry took on three Northern 3A West opponents.
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Wildlife biologists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Wildlife Services and the Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA) will begin removing non-native European starling populations around several dairies in Churchill, Lyon and Nye counties.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Department of Transportation is installing ‘daytime headlights required’ signage in advance of an updated Nevada traffic law requiring daytime headlight use while driving on rural two-lane roadways. Beginning the week of Dec. 16, NDOT will install the first in a series of daytime headlight signage. The first signs will be installed on U.S. 95 near the U.S. 95 Alternate junction in Schurz.
SANTA FE, NM — The Western Governors’ Foundation (WGF) is proud to announce the launch of the 2025 Western Governors’ Leadership Institute, a program designed to recognize, reward, and promote and effective exercise of leadership by young adults across the West. The Institute provides a unique opportunity for selected delegates to attend a one-day leadership development forum featuring intimate conversations with Governors, chief executive officers, and other prominent thought leaders. They also attend the Annual Meeting of the Western Governors‘ Association as guests of the foundation. The foundation covers all expenses associated with delegate participation.
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. Visitors must be 16 years or older. Their meal is $10. Hot soup at croutons served daily with meal. Low-fat milk available daily. Safety of food after it has been served & taken from the center is the responsibility of the consumer.
Safe Haven Wildlife Sanctuary, located in the heart of wildlife protection efforts, is reaching out for help in a critical area of its operations. The sanctuary, which is home to a variety of rescued wild animals, is in dire need of new tires for its lockouts. These lockouts are essential for emergency procedures, particularly when dealing with the sanctuary's big cats and bears.
The Pershing County Library received an influx of funding through a grant that will help implement RFID technology within the agency. According to officials, on Sept. 11, the library was awarded a $41,702 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Nevada State Library, Archives, and Public Records to implement RFID technology into our infrastructure. RFID stands for 'Radio Frequency Identification.'
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Reno lawyer and former gubernatorial candidate Joey Gilbert is resigning as the Douglas County School District’s legal counsel, his team announced at a Tuesday school board meeting, ending more than a year of work in the position marked by debate over his experience and questions about whether he was overcharging. His resignation is effective Jan. 9, according to his resignation letter.
New forgery charges have been filed against Nevada’s six so-called “fake electors” in Carson City District Court after the Nevada attorney general’s initial prosecution was dismissed in Clark County earlier this year, a move called "preemptive" by the office given that the statute of limitations on the charges is set to expire this week.
Despite two failures in four years at the ballot box, supporters of 2024’s Question 1 say they’re not giving up the fight to defang the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents. Voters rejected the ballot question — which would have removed state constitutional references to the elected board overseeing the state’s colleges and universities and required regular independent audits — by nearly 10 percentage points (or more than 123,000 votes out of more than 1.3 million cast). A similar measure failed on the 2020 ballot by a much narrower margin.