Lander County Court Docket for 10-2-2024
RENO — Let’s not beat around the bush and just cut right to the good news. This year’s Nevada Chukar Hunting Forecast, an annual report put out by the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) that takes habitat conditions and statewide survey results to estimate chukar populations, was recently released and predicts that Nevada will experience the best chukar and Hungarian partridge season in the last 20-30 years.
Humboldt County Composite Squadron 68 of Winnemucca Nevada hosted an Orientation flight day on Aug. 10 and took local cadets and even some from Elko Nevada for their first flight in a small powered plane. All of the cadets got to go through preflight and learn about what it takes to inspect the aircraft before flight and make sure it is safe to fly, as well as being in the cockpit learning about the instruments (gauges) and levers.
LOVELOCK — BLM’s final environmental analysis of a proposed expansion of the Colado Mine in Pershing County is now available online for public review. BLM analyzed potential impacts from the proposed modification and expansion of the current 969-acre silica operation across an additional 1,811 public and private acres.
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CARSON CITY – The Nevada Department of Education is working with the Great Basin tribes to ensure that students who demonstrate a high level of proficiency in a Native American language can earn the Nevada State Seal of Biliteracy. The Nevada Department of Education and tribal leaders held workshops in July at the Nevada Museum of Art to begin the process of developing student assessments to gauge proficiency.
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of policy interviews with members of Nevada’s federal delegation in Washington D.C. Although the U.S. Postal Service gave notice last month it was abandoning plans to reroute Reno-area mail processing to Sacramento, the battle with the Postal Service is not over, Nevada’s 2nd U.S. House District Rep. Mark Amodei said on Nevada Newsmakers recently.
ELKO – Fire restrictions will decrease in northeast Nevada on Tuesday, Oct. 1, on public lands and unincorporated private lands in Elko, Lander, and Eureka Counties.
RENO — Across Nevada, 51 schools and eight school districts are being recognized for their outstanding efforts in promoting positive behavior and supporting student success. These schools utilize the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) frameworks to create a positive, proactive and inclusive learning environment for all students.
Eight miles of defunct, lead-sheathed telecommunication cables will be removed from the bottom of Lake Tahoe by the end of this year. The cables — copper wires coated in lead — were first found in the lake more than a decade ago by scuba divers. The cables span from Baldwin Beach to Rubicon Bay along the West Shore and are estimated to weigh 63 tons.
The Western battle with Mormon crickets dates back to the earliest days of European settlement. During outbreaks, which occur seasonally during a several-year period, the flightless insects can cause everything from headaches for homeowners and drivers to substantial economic loss for ranchers and farmers. This year, sludge from crushed crickets caused slick roadways in Eureka County, leading to multiple accidents. At Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital in Elko, staff used leaf blowers, brooms and, at one point, even a tractor with a snowplow on it to push piles of crickets out of the way.
At the 2016 dedication of the first state-sponsored electric vehicle charging station in Beatty, former Gov. Brian Sandoval demonstrated how easy it was to charge an electric Ford Focus. “This is the first electric highway in the United States,” the Republican then-governor said during the ceremony at the new charging station outside of Eddie World on U.S. Highway 95. “It’s significant steps like this that show the rest of the country that we are tech savvy, especially when it comes to electric cars and autonomous vehicles.”
Early voting isn’t scheduled to begin for another 25 days, but the first votes in Nevada’s 2024 election cycle have started to roll in through the state’s digital absentee voting system. As of Monday, in a historic first, two ballots have been cast via the digital application by Native American voters living on a reservation or colony.
It was a happy homecoming for the Battle Mountain High School girls soccer team, who picked up its first win of the season with a 5-0 rout of West Wendover on Friday in Battle Mountain for homecoming.