At last Wednesday's Pershing County commissioner's meeting, several Lovelock residents clashed with Gabriel Bourne from the Walker River Tribe and April Wilson from the Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe. Bourne and Wilson raised concerns about the museum's ghost tours. They believe the tours conflict with Tribal artifacts on loan to the museum. "We are here on own behalf, not representing the Tribe or speaking for Lovelock," said Bourne. "We feel offended by what is going on at the museum. It's gone too far."
Like an old friend, Frontier Days returns to Lovelock Aug. 2 - 4. The weekend centers around food, games and live music. Several contests offer cash prizes. On Saturday morning, Grand Marshals Jeff Kearns and Misty Moepono-Wood will lead the parade from the community center to the courthouse park. They both live up to this year's theme of "helping hands."
On July 4, the Cattlewomen hosted one of Lovelock’s most beloved summer events - the annual children’s parade. About three dozen children celebrated American independence with parents walking alongside the youngest of them. In their childhood, some of the parents marched the same route as their little ones.
Last Thursday, the Pershing County commissioners rejected Burning Man's five-year compensation package of $400,000 per year for law enforcement in Black Rock City this summer. Commissioners Larry Rackley, Joe Crim and Shayla Hudson led the meeting, with Hudson participating via Zoom. After the commissioners reached their unanimous decision, the few dozen attendees clapped and cheered.
Safe Haven Wildlife Sanctuary is one of the liveliest places in Pershing County but it's about to get livelier, with the addition of Shree, a four-year-old female snow leopard. The apex predator arrived at the Imlay, NV, sanctuary last weekend from the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois.
T-Mobile came to Temptations Restaurant in Lovelock to award a $50,000 grant to Lovelock for the renovation of Amherst Park. They partnered with Smart Growth America and Main Street America to select the recipients of the Hometown Grant. Lovelock’s application stood out among many.
Last Saturday evening, 33 Pershing County High School students stood together for the last time as classmates. They are now proud members of the Pershing County High School’s 107th graduating class — the Class of 2024. Conner Fecht and Jessica Gonzalez were co-valedictorians. Fecht will attend Eastern Oregon University for a Bachelor's in Nursing. Gonzalez will study premed at the University of Nevada-Reno. Each of them wrote and delivered a commencement speech.
Last week, Solidus Resources, LLC responded to the protests about the 18 water right applications it filed with the Nevada Division of Water Resources (NDWR) on January 19, 2024 (93213-93230). Solidus plans to construct, operate and eventually reclaim an open pit gold mine in the Buena Vista Valley - the Spring Valley Project. On March 27, 2024, NDWR notified Solidus of protests to its applications. NDWR's notification to Solidus set a process into motion. Its nuts and bolts are spelled out in the Nevada Administrative Code (NAC) 533.140. Solidus had 45 days in which to respond to the protests if they chose to. If they did respond, they were required to, and did, send a copy of their response to the State Engineer and each person who protested the applications.
With 400 children in the rural foster care system, Humboldt County is among those in dire need of more foster homes, with only four total to support displaced children. Virtual training provided by the Nevada Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) for potential foster families is taking place March 19, March 21, March 26 and March 28, 5:30-8 p.m. on the Microsoft Teams application in order to introduce new, streamlined parent training in Nevada’s 15 rural counties.
Pershing General Hospital is thrilled to announce the expansion of services offered to the community with the opening of the Advanced Wound Care Clinic. Under the expert care of Tyson McBride, PA-C, who is Board Certified by the American Board of Wound Management, and Kamin Vanguilder, MD, who is Board Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.
In a nondescript patch of high desert north of Lovelock, nestled between two dry creek beds, the only indication of where a 60-foot impact crater once was is a patch of tall grass standing out amidst the sagebrush. As he sat on the tailgate of his Jeep, Taylor Wilson laces up his desert boots. “What I love about these places, whether I'm looking for uranium or spy planes or atomic bombs, is you would never think this spot was interesting,” he says. “It's just an average spot out in the desert. But little do they know.”
ELKO — Great Basin College has partnered with BetterMynd, an online therapy platform, to offer enrolled GBC students, 18 and older, access to free teletherapy sessions from a diverse network of licensed mental health counselors. Dr. Amber Donnelli, Associate Vice President for Faculty Success, helped spearhead the new service to meet what she says is a growing need among students for mental health support.
RENO – The organizers of the Burning Man festival narrowly passed their environmental inspection after mass torrential rains closed roads, jammed traffic and forced many to walk miles barefoot through muck, leaving trails of debris in the remote Nevada desert, according to a Nov. 29 report from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
USDA Rural Development Staff The USDA Rural Development ReConnect Program has provided funding to bring high-speed internet to rural communities across America, from Alaska to Texas to Lovelock, Nevada. The ReConnect Program offers loans, grants, and loan-grant combinations to fund construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment needed to provide broadband service. It is designed to fund the most difficult high-speed projects in the nation—rural and remote communities, that, like Lovelock, have gone unserved for too long.
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