RENO - The Nevada Office of Veterans Services (NOVS) Mobile Outreach Vehicle (MOV) will be taking a road trip to Imlay, where veterans and military personnel will be able to meet with a representative of the NOVS to learn about benefits and services they may be eligible for but unaware of.
LOVELOCK - Pershing County High School is in the middle of Winter Spirit Week. This year's theme is "Protect this House."
Most of Pershing County was pelted with snow from the last of three storms that passed through the area on Sunday and Monday, according to Meteorologist Jim Wallnann with the NOAA Reno weather office. The eastern parts of the county gathered the most snow, he said, with the Grass Valley and Imlay areas receiving three to four inches of the white stuff. Lovelock and the surrounding western portions of the county received around one to one and a half inches, Wallnann said. The photo above was taken on Monday morning at Apache and Nevada streets in Imlay. "While still a long way from even average conditions for this time of the year, it's a vast improvement from the single-digit numbers we were looking at for many areas just last week," said Dan Greenlee of the Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS). The NRCS said the lower Humboldt River's snow water equivalent is at 25 percent of average and the year-to-date precipitation is at 59 percent of average.
LOVELOCK - The United States Department of Agricultural (USDA) plans to close 259 offices nationwide. It further is recommending the Farm Services Agency (FSA) consolidate 131 county offices in 32 states.
JUDY MOSBY • Sunrise in Pershing County, Jan. 25.
LOVELOCK - On Jan. 18, the Pershing County 4-H Club held its first meeting at the local community center.
LOVELOCK - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Euro Asia Imports of La Crescenta, Calif., are recalling approximately 2,000 bicycle handlebars. The faulty handlebars are made by a Japanese firm, Nitto Co Ltd. They can break, causing loss of control and a falling hazard, the CPSC said in a press release Jan. 25.
LOVELOCK - One thing I have learned over the years, is that with every decision or action there occurs positive and negative consequences. A good example of this would be the decision of our political leaders to pass the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requiring renewable fuel usage to increase to 36 billion gallons annually by 2022. This new policy had good intentions, mainly to reduce our dependency on foreign oil. However, let us look at some of the consequences.
LOVELOCK - The following Pershing County Middle School students have been named to the 3.0 Honor Roll for the 2nd nine weeks of the 2011-12 school year:
LOVELOCK - The Lovelock Relay for Life season opened with a bang of popping balloons during the Relay for Life Kick-Off Carnival held Jan. 22 at Sturgeons. The event generated $220 toward the Lovelock Relay for Life donation to be made to the American Cancer Society later this year.
LOVELOCK - Numerous festivities marked the culmination of Winter Spirit Week last Friday night at Pershing County High School. Obeying a theme of "Protect This House," all four basketball teams defeated their respective opponents from Fernley.
LOVELOCK - The Flying Saucer Trap Club will be holding a "Wobbles Shoot" on Saturday, Feb. 18, at the trapshooting range located at 1550 Airport Road Lovelock.
LOVELOCK - This weekend will be a busy one for Lovelock residents. Hundreds of visitors will converge onto the small town for a weekend of activities.
LOVELOCK - The cold desert of western North America faces multiple challenges with regard to fire and invasive species management. Recent participants at the "Wildfire and Invasive Plants in American Deserts Conference" identified several critical management and research issues in cold deserts. There was general agreement among workshop participants that the most critical issues to be addressed are invasion by annual grasses (notably cheatgrass) and the grass-fire cycle that can result. A related but less frequently mentioned issue was the ongoing expansion of pinyon pine and juniper species into sagebrush ecosystems, and the increasing potential for larger and more severe fires within the woodland zone. Importantly, the need to increase education regarding the threats to rangeland as a way to obtain public support was the second most frequently mentioned issue, and the lack of funding for addressing critical issues was not far behind. A related concern was the need to increase science-based information applicable to the management of rangeland. Many participants identified improving restoration and increasing our understanding of ecological condition and site recovery potential as important challenges in the cold desert. The need to clearly determine situations where grazing causes a non-desirable vegetation change versus those where grazing can be used as a potential tool in fire and invasive species management was mentioned by several participants.