LOVELOCK - American Legion Post #6 Scholarship applications are now available for area high school seniors.
LOVELOCK - The Pershing County High School Drama class will perform "Dead Giveaway," written by Pat Cook, on Friday, May 4, at the high school auditorium. Show starts at 7 p.m. Adults $3 and students $2.
LOVELOCK - The members of the Pershing County Swine Club are gearing up for their annual show.
LOVELOCK - It's that time of year again - the sometimes dreaded time spent preparing and filing tax returns before the April 15 deadline. Yet for some, it's also tax refund season and time to decide how to use the refund headed your way.
LOVELOCK - Churches in Pershing County are gearing up for two National Day of Prayer events that will take place in Pershing County.
The following are the ribbon winners from the 2012 Pershing County High School Art Show at the Pershing County Library:
LOVELOCK - In case you hadn't heard or seen on the news, last week the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease was detected in a dairy cow from a farm in Tulare, Calif. Federal officials said Thursday that they now know the latest cow found in the U.S. with mad-cow disease was 10 years and seven months old, giving investigators new pieces of the puzzle as they try to trace back the animal's origins.
LOVELOCK - Renowned watercolorist Jerry Stitt A.W.S./N.W.S. will be the guest teacher at a watercolor workshop presented by the Star Peak Arts Retreat Center of Imlay. The workshop will take place May 11 - 13 in Unionville at the Old Pioneer Garden Inn Bed and Breakfast.
LOVELOCK - The Pershing County Library held its third annual El día de los niños (The Day of the Children) celebration on April 27. The afternoon was filled with singing, dancing, crafts and snacks; all to celebrate children.
The Pershing County Library hosted a Family Game Night on May 2. The event, sponsored by the Frontier Community Coalition, was started to encourage parents to spend time with their children, said library staff member Pam Munk. Family Game Night will continue every other Wednesday evening until the end of June. She said she would like to carry on the game night past that date but didn't know if there would be funding for the event after June. "We are funded until the end of June," Munk said. "We would like to keep on with Family Game Night, but we'll have to see if we get more funding." The next game night will take place on May 16. Munk said that bingo will be played and that the library has prizes to give away to the winners.Photos by Alicia Craig, the Lovelock Review-Miner
LOVELOCK - A driver suffered serious injuries when his Ford pickup veered off the eastbound Interstate 80 freeway near Lovelock at about 6 p.m. on Sunday. The victim was taken by ambulance to Pershing General Hospital for treatment.
LOVELOCK - On Thursday, April 26, the board members of the Pershing County Chamber of Commerce voted to hold an open election for new board members. Chamber members in good-standing will be allowed to run for the 2012-2014 Board of Directors.
LOVELOCK - A Class of 1977 35th Reunion will be held on June 9 at the Marzen Museum from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. For more information contact doreenmunk@sbcglobal.net.
LOVELOCK - I think most of us can agree that northern Nevada experienced a rather mild winter this year. However, if you look at the temperatures recorded in Lovelock for the months of December, January and February they ranged from an average high temperature of 47.6 0F to an average low temperature of 17.9 0F. These temperatures are very close to the normal average temperatures for theses months. The big difference was in precipitation, the normal average precipitation for these winter months is 0.63 inches. This year we recorded only an average of 0.33 inches of precipitation for our area.
LOVELOCK - Pershing County Middle School eighth graders danced the night away at their first formal dance, held on May 4 at Sturgeon's Center Club. The dance, organized by the students' parents and grandparents, featured a "Candy Land" theme, complete with a chocolate fountain and white chocolate-covered cotton candy.