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Deadline coming up to nominate a centennial farm or ranch

RENO - Families who have owned and operated their farm or ranch for 100 years or more are encouraged to submit an application to receive a Nevada Centennial Farm and Ranch Award.

Business as usual at senior center now that kitchen's finished

LOVELOCK - The long-awaited remodeling of the Pershing County Senior Center kitchen is complete. The center served its first lunch on May 20, a little more than a month since its closure on April 15.

A Lovelock tradition: 79th Annual Portuguese Festa this weekend

Wooden carts pulled by oxen return to Festa this year

LOVELOCK - As the I.D.E.S. Society of Lovelock prepares to hold its 79th Annual Festa this Saturday and Sunday, May 25-26, several of the children involved are great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren of the Portuguese families that organized the first Portuguese Festa in May 1935.

State agency website offers info on health care reform

CARSON CITY - The Nevada Division of Insurance has launced a new website at doi.nv.gov. The website provides Nevada consumers with comprehensive information about insurance and healthcare reform in Nevada. Members of the insurance industry will also find a wealth of information about doing business in Nevada.

Local pastor, wife hosting family game nights throughout summer at church

Families can spend more time together

LOVELOCK - Pastor Scott Davis and wife, Andrea, from Bethel Baptist Church, are hosting family game nights throughout the summer.

Pershing County 4-H members show their champion animals

Results from the Junior Livestock Show and Sale

LOVELOCK - The Pershing County 4-H & FFA Livestock members appreciate the businesses, ranchers, farmers, 4-H leaders and many others who gave freely of their services, financial support and time to make the 70th Annual Livestock Show and Sale a success.

Know these common tomato disorders found in desert conditions

LOVELOCK - The tomato is the most popular of all home-grown foods in the United States. Nevada is no exception. A survey by the National Garden Association found 93 percent of the American gardeners surveyed grew tomatoes.

SBA announces initiative with top lenders to help veterans become entrepreneurs

Lending commitment adds $475 million in capital

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Small Business Administration's Veteran Pledge Initiative is a commitment by its top national, regional and community lenders to collectively increase their lending activity to veterans by 5 percent per year for the next five years.

NDOW sponsors kids carp derby

FALLON - The entire family can hook a good time at the kids carp derby on Saturday, June 1, from 8 a.m. to noon at Lahontan Reservoir near Fallon.

Irwin to join county leaders for program in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Association of Counties announced the selection of Pat Irwin from Pershing County as one of the 24 county leaders from across the U.S. to participate in the 10th annual County Leadership Institute, a four-day program offered in partnership with Cambridge Leadership Associates.

Pershing High's top students have big plans

Dennler named Class of 2013 Valedictorian, Condi named Class of 2013 Salutatorian

Working toward merit badges -

DEBRA REID • The Lovelock Review-MinerGirl Scout Daisies, including Kaylah Hanley, 7, and Miya Gallagher, 6, collect trash at the Lovelock City Park last week. Six girls are learning to be good citizens while earning merit badges by performing various community and personal improvement projects.

Empty pesticide containers to be accepted, inspected at county landfill

State to install county collection site for recycling program

LOVELOCK - County officials recently approved a plan that could save space at the landfill and reduce air pollution at no cost to Pershing County.

Dealing with creeper crawlers

MUMENA, Zambia - Sometimes I lay awake listening to the rustle and squeaking on my grass-thatch roof. I've gotten used to the sound so much that it's become a routine that oddly gives me comfort.

County's jobless rate falls

April's figure of 9.5 percent is the lowest so far this year

CARSON CITY (AP) - Nevada's unemployment rate ticked down a notch in April to 9.6 percent as the state saw a gain of 5,600 nonfarm jobs from the month before, the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported.