You’re about to become very important, Ely. You, too, Winnemucca. And Yerington, you’ll be a sight for sore eyes. That goes for you as well, Boulder City, Tonopah, and Eureka.

Gary Bouchard might be fighting a losing battle, but he seems determined to fight on. Bouchard, the owner of the recently opened theaters at the Hacienda, asked the city’s library this summer whether it would like to host a children’s film festival. He provides the projector and movie and the library provides the space, all for free. The [...]

Last weekend’s Glenn Beck rally on the site and date of the 1963 March on Washington got a lot of attention, in some ways pushing the normal anniversary coverage of the original march off the radar screen. But some of it got through. I found out that Nevada’s former state schools superintendent and his wife, Eugene [...]

If Vicki Mayes wants repair her public image, she and her husband should write a check to the city or a charity equal to the fees and taxes they paid to register their car in Nevada. That would be $6,600, not including penalties. This suggestion came from David Fott, an associate professor of political science at the [...]

Looking back over the years, so much has changed hasn’t it? Most of the changes have been to our advantage, improvements for a better life. Still, as seniors we fondly remember the good old days that time when we could depend on certain things to remain the same. … The rest of this article is available [...]

Back in the 1960s or ’70s, Washoe County Sen. Cliff Young asked the Nevada Legislature’s bill-drafting office for a cost figure on how much it costs to draft, introduce, and process one basic piece of legislation. Nothing fancy, just drafting, introduction, a hearing and a vote. As I recall, they gave him a figure in [...]

Imagine what some of the long-haul truckers and cross-country vacationers were thinking Saturday morning when the friendly folks from Esmeralda County rerouted traffic off U.S. 95 and down a side street on the edge of Goldfield. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member

The first pears of the season are ready to be picked! The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Orchard, together with the Whole Foods located at Charleston and Rampart and Gilcrease Orchard, will be hosting a pear and apple festival from on August 21 from 9 am to noon in the Whole Foods parking lot. The [...]

Back in the 1980s a construction company was building a Reno housing development when they started digging up bodies. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member

The plan was to use this space to lament the fact that only two kids showed up to a children’s film festival, one of them mine, Saturday at the Boulder City Library. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member