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After being off for about 21 days, the Eureka baseball team got back into action April 5 with a doubleheader win over Tonopah, but a double header loss to Mineral County April 6. The Vandals topped Tonopah 16-15 and 1-0, but lost to Mineral County 13-3 and 19-9. Wyatt Anderson stole home on the bottom […]
Vandals earn split with Tonopah, Mineral County
Is this You? Signals in Signs
This was funny. I stopped at a little gas station in Austin, Nevada to buy some gum because Highway 50 between Austin and Fallon, Nevada is long. A zillion miles long. In reality its 111 miles, but it feels like a zillion. I get out of my truck and come face to face with a […]
Next month is 150th anniversary of Transcontinental Railroad
150 years ago next month the United States became a little bit smaller. On May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit in Utah, the first Transcontinental Railway was completed. How that made America a tiny bit smaller was that what had taken six months to cross the country by wagon was reduced from six months to […]
Eureka softball returns to action
A long break for the Lady Vandals softball team, like the boys baseball team, about 21 days, has come to an end. The girls returned to the softball diamond April 5 for a non-league meeting with Tonopah and April 6 for a league meeting with Mineral County. The second game with Tonopah was unfinished with […]
Vandal track team competes at Elko Kiwanis Invitational meet
The Eureka girls track team did well competing against teams from all classifications at the Elko Kiwanis Invitational meet April 6. They scored 81 points in a field of nine teams. Isabella Minoletti, the 1A girls state leader in the triple jump, won the event with a personal record of 31-7 and she was second […]
Nevada bill seeks to raise minimum wage
By Ryan Tarinelli Associated Press CARSON CITY — A bill to raise Nevada’s minimum wage faced its first legislative hearing on Wednesday, a renewed effort that failed in the last session after a veto by the state’s former Republican governor. The measure seeks to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour for workers not […]
Burning Man festival backers oppose new federal restrictions
By Scott Sonner Associated Press SPARKS — Some supporters of the Burning Man counter-culture festival are complaining about new restrictions the federal government is proposing for the event. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management held a public meeting Monday on a draft environmental impact statement that includes proposals to step up security searches and erect […]
Bill would water down public school accountability
If your job is to make widgets, your supervisor will evaluate your job performance principally on how well you make widgets and how many. But if you are a Nevada public school teacher, not so much. There is a bill wending its way through the halls of the Legislature in Carson City that would reduce […]
Bill would curb policing for profit
A bill being considered by lawmakers in Carson City would end the current practice by law enforcement of seizing property suspected of being used in a crime by using civil law, rather than criminal law, and keeping the proceeds of the seized property for themselves — pejoratively labeled policing for profit. Assembly Bill 200 would […]