My mother could beat me at cards no matter what game we played. Cribbage? She would fifteen-two me shamelessly as she rounded the second turn when I was just coming out of the gate! Gin Rummy found her laying down as I sat there with too many cards to hold in one hand. She was […]
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Eureka Basketball Teams Thrive at Another Tournament
The Vandals boys started off very slow in the first quarter of their game with Tonopah at the Round Mountain tournament Dec. 14 -15. Down 12-2 after one, the boys pulled it together, played better in the next three quarters and gave Tonopah their second loss of the season with a 42-37 win. “It was […]
December 20, 2018
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Volunteers Place 8,300 Wreaths at Veterans Cemetery
Special to the Sentinel FERNLEY — It was a day of honor and remembrance around the world for almost 2 million veterans. “We proudly serve all veterans in Nevada, some of them walk among us, many were with us today,” said Kat Miller, director of the Nevada Department of Veterans Services, in honor of Wreaths […]
Ceremony Marks Completion of State Veterans Home
Nevada Department of Veterans Services hosted a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the completion of the new Northern Nevada State Veterans Home Monday in Sparks. This 102,000-square-foot facility contains 96 private rooms with their own bathrooms, common living spaces, and access to a “town center” complete with a beauty and barber shop, coffee shop, a dining hall […]
Filippini Leads Vandal Wrestlers at Lovelock Meet
Eureka took part Dec. 7-8 in their first wrestling tournament of the season, the Cody Louk Invitational at Pershing County High School in Lovelock. Freshman Sage Borda (113), the only girl on the Vandals team, lost both her matches. “She really needs to drop down to 106 in our next matches,” said coach Jeremy Auch. […]
State Budget Could Use Some Belt Tightening
The members of the Nevada Economic Forum met earlier this month and came up with a forecast for how much the total state general fund revenues will be for the next two years. The Economic Forum was created by lawmakers in 1993. It is responsible for providing forecasts of revenues for each upcoming biennial budget […]
Whither Renewable Power After Wind Farm Rejected?
The Bureau of Land Management has rejected a bid by a Swedish firm to construct a mammoth wind turbine project on the Nevada side of the border with California near Searchlight. The Crescent Peak Wind Project was to have covered 32,000 acres of public land with as many as 220 wind turbines standing 400 to […]
Vandals Head to Round Mountain After Winning 2 at Whittell Tourney
Eureka started off the Whittell tournament last weekend with a 40-32 win over Pyramid Lake on the first day of the tourney on Thursday. Saturday saw the Vandals take a two-point 60-58 win over Mammoth, Calif. On Saturday, the boys lost to North Tahoe 37-25t and to Incline 69-30. In the game with Mammoth, the […]
Tilton Bernard Zumwalt
Tilton Bernard Zumwalt passed away peacefully at home in Carson City on November 18, 2018. He was born January 10, 1938 in Eureka, Nevada to Chris and Pat (Damele) Zumwalt. On August 7, 1965, Tilton married Myrna Partridge in Las Vegas. They shared 50 years of marriage prior to Myrna’s death in 2016. Tilton was […]



