Douglas M. Byington, 88, died July 20, 2021.
Former Elko and Fallon City Councilman John E. Tewell was remembered Saturday as not only a family man with a deep love of God but also as a public servant who served two communities on opposite ends of Nevada.
A Navy MH-60 Knighthawk helicopter from Naval Air Station Fallon crashed near Mt. Hogue, Calif., late Friday afternoon while conducting search and rescue (SAR) operations, but the crew couldn’t be safely rescued until Saturday afternoon.
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake with its epicenter near Walker, Calif., rolled through a two-state area Thursday afternoon causing minor damage and frayed nerves.
John O’Connor, 51, pleaded not guilty to four charges in 2019 to the murder of Charles E. “Bert” Miller at the Church of Latter-day Saints on July 22, 2018.
The Navy Reserve has taken a modernistic approach to the 21st century with the construction of Navy Operational Support Centers (NOSC) including one at Naval Air Station Fallon.
With the celebration last weekend of the Fourth of July and Churchill County’s remembrance of patriotism, apple pie, and Americana, the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center has a big voice in training to keep the United States safe.
Fourth of July weekend rings in a parade, a Green Goddess Farmers Market, auto racing and fireworks on Sunday night to light up the clear, sparkling Nevada sky.
John Tewell, who served on the city councils of two Nevada cities, died June 20 at his home. He was 92. Tewell, who was born on Sept. 28, 1928, in Elko, was honored by the city of Fallon on his 90th birthday in 2018. A graduate of Elko High School, Tewell worked for the Elko Daily Free Press for 30 years and served on the city council for eight years. Tewell also sold insurance for Farm Bureau Insurance.
A talented athlete in high school, Beach played on state championship games in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a coach, he served as the offensive coordinator on three Greenwave football teams that won three state championships and guided the baseball team to back-to-back titles in 1977 and 1978. Beach, who died on June 15 after a brief illness, earned Nevada AA Coach of the Year honors in 1978.
The community turned out June 16 to thank a former county commissioner not only for his five decades of public service and his eight years on the commission but also for his years on a number of committees that served to better Churchill County.
A Nevada Hall of Fame athlete and coach who was part of the Greenwave’s championship teams of the late 1960s and ’70s died June 15 after a short illness.
Heated exchanges on the restructuring of the William N. Pennington Life Center showed how contentious the county’s plan is to transfer operations to its control.
Kelli Kelly, the executive director of the Fallon Food Hub, is passionate about her role in making people healthy and aware of the produce Churchill County offers to this part of Nevada.
One speaker after another took turns blasting the county commission for its action and begged the Coalition board not to approve the transfer plan.
Callie Perez, a recent graduate of Oasis Academy, has been named this year’s Fallon Cantaloupe Festival and Country Fair queen.
This year’s community wide Fallon/Churchill County Community Reunion is set for Aug. 20-22 with the main hub of activity at Oats Park.
Churchill County Commissioners voted unanimously last week to approve a restructuring plan for the William N. Pennington Life Center.
The 30-year-old Walker celebrated his late March birthday this year by being named the Diamondbacks’ MVP for spring training after finishing in the top-10 in home runs, runs batted in, on-base plus slugging (OPS) and slugging percentage.
Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Christian Walker was looking forward to normalcy returning to Major League Baseball.
A Longhorns search and rescue helicopter flying over the Churchill County High School football field set the stage for graduation Friday night with onlookers looking toward a vast sky.
Honors School valedictorians Vera Vaz and McKay Winder delivered their speeches at Friday’s graduation for Churchill County High School.
In less than a month, Fallon will honor the Fourth of July with a parade as this nation celebrates its 243rd birthday.
Pat LeClaire, a longtime member of Fleet Reserve Association Branch 192 in Fallon, participated in the Memorial Day remembrances at three local cemeteries — Churchill County, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe and The Gardens. His parents are interred at The Gardens.
After spending 14 months in Europe, Army veteran and paratrooper Alfred Pawley knew he was going home.
Fifty years ago, the college graduated its first class, and this year’s students endured the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic by participating in a drive-through graduation on the Fallon campus.
For many students returning to school to receive their high-school diploma, it’s receiving a second chance in life.
The National Honor Society chapter at Churchill County High School inducted 47 members May 24 and introduced the new officers for the 2021-22 school year.
Bagpipes played in the background on Memorial Day while friends and family visited the gravesites and columbarium wall at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Fernley.
Now, the Freys are the Toast of Nevada — and possibly the entire globe — after capturing eight medals for whiskeys at the prestigious San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the most influential spirits competition in the universe.
Memorial Day activities will be lowkey at the area’s cemeteries, while a number of groups across the region are inviting the public to their events to honor deceased who have served their country.
Valerie Serpa, executive director of the Churchill Arts Council, said she’s received the “green light” from the city of Fallon to present Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole on June 19 at the Oats Park’s Centennial State. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. This free performance is presented in cooperation with the mayor, Fallon City Council and the city.
We’re here to honor the Class of 2021 from both Oasis Academy and the adult education program on Thursday and Churchill County High School on June 4 and to thank them for their accomplishment and for making all of us proud. This class excelled in academics, athletics and community involvement in addition to maneuvering around the coronavirus pandemic.
The days and months of the last two years of World War II seemed like an eternity to the millions of men and women serving in the United States military.
The big inning doomed the Greenwave softball team Saturday from advancing to the championship game in the Northern 3A-East tournament at Lowry High School.
Down by three runs going into the final inning, the Wave scored three runs to defeat Spring Creek, 8-7, in Fallon’s first tournament game that spanned two days. Steady rain halted play on Friday afternoon after two innings before the teams returned to the field the following morning.
According to Churchill County Sheriff Richard Hickox, the man killed in the fire has been identified as Randolph “Randy” Banovich, 75.
The Churchill County School District Board of Trustees met Wednesday for their first meeting of May and approved contracts for technology and health insurance as well as approving the Capital Improvement Plan.
The Fallon Chamber of Commerce recently conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to welcome Great Basin Urgent Care to Churchill County.
DAYTON — Shayda Lofthouse pitched a one-hitter in the first game of a doubleheader Saturday as the visiting Lady Wave defeated Dayton 21-0 in Northern 3A-East softball.
Wave BB 3 Steve Ranson/LVN Dayton’s Tyler Stolfich, who threw a no-hitter against Fallon, hit the winning run in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader. BB2 Steve Ranson/LVN Francisco Tapia pitched for Fallon in Saturday’s second game of a doubleheader. Bb4 Steve Ranson/LVN Fallon’s Matt Davis returns to first base ahead of the throw to Dayton’s Robbie Harrison.
Thursday, for the first time since late August 2019, the Reno Aces played at Greater Nevada Field.
Spring is in the air and so is this month’s Churchill County High School’s Senior Prom, which is sponsored by a group of parents.
Cancelled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s 20th annual Soroptimist Home and Garden Show aims to put residents and visitors in the mood to improve their homes as well as themselves.
The Lady Wave defeated another Elko County team over the weekend, sweeping a doubleheader from Spring Creek on Saturday at the Edward Arciniega Athletic Complex.
Churchill County commissioners voted unanimously at their last meeting to acknowledge receipt of Resolution 1-2021 from the county’s Planning Commission to adopt and approve the 2020 Master Plan.
Churchill County School District trustees learned more about April’s Month of the Military Child at last week’s meeting and then focused on the final weeks of school culminating with graduation June 4.
The minutes were ticking toward midnight on the first Friday of May 2016 when my cellphone lit up. A friend asked me if I had heard. “Heard what?” I replied, turning on the lamp next to my bed. She continued her conversation by telling me Anne Pershing, the former Lahontan Valley News editor and general manager, died unexpectedly.
The bats came out in full force Saturday with Fallon sweeping a doubleheader against Elko, 21-1 and 14-4, in Northern 3A-East softball.
ELKO — Fallon split a doubleheader Saturday with Elko in Northern 3A East baseball, taking the first game 13-9 but losing the second game.