FERNLEY — Eight veterans were remembered Thursday for their service to the nation in a military ceremony at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Fernley.
Tributes are pouring in for Robert Herbert, a former policy adviser to Sen. Harry Reid and retired major general in the Nevada Army National Guard.
The Fallon Theatre received a special recognition on Sept. 11 to honor the iconic movie house for its 100 years.
Nevada Congressman Mark Amodei has reintroduced the Northern Nevada Economic Development, Conservation and Military Modernization Act that would be included in the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Acts for possible consideration later this year.
Before every game, Churchill County High School football coach Brooke Hill preaches balance, so the Greenwave can attack their opponent effectively through the air and on the ground.
U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei said he was humbled to be in attendance at Fallon’s annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Saturday that honored the 2,977 people killed 20 years ago during a coordinated terrorist attack.
A former Army soldier and prisoner of war became the first honoree to occupy a special chair at Greater Nevada Field.
Planning and executing a game plan for Friday night has been an early-season challenge for Greenwave football coach Brooke Hill and his staff.
“We were attacked, and we came together as a nation, people and Americans."
Observances to mark the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, will be conducted Saturday in Carson City, Minden, Fallon and Fernley.
The Churchill County School District will require beginning today (Sept. 9) all students to wear a face covering for at least a month because of an increase number of positive COVID-19 cases in the schools.
American Legion Post 16 has two tasks to commemorate on Saturday. First, the post members will participate in the city of Fallon’s annual 9/11 ceremony, and then later in the day, the post is recognizing its 100th anniversary when an American Legion charter was signed on Sept. 11, 1921.
Water has been a lifeline to the Lahontan Valley since construction of the Newlands Project began more than a century ago. Construction commenced in 1903 on a project that would cover land in a four-county area and, according to the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, provide water for 57,000 acres of irrigated land in Churchill County near Fallon and the bench lands near Fernley in Lyon County. The two other affected counties are Washoe and Storey.
An emerging sun slowly climbing over the Stillwater Mountains east of Fallon didn’t foreshadow the tragedy that both the Lahontan Valley and the rest of the country would encounter. With the East Coast already experiencing the early morning rush, millions of people on the West Coast — which is three hours behind — were stretching their bodies and preparing for a new day.
Friday was the 10th anniversary of the Carson City IHOP shooting that resulted in five deaths and seven injuries.
Photo gallery: 2021 Cantaloupe Festival
A dozen Bishop Manogue High students attended the 30-minute service.
Churchill County fifth graders learned more about agriculture and its importance in the Lahontan Valley on the first day of the Fallon Cantaloupe Festival and Country Fair. Other students belonging to the High Desert Grange could also be seen with their animals throughout the three-day festival.
The annual Lions Junior Rodeo ushers in another busy weekend in the Lahontan Valley, starting first with the queen contest Friday night at the Churchill County Fairgrounds and action in the arena for the next three days.
Army veteran Sam Brown has been conducting meets and greets and visiting rural Nevada as he begins his campaign for the U.S. Senate seat held by Catherine Cortez Masto.
Many visitors to this year’s annual Fallon Cantaloupe Festival and Country Fair will be surprised to learn of this area's storied past with agriculture and especially with the cantaloupe.
The Nevada Recovers Listening Tour made a stop in Fallon last week with state Treasurer Zach Conine outlining a plan to three diverse groups for the state to spend billions of dollars to improve the quality of life in the Silver State.
For the first time in two years, the first day of Churchill County schools on Monday may resemble a normal opening day for the district’s students and teachers.
The buzz at this year’s sixth annual Basque Fry hovered on former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt and if he would announce a run for U.S. Senate.
Stars and Stripes is an independent military newspaper distributed to the troops overseas.
Plans are shaping up for the annual Fallon Cantaloupe Festival, which begins its 35th year in less than three weeks at the Churchill County Fairgrounds.
Their friendship both in and out of the classroom covered more than 40 years. Doris Dwyer, who taught humanities before retiring in 2015, first met Bonnie York in 1980 when she was hired to teach business-related courses and then computer science at Western Nevada Community College (now Western Nevada College).
This year’s theme is “Celebrating the Survival of the Pandemic.”
Chief Petty Officer Lawrence Carlson was recently celebrated among family and colleagues at the new Navy Operational Support Center at Naval Air Station Fallon.
Lined up on rows of tables are hundreds of books appealing to all literary tastes.
The first written and produced issue produced by Union soldiers during the Civil War has followed military men and women around the globe from Cold War maneuvers in Europe after World War II to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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.