Winnemucca Blog

Desert Beacon:

All registered Democrats in Humboldt County are encouraged to attend the March 11, 2006, County Convention to be held at the historic St. Mary’s Church in the county Museum Complex, Winnemucca, NV. The convention will start at 10:00 a.m.

The Oregonian:
“I was totin’ my pack along the long dusty Winnemucca road,” sings Johnny Cash at the start of his song, “I’ve Been Everywhere.”
A truck driver offers him a ride to Winnemucca and asks if he’s ever “seen a road with so much dust and sand.” Cash replies that he’s been everywhere, and commences to […]

Associated Press:
The crash involving a pickup truck and a tanker truck carrying toxic liquid sodium cyanide killed one person and closed a Wyoming highway for several hours Thursday.
The tanker was hauling 30,000 gallons of the chemical from Winnemucca, Nev., to a mine near Lead, S.D. The tanker came to rest on its side on the […]

Space.com:
When the Stardust sample return capsule nose dives back to Earth in January, it will become the fastest human-made object to streak through the atmosphere. Scientists and engineers are at the ready to observe the spectacular sky show—and savvy skywatchers can join in on the aerial action too.
If all goes to plan, Stardust will release […]

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Mike Shipman:
Here’s a weekend photo gathering that is fun and informative. Shooting the West XVIII is held March 10 - 12 in Winnemucca, Nevada (a couple hours west of Elko in the north-central part of the state) and this year will have speakers such as Charles Cramer, master printer and landscape photographer, Robb Kendrick, […]

According to the Lahontan Valley News, U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbon will be in Winnemucca Monday as part of a six-day, 20-city campaign jaunt through the state:

Gibbons, who is leaving the U.S. House of Representatives after five terms to make a run for Nevada governor this year, will stop Monday in Fallon [and] will […]

Its no bull to say that I’ve been neglecting this blog recently. No more. Watch for some pretty radical changes and updates coming soon.
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