Winnemucca Blog

Associated Press:
When Congress targeted Nevada as the nation’s nuclear waste dumping ground, the state didn’t have the political power to say no.
Twenty years later, the most ardent foe of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump is about to become U.S. Senate majority leader. Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s new job, which gives him control […]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Ken Lund has written a good review of Casino Royale and a short review of Winnemucca’s movie theater:
Alicia and I checked out the Winnemucca movie theatre (notice I said “the” and not “a”) last night. Besides the fact they don’t take debit cards and only let you buy tickets 20 minutes before the movie, the […]

Zack Sheppard:
I did a search for Winnemucca on YouTube and found this pretty bad ass video someone made of a lightsaber battle filmed on the mountains around Water Canyon.

You have got to watch this video!
It’s been nearly a week since I did the exact same search on YouTube! and found this video, but for whatever […]

From Craigslist:
We need to relocate to Winnemucca in mid-December when my husbands starts his job at the mine. Family of 3 (we have a 7-month old son), looking to rent a house in the area. We have 2 dogs (chihuahua & a boxer). No smoking, no drugs, excellent references & renter’s history available.

Landscape:
Giant capital letters adorn hillsides near many cities and towns in the American West. These letters, typically constructed of whitewashed or painted stones or of concrete, are cultural signatures. They serve as conspicuous symbols of community and institutional identity, and they represent an idea, perhaps traceable to a single point of origin, that diffused quickly […]

Little did I know, but we have our own Internet “celebrity” living amoungst us in Winnemucca. John Matlock “Gunny” is the seventh most prolific reviewer with 3,148 reviews on Amazon.com since August 2001. He describes himself on his bio page there as:
I’m a semi-retired old fellow that recently moved to a little town […]

The Infidel Bloggers Alliance has named Winnemucca-native US Army Pfc. Jessica Lynn Nicholson “Infidel Babe of the Week”:
Pfc. Jessica Lynn Nicholson, 21, a 1st Armored Division soldier with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 40th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade, Division Engineers, found out how true that adage is recently when she was working at a security checkpoint […]

CCN Matthews:
Evolving Gold Corporation reports today that Meridian Gold Inc. has begun an initial round of reverse circulation drilling at the Winnemucca Mountain property in Nevada. Meridian Gold Inc. has obtained permits for construction of 21 drill sites over the epithermal gold vein system.

AP:
For the third month in a row, Nevada motorists enjoyed a double-digit drop in prices at the gas pumps this month but the cost already has started to rebound as next week’s Thanksgiving holiday approaches.
“In the past week, gas prices have started to inch upward,” said Michael Geeser, spokesman for AAA Nevada in Las Vegas.
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