Winnemucca Blog

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Ken Lund:
The Humboldt County Courthouse in Winnemucca, Nevada. Taken on a trip to arrange for an apartment in Winnemucca. The old part of the courthouse is very impressive on the inside.
Photo by Ken Lund

Expenditures for wildlife water developments, a report on the search for a new Wildlife Director, and season setting for waterfowl are among the agenda items that the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners will consider at their meeting Aug 4-5 in Winnemucca.
The commission will convene at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 4 in the Winnemucca Convention Center. Its […]

Reno Gazette-Journal:
Grant is just one of a growing number of homeowners in the area trying to sell a home. According to the Northern Nevada Multiple Listing Service, 5,237 single-family homes were listed for the second quarter of 2006, but only 1,432 were sold during that period.
Compare that with the same April-June period two years ago […]

Reno Gazette Journal:
The Western-themed mule races in Winnemucca this summer could bring a matchup that sounds like science fiction: two genetically identical clone mule brothers racing head to head.
The novelty (Winnemucca Mule Races, Show & Draft Horse Challenge) event planned for June 2-4 always offers gamblers an offbeat experience in rural Nevada, but the 3-year-old […]

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Brian Stone of Winnemucca, NV lights a cigarette at the base of this year’s Man. “Its crazy. Society should be like this,” Stone said.
Event on 8/31/05 in Black Rock City.
Mike Kepka / The Chronicle

Now this sounds like a novel all young readers in town should get a kick out of: Ten Miles from Winnemucca by by Thelma Hatch Wyss. It’s recommended for children in grades 6 through 9. Unfortunately, it doesn’t sound like the author has been to Winnemucca much. About the only detail […]

Yahoo Weather:
An unseasonable cold air mass will settle over northern and central nevada tonight as surface high pressure builds over the great basin region. Clear skies and light winds will allow temperatures to drop to near freezing in many sheltered valley locations with sufficient radiative cooling tonight. Near record low temperatures between 30 to […]

“Names in Sand“, originally uploaded by Irish Typepad.
All throughout Northern Nevada, people write their names in the sand using rocks found just under the soil.