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Legends on the Comstock Lode have a way of coming back to life and that’s exactly what happened in the mid-1970s when the Gold Hill News was resurrected after a 92-year slumber.

May is a month to celebrate historic preservation and archaeology in Nevada.

Nevada agencies and organizations have worked to spread awareness of archaeological and historic preservation efforts throughout the state, encouraging both residents and visitors to explore and learn about Nevada’s significant archaeological and historical treasures.

The following are scheduled events throughout Nevada:

Charles Woodson, Travis Kelce, Doug Pederson, Mike Zimmer and Adam Thielen will make up the NFL contingent of first time competitors at the annual American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe this summer, organizers announced Wednesday.

The New Entrepreneur Network of the Hop and Mae Adams Foundation, together with the Carson City Library, will kick off the second Middle School Maker Camp during Spring Break, March 21-23, 2017.

Governor Brian Sandoval and the Office of Science, Innovation and Technology (OSIT) today announced $1,000,000 in STEM Workforce Challenge Grants to Nevada training providers throughout the state.

Regan Hammond is a senior in the class of 2017 at Pioneer High School and Carson Online. She is being recognized and highlighted for her 4.59 GPA, successful progress towards her honors high School diploma, completion of 2 science summer camps, and attendance at the Annapolis science camp.

The Nevada Department of Corrections and Nevada Division of Forestry have deployed 11 inmate fire crews to assist in preparation for possible flooding in Northern Nevada and California. The crews, each made up of 24 minimum security inmates, are in route from Stewart Camp in Carson City, Tonopah, Ely and Three Lakes Valley Camp located approximately 30 miles north of Las Vegas.

The Salvation Army serving Carson City and Douglas County are seeing Red Kettle donations down by nearly 35 percent compared to funds raised last Christmas season.

Nevadans will vote in coming days on legalizing the recreational use of marijuana here, as four other states have already done.

Both advocates and opponents have made strident cases to support their views. However, the two camps cite data that appears to conflict. We have mixed views on this initiative, but we are interested in informational clarity.

The American Buffalo did not roam in Northern Nevada more than a century ago as the West was settled, but Nevada does lay claim to its own Silver Buffalo in 2016. That “Silver Buffalo” is Jim Rogers and the national honor was bestowed upon this Nevadan by the Boy Scouts of America at its 2016 National Annual Meeting held in San Diego.

Rogers was honored during the recent BSA National Convention in San Diego. Today, there are more than 800,000 adult volunteers in BSA, and Rogers has been an active volunteer leader for over 35 years.

Communication and leadership training are top priorities for Paul Penttila, recently named Scout Executive/CEO for the Nevada Area Council Boy Scouts of America. He brings a wealth of experience with him to Northern Nevada as he and the Council serve youth across the Silver State as well as Eastern California to the north and to the Southern Sierra Nevada.

Antonis Michael, with Spokes Across America, teaches, from left, Ella Wick, Katie Schulze, both 12, and Eyden Nicholas, 10, about water rockets at the Carson City Library in Carson City, Nev., on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2016. Spokes Across America is a team of MIT and Harvard students who bike across the country teaching STEM skills at schools, libraries and camps.

A free family afternoon event began at 1 p.m. and runs until 4. Kids and parents are invited.

The Cooperative Extension and 4-H Office held its first ever Youth Summer Day Camp. Lindsay Chichester, Extension Educator says, “We have actively been working on creating awareness about 4-H and Extension, and what we can provide to both youth and adults in our community.

Members and friends of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Carson City, Carson Valley, Dayton, and South Lake Tahoe areas, handcrafted dozens of quilts and pillowcases to help refugees arriving in the Northern Nevada area beginning in the next few weeks and through the next several years.

A private developer from Reno has purchased the membership-only Thunder Canyon Golf Club in southern Washoe Valley, renaming it Toiyabe Golf Club, a press release from the Bauserman Group said.

(Carson City, NV) – The week of August 7-14 is the seventh National Feeding Pets of the Homeless Give a Dog a Bone week. The national organization, Pets of the Homeless asks the public to locate a donation site in their community by visiting petsofthehomeless.org. Donations of pet food should be taken to one of the identified, local sites.

Carson City Library’s NCLab Coding Camps have been named a top 10 summer learning program by the Young Adult Library Services Association.

“Everyone at the Carson City Library is so grateful for this national recognition,” said Carson City Library Director Sena Loyd. “We strive to make the library an active place of learning for the community."

Seventy-two years ago today, the largest seaborne invasion force the world had ever seen landed on the shores of Northern France, both making and changing history at the same time.

D-Day, June 6, 1944, was the beginning of the end of Nazi rule across Europe.

This summer, Sierra Lutheran High School is offering a variety of summer camps for students grades 4th-8th.
Camps for basketball, volleyball, soccer, dance, and cheer will be held during the months of June, July, and the first week in August.

MEFIYI and Carson Senator basketball provided 3rd-8th grade student-athletes an opportunity to receive basketball instruction earlier this year.

MEFIYI stands for Me-for-Incredible-Youth, Inc. started in 1997 by Retired NFL Player JoJo Townsell and wife Suzi. MEFIYI's mission is to support Nevada Student-athletes. MEFIYI donated $800 to Carson High School Senator Basketball Program.

TechCamp 2016 is ready to GO! We have flyers and applications for campers and sponsors! Sign up NOW because we turn folks away every year because our limited space fills up well before the camps. We have camps June 13-24, July 11-22, and August 1-12 from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm weekdays with a graduation dinner the final day.

The Bureau of Land Management and Nevada Department of Corrections have partnered with ecologists from the Institute for Applied Ecology, a non-profit in Corvallis, Oregon, to utilize inmates in the effort to restore Greater sage-grouse habitat.

As president of Fremont Elementary School’s parent-teacher association, Becky McGee shoulders a lot of responsibility. But she wouldn’t have it any other way.

“The kids make it worth it,” she said. “They way they all run up and get excited when they see me because they know something fun is going to happen.”

MEFIYI and Carson Senator Basketball recently provided, 3rd-8th grade student-athletes, an opportunity to receive basketball instruction during spring break.

Congratulations to Scott Vickrey, the 2016 CHS Teacher of the Year, and Tami Burgoon, the CHS Classified Employee of the Year for 2016. Becoming Teacher of the Year is no easy task at Carson High School. With 104 teachers, not including other staff members, the CHS Teacher of the Year Award is an accomplishment most teachers will never receive, so winning an award like this required a great many people to say a great thing or two about Scott Vickrey.

Students can learn coding and 3-D modeling at a camp offered at the Carson City Library over spring break next week. Sixth- through eighth-graders can attend the Tuesday camp while a camp for fourth- and fifth-graders will be held Thursday. Both camps will run 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Digitorium. Breakfast and lunch will be provided both days.

Like all students of Carson High School over the past 16 years, Honors Student Tyler Warren, since his freshman year, thought about what he would be doing for his senior project, a graduation requirement for every student who hopes to receive a diploma from CHS.

Getting involved with the activities at Carson High School, whether directly participating or simply watching, comes down to a decision to act upon the many opportunities available. Look at the exciting events in which students directly participate and businesses and parents indirectly participate and decide to engage.

Where else but in Virginia City could a penniless Irish miner in a few short years amass a fortune greater than any of America’s robber barons, simply by dint of hard work and intuition, and remain a humble, caring human being?

The four children of Jack and Margie Gibson have honored their parents’ decades-long service to the Nevada State Railroad Museum, Carson City, with a $40,000 donation that enabled the museum’s latest exhibition.