King's Corner: A Larger World

On Aug. 22, 1939, the day after his 13th birthday, my father, Robert Mark King, sat in a movie theater in Fargo, North Dakota, watching something extraordinary. On the screen, a stagecoach raced across the desert, pursued by Apache warriors on horseback. One rider leaped from his horse onto the

Spirits Made Me Do It Winners!

via Virginia City Tourism Commission The spirits have spoken, and they had opinions. The Spirits Made Me Do It Saloon Crawl brought another spirited afternoon to Virginia City with creative drinks, sweet treats, haunted stops, and plenty of Hauntober fun along the way. Congratulations to this year’s standouts: Best

You Have an Estate Plan — Whether You Know It or Not

Think estate planning is only for the wealthy or elderly? Think again. If you own anything — a home, a car, a savings account, even a pet — you already have an estate plan. The only question is: Did you create it, or will your state do it for you? When someone

VC Highlands: Planned Lane Restrictions

Starting Oct. 26, 2026, Construction Materials Engineer, Inc. will conduct geotechnical work on Cartwright Road between State Route 341 and Fire Station 72 in the Virginia City Highlands. The work will help inform design recommendations for the Cartwright Road project. Traffic will be reduced to one lane in the work

PINE NUTS: My Huckleberry Friend

Anyone who knows me knows I’m devoted to Bacchus, and to my pet jay, Huckleberry, who comes to Twain Haven every afternoon at Happy Hour for a Beer Nut. Yes, Huck has been my daily Happy Hour pal for nine years now, and I’ve made arrangements for him

Sex Offender Task Force Arrests Fernley Man for Registration Violation and Resisting Arrest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 22, 2026 Fernley, Nevada – On Oct. 21, 2026, members of the Lyon County Sheriff's Office Sex Offender Task Force (SOTF) arrested 49-year-old Fernley resident Sean Patrick Ringer for failing to comply with Nevada's sex offender registration requirements. Ringer, a convicted

The Awful Truth About Our Ghosts

In Virginia City, ghosts are just people who died trying to fold a fitted sheet. That is the sober, scientific fact of the matter, and anyone who claims otherwise has either never wrestled one of those diabolical cotton traps or has lost the match so thoroughly that his soul still

Donovan Mill Gets a Spike of Innovation

The Dust & Wonder Trail — a regional cultural corridor connecting historic and cultural sites across the Comstock, Carson City, and Carson Valley — drove another spike into the ground Tuesday, Oct. 20. Lucky for us, this four-foot steel railroad spike sculpture found its home at Donovan Mill in Silver City!

Sutro Comes Home: Tribute to a Comstock Visionary

On Monday, Oct. 19, the Friends of Sutro Tunnel Charity (FoSTC) celebrated a significant milestone in Nevada mining history with the unveiling of a nine-foot-tall bronze statue of Adolph Sutro at the Sutro Tunnel historic site in Dayton. Sutro was the ambitious German-American engineer who designed and

Twain’s Legacy on Display

By Lauren Jaslow The Mark Twain Museum at The Territorial Enterprise building in Virginia City opened for tours on Saturday, Oct. 17 during the 4th Annual Mark Twain Days Literary Festival presented by the Brewery Arts Center of Carson City to celebrate the local legend Mark Twain, one of America&

Comstock Metals Welcomes Community to Solar Panel Recycling Facility

Comstock Metals and the Silver Springs Area Chamber of Commerce welcomed community partners and county officials to the Comstock Metals facility on Friday, Oct. 16, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the company’s solar panel recycling operations in Silver Springs. The facility represents a significant step forward in

Dayton Food Pantry Celebrates Expanded Facility (Nevada Appeal)

By Jessica Garcia, Nevada Appeal The Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties (HCC) on Friday held a grand opening for its expanded Dayton pantry during a “Pantry Palooza and Fill the Pantry” event with about 150 in attendance. The campus has grown from 400 square feet to 4,