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Virginia City has always seemed to me a perfectly reasonable place to hold a mental-health event, provided one does not examine the town too closely. It is admirable, then, that the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Western Nevada plans to bring advocates, families, and off-road enthusiasts to
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In the quiet little town of Fernley, where the desert wind whispers secrets to the sagebrush and a man can still lose a whole afternoon arguing with a fence post, the North Lyon County firefighters got called out one Friday afternoon to settle a dispute no reasonable soul would have
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It's a unique type of entrepreneur who can build without creating anything, and Nevada, a land of opportunity, has sometimes provided the public with this extraordinary phenomenon. According to the Lyon County Sheriff's Office, Joshua Quinton Carradine, 49, and Angela Bell Carradine, 61, were arrested Oct.
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In Nevada, there's nothing more certain than the arrival of another traffic study. Give a committee a highway, a growing industrial park, and sufficient automobiles. And before long there will be maps on tables, arrows pointing in several directions, and men and women explaining that the solution is
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There are many ways to improve a neighborhood, but hiding four stolen automobiles on your property is not among them. This useful principle was apparently overlooked in Silver Springs last week, when detectives with the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigation Unit served a search warrant on Badger Street.
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You can travel across Nevada without encountering another human, yet may come across a free-range horse at any time. It is one of the state’s peculiar arrangements with nature: civilization builds a highway, nature supplies the horses, and everybody trusts everybody else to observe the rules. However, a
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Some people possess remarkable faith in geography. They look at a map, discover a respectable amount of open desert between towns, and conclude that civilization has forgotten to install witnesses there. It is a dangerous philosophy, particularly in Lyon County, where the sheriff’s deputies appear to have developed the
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No doubt most of you who have read my dispatches to the Comstock Chronicle over the years will recognize the name, Tinker Moss. Tinker is an old friend of mine, which is to say I have known him long enough to recognize the particular expression he wears when he'
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Some laws are so complicated that an ordinary citizen might be forgiven for needing a lawyer, a flowchart, three cups of coffee, and perhaps a government-issued compass to understand them. Then there are laws whose principal instruction is essentially, “You are required to register and keep your information current.
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The Virginia City Hillclimb is, in its own peculiar way, one of Nevada’s best-kept secrets—a secret that was advertised, scheduled, and open to the public. And the public came. On Sept. 19 and 20, 5.2 miles of Hwy 341 became a temporary racetrack, where powerful automobiles
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File this under “how to end the party before it even gets going,” a category that has become increasingly crowded in Nevada, where automobiles, motorcycles, and gravity are engaged in a long-running disagreement over who is actually in charge. The latest episode occurred on Geiger Grade Road just after
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There are many ways for a man to get himself into trouble with the law, and some require elaborate schemes, expensive machinery, and a level of imagination that would be wasted on honest employment. Others require nothing more than failing to complete the proper paperwork on time. In Dayton, the