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Alf Doten: The Man Who Wrote Nevada’s Memory
Sometimes a story lands in your lap and sometimes you’ve got to dig. I never knew much about Alf Doten. Back when I first started digging into Adolph Sutro, I remember UNR and Ron James mentioning some of their findings on Sutro in the Doten journals, but the project
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King’s Corner: Finding Thanksgiving in the Ordinary
It was early on the Saturday morning before Thanksgiving—the kind of gray, muted morning that makes you wonder if the sun took an early holiday. It had rained more days than not that week, and everything was soaked: the yard, the fields, the road, even the air felt waterlogged.
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First Snow on the Comstock
The first snow of the season has a way of pausing the Comstock in a single breath. One morning the hills stand bare and wind-carved, and by afternoon a thin white veil settles across the ridgelines, softening a landscape that has never pretended to be gentle. Northern Nevada wears
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King's Corner: Headin' to the Line Shack
Cowboys in the Old West didn’t have therapists, bullet journals, or apps reminding them to drink water and ‘practice gratitude.’ What they had were long days, stubborn cattle, bad coffee, and enough silence to make a person hear thoughts they didn’t know they had. And when life got
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PINE NUTS: That Seventh Grader
When I was a seventh grader, I was sure about one thing, that in college I would be quarterbacking UCLA. As it happened, I would be diving at Oregon, but that seventh grader had the conference right. So what can an aspiring seventh grader be certain about today? Could it
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Lyon County Government Complex Groundbreaking Ceremony
A crowd of Lyon County officials, business owners, and community members—along with special guests from near and far—gathered on Thursday, Nov. 13 to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Charles J. Kirk Government Complex in Dayton. The event drew notable speakers, including Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony and Turning
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In Memory of Joey
I haven’t really sat down to write in years, but lately I’ve been doing it a lot, and I’ve been really enjoying it. Most of what I like to read, learn about, and write is local history. There are so many stories to share that it’s
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Veterans Day on the Comstock
This week, the Comstock stands in gratitude for the men and women who have worn our nation’s uniform. Veterans Day is not only a date on the calendar—it is a living reminder of courage, discipline, and devotion that has safeguarded the freedoms we often take for granted. Across