Pioche News

"This is really exciting," said Reno attorney Jim Smith. "He's one of Nevada's great historians, great authors, great thinkers." Smith was one of 80 people gathered in the meeting house at the Bartley Ranch Park.

Florence McClure received a well-deserved standing ovation Wednesday for her work to empower women and help rape victims and female prisoners.

"I don't know how we met each other. I don't know who got along with whom first.

We drive or walk by them every day. The former school house that serves as an arts center, the unusual museum, the gingerbread mansion, the tiny railroad depot.

"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work.

Hal Keaton of Pioche has been elected state president of the Retired Public Employees of Nevada.

PANACA There's big doings in Panaca this weekend, more than doubling the town's population of 645.

Editor, The Silver Trails Territory held its July meeting this past Friday in Yerington, it's most Northern city location.

Junk sells. Just ask "Cowboy" George - he makes a living hawking the stuff. Every Saturday and Sunday vendors of all stripes set up shop at the Drive In movie theater in West Valley at 3700 S. Redwood Road for "Swap City" to sell or swap anything and everything they think will turn a profit.

Editor, The Silver Trails Territory held its July meeting this past Friday in Yerington, it's most Northern city location.

Utah has a secret history; it is found in boom towns that sprang up as if overnight on the promise of riches, only to disappear just as quickly when those riches evaporated.

Wanda Bowler McAllister passed away Tuesday, June 23, 2009, three weeks short of her 94th Birthday.

Tailing piles and ruins are nearly all that remain of the historic mining town of Delamar in Eastern Nevada.