Ely City Manager Canned on 5-0 Council Vote
With his job on the chopping block, Ely City Clerk Jim Alworth went on vacation. Perhaps he should have stayed. The Ely city council unanimously voted to fire the controversial…
New WWPD Chief Reaches Out To City
Burdel Welsh, West Wendover’s new police chief is a soft spoken man from Kansas who stressed the importance of relations between his officers and the community. In a two-hour-long wide…
Wendover CAP Cadets Take Top Honors
Wendover Civil Air Patrol High School Cadets took top honors in the organisation’s “Encampment” held last week in Wendover. Cadet Technical Sergeant Enrique Trujillo was presented the Life Saving Award…
Wendover Casino April Doldrums
West Wendover casinos reported an unexpected decline in gaming win in April according to the latest report from the Nevada Gaming control board. According the report released earlier this month…
Fire Works Family Booming
Having lunch with Earl Cassorla is an experience. Soft spoken and erudite, Earl appears to be the average respectable middle aged businessman who has sober and respectable opinions about just…
Connie Zelma LaCombe, 1948-2013
Connie Zelma LaCombe Born: November 15th 1948 in Mountain Home, Arkansas Passed away: June 13th 2013 in Wendover Nevada Preceded in death by: Father Virgil Stone, Mother Zelma Arbaugh, Brothers…
Polygamists Deserve Same As Gays
As the first and for a long time only Nevada newspaper to endorse gay marriage we are satisfied with the Supreme Court’s striking down of DOMA. However what we can’t…
Wendover Airshow Cancelled, Sequester Grounds Air Force
In addition to causing thousands of layoffs the federal sequestration claimed another victim– the 2013 Wendover Air Show, said event organise Jim Petersen this week. “We were really hoping we…
I-80 Miracle, Premature Twins Born On Roadside
All tourists in Wendover come with some hope of getting lucky. Some even do but no high roller ever came close to the luck of Lynette Hales Sunday and her…
Water War Moves To Court, Then To Baker After Party
Opponents of the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s massive pipeline project are confident heading into next week’s hearing in White Pine County (NV) District Court challenging the water rights granted SNWA…