Tours/Events
FOR RELEASE Start the season right, with the Misfits’ hilarious enactment of the beloved poem, ’Twas the Night Before Christmas. This one-act play is full of Misfits shenanigans—just as you would expect! We will also sing Christmas carols and have a HO HO HO contest—with prizes. You won’
Virginia City
Virginia City, Nev. — St. Mary’s Art Center invites the community to its 11th annual Holiday Faire, a two-day holiday marketplace featuring fine art, crafts and handmade goods from regional artists. The event takes place Saturday, Dec. 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 7,
Virginia City
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Virginia City, Nev. – Throughout December, Virginia City invites the community for a feel-good holiday season with its annual Christmas on the Comstock celebration. With four weeks for events, visitors are encouraged to enjoy holiday-themed activities, shopping and entertainment, including a holiday parade, fireworks, a drone show, a
Thanksgiving has been part of life on the Comstock for more than 150 years. The earliest Nevada papers—the Territorial Enterprise of Virginia City and the Gold Hill Daily News—carried annual reminders each November that the holiday mattered here. Nevada formally recognized Thanksgiving as a state holiday in 1864,
Arts & Culture
The Comstock Foundation for History & Culture’s first-ever Gala was a sold-out success! Held on Nov. 15, 2025, inside the storied walls of the Gold Hill Hotel, the evening brought together local officials, historians, preservation advocates, and supporters from across the region — all united by a shared commitment to
Columnists
I am writing this article with tears flowing and heart aching because it honors the full life of our daughter Sheri Ayn Brantingham Millhollin who lost a two and a half year valiant battle with a rare and aggressive cancer. Sheri was devoted to her husband, children, grandchildren, siblings, nieces,
Tours/Events
DAYTON Community Roots & Shoots Starting Nov 26: Christmas Tree Sale Dec 6 & 7: Annual Holiday Open House, 10 am - 6 pm Dayton Valley Golf Club Dec 12: Sip n' Shop & Christmas Cart Parade, 4 pm Dec 21: Christmas Pictures with Santa, 4 pm - 7
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Yerington, Nevada – The Lyon County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) met on Thursday, November 20, 2025 to hear presentations and take action on several significant agenda items. Highlights from the meeting include: Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Presentation The Board heard a presentation from BLM representatives on
On Nov. 20, Sheriff Brad Pope and the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce kicked off the Yuletide with Shop with a Sheriff Christmas Toy Drive and Mixer at A Scoop or Two in Dayton. Families, business owners, community members and local organizations stopped by throughout the evening to donate funds
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties (HCC) food pantries in Dayton, Silver Springs and Yerington are inviting the community to donate Thanksgiving side items, including canned green beans, boxed stuffing, instant mashed potatoes and gravy. Last month during October, HCC's three rural food
With a nod to Anne Sullivan, who Mark Twain dubbed “The Miracle Worker” for her wonderous work with Helen Keller away back in the 19th century, I nominate my chiropractor, Dr. Jon, as The Miracle Worker of the 21st century. Granted, he did not have sight and hearing issues to
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
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.
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 weather
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
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