White Pine County celebrates 150 years

White Pine County Celebrates 150 Years by Matt Weiser White Pine County is set amid wild open spaces and some of the tallest mountains in Nevada. Yet despite its remoteness, the county has always had a central role in the world. In 2019, the county celebrates its...
Local woman forges career at historic train yard

Local woman forges career at historic train yard

Local Woman Forges Career At Historic Train Yard by Matt Weiser At the age of 23, Angela Stevens was making her living building sandwiches at the Subway fast food restaurant in Ely. Just a few years later, she would be building trains for a living. Not toy trains, but...

Art Deco And entertainment at Ely’s Central Theatre

Art Deco And Entertainment at Ely's Central Theatre By Matt Weiser All across America, small towns are littered with historic movie theaters that  haven’t felt the heat of a projector or the anticipation of a crowd in years. Fortunately Ely, Nev., is not one of those...
Cave Bear discovery links to county’s past

Cave Bear discovery links to county’s past

Cave Bear Discovery Links To County's Past by Matt Weiser Only about 30 miles from Ely as the crow flies, deep in the High Schells Wilderness, lies a remote cave that has yielded many secrets about prehistoric America. The most impressive stands about 6 feet high in a...

Silver State Classic Returns For 30th year of racing

Silver State Classic Returns For 30th Year of Racing by Matt Weiser For car racing enthusiasts, the Silver State Classic Challenge may seem too good to be true. An open-road race on a closed public highway? And I can drive my street car as fast as I want? But it is...
Historic Georgetown Ranch

Historic Georgetown Ranch

Historic Georgetown Ranch by Holly Wilson      In the late 1800’s a group of Mormon settlers led by George Morley arrived in the Steptoe Valley and established a farming community at its southern end.  Named Georgetown for its founder (or, alternately, for a...