10 Years Ago

  • Nevada National Guard Officer Candidate Tana Gurule, who seeks to join the ranks of the Las Vegas Police Department, sees her experience at the Officer Candidate School as a valuable way to gain leadership experience that she’ll apply throughout her military career and beyond.
  • There was a traffic stop on Feb. 9 which was resulted with marijuana found and $2,600 in cash. DeJuan Ellis Elvis from Escondido, California was booked into the jail.
  • “Coffee with the Chief” would start the exercise of Hawthorne Elementary third graders, who had been learning about the human heart throughout the week. In support of wearing red on Friday, Feb. 7, the students and their teacher, Mrs. Schumann, visited The Hawthorne Fire Department, educating themselves in what to do in case a loved one had an emergency, how to use a defibrillator kit and how to take instructions during an emergency.

20 Years Ago

  • At the first annual Citizen of the Year banquet, Louis Thompson was named Mineral County’s Outstanding Citizen of 2003. Other awards were; Mineral County Development Corporation, Best Service Organization, Day Zimmerman Hawthorne Corp. as the business organization of the year, and Marty Waggoner as the Youth Citizen of 2003.
  • Monty Williams of Schurz met with Sen. Harry Reid and Sen. John Ensign in Washington D. C. Williams represented the Walker River Community Coalition’s local anti-drug coalition. He is a licensed alcohol and drug counselor with the Walker River Paiute Tribe.
  • PV2 Alan F. LaLonde, son of Annette Babb of Hawthorne, reported for duty in Baghdad, Iraq. He was a graduate of the Mineral County High School class of 2003.
  • Bud Gazaway was named NIAA -Chevron athlete of the week, Bud scored 62 points and hauled down 22 rebounds. He had 16 three pointers shooting 50 percent from behind the arc.

30 Years Ago

  • The Serpents defeated Battle Mountain 69-26 in a basketball game played at Battle Mountain on Friday night, then traveled on to Spring Creek on Saturday when they won over the Spring Creek team 82-23, securing the Serpents a place in the zone tournament.
  • Meagan Koscinski, an Eighth Grade student in Hawthorne, was selected as the local winner in a special essay contest sponsored by the Daughter of the American Revolution. Her winning essay was on the slaves of America and qualified her for the state contest.
  • Hawthorne BMX racers Billy and Greg Lynch and Phillip Ward, traveled to Columbus, Ohio to participate in the President’s Cup and a National Race sponsored by the BMX Association.

40 Years Ago

  • Increased interest and activity in cutthroat trout fishing at Walker Lake was noted when the largest fish caught to date was pictured in the newspaper. Gordon Webster of Mina caught a 10 pound, 13 ounce, cutthroat and held first place in the El Capitan Derby.
  • While increased activity continued at the lake, a 55 year old Fallon man was brought safely to shore when high winds caused his boat to overturn. After receiving treatment at Mt. Grant Hospital for chill and minor shock, the man was released.
  • Soroptimists International of Hawthorne held a Youth Seminar with several students from Mineral County High School participating in a discussion on “What are the challenges for the 1990’s as your nation plans for the 22st Century.”

50 Years Ago

  • Hawthorne-Babbit Soroptimists Club presented a popcorn machine to Mineral County High School and students pictured in the newspaper accepting the gift were Student Body Officers Steve Vaughn, Fernando Serrano, Kelly Lyle, Mary Rodrigues, Connie Madrid, Heidi Waterman, Lori Elstrom, Carl Inman, and Bonnie Brown.
  • Cost of operating Mineral County Schools was estimated at $2.25 million.

60 Year Ago

  • District Judge Peter Breen found a willing applicant for the “rake detail” in his juvenile court until he explained to the youth that he would attend his regular school classes and would take the special rake detail after hours. Additionally, the youth received a strong lecture from the judge stressing that the work assignment was to improve citizenship or a trip to Elko youth detention center might be expected.
  • Uncle Vane Day wrote in his weekly column, “Every Day by Vane Day’’ in this newspaper 50 years ago… “I was fortunate the other day to gaze upon an inspiring sight of childhood in an awesome trance as they were taken through the workshop of the Independent-News, with their beloved teacher, Margaret Oakland. The children were students of the fourth grade and just completed a study of Benjamin Franklin and his early day printing press. The interest the little boys and girls were taking in their quiet respect for something new and strange was amazing and it was an inspiration to me as i stood watching them devour with their bright puzzled eyes the Linotype machines, the printing press, the job presses and the many other objects of interest that beckoned them. A salute to you, Margaret.

Childhood in bloom and l was one of them- in a dream. A dream until i looked around to see “ Lefty” Mayer with a knowing smile. Then l awakened and smiled too, in understanding. I had been a kid, again.

70 Years Ago

  • Joe Viani donated three blocks of undeveloped land in the northeast part of town to be used as a baseball diamond for the boys team. IOOF Lodge agreed to sponsor development of the land for that purpose.
  • Serpents took 62-40 drubbing in a meet against Yerington and lost to the Stewart Indians 48-46 in overtime.

80 Years Ago

  • L. E. Blaisdell, was appointed acting district attorney when Martin Evansen left to enter the Army.
  • Serpents defeated Fallon 16-13, and also broke Bishop’s winning streak by knocking off the Broncos 46-23.
  • Now that further weather was no longer a military secret, Gus Groundhog was reported to be feeling the effects of completion. For the past couple of years newspaper and radio weather forecasts were banned for reasons of national security and on February 2, 1945 his prognostication was greeted with jeers instead of cheers. The official weather man had come back into his own with the weather conscious public.

90 Years Ago

  • Two division tunnels were being constructed to divert water from Walker River while construction of Weber Reservoir proceeded under federal government supervision to provide water on the Walker River Indian Reservation.
  • Pilot Mountain, just a few miles east of Mina, which had been the center of numerous earthquakes following “the big one” In December of 1932, appeared to have been replaced as a series of quakes felt in Mina were centered southwest of town, according to University of Nevada seismographic recordings. Areas jolted including Silver Dyke, Marietta, and Huntoon.
  • Pete Peterson of Reno visited Hawthorne, and other small town ps in western Nevada to assist owners of licensed liquor establishments in determining their special tax liability under federal “floor tax”. All liquor and wine in stock and in transit had to pay a special federal tax based upon whiskey proof gallons and wine gallons.
  • Allen Conelly of Hawthorne was promoted to assistant leader at the CCC camp at Alamo in Lincoln County. Conelly had enrolled for a second six months after serving in a camp in Elko County.