Yearly Archives: 2010

Yesterday the Reno Newcomers Club Book Club discussed Eden's Outcasts - The Story of Luisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson. It...

Gov. Gibbons is firmly committed to improving K-12 education in Nevada. Improvement will require new ideas and fresh resolve to replace blind allegiance to ineffectual and wasteful notions that have demonstrated no substantive gains in academic performance for the last 20 years.

The SAGE Commission has produced six reports with more than 40 recommendations. Some of the most recent recommendations include reducing costs to the state by reducing the use of outside contractors for work that could be done by state employees, updating the budget process leading to zero base budgeting and creating a Nevada State Grants Coordinator position to enable to state to identify and apply for federal grants that are not currently being sought.

For the second consecutive year the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded Artown $20,000, this time for the 2010 festival, one of only two grants awarded to Nevada-based organizations. As the nation’s largest funder of the arts, NEA’s one-year Access to Artistic Excellence grant helps Artown to bring a diverse array of arts and culture to Reno, Nev., through the entire month of July.

“Energy Efficiency” seminars teach local businesses how to reduce energy use, lower costs SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASEThe University of Nevada, Reno’s Small Business Development Center is...

SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE Animal Grossology exhibit opens January 30 at the Wilbur D. May Museum.Some of the slimiest, stinkiest and downright yuckiest...

SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE The Nevada Historical Society will present “Everyday Mysteries” an exhibition of work by Reno commercial photographer, Roy Curtis. Curtis's photographs will...

SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASEWestern, cowboy, and southwest Indian artists are invited to submit an application to participate in galleries planned as part of the Genoa...

SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASEby Sean Whaley - Nevada News BureauChancellor Dan Klaich has informed the state budget office that the higher education system will participate...

SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE  The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Nevada Department of Agriculture & the Nevada Department of Corrections invite horse lovers and...