A $3.5 million training school affiliated with Ironworkers Local 118 has opened in Stead, a place where apprentices learn the trade and journeymen update their skills, including how to build wind turbines.
A wildfire on the east side of Pyramid Lake consumed another 1,100 acres Monday morning on the eastern flank but is expected to be controlled by about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
A fire in Sutcliffe has fully engulfed a home and is threatening others. The fire is reported at 4530 Tufa Rock Road in Sutcliffe, a small community near Pyramid Lake.
The 2009 Pyramid Lake Sprint Triathlon will be Saturday in the Sutcliffe area and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe wants people to use caution and watch for racers.
Tom Sutcliffe raises an interesting question in an article in The Independent about J.D. Salinger's reappearance stopping the publication of a sequel of The Catcher of the Rye: Had Jane Eyre still been in copyright when Jean Rhys published Wide Sargasso Sea, Charlotte Bronte could presumably have prevented publication.