Advertisements are everywhere for the newest phone to surf the Web and watch movies on. Remember when a phone was used to actually communicate and have a real vocal conversation? I know, what a crazy medieval thought! Recently I was at a local CD store in Cedar City, Utah, and was ...

Lincoln County Officials Turn a Blind Eye to Fraud To the Editor, I have lived in Lincoln County for the last 16 years and it seems to me that the Lincoln County officials do not care about your tax dollars. There is welfare fraud all over Lincoln County. Reports have been made to ...

Optical Shop Strives to Meet Community’s Needs To The Editor, I wanted to respond to the recent letter to the editor from Dec. 29 concerning an unsatisfactory experience a customer had at our optical shop. I hope my response will give readers a better understanding of our commitment to the patients we ...

ello Lincoln County community. My name is Brigitte Peterson. I have met many of you in the past couple of months as Dr. Will Katschke’s student physician’s assistant. A little background on me: I grew up in Hawthorne, Nev. I’m currently attending the University of Washington’s MEDEX program and will finish ...

Around every bend and up every canyon there is a story in Lincoln County. It only takes a little searching to uncover the excitement that used to exist here. Nicanor Rodriquez is one of the characters that created many of the exciting bandit stories that dot the West and filtered into ...

Rebuttal for Local Shopping To the editor, I was disturbed to read a letter to the editor in the Dec. 29 issue of the Lincoln County Record about never shopping in Caliente again because of being wronged on a pair of eyeglasses. We all think we have been abused at times, sometimes ...

anuary is Glaucoma Awareness Month. Glaucoma is a major cause of vision loss in the United States, affecting about 2.2 million Americans. I want to remind Lincoln County residents that early detection and treatment is the best way to prevent vision loss. The National Eye Institute advises all Americans at risk of ...

To the Editor: Has anyone else in town noticed their power bills going up two months in a row? Have you noticed the usage has gone up, not the rates? I and almost all my co-workers have noticed an extreme jump in our power bill usage for November and December. Some of ...

he majority of home computing is performed on PCs running a Windows operating system. One of the most helpful recent tools provided within this software suite is System Restore. System Restore takes a snapshot of several system settings, and this snapshot will be used to return a Windows PC to that ...

Every year, it’s tradition to have resolutions for a change of behavior or stopping a bad habit, all in efforts to better ourselves or our situation. Being no stranger to wanting to better one’s self, I’ve come across many books offering techniques and insight to accomplish such tasks. It’s not necessarily ...

To the Editor, I am hoping that you can help my deer find their way home to me in Panaca; that was my Christmas wish. It hasn’t happened but I hope either the person responsible, or their parents, or someone who may have found either of the deer will bring them home ...

any of the stores in Lincoln County have some kind of bulletin board or display outside their facility. People of the community are invited to post their public announcements and other inquiries. One day as I was skimming through a board of flyers and brochures, I came across a story that ...

ew Year’s Eve is the most dangerous time to be driving. Drunk driving is a real problem in many areas of the country, and many people die every year because of it. On a day like New Year’s Eve, too many people do not plan ahead and they get in their ...

To the editor, I will never again shop at stores in Caliente. After buying a pair of glasses less than a year ago from our eyeglass place, paying outrageous prices, and being on vacation three months later just to have the rim/frame break out of state. I had to super glue ...

As the Christmas decorations go up all over Pioche and the excitement begins, the memories come flooding back of many past Christmases that have been enjoyed and all of the traditions that continue year after year with different generations. It’s a sparkling, happy time of the year when we pause ...

  Along with other theater-goers, I attended the closing performance of “Gift of Love” Dec. 19. The performance included the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade band and choir for the northern portion of the county. I was looking forward to a relaxed evening and great way to prepare for Christmas. When I ...

It is Christmas Day, 1906. A 6-year old girl awakens to find that Santa has made a visit to her house during the night and been quite generous in his stop. Yet, just a few houses away from her own, where a 5-year-old playmate lives, there has been no Christmas, rather ...

During the hard economic times this holiday season, shoplifting is on the rise nationwide, again. Not just in the malls or major stores in big cities, even in small towns all across our fruited plain. What are the top five most often shoplifted items? According to AdWeek.com recently, three-quarters of shoplifters are ...