Nevada’s modern-day gold rush creates new mining jobs

Check out the article (with video) from MSNBC regarding our good jobs market in Elko created through mining....


Nevada’s modern-day gold rush creates new mining jobs


Liv'n the good life in Elko!!


(Sorry I couldn't get the video clip to post without having to go through the link.)

Smithsonian Magazine and Elko's Basque Restaurants

This just in!!  The April 2012 Smithsonian magazine published an article featuring western Basque cuisine- the Elko portion of the article is pasted below:

If you want American Basque food in its purest form, follow I-80 through northern Nevada. One bitterly cold week this winter I pointed my truck toward Nevada and tried to see how many Basque restaurants I could visit over the course of a long weekend. I stopped by the Star Hotel in Elko for a dish the menu called a Boarder’s Lunch, thinly sliced beef pan-fried with onions and chiles, and also for a delicious pork loin sautéed with roasted red peppers; then to Toki Ona a few blocks away for roast lamb and potatoes.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Indulging-in-American-Basque-Cuisine.html#ixzz1qOSBtNyx

Or, if you want to take a gastronomic Basque food journey on I-80 across the west, you can read about the author's top picks here.

Mmmmm...now I'm getting hungry for a good steak sandwich smothered in sauted garlic from the Star!

Elko is Expanding

Elko county is continuing to grow- 2.1% since 2010.  Estimates are "more to come"!