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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela — Clockwise from top left, Sparks residents and Northern Nevada Regional Math Club members Dylan Hildebrand, Sarah Griffin, Christopher Griffin and Conor Burchett are busy preparing for the national finals of the American Regions Mathematics League in Las Vegas.
World Series of Math
Sparks-area students gearing up to compete in nationwide math contest
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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela -- Jesus Saldana, left, and Nathaniel Erickson search through Ford Focus schematics Thursday morning during the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition at John Ascuaga's Nugget.
‘As big as it gets’
Reed High seniors compete in Student Auto Skills state finals
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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela -- Melissa Taveira is a teacher at Shaw Middle School and helps with athletics at Spanish Springs High School and claims she "bleeds purple" although she is a Reed High School alum.
Shaw teacher stays in touch with students, helps out at SSHS
Sometimes the press box during Spanish Springs soccer games feels a little like Fight Club. Not because grown men are violently smashing each other in the face, but from time to time, I’m sworn to secrecy. It’s not because the conversations that I overhear are inappropriate or could get anyone in trouble. Sometimes the topic of conversations is just ridiculous and the other people in the press box like to poke fun in my direction. Leading t...
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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela -- Sparks High School senior Brittnie Andrews battled through a month away from school tending to her son in order to keep her graduation track. Andrews will attend TMCC in the fall.
Sparks High senior juggles being a mother, prepping for grad...
After missing one month of school senior on track for graduation
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Tribune photo by Dan Eckles -- SNC owners Kevin Robertson, left, and Craig Holt
Sparks construction company finds its niche
When Y2K hit, Kevin Robertson and Craig Holt were working at Granite Construction. They were getting by, but they wanted more. They wanted their own company. So in 2001, the two granite employees partnered up and bought Sierra Nevada Construction (SNC). Despite some peaks and valleys, 12 years later, the company is still going strong. “We had each worked at Granite Construction about 10 years and we wanted to get a smaller-type company, one ...
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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela -- Shaw Middle School Principal Gina Leonard hosts Cumulus Radio broadcaster Ron James for the Principal for a Day program Wednesday in Sparks.
Witnessing change first hand
Community leaders join principals for Principal-for-a-Day event
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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela -- A Washoe County Regional Animal Service officer cradles a local resident's dog as a microchip is implanted Tuesday afternoon at the Scolaris on Disc Drive. Free microchipping clinics will be held throughout the year by Washoe County to help residents keep track of their animals.
No animal left behind
Washoe County animal services holds free microchip clinic in Sparks
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Outside the Excel Christian School hangs a banner welcoming the new students from Legacy Christian School. The merger will take effect this fall.
Christian schools unite
Excel receives accreditation recommendation from ACSI
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Tribune photo -- Flips Gymnastics will be making a move to a larger facility after the Sparks Planning Commission approved a Special Use Permit for its recreation facility Thursday evening. The new facility will be located on Dunn Circle in the industrial area and will bring a total of 17,880 square feet.
Flips Gymnastics moves for more space
Local training facility approved for new facility in industrial area
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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela -- Josh Gillette, left, and Elise Van Dyne share an embrace Thursday evening during the final number of the musical Legally Blonde at Spanish Springs High School.
Having some legal fun
Spanish Springs High theater finishes Legally Blonde performances
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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela -- Jack Ross, senior engineer at John Ascuaga's Nugget, reaches up the 75-gallon fish tank at Trader Dick's restaurant inside the casino. Ross has been caring for the fish and their housing since he began at the Nugget more than six years ago.
‘They call me the fish man’
Engineer expert in caring for Nugget's aquatic life
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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela -- Sparks-area students (from left) Maurice Kennedy, Kaitlyn McNerney, Danielle Strozza and Hector Hernandez Mena were honored by the Ascuaga family Wednesday afternoon.
Nugget awards scholarships
Four Sparks students, several others honored by Ascuaga family
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‘Just keep going’
Spanish Spring High senior battles home crisis, finds better path
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Great Basin Brew-Off crowns champions
Local, nationwide homebrewers compete for chance to brew at Great Basin
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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela -- Reed High School sophomore Alyssa Inskip
Power of wearing the crown
Reed High School sophomore embraces title of Miss Washoe County
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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela -- Reed High School students examine a solar oven baking chocolate chip cookies Tuesday morning as part of a demonstration by the University of Nevada, Reno College of Engineering. Students discussed the various forms of heat transfer in the classroom as the temperature continually rose in the solar oven, heating to 241 degrees by the class' end.
If you can’t take the heat...
Reed High students join UNR team for cookie-based demonstration
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Sparks High School student-athlete Mauricio Cardenas waves to the camera and sports his painting skills during an SHS Block S Club team-building event Sunday.
All about tradition
Sparks High School students create life-long memory painting Sparks ‘S’
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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela — Reed High School students (from left) Selena Campana, Nicholas Topoian and Katelyn Singer display their Miracles in Motion t-shirts and Miracle Maker bracelets in support for Sunday's Miracles in Motion event at the Sparks Marina.
Students, businesses keeping it local
Annual Miracles in Motion event attracts families to Sparks Marina
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Tribune file photo -- Hot August Nights was among the many events receiving funding Wednesday morning from the City of Sparks Tourism and Marketing Committee.
Hot August Nights, others receive summer event funds
TourMark Committee discusses draft of post-event reporting system
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Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela -- Spanish Springs High School freshman Annie Wagner is quickly emerging as a leader inside the school and is active in community service outside of school.
Leader in the making
Spanish Springs High freshman eager to join school clubs
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