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Vol. 3 No. 29 | e Week of January 8, 2026
Shining a light on all of Eureka County. Our Mission: Inform, enlighten, educate and entertain—Enjoy the journey.
2025 Necrology in Eureka County As the year ends and becomes a memory, a new year begins. e Star offers our deepest sympathy to all those who now hold their loved ones in their memories.
Is this you? Oh Boy. A New Device. By Trina Machacek
Here are the ones Eureka held for a short time and then, as it is said, Let go, Let God.
John William Hoehne May 9, 1991 – June 1, 2025
Art Miles May 4, 1953 – January 8, 2025
Jennifer Sue Palmore February 9, 1970 – June 4, 2025
Barbara Jean Dugan December 23, 1932 – January11, 2025
Ernie Allen December 21, 1943 – June 23, 2025
Connie Jeanne Hicks June 23, 1932 – Feb. 26, 2025
Pauline Joan Damele November 18, 1948 – July4, 2025
Janie “Jan” Smith Halstead December 22, 1944 – March 22, 2025
Johnny Cunningham 1935 – July 5, 2025
Richard (Dick) Earl Kephart May 2, 1928 – April 9, 2025
Alexix Martinez 2021 – Aug 30, 2025 Only 4 years old—much too young
Paul Elvin Arney June 2, 1957 – May 17, 2025
Jeremy Smokey March 16, 1988 – October 1, 2025
Patricia Mae Schable August 21, 1944 – May 27, 2025
Shane Cantrell November 2025
We apologize that we do not have dates or other information to add, but here are two more friends and family members that we didn't want to leave off this very heartfelt list of 2025 souls. Benjamin Day-Eureka , George Whitten-Eureka, Lester Teel-Eureka. Again out deepest sympathy to the families and friends of these souls. If by error, we have missed someone on this 2025 list, please let us know and we will do an update in future editions. Email: trina@theeurekacountystar.com
Mining Tidbit e Star asked around: What’s all the talk about in regards to a new contractor at the Pan Mine? Here is what we got in a reply. e Pan Mine has been one of those long going projects. e most recent contract between Ledcor and pan was due to end Dec 31, 2025. e Pan Mine was owned by Calibre who put it up for sale and was bought by Equinox, the mining contract was put up for bid. en Equinox turned around and sold right away to a company called Minera Alamos. Mining contract still up for bid and Turner got the contract. So Ledcor is done Dec. 31, 2025 and Turner starts Jan 1, 2026. e miners had the option to apply for Turner and go through their interview and hiring. Most of the men and women got on with Turner, others stayed with Ledcor and went to some of their other projects and some got completely different jobs all together. anks to all for the information.
IN THIS EDITION Johnny’s Tech Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
From Our Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Market Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Classified and Legal Ads . . . . . . . . . . .5
Subscribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Business Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Crossword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
January Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
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EUREKA, NV PERMIT #3
Worship Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
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is is for all of us that are not all that excited to get, or have need to get, a new electronic anything. Especially a new phone. Which is what I recently had to do. UGH! In watching TV during the Christmas mad dash to buy and give gis, through the aer Christmas crazy dash to spend new Christmas gied money, the ads for phones and phone services are as prevalent as the ads for the best deal at check cashing businesses. Yet another talk we should have at some point.
TIDDLES-N-BITTLES
Gas Prices Falling!? We found this little tidbit in the 1926 Eureka Sentinel while gathering notes for the Our Past section in this paper; “A study of Washington’s transportation shows that it cost the average car driver there 11.49 cents per mile to run his automobile.” In knowing that, the lower prices of gas in Eureka and around the country are more that appreciated by drivers. e now open “for fuel sales only,” EZ Stop in Eureka posted the following picture of their new lower prices of gas. Editor’s note: AAA Reports it costs from 60-90 cents per mile to drive a car today!
But! Yes, a phone booth sized “but.” We all seem to need to follow the leader of the biggest, best or cheapest provider parade. How in the telephonic world do you make the choice? One line or, two lines for just a few dollars more. Unlimited phone, text data. Or, unlimited phone and text a whopping fourteen thousand mosquito bytes of data with an extra few pennies more for each byte aer that. OH! Let me not get started talking about the death of the penny! Yet another talk to have—soon. My phone started to act up in ways that I could not relate to the “help” desk. I would say my texts are disappearing and the response would be, “What do you mean disappearing?” What part of poof they are gone, or the receiver never got them, or *&%*^$#^%$ texts! did they not understand. Calls of help finally led me to a new phone. And away we go. e little thing came and of course it was not the same size of my old phone. So out went my cover. I loved that cover; it has glitter in some liquid and was all girly and sparkly. Now I just have a pink dull thing. But it’s not about the cover is it> It’s about all the “new” vices, uh I mean amazing new things the new phone can do. Now I know people that have the $1,000 phones. Oh they all get up and do the dance of the Internet Faries. I just wanted a phone that would make and receive phone calls. Texts when necessary and a take a picture too. Let me tell you that my phone is what I call my “old-lady phone.” Bells and whistles are there, just small and quiet. I use it for business, sure. I have a way to follow some social media stuff. I have even, sadly, le my watch wearing self in the dust and use my phone for a timepiece. To be honest about that. I actually lost my watch one day in the grocery store in Ely, Nevada and never went back to lost and found and did not replace my watch either. I do miss my wristwatch. I still look at my arm to see what time it is, but the hair on my arm is not as good a timepiece as was my Timex! Yet another story to be told at another time—HAHA, get it? Tell the story about time at another time! Moving on. As my old-lady phone and I got to know each other I noticed something new in the text section. Little check marks were popping up by some of the names I was texting to. Not all of them. Just some. en there were those that had two check marks. Oh, and some had little circles, or bubbles like you would see above cartoon people, like where they would be “talking.” Oh new stuff. Swell. Sometimes the marks were white, sometimes red. Sometimes the bubbles were empty and sometimes they were filled in. More oen than not, there were no marks at all. Well what the ding-dong was this all about?! So off to Google I go, again. You know what I think is amazing about Google or other “tell me why” search engine? When I was a kid and needed to look up a word or reason for something, we had to use the dictionary. e world-famous cry was, “How can I look up a word when I don’t know how to spell the word?” With Google you just have to put something in close to what you want. Hit or click or touch a button, mouse or screen and the world is delivered. Oh, the days of dropping the five-pound dictionary on your foot are gone forever. Good bye Funk and Wagnall and Encyclopedia Britannica. Oh my that’s what? e fourth story to be discussed later? Cool. Google told me these marks are telling me if my texts were sent, received, read, flushed. But only if the other person has the same type of phone as my old-lady phone. Apparently, most of my friends and text-mates are in the old-lady phone boat with me. Welcome aboard Matey’s. Trina lives in Diamond Valley, north of Eureka, Nevada. She loves to hear from readers. Email her at itybytrina@yahoo. Really!