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Before the first spade of dirt had been turned to create Boulder City, Garrett was covering the birth of the town that would become his home. Beginning in 1929 with the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, he moved two years later to Boulder City to become managing editor and one-man bureau …

Jean McElrath transcends words like adversity. “Guts” more accurately describes this remarkable woman, who distinguished herself as a Nevada journalist and author during a career spanning three decades. Her column “Tumbleweeds,” published in the Wells Progress for more than 20 years, was written while McElrath lay crippled from arthritis that …

Feour wanted to be a sportswriter as early as the fourth grade, when he wrote an essay on it. He launched his career as a 14-year-old in the 1950s by covering prep sports for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he worked for more than 36 years after a five-year tenure …

The Hughes brothers started working at the Mineral County Independent-News in Hawthorne as young men in the 1940s and 1950s and eventually performed nearly every job at the newspaper, from running the presses to selling advertising and writing news stories. They became partners with Jack and Pauline McCloskey in 1986 …

Known for her tenacity in chasing down breaking news and her dedication to the job, Newton is believed to be the first woman hired as a full-time newspaper photographer in Nevada. The veteran photographer came to the Reno Evening Gazette in 1963, starting as a girl Friday. Within a week, …

A veteran of more than 30 years of covering high-school, college and professional athletics, Sneddon was considered the dean of Northern Nevada sportswriters. He was well known on the national scene as a preeminent boxing writer, and his reporting for the Reno Gazette-Journal in the 1970s and 1980s on issues …

Morrow began her 29-year career at the Nevada Appeal in Carson City in 1962 and was the newspaper’s city editor for 20 years. Known as a stickler for accuracy on the editing desk, Morrow covered several high-profile stories, including the crash of the Paradise Airline gamblers’ special that killed 85 …

During a 30-year career with The Associated Press that ended in 2000, Macy spent 19 years as correspondent in Las Vegas, producing some 11,000 bylined stories and an estimated 15 million words. The University of Kansas journalism graduate became an AP legend when a pedestrian walkway collapsed at the Kansas …

Lerude began his journalism career as a reporter for The Associated Press fresh out of journalism school at the University of Nevada, Reno. He went on to become editor and then publisher of the Reno Gazette-Journal. He shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for a series of editorials that attacked …