By MARK WAITE PVT The year 2010 left a pair of public facilities named after a slain sheriff’s deputy, nationwide publicity for Nye County over former District Attorney Bob Beckett, high-security fences around a new federal detention center that’s providing high-paying jobs and a number of new county buildings. Here are the top 10 stories[...]

By DON McDERMOTT / PVT 1 PVHS football The Pahrump Valley High School football team finished 0-10 in the 2010 season, extending a three-year losing streak to 28 games. That, plus Leo Verzilli saying he would not be back as the coach of the Trojans, is the No. 1 story of 2010 in Pahrump Valley[...]

By CHARLENE DEAN PVT Even while politicians and the business media are still using terms like “faltering economy” and “recession” to describe Nevada’s financial condition, Pahrump saw a number of new businesses open here in 2010. The business year got off to a slow start but picked up in June and hasn’t stopped. January Jan.[...]

PVT TONOPAH — The naming of a chairman and vice-chairman, along with a list of committee assignments, is on the agenda when the Nye County Commission meets at 10 a.m. on Monday. The commissioners, who normally meet the first and third Tuesdays of the month, are meeting a day earlier than usual since Nevada law[...]

By MARK WAITE PVT Five days of heavy rain caused sinkholes and collapsed two sewer lift stations, closing almost a two mile section of Blagg Road, a major arterial, since before Christmas. Nye County Manager Rick Osborne said it may be some time before the problem is resolved. “It’s probably going to be a significant[...]

By CHARLENE DEAN PVT Three-and-a-half inches of rain in the area of Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge brought heavy damage to restoration projects and caused major flooding on a privately-owned 40-acre tract of land inside the refuge. The private parcel was purchased in 2007 by Victor and Annette Fuentes, who planned to use the property[...]

Lillian Russo, 87, passed away Dec. 27, 2010, at Desert View Hospital in Las Vegas. She was born Dec. 18, 1923, in Reseda, Calif., and was a resident of Pahrump for six years, having come from Lancaster, Calif. Lillian will be remembered as a good wife and a wonderful mother, grandmother and sister. She loved[...]

Live Music MONDAY – SATURDAY • Tom Saitta, Tommy Deering, Autie Goodman and guests,  5:30 p.m., Tommasino’s, 250 Humahuaca Dr., 751-8221. FRIDAY •Pahrump All-Star Swing Band, 6-10 p.m., Pahrump Nugget Stagebar Lounge, 751-6500. • Chuck Ross and the Tennessee Ramblers, 8 p.m., Maverick, 340 E. Mesquite Ave., 751-8899. • Hard Rain, 8 p.m. to 2[...]

By MATT WARD PVT The Town of Pahrump officially responded to a Dec. 9 opinion from the Nye County District Attorney’s Office that could put the kibosh on the town’s deal to lease public property to a hydroponic farming development. Growponics Nevada was set to move forward with a $90 million development on 74 acres[...]

On Dec. 26, between the hours of 8 and 9:30 a.m., my son, his wife and their two dogs, a Chihuahua and a pit bull, were returning home to California after visiting for Christmas. At mile marker 28, between Shoshone and Baker, they hit the soft, muddy shoulder and went across the highway into more[...]