By Vern Hee Valedictorian. Future U.S. Navy officer. Community leader. Champion-caliber athlete. A child of working class immigrants. If someone told you about Ana Martinez — her work ethic, her accomplishments, her dreams, the spirit that drives her — you would think her story was fiction. It’s a fact, a woman who not many years[...]

By Vern Hee This weekend your grandma or mother might be racing for a good cause at the Pahrump Speedway.  Racing starts at 7 p.m. Saturday and during half-time for the very first time the speedway is having Powder Puff Racing. Kjester Buesig, first year female race car driver explains, “Powder Puff Racing is women[...]

By Vern Hee The Lady Trojans’ chances of making the playoffs in the 4-A Southwest league went out the window with the team’s 8-1 loss at Durango Wednesday. The Trojans fall to 4-8 in league standings. To get to the playoffs, the Trojans would have to win all their remaining games with one of those[...]

By Vern Hee The Trojan Baseball team lost to Durango Wednesday afternoon and fell to a disappointing 1-11 record. The Trojans are tied with Clark in the basement. They also will be facing the Lions on Friday at 3:30 p.m. Their last four games will mirror the softball schedule. Coach Rich Lauver say his frustration[...]

By Kelsey Givens February 9, 2011. It will long live in the memory of Pahrump residents. It’s the day a house fire claimed the lives of 4- and 5- year-old brothers, an 18-month-old baby and a 24-year-old woman. In the fire’s aftermath, a grieving mother was arrested, a father was left reeling and the community[...]

By Mark Waite The Regional Transportation Commission will ask Nye County commissioners to place a three-cent increase in the local gas tax on the November ballot again this year. The ballot question failed miserably in the November 2010 general election by a margin of 78 percent to 22 percent. “A large portion of it is[...]

By Selwyn Harris On Tuesday, the Pahrump Town Board selected three names to be sent to Gov. Brian Sandoval to fill the empty seat left behind by former board member Carolene Endersby, who abruptly resigned last month. Board members received five letters from individuals expressing interest. That number was trimmed to three. One of the[...]

By Mark Waite Jo-Ann Ferrell, the new Ms. Senior Nye County 2012, humbly described how she didn’t expect to win the honor from among eight contestants, after the pageant festivities at the Pahrump Nugget Hotel and Casino Saturday. “I thought I was maybe sixth in line. So many of them worked so hard and for[...]

A book written by the now somewhat disgraced author Gerald Posner entitled “Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth, and Power — A Dispatch from the Beach” is all about how Miami Beach went from backwater to boom town to busted town in the span of 100 years. The book didn’t do so hot on the charts after[...]

By Selwyn Harris It’s a classic American rite of passage. Late spring. Tuxedos and corsages. Limos, dinner and dancing. The Pahrump Valley High Junior/Senior Prom is less than one month away and students as well as their parents are scrambling to prepare for the special evening on May 19. On Wednesday, PVHS Prom Advisor Matthew[...]