By CHARLENE DEAN PVT Here is a list of highlights for this weekend to help schedule your recreation time. Friday • The Karaoke Contest finals take place tonight starting at 8 p.m., at Sugar Magnolia on Hafen Ranch Road. Cash prizes will be awarded. • Another Karoke Contest fires up at Fred’s Maverick tonight at[...]

By CHARLENE DEAN PVT Karaoke contest singers can take advantage of all the local bar competitions and get into top form, because the Idol contest is back as a part of the festival activities. The rules are different. The competition, a local takeoff on the hit TV program, “American Idol,” began as a part of[...]

Seniors off to Arizona Pahrump Senior Center will sponsor a luxury bus trip for three days and two nights in Arizona. The bus will leave Wulfy’s parking lot at 7 a.m. Sept. 14, have lunch in Seligman and visit the Grand Canyon. Overnight accommodations will be at the Luxury Holiday Inn Express in Flagstaff. Tickets[...]

Live Music MONDAY – SATURDAY • Tom Saitta, Tommy Deering, Autie Goodman and guests, 5:30 p.m., Tommasino’s, 250 Humahuaca Dr., 751-8221. WEDNESDAY •John Encino, 6-10 p.m., ladies night, Pahrump Nugget Stagebar Lounge, 751-6500. THURSDAY •Eric Stillman, 7-9 p.m., Sugar Magnolia, Hafen Ranch Road at Thousandaire Boulevard, 727-5396. FRIDAY •Conrad Gold and Friends, 6-10 p.m., Pahrump[...]

PVT LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Service invites the public to the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Saturday, Sept. 11 for the first in a series of wildlife refuge adventures. The inaugural installment of “Let’s Explore Ash Meadows!” will focus on snakes and lizards. The event is free and runs from[...]

PVT Michael Massey, 17-time World Trick Shot Champion and Billiards Congress of America Hall of Famer, joins the Pahrump Valley Pool League to host a nine-ball pool tournament at noon on Sept. 4 at the Hideaway on South Pahrump Valley Boulevard to raise funds for local non-profit, Quilts 4 Cancer. Massey will showcase his talents[...]

Live Music MONDAY – SATURDAY * Tom Saitta, Tommy Deering, Autie Goodman and guests, 5:30 p.m., Tommasino’s, 250 Humahuaca Dr., 751-8221. WEDNESDAY *John Encino, 6-10 p.m., Ladies Night, Pahrump Nugget Stagebar Lounge, 751-6500. THURSDAY *Eric Stillman, 7-9 p.m., Sugar Magnolia, Hafen Ranch Road at Thousandaire Boulevard, 727-5396. FRIDAY *Conrad Gold and Friends, 6-10 p.m., Pahrump[...]

Live Music MONDAY – SATURDAY * Tom Saitta, Tommy Deering, Autie Goodman and guests, 5:30 p.m., Tommasino’s, 250 Humahuaca Dr., 751-8221. WEDNESDAY *Twice as Nice with Westley Stevens, 6-10 p.m., Pahrump Nugget Stagebar Lounge, 751-6500. THURSDAY *Twice as Nice with Westley Stevens, 6-10 p.m., Pahrump Nugget Stagebar Lounge, 751-6500. *Diamond Dan and guest, 7-9 p.m.,[...]

By GINA B. GOOD PVT Stormi Caprice and Sharon Cahlan brought new crowns home to Pahrump from the Ms. Senior Nevada Pageant held August 24-25. Caprice was selected as fourth runner-up in the contest and Cahlan was crowned Ms. Congeniality. Two other contestants from Pahrump performed at the pageant: Meg Bozam, first runner-up for Ms.[...]

PVT Several area businesses will join forces in providing a day of preparedness training, competitions, food and fun at the Lone Wolf Shooter’s Range located at South Highway 160 and Crazy Horse Street. The event, scheduled to run from 3 to 9 p.m., Saturday Sept. 11, is to commemorate the 2001 terrorist attacks on the[...]