By Kathleen McKevitt – Special to the Pahrump Valley Times This coming week will mark the kick-off for the eighth annual High Desert Shorts International Film Festival. Every year, Pahrump Valley High School art students from Crystal Dabrowski’s art class compete for the best poster featuring the film festival. This year’s winning poster was created[...]

Special to the Pahrump Valley Times People don’t associate wildlife with the desert, so, it can be surprising how much life exists in what appears to be a lifeless place.  Less than an hour away from Pahrump is a place for 26 species of plants and animals that do not exist anywhere else on Earth. [...]

By Kathleen McKevitt – Special to the Pahrump Valley Times Lola and James Shellhase met when they were 16. James had driven from Enterprise, Utah to Panaca, “just to dance,” according to him. Wife of 75 years, Lola, said “He got gasoline with an Oklahoma credit card,” which in earlier times meant syphoning gas from[...]

Pahrump Senior Center The menu (subject to change) and activities for the week of May 20 — May 24: 2 percent milk and juice available daily: Monday — country fried steak, mashed potatoes, squash, fruit; Tuesday — turkey bacon wrap, green beans, oranges; Wednesday — meatball sub, mixed veggies, fruit cup; Thursday — barbecue chicken,[...]

By Mark Waite Numerous detective novels have been penned by authors, but Pahrump resident Maer Wilson’s first novel, “Relics,” deals with the exploits of a San Francisco husband and wife detective team investigating the supernatural. Wilson was known as Mary Wilson when she served on the Pahrump Town Board over 10 years ago. She said[...]

By Selwyn Harris The Pahrump Senior Center sponsored an excursion last month, to Reno, Carson City, Virginia City and Lake Tahoe. More than 30 local seniors signed up for the trip and  this reporter went along, too. The full-sized bus departed Wulfy’s parking lot a few minutes after 8 a.m. on April 22. Behind the[...]

By Charlene Dean Bikers will have a chance to give back to the community and have loads of fun tomorrow by supporting the fifth annual Diaper Run to benefit First Choice Pregnancy Center. First Choice offers pregnancy testing and other services along with providing help with clothing and other needs for mothers with young children.[...]

Pahrump Senior Center The menu (subject to change) and activities for the week of May 13 — May 17: 2 percent milk and juice available daily: Monday — meatloaf, mashed potatoes, corn, pudding; Tuesday — chicken parmesan, spinach pasta, Normandy veggies, peach crisp; Wednesday — cheese enchiladas, refried beans, mexicorn, churros; Thursday — chicken sandwich,[...]

Special to the Pahrump Valley Times The Pahrump Valley Museum and Historical Society will host the fourth installment of its lecture series at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Pahrump Valley Museum, 401 E. Basin Ave. The guest speaker will be Sharon Wehrly.  Wehrly is a long-time resident of Pahrump and works as an investigator for[...]

Special to the Pahrump Valley Times As members of the Shakespeare Round Table study group in Pahrump, George Peretsky and Mia Bradshaw were excited to learn that a Shakespearean film company was filming a contemporary, all male, western adaptation of ‘As You Like It’ in the China Ranch and Tecopa area.  The Pahrump group is[...]