By MEGAN WENTZ PVT Utilities Inc. of Central Nevada has released new water rates for its service territories. There will be an overall decrease in sewer charges but an overall increase for water. The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada reviews and adjusts rates charged by the utility once every three years as required by state[...]

The following information was provided by the Nye County Sheriff’s Office. All crimes are alleged and all defendants are presumed innocent: At Pahrump: * Robert Baese, 36, of Pahrump, was booked into Pahrump jail Aug. 18 charged with domestic battery with strangulation. Bail was set at $5,000. * Steven Bachus, 46, of Pahrump, was booked[...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer – “The Bookworm Sez” Times are tough. You’ve tightened your belt so much, you don’t have any notches left. You’ve canceled everything cancelable, given up all but the necessities, stopped going out and started going desperate. You don’t know what to do next to save your un der employed self. It’s decision[...]

By MARK SMITH PVT There will be 1,072 beds available for detainees when the Nevada Southern Detention Center opens for business Oct. 1. Oddly enough, that is precisely the number of visitors who have toured the new facility over the past few weeks. This past Saturday alone, 580 men and women visited the center for[...]

PVT Boy Scout Troop and Crew 651, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10054 and American Legion Post 22 with assistance of Theodore L. Ward, will conduct a flag retirement ceremony at 3 p.m. Sept. 11 at the VFW Post on Homestead Road. The participation of the Boy Scout troop is an Eagle Scout project. The[...]

By GINA B. GOOD PVT A front page story in Friday’s PV Times regarding litigation being brought by Pahrump Valley High School’s former Junior ROTC instructor Daniel Hernandez prompted the young woman whom Hernandez was accused of having a sexual relationship with during her senior year, in 2004-2005, to visit the newspaper office and tell[...]

By RICHARD STEPHENS PVT BEATTY — The lengthy Beatty Town Advisory Board meeting of Aug. 25 called up visions of kitchen furniture as often as the word “table” was used. So many agenda items were tabled for lack of consensus or because of technicalities that at the end of the meeting, Chairman LaRene Younghans jokingly[...]

By GINA B. GOOD PVT Town Manager Bill Kohbarger answered his critics this week. He wondered why Sheriff Tony DeMeo didn’t simply pick up the phone and ask him about the so-called “sneaky” meeting he, town board member Vicky Parker and town attorney Rick Campbell had with state Sen. Mike McGinness last Friday. At the[...]

By RICHARD STEPHENS PVT BEATTY — Dale Doerr, from Lumos Associates, presented the company’s design for the town square park. Cost estimates for the plan were $52,770 for phase one, and $38,000 for phase two. Town Board Chairman La-Rene Younghans repeated that the board has not committed any funds for construction of the park. Some[...]