A renewed demand for a year-round town swimming pool has spurred the Pahrump Parks and Recreation Advisory Board (PPRAB) to delve further into the matter.
The high demand for sporting venues is creating problems for teams in the community.
Local veterans are making plans to develop the empty multi-purpose building at the veterans’ section of Chief Tecopa Cemetery.
When location is everything, and a business is off the beaten path, the owners become creative in order to satisfy the wants of a spread out community. Some retail shops offer sales, some owners participate in networking with other businesses and some just renovate the entire operation, which is the case for K-7 Lounge on Hafen Ranch Road.
A local hospice group says it has revamped its approach to health care in the community since it first opened its doors more than a year ago in order to better serve local patients and their families.
If there has indeed been a Republican war on women, Republican women in Nevada are striking back!
The Tonopah Muckers won their first league game beating the Sandy Valley Sidewinders 26-22 at home on Friday. Matt Misener had a late touchdown, and scored on a 14-yard run with 15 seconds left before the end of the game.
The Beatty Hornets faced the always powerful Pahranagat Valley Panthers at home and lost 58-14.
This year, the Pahrump Valley Trojans no doubt have the best team in years, but are still 1-3. They lost their third game in a row to probably the best team in the Division 1-A, the Moapa Valley Pirates. Going into Friday’s game the Pirates were undefeated and remain so, taking the Trojans 41-0.
The Trojans boys soccer team has changed more than just the coach. They have a complete new system of playing and a whole new attitude, which has them already ahead of last year’s 3-10 record. The boys are now officially 4-1 on the year with a 3-0 league record.
Not all great athletes start when they are in grade school. Some get off to a slow start. Senior volleyball player and high jumper Mikayla Davis is one who had a late start to her athletic career. She started track in middle school and volleyball in her sophomore year in high school.
A weekend event for dogs and their owners helped raise approximately $900 for a local chapter of the American Cancer Society’s annual Relay for Life on Saturday.
County Manager Pam Webster, president of the newly-formed Nye County Regional Economic Development Authority (NCREDA), outlined a number of potential building projects on tap for the Pahrump Valley Tuesday, ranging from the more advertised, like a Pizza Hut moving into a small restaurant building on Highway 372, to a proposed 100-room hotel being kept under wraps.
The duel between parties applying to operate a taxi service in Pahrump has been described as a David vs. Goliath battle.
Whenever there’s an international dispute, such as the one involving Syria through which we are passing, people are almost certain to drag out two previous crises as supposed lessons to us. They are Munich and the missile crisis. Neither of these are normally described accurately. Right now I am particularly concerned with the missile incident, because it got quite a workout recently. Publications from the Washington Post to Mother Jones to the Jewish Post invoked it over Syria.