The Tonopah High school Lady Muckers volleyball team could not repeat the great feat of last year, when they beat the Pahranagat Valley Panthers for the state title. This year in a game, which decided the League title they lost in four (16-25, 25-20, 17-25 and 16-25) at home in an intense and hard-fought game (1-3).
WASHINGTON — Near the end of his new book, “Days of Fire,” my friend and former colleague Peter Baker recounts a moment in the White House Situation Room in 2008 when President George W. Bush was uncharacteristically reflective.
Two people were arrested early Tuesday morning after Nye County Sheriff’s deputies allegedly discovered eight grams of methamphetamine.
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, The Pahrump Town Board will meet just once this month.
The Nye County School Board may allow an old, unused elementary school campus to become a new juvenile justice center, officials say.
Runners looking for a running challenge, but finding events like Tough Mudder too hard on the body might find a Ragnar relay race is more up your alley.
One more game and the Lady Trojans soccer team are on their way to the final four for the state title, but first they will play Faith Lutheran for the regional title on Nov. 9 at Heritage Park at 10 a.m.
It was like watching a rerun on TV. The two teams had both been there before, but this year there was a twist.
The road to state lies through the Pahranagat Valley Panthers. How many Hornet fans are sick of hearing that one? Unfortunately that is what it is, and the Hornets have to put their game face on and play them on Nov. 9 at 12 p.m.
Beatty football heads to the locker room until next year. The team went 1-5 in league and 2-5 overall. For the Hornets, it was a rough year with only two seniors and just four returners from last year. It was definitely a year of rebuilding.
“After the Duel in the Desert” is a new race, which will be this weekend at the Pahrump Valley Speedway. The race is 40 laps and will feature IMCA Modifieds competing for a $1,500 purse. The race is designed to catch the racers coming into Las Vegas for the Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s Duel in the Desert Race. This Vegas race attracted 253 IMCA Modified cars last year.
Nothing is better than coming home after a long day to a house that smells of home cooked love. Anticipating the upcoming holiday crazy crush, I’m giving myself a gift and invite you to join me.
The Pahrump Valley Museum and Historical Society will host its last lecture for 2013 at 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 with Dora McKeever.
The National Park Service will commemorate Veterans Day, Nov. 9-11, by waiving entrance fees to Death Valley National Park. Now that the weather has cooled down, you can enjoy being outdoors again in most areas of the park.
Pauline Pavlick heard about the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1943, and at 20 years old, she enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Today, she is 93, lives in Pahrump, and is about to be honored at the first-ever recognition of women veterans in the whole of the United States. Local research indicates there has never before been an honoring of women veterans in all branches of the service at one ceremony, according to Town Board member, Dr. Tom Waters.
omen have long served in our military, although not in the same capacity as they do in the present. This year, Pahrump is standing up for military women with local recognition but a first for the nation.
It’s going to be a whirlwind weekend with all of the last-minute festivities taking place before the holidays.
TONOPAH — First Solar LLC, a company that recently announced plans to build a 65-megawatt, photo voltaic plant in Amargosa Valley, was granted an option to lease land at the Tonopah Airport by Nye County commissioners Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s presidency has become a feast of failures whose proliferation protects their author from close scrutiny of any one of them. Now, however, we can revisit one of the first and see it as a harbinger of progressivism’s downward stumble to HealthCare.gov.
(Editor’s note: This is a follow-up column by resident John Brent, who several weeks ago advocated that a regional airport be placed in Pahrump instead of a general aviation facility.)
Pahrump motorists won’t have to worry about studying a video on ways to negotiate roundabouts on Highway 372 any time soon, or get trapped like actor Chevy Chase in “European Vacation.”
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in Wednesday’s drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $29 million.
