Next year a whole new year for Beatty football

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.

Local racer Kinkade eyes the big purse at this weekend’s big race

“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.

Frozen assets: The gift you give yourself

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.

Last museum lecture Saturday

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.

DVNP fees waived for Vets Day, new campgrounds open

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.

Military honoree has vivid memories of World War II

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.

WOMEN ARE ‘PROUD TO SERVE’: Unique ceremony first to honor women veterans

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.

Mike and Maria, Reeves boys and a SAF dinner run

It’s going to be a whirlwind weekend with all of the last-minute festivities taking place before the holidays.

Amargosa board seeks input on solar agreement

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.

Cash for Clunkers progressivism

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.

Senior News

Pahrump Senior Center

NDOT: Likely no roundabouts until 2016

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.”

Crime Corner

COPS: Suspect arrested Halloween night for breaking store windows

DA’s Report

• Joshua Jack Shalom was charged on Oct. 9 with battery by a prisoner.

School Menu

Nye County School District elementary menu for the week of Nov. 11 – Nov. 15:

California Lottery

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.

Correction

There were a few inaccuracies in a story on page A3 of Friday’s Pahrump Valley Times.

Caution urged on next step for water panel

TONOPAH — Developer Michael Lach urged Nye County commissioners Tuesday to do it right when setting up an advisory committee to draw up a Pahrump groundwater basin water management plan and not panic over comments by the state engineer.

Victim blinded by gunshot testifies at hearing

A man charged with the attempted murder of his daughter’s boyfriend earlier this year will now answer to those charges in District Court after a judge found enough evidence to support the case.

Wanted person released from jail on false ID

Police are looking for a woman they say provided another person’s driver’s license when she was booked into the Nye County Detention Center this weekend.

Man eats way out of jail, into shrink’s office

A defendant who was denied a recognizance release from custody two weeks ago in District Court after deputies were forced to take him to the hospital multiple times for eating inedible objects such as a pencil and eyeglasses, was released from custody last week with the condition he immediately be seen by a mental health professional.

Shoplifter entangled in web of ID theft

An investigation into a theft from the local Walmart parking lot last week led to the arrest of one woman police say has victimized as many as 80 people, stealing their mail and other personal property in attempts to get money using their private information.

Trojans take care of Faith, decimate Moapa in first playoff game

Normally when Trojans soccer player Sydney Sladek scores more than two goals against Faith Lutheran it means the game goes to the Trojans, but this time it took the silent shooter, Courtney Lindsay to deal the death blow in the Trojans victory of 3-2.

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