Reasons for making your own pizza

Recently a dear friend was mourning the loss of her favorite weekend treat; pizza delivery on Friday night. She said she couldn’t justify $50 for two pizzas.

Museum lecture features Tim Hafen

The Pahrump Valley Museum and Historical Society is proud to announce that our next lecture for 2014 is scheduled for Saturday, April 12 with M. Kent “Tim” Hafen who will be speaking on the history of Pahrump Valley and how some of the streets were named.

Crime Corner

COPS: Man arrested for violating probation at casino

RPC requires paving for mobile home lot

Gerald Schulte, owner of GDS Enterprises, will be required to pave and landscape the new location for his Dream Homes mobile home sales business at 1361 S. Highway 160 and remove a billboard, as part of Pahrump Regional Planning Commission approval Wednesday for a conditional use permit.

Warriors get blanked by Trojans pitching

The Lady Trojans softball pitching is on fire. In the last two outings, pitcher Whitney Roderick had nine strikeouts against Tech and 8 more against Western. Roderick could easily have had more strikeouts, but Trojans Coach Eli Armendariz took her out to give backup pitcher, Amanda Pryor, three innings.

NOW ON STAGE: Vegas-style debut helps arts council

he first fundraiser for the Pahrump Arts Council youth program dazzled audiences with a Las Vegas-style show at the Saddle West Hotel and Casino Saturday night, complete with a seven-piece band backing up Vegas legend Dondino, the Liz Lieberman Ovation Dancers and Charlie Duncan, a celebrity singer from Cornell Gunther’s Coasters.

Great Basin geared to interest students in higher learning careers

Coordinator for the Nevada State GEAR UP program, Lisa Hamrick, at Rosemary Clarke Middle School, in conjunction with Dr. Rita Bagwe, Biology Instructor for Great Basin College held four different field trips to GBC. The field trips consisted of seventh and eighth grade students in groups of 25 at a time visiting several of the classrooms and laboratory facilities located on the college campus.

Four events at Ian Deutch Park set for April 19

Next Saturday is going to be a busy day at Ian Deutch Park with four events happening simultaneously in that location.

Tax fraud: ‘Tis the season …’

Not to be jolly, but to be increasingly careful because TAX REFUND FRAUD is big business for identity theft fraudsters.

Senior News

Pahrump Senior Center

DA’s Report

• Anthony Jay Galgani was charged on Jan. 30 with driving under the influence of alcohol.

Letters to the Editor

Moose lodge and seniors thank community

Hearing an echo on Benghazi

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday held Benghazi hearing number 1,372,569, give or take, and this time they were determined to find the proof that had eluded them in the previous 1,372,568: that Obama administration officials had put politics before national security.

Solar panels good deal for Moapa tribe

Take the Valley of Fire exit off Interstate 15 north of Las Vegas, and you can’t miss the sign welcoming visitors to the Moapa Tribal Travel Center. It reads, “Tax Free.”

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 $47 million.

School Menu

Nye County School District elementary menu for the week of April 14 – April 18

Trojans hang on to win in 7th; improve to 3-0

The Trojans hung on for dear life in the top of the seventh, as the Western Warriors put men on base, but came up short by 1 run to lose 3-2.

Sound pitching frustrates Tech hitters

The Lady Trojans are slowly emerging as a Sunset League powerhouse despite the one league loss to Cheyenne. Last Friday the girls defeated a sound Tech Roadrunner team 6-0. Tech was the number three team from the Sunrise League, who was 9-2 overall and 3-1 in League.

Trojans track runs strong at Arbor View Invitational

The Arbor View Track invitational for Trojans Coach Ed Kirkwood was supposed to be just an invitational for his team to sharpen its skills. He really did not expect that many teams to be there. He was wrong. The invitational attracted 19 men’s teams and 22 women’s teams last Friday at Arbor View in Las Vegas.

Trojans baseball goes 2-3 last week

It wasn’t the best way to start a four-game home stand, but the Trojans took game two of a four-game stretch, which started last Thursday and will end on Thursday of this week.

Man arrested after crashing truck into business

A man was arrested for driving under the influence Saturday after he allegedly crashed his truck into a business property near Highway 372 and Linda Street.

Kulkin: County will ruin town’s finances, too

With the Nye County Board of Commissioners facing a $3.5 million dollar 2014-15 budget deficit, some town officials wonder how in the world it is qualified to assume the town’s financial responsibilities, too.

Big 5 Sporting Goods store in planning stages

It’s been a long arduous process for the newest commercial property to get to the planning stages of opening its new store. Big 5 Sporting Goods will break ground next week.

Pool service: the time is now

Getting ready to take that first dip in the pool? Have you checked all the equipment and chemicals or do you need a little help? Paul Beauparlant of Paul &Sons Pool Service opened here in 2007. In February 2011, he opened a pool supply store and kept it open for two years. The pool service continued but was taken over by his brother Marc Beauparlant on Friday.

VEA to PUC: Co-op acted in good faith

Valley Electric Association says it acted in good faith and didn’t yet place its Innovation Substation project at the Nevada National Security Site in commercial operation, so the cooperative shouldn’t be fined by the Public Utilities Commission.

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