Nye County District Attorney’s investigator Sharon Wehrly led the hotly-contested sheriff’s race with 25 percent of the vote after early voting totals were released late Tuesday evening, while the two county commission incumbents Butch Borasky and Dan Schinhofen were poised for easy Republican primary wins.
Pahrump Valley High School Principal Max Buffi called it the “greatest show in town” as Friday’s 2014 commencement ceremony got underway just after sundown.
Five people were arrested and two officers sent to a local hospital with minor injuries following a riot at the White Glove Ranch on Betty Avenue Saturday afternoon.
County Commissioner Dan Schinhofen last week proudly noted a ninth Nevada county, White Pine County, joined the list that have approved resolutions asking to complete the licensing process on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
A former Nye County Clerk’s Office employee has been charged with unlawful use of public money after she allegedly admitted to a superior in December she had borrowed more than $2,000 from the office’s cash drawer and was unable to pay it back.
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House will reach a dubious milestone this week: It will enter the record books as the most gagged in American history.
Few legends in Nevada history approach the amazing feats of strength and endurance of the great Sierra mailman, John A. “Snowshoe” Thompson.
Local residents are voicing problems with the master plan despite the Pahrump Master Plan steering committee’s years-long efforts to finalize revisions to the last plan, which was adopted in 2003.
The office of the United States Trustee recently filed a motion with the federal bankruptcy court of Nevada claiming the appointment of Nye Regional Medical Center’s Patient Care Ombudsman (PCO) Jerry Seelig as the Tonopah hospital’s responsible officer in the case may be against the law.
On June 21 the engines will roar once again for the fallen racer, Jonathan Burch, who was fondly known as “the Sandman” at the Pahrump Speedway. The memorial race will start at 7 p.m. Burch loved the speedway.
Back in the day Johnny could go play Little League for $50 and people complained then that it was too much to pay.
American Legion is off to a slow start this summer. This year Pahrump has two teams, a Silver League and a Coaches League. The legion team will be coached by Brian Hayes, who is also the head Trojans baseball coach. He is aided this year by returning coaches Roy Uyeno, Thom Walker and Jeff Koenig.
About 32,000 students took classes at Front Sight Firearms Training Institute in the last year, according to Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Meacher. The number almost equals the entire population of Pahrump.
The owners of a recently opened small business in town is crediting its success on a newly created program.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in Saturday’s drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $11 million.
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The legend of the Rhyolite grave of Mona Bell
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