Jerry Adcox retires as the Beatty track coach after 44 years of coaching at various schools in New Mexico, Oregon and Nevada. For the last 23 years, he has been the Beatty Hornets track coach on and off. In his last five years of coaching, his girls’ team has won the regional title five times and he has won one state title.
Special Olympics athletes are not like any other athletes and yet they are like all athletes. In the realm of Special Olympics, these special athletes strive just to be treated like everyone else. In their fight to be normal, they learn life lessons about competition and what it’s like to win and what it’s like to lose. They are all winners in that respect, and learn life lessons that come with hard work.
WASHINGTON — Late spring means short sleeves, schoolchildren preparing for summer vacation, and the annual push by Yucca Mountain supporters in Congress to revive the dormant nuclear waste project.
The Pahrump Valley Junior Golf program is back and is as strong as ever. Long considered to be the main source of young golfers in the valley, the program under Frank Cox, former Willow Creek Golf Pro, has been a driving force in the valley to get kids interested in golf.
The results of the Nevada High School State Finals Rodeo are in. The three-day competition was in Ely and ended on Sunday.
Beatty residents tend to laugh whenever a big-city reporter refers to Beatty as a “sleepy little town.”
Valley Electric Association, Inc. announced last week the organization has hired Chris Brooks, a well-established leader in Nevada’s renewable energy industry, to serve as VEA’s executive vice president of energy services.
Two new businesses have joined the owner-operated selection of small establishments which make up most of Pahrump’s economy.
Mark Zane, a former undersheriff under Harold “Stick” Davis, finished ahead in the sheriff’s race in northern Nye County, according to a canvass of election day voting.
County commissioners may have been reluctant to house juvenile offenders with more seasoned criminals in Las Vegas, but they bit the bullet Tuesday and decided to approve a contract with Clark County for temporarily housing them at Zenoff Hall.
County commissioners Tuesday approved a bill reducing the fee for initial applications for a medical marijuana dispensary from $30,000 to $15,000, after a last-ditch attempt by Commissioner Frank Carbone to lower the fees even farther to $4,000.
The hue and cry has arisen throughout rural Nevada for years about the 87 percent of federal land in the state, but only 10 people were interested in a Monday workshop in Pahrump about the workings of a Nevada Land Management Task Force plan to transfer some of it to the state.
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 $13 million.
In 1971 it was written that the wild horses and burros of America are to be protected from harassment, abuse, torture and death.
In August 1990, I was covering a court case at the Douglas County Courthouse. Walking past the law library, I noticed the defendant and his lawyer through a glass wall. I swung my camera up and shot some footage of them and then continued on my way.
Wayne Carlson, the executive director of the Nevada Public Agency Insurance Pool (POOL/PACT), delivered some welcome news to the Town of Pahrump on Tuesday.
Sierra Vista Coach steps down — Nate Selby resigned after 13 seasons as baseball coach at Sierra Vista and is being succeeded by assistant Justin Sherman, and Legacy football coach Dave Snyder is moving on after eight seasons with the Longhorns. Selby built the Mountain Lions into a baseball power. In 2005, his team won the 4A state championship. He steps down as the team moves to the I-A next year.
Pahrump officials want their county counterparts to know one thing: “We are here and we are listening.”
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