So biking is your thing and you can’t get enough of it and you want to shed some pounds. Then perhaps bike racing is something to take up. Tom Vehe is a local cyclist who wanted to share his passion for the sport.
Thanks to all for a successful health fair
Pahrump held its first national horseshoe tournament of 2014 on July 12, which was called the Saddle West Open. Horseshoers from all over the state came to Pahrump to try their luck.
Another effort is underway to shutter a business that caters to residents’, er, voyeuristic tendencies.
The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services wanted county recommendations on dispensaries, with Nye County only allowed one, but it was a question mark how many cultivation facilities would get approval in Carson City, Commission Chairman Dan Schinhofen said last Wednesday.
Mike Whitman is an off-road desert motorcycle racer who has been racing for 45 years. He has won two Best in the Desert championships in 2008 and 2009. He races expert class, which is one step below professional and according to Whitman there are pro-riders, the experts and then novice riders.
Social media showed its power Monday when some residents took to Facebook to express outrage over the decision by two hotels, Best Western and Saddle West Hotel &Casino, to deny rooms to patrons with local addresses.
Students returning to two Pahrump area schools Aug. 11 will be greeted by two new administrators.
After funding years of completed or ongoing studies since its creation in 2009, members of the Nye County Water District board were urged to present their priorities as preparation for an action plan.
Desert View Hospital’s Meagan Kowalski considered Saturday’s Back to School Health Fair as the “biggest turnout thus far.”
RENO — Quarterly auctions of oil and gas leases are normally routine affairs, but the auction last Thursday drew protests of fracking at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management office from residents just across the Lander County line.
Valley Electric Association, Inc announced it recently hired five new staff members, with many of them filling high-ranking positions.
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 $23 million.
Dan Schinhofen was speaking for himself, Republicans and misguided Fox News commentators saying, “When we no longer have any faith or trust in them (Obama administration) we lose faith in the entire system and that will collapse this republic.” Schinhofen failed to mention that he was speaking for a minority of the voters and that our nation rejected their excuse, Mitt Romney, for president this past presidential election when Obama smashed him at the polls.
Earlier this month a book by former Republican U.S. Senate nominee Todd Akin of Missouri was released. Akin is the candidate who lost his 2012 Senate race after making the claim that the bodies of women have a chemical function that prevents rape victims from becoming pregnant.
A commercial kennel owner who said animal control failed to respond to requests to reinspect his property, persuaded county commissioners Tuesday to remand his case back to the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission.
• Christopher Raymond Biddy was charged on July 3 with grand larceny of a motor vehicle.