Weekly Pahrump Valley Junior Golf Tournaments On Mondays at 1 p.m. at Lake View Executive Golf Course. This week’s results: Age Group Winners: Boys-15-18 Austen Ancell Score — 59, Boys 7-8 Caden Briscoe Score — 47, Girls 9-11 Breanne Nygaard Score — 45.
An agenda item that normally takes a few minutes to consider and approve caused a bit of consternation among town officials on Tuesday.
Pahrump Town Manager Susan Holecheck said the Federal Aviation Administration wants county commissioners to make a strong decision on the Pahrump airport project, but county commissioners Wednesday didn’t share the same enthusiasm as town officials. In fact, they expressed some reservations about the long-term project, which is almost 20 years in the making.
One of the world’s hottest and certainly one of the hardest running races happens in Death Valley National Park and is known as the AdventureCORPS Badwater Ultramarathon. Temperatures in Death Valley regularly in July exceed 120 degrees. This year it was absent from the Death Valley for the first time in 27 years due to a safety review, which according to the National Park Service should be winding down soon.
Pahrump resident Lance B. wasn’t exactly raining down three-pointers at the brand new Simkins Park basketball courts on Monday, but he seemed to be okay with that.
A tip from the National Center for Missing &Exploited Children led local detectives to a man who allegedly downloaded child pornography onto a friend’s computer and then emailed the material to himself.
Shows for the adults, a movie for the kids and a special event for teens, everyone is covered this weekend for choices in entertainment.
If you’re lucky, your tomato plants are producing like crazy right now. If you’re even luckier, you have lots of friends whose tomato plants are going nuts and you’re sharing in their abundance.
George and Judith Brooks-Strickland moved to Pahrump in 2001 and put their combined talents to use providing literary, cultural and artistic programs for the community. For them, this was the second chapter of their lives. The first chapter is a story of two divergent tales.
hose who experienced the crash of the 2008 housing market found themselves upside down in their homes. Foreclosures loomed over the financial futures of homeowners and one in every four homes in Pahrump Valley was empty. The population decreased as residents walked away from mortgages. Businesses closed, jobs dwindled and the unemployment figures were number one in the nation.
Town Manager Susan Holecheck received great news Tuesday, roughly a year after she was hired by the Pahrump Town Board.
The term “fire sale” took on new meaning Wednesday morning when Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue Services (PVFRS) responded to a call on the south end of town about 11:30 a.m.
WASHINGTON — After their first draft drew mixed reviews, Nevada’s senators are circulating a new plan that aims to avert or at least mitigate harm across the state if the sage grouse is listed by the government as an endangered or threatened species next year.
Fears of well owners having to meter their wells have so far been unfounded. Still, a Basin 162 Groundwater Management Plan Advisory Committee suggestion heard Monday may raise more anxiety for well owners.
It’s a scene directly out of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.”
Plaques of appreciation and pins were presented to both Saitta Trudeau and D&J Electrical for their donations of $250 each to the 9-10- year-old Pahrump Valley Little League All-Star team last week.
The Sam Stringer Memorial was a huge success over the weekend with 56 cars turning out for the race. The $1,500 purse was given out in the IMCA Modified class, with 18 cars showing up. The winner was Kyle Heckman, a young racer from California. Randy Thornell took second, Jon Jensen was third, Jason Pike fourth and Tony Kinkade was fifth.
County Commissioner Donna Cox wanted a ballot question in November on whether voters still wanted to proceed with the Pahrump Airport project, but couldn’t get it placed on the commission’s agenda in time, Clerk Sam Merlino confirmed Wednesday.
It was one of those important-but-dull hearings that don’t even get broadcast on C-SPAN 3.
Fifty Julys ago, up the road near San Francisco, in the unfortunately named Cow Palace, the Republican National Convention gave its presidential nomination to Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, who knew he would lose: Americans were not going to have a third president in 14 months. Besides, his don’t-fence-me-in libertarian conservatism was ahead of its time. His agenda, however, was to change his party’s national brand.
