Special Olympics is looking for a few good volunteers who care to work with special needs children. Jim Soltz, the area director, said they are looking for coaches of all ages from teens on up. “No one really gets turned down here. We will put everyone to work,” Soltz said.
The General Tire Vegas to Reno race is the longest off-road race in the United States at 535 miles. This year there will be 299 vehicles entered, 40 Trick Trucks, 34-1500 class (dune buggies), 41 UTV’s, and 27 Ironmen (riders riding solo).
Just before July 4, the monsoon season started in Beatty and unfortunately destroyed the efforts of the Nye County School District to make good on a promise to fix the Beatty High School football field. The rain washed away the seed. This meant that the field would not be ready for the upcoming football season.
The District Court trial of a man accused of sexually assaulting two young girls started Tuesday.
TONOPAH — Pahrump Town Board Vice Chairman Bill Dolan cried nepotism in the hiring of Amy Fanning as county comptroller Tuesday.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard about the financial woes of Nye County from Commissioner Lorinda Wichman, who testified in favor of a bill streamlining renewable energy on public lands and ensuring local governments benefit from the royalties.
BEATTY — National Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander-in-Chief John Stroud visited the John C. Strozzi Post 12108 in Beatty Aug. 1.
TONOPAH — Numerous dockets are before the Nevada Public Utilities Commission in which Nye County may want to intervene, but the request for a permit to rehabilitate the ponds at the Willow Creek golf course isn’t one of them, Utilities Inc. of Central Nevada President Wendy Barnett urged county commissioners Tuesday.
Those looking for a reason to go out for dinner have two options for taking the plunge. A new restaurant in the facility at the Maverick Saloon and Dance hall has been taken over by the Open Range Cafe and the Pahrump Nugget Stockman’s Steakhouse has joined Three Square to raise funds for the organization’s efforts to feed the less fortunate.
A new business will add monitored playrooms full of toys and balls, a TV and clean, sanitized “cabins” with “cots” to an already busy grooming business. Camp K-9 &Kitties Too hopes to be fully open by late October if construction keeps moving forward.
Nye County District Attorney candidate Angela Bello admitted she never ran for political office before, in a stump speech before the Pahrump Republican Women’s Club Monday.
Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue crews responded to several structure fires in recent days. One of the fires led to the arrest of a local juvenile.
Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue Services Chief Scott Lewis wants to ensure the community that public safety is the department’s first priority.
TONOPAH — Former deputy state engineer Bob Coache said there is no authority by the state engineer’s office to require proof of beneficial use of water rights basinwide, during a listening session scheduled here last Thursday night.
Nye County commissioners held an emergency meeting at 3 p.m. Monday to authorize District Attorney Brian Kunzi to file a restraining order preventing the Pahrump Town Board from entering into new or revised contracts with top town employees that would continue after the town board is dissolved Jan. 5, 2015.
I read Mr. Ferrell’s progressive outlook on things and felt a response was in order. Let me say right off I am not a supporter of Mr. Schinhofen and that I consider Senators Graham and McCain to be progressives.
Sometimes I participate in a sort of email round robin discussion group with my brother and friends and recently we were discussing what happened to the Sambo’s restaurant chain and that led to a discussion of the story, “Little Black Sambo.”
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 $9 million.
Months after concrete dividers were set up along Highway 160 near Mesquite Avenue, Utilities Inc. of Central Nevada began the Highway 160 trench backfill project July 28.
