Pahrump Town Board members voted unanimously for some major upgrades to the veterans’ section of Chief Tecopa Cemetery this year. The addition of a Pahrump Veterans Memorial Walk was approved late last month.
Nye County School District officials will soon begin forming ballot question committees to learn arguments advocating and opposing the district’s General Acquisition Obligation school bond question on November’s general election ballot.
Nevada Assemblyman James Oscarson, R-Pahrump, is unopposed, but he still reported $28,110.99 in campaign contributions by the end of the first reporting period May 20.
Pahrump Valley Fire Rescue Services began using four new combination vital signs monitors/defibrillators and two semi-automatic defibrillators last week after medics noted earlier this year that the department’s old equipment wasn’t working efficiently as needed while tending to patients out in the field.
Nye County Commissioners changed their minds Tuesday and decided to have applicants for medical marijuana licenses appear before them, prior to the state considering licensing, which will be between Aug. 5 and Aug. 15.
Private well owners in Pahrump Valley are getting organized.
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 $9 million.
ELKO — Great Basin College announced that Barrick Gold of North America pledged nearly $1.2 million in additional funding for the college’s programs and facilities.
Taxable sales in Nye County dropped 49.3 percent in March, according to the Nevada Department of Taxation, but that is compared to March 2013, when taxable sales were near their peak, due to construction of the SolarReserve plant near Tonopah.
Well folks, at the BoCC meeting Monday, May 19, 2014, the commissioners made a wise choice by requiring placement of the water and sewer system on the racetrack proper instead of the fairgrounds. This was a sound decision despite reservations and opposition by many in the audience.
In 1918, U.S. Rep. Edwin Roberts of Nevada, who was the wartime Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, stayed in D.C. until just before the election.
The Town of Pahrump will have an opportunity to present its best assets to a nationwide audience later this year when a television production comes to town and produces a five-minute segment to put Pahrump under the national and international public eye.
The family of a woman who committed suicide inside the old Pahrump jail in 2012 is now suing the Nye County Sheriff’s Office claiming the department was told that the woman was possibly suicidal, but allowed her to be housed in the jail’s waiting room due to overcrowding anyway, where she was able to shut herself inside a bathroom.
In an effort to provide its members with a convenient new location for paying their power bills, Valley Electric Association is set to introduce a new EasyPay Kiosk within the Smith’s store at 601 S. Nevada Highway 160 in Pahrump.
Fraud complaints seem to track the economy. When times are tough, criminal behavior blooms like unwanted dandelions on a pristine lawn. When economic indicators are strong and everyone is employed and satisfied, criminal behavior will vanish. (If you believe that, I have some swamp land to sell you!)
Bob Jones is a good Samaritan and American
They are a preposterous political pairing: lanky Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate whose name for half a century has been synonymous with liberalism, and diminutive Grover Norquist, the anti-tax crusader who has been a much-feared enforcer of purity among conservatives.
One person was killed and another injured following a single-vehicle rollover accident at the intersection of Leslie Street and Silver Sage Drive Tuesday evening.
The Pahrump Town Board will be dead as of Jan. 4, 2015. Or will it?
The Muckers track team was highly successful at the state track meet at Carson High School in Carson City on Friday and Saturday, bringing home 17 medals. In addition to the medals, the Muckers brought home two individual state championships and two relay state championships.
Trojans baseball retired the season and celebrated their many accomplishments during the year and handed out their annual awards on Thursday.
The 6th Annual Diaper Run starts at J Mar Customs on Saturday with registration from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Motorcycles and automobiles are welcome to participate. Breakfast will be served to all who register.
Let’s face it, many monthly expenses are fixed. You can’t easily reduce your mortgage, rent, insurance or car payments. But there’s one expense you can control: grocery shopping.
ore than 220 Pahrump Valley High School (PVHS) seniors are expected to take the walk as the 2014 PVHS commencement ceremonies take place exactly one week from today.
A copy of this letter was sent on May 19 to all five Nye County commissioners, Public Works Director Dave Fanning and Pam Webster, Nye County manager, among other titles.
Jennifer Alba is a Pahrump Valley High School student who has literally kicked her way through high school. No, she does not play soccer.