Rosemary Clarke Middle School just reported that local drug stores are running low on liniment and pain killers. Yes, the pucker factor just went up as an influx of asses are scheduled to come to town as Pahrump prepares for the second annual upcoming Donkey Basketball Game.
Valley Electric Association, Inc. (VEA) has made significant strides to provide its members with a wide variety of benefits in 2014 and beyond.
High county employee pensions questioned
The first annual Maroon and Gold baseball game was held between former players and current baseball players.
The owner of a local nonprofit animal shelter who was charged with 41 Nye County Code violations last year, including cruelty to animals, was fined and ordered to do community service this week after pleading no contest to a single count of violating the county’s sanitation code.
One day after a story was published about a federal tax lien slapped on the Pahrump Senior Center, the debt was paid off, center Director Jim Gronemann said last week.
Pahrump town officials call it a win-win-situation for all involved.
“It was the department’s worst kept secret.”
Pahrump Town Board Chairman Harley Kulkin does not intend to abandon his elected position quietly.
Bob Pilkington, owner of My Paralegal, announced at the Lincoln Day Dinner last Friday he’s running for Nye County public administrator in the 2014 election.
DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — The Furnace Creek Visitor Center in Death Valley National Park was granted the Award of Excellence from Docomomo US. The award is part of the Modernism of America Awards, the first national program of its kind to celebrate the projects and people working to preserve and rehabilitate significant mid-century modern buildings for continued productive use, and to raise public awareness of the ongoing threats to modern architecture and design.
Mixed martial arts is big business in Las Vegas and not only with male fighters. The female fighters are a big draw too. Ronda Rousey, a former 2008 Judo bronze medalist, is now the reigning UFC 170 Bantam Weight Division Champion after easily putting away challenger Sara McMann in less than a minute into the first round. This action I find way better than boxing.
TONOPAH — A bill amending the Nye County Code on animal control, allowing people with a lot of animals to have a pet fancier’s permit instead of requiring a commercial kennel permit, will be on the agenda when commissioners meet here at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
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 $25 million.
Tap out a few hundred words on some local mobster, and I can expect several phone calls — at least one of them life-threatening.
The Nevada State Bench Press and Deadlift Championships will be held at the Pahrump Nugget on March 1 at 9 a.m. The entry fee for those who want to watch is $5 and kids 8 and under are free.
The 18th Annual Quilt & Fiber Arts Show was a tremendous success, thanks to an army of volunteers, a supportive community and the Pahrump Arts Council.
PRIMM — Eleven Trojan wrestlers spent a long, tough day Saturday, proudly wrestling their hearts out for championship positions at the State Championship Division 1-A Tournament at Primm.
The Lady Muckers will be fighting for the Division IV Nevada State Championship tournament this weekend in Reno. Although making the state tourney for the second time in a row is big, the Muckers want to win it.
The Tonopah wrestling team was represented by three wrestlers at the Nevada State Wrestling Championships at Primm last Saturday. The three wrestlers were Kekoa Elliot at 160 pounds, TJ Ayers at 170 pounds and Tanner Otteson at 106 pounds.
As crews continue their work drilling a well in the Calvada Eye this week, officials with the Nye County Water District were working on their continuing efforts to preserve Nevada’s most precious natural resource on Monday.
A Nye County public defender lost his county contract last Friday after failing repeatedly to provide proof of insurance.
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 $24 million.
The Beatty Hornets women’s basketball team made it to the second round of the playoffs.
When Nye County commissioners voted June 19, 2013 to implement a revolving loan fund centered around a $1 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, they allotted almost $200,000 of it to NyE Communities Coalition to fund the Brownfields Workforce Training Program.
