Day Trips: Frontier prison, parks among Yuma area’s highlights

Most people only know the name of Yuma, Arizona, from “3:10 to Yuma” the 2007 film starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. And the movie ends before anybody actually gets to Yuma, so we never catch a glimpse of this place, so famous but so seldom seen.

This Week in Sports

Stormin’ Mormon Showdown

Diamonds in the rough

Pahrump Youth Softball Association coach Rich Lauver has been grooming his travel team for the past couple of seasons, playing them most of the year for the past couple of seasons. The PYSA team has won many tournaments and now some of these kids are freshmen and are ready to play ball for the Trojans.

League changes could put Trojans in playoffs

For the Trojans baseball team, it is a brand new year and a new division. A division without league rival Faith Lutheran. In fact, the top four teams that finished the season last year are all gone.

Death Valley seeks federal funds to repair marred landscapes

The National Park Service is seeking the public’s opinion for a grant application process that would help to fund restoration of the areas of the Death Valley National Park that had been damaged by off-road driving, officials said in a press release.

Permit for special condition animals reinstated by officials

Nye County commissioners reinstated a permit that allows possession of special condition animals at a Pahrump residence after emotional pleas from the residence owner and members of the public.

Senior News

Pahrump Senior Center

Mountain Falls Womens Golf Association has new champion

The Mountain Falls Women’s Golf Association had a successful two-day golf tournament on Feb 15 and 22, with Jackie Dobbins coming out on top.

Are you eating your way into debt?

We gotta eat! That’s a fact. But how we handle this expense can make the difference between money in the bank or drowning in debt.

County wells have tritium level below detection limit

Nye County wells in the vicinity of the Nevada National Security Site have a level of tritium below the detection limit, according to recent lab results.

Cameraman testifies during Bunkerville standoff trial

A Fox News cameraman who tried, unsuccessfully, to mediate the 2014 Bunkerville standoff gave hours of testimony Wednesday during the trial of six men accused of conspiring with rancher Cliven Bundy.

Woman charged in fatal DUI crash to appear in court Monday

The woman charged with driving under the influence of an intoxicating liquor, thereby causing the death of another late last year, is scheduled to appear in court for an arraignment hearing on Monday.

Pahrump women observe International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is described by organizers as a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

Will Nevada’s rural counties join the State of Jefferson?

Once upon a time in Nevada, those elected to our State Legislature balanced the needs and desires of their districts with the overall best interests of the entire state.

Sotomayor expresses concern over court’s true threat jurisprudence

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor agreed with her colleagues that the Court should deny review in a true-threat case out of Florida, involving a man who uttered, while drunk, that he could blow up a liquor store.

School Menu

Nye County School District elementary menu for the week of March 13 – March 17:

New book by unlikely author is making liberal heads explode

I just finished reading a new book, and liberal race-hustlers and cop-haters are having a cow over it. Get a load of some of the “outrageous!” things this author wrote…

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California Lottery

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 $19 million.

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