The time of hunting and fishing conventions has come to an end and the hunting guides-outfitters have returned home to prepare for another season. I’m left with my head full of new stories and my sides still aching from laughing at the crazy tales and humorous, if sometimes dangerous, adventures we’ve shared at vendor booths, in the hallways, hotel rooms and yes, while sipping a beverage in the local “watering holes.”
Sports
Six competitive horseshoe pitchers met in a Nevada town with roughly 2,000 residents and home of the Clown Motel, which is next to a cemetery that dates back to 1901 in Tonopah.
The defending state champion Pahrump Valley baseball weren’t able to bring home another title this season, but three standouts for the Trojans ranked in the top 100 players in the 3A division for their batting averages.
Beatty was filled with off-road enthusiasts for last month’s BigHorn Outback Explorers’ annual Poker Run. In all, 176 vehicles, including ATV’s, UTV’s, Jeeps, and trucks, took to the 60-mile route through Beatty’s outback backyard
TONOPAH — High school softball season has ended after the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association wrapped up its state championships on Saturday.
It was movie day at the Pahrump Valley Speedway as a movie production company called Romeo Sampson Pictures was there on Saturday filming a movie called “Poor Boy.”
Bowling News: The PVTBC will hold a 3-6-9 singles tournament, with handicap, on May 30 at the Pahrump Nugget. This tournament will be sponsored by Win Realty in honor of WR Sporting. Practice starts at 12:50. Tournament is open to active PVTBC members only (dues for 2015 needed prior).
Connie Mack baseball started in Pahrump on Saturday for the 14 U group. They played their first game at home and were swept by the Bulldogs, 12-2 and 11-3.
Rosemary Clarke Middle School participated in the newly organized Southern Nevada Middle School League Championship in golf just before school let out last week.
The Pahrump Mini Dwarfs raced on May 16 with the Las Vegas Quarter Midgets Club in the High Roller Series Points Race in Las Vegas.
Toni Wombaker, a Pahrump resident, buried her competition and successfully defended her mucking title at the Nevada State Mining Competition during Jim Butler Days in Tonopah over the weekend.
The Pahrump Valley High baseball field renovation is underway by the Nye County School District after a series of meetings with concerned parents and supporters.
It’s the last week of school and it’s once again time for the Goofy Olympics. This goofy time signifies the end of the school year at Rosemary Clarke Middle School for the sixth graders.
The coaching staff of the Pahrump Valley High girls basketball and volleyball teams will be holding separate camps Tuesday through Friday.
Pahrump Valley High honored four senior athletes Wednesday for their excellence. Seniors Jace Clayton and Alyssa Murphy were selected as Outstanding Athlete of the Year, and seniors John Clark and Shayla Dance were chosen as the Scholar Athletes of the Year. The difference being that the Scholar Athlete has a grade component to it. Each student receives $500.
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The Mexican national men’s soccer team defeated Jamaica, as an early goal by Henry Martin set the tone for a dominant El Tri performance
A project to construct more than 400 single-family homes on Blue Diamond Hill near Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area can move forward.
Nye County recorded nine new cases and four deaths from COVID-19 between March 16 and Wednesday, but data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed all of Nevada in the “low” community transmission level, a positive sign as the state moves forward in its pandemic response.
Nevada hospitals overwhelmed as omicron variant surges.