Nevada Rural Counties Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, better known simply as RSVP, is a non-profit organization that has a daily impact on the lives of Nye County residents and it is always striving to expand its reach.
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Starting June 1, all 117 fee-collecting parks will charge an extra $5 for admission, including Lake Mead, Death Valley, GrandCanyon, Zion and other park sites in the Las Vegas vicinity.
When Bryce Odegard was honored earlier this year by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association with a scholarship, he said he turned to his father and deadpanned, “How many kids actually applied?”
Family and friends recently gathered to pay their respects to a local veteran.
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Amargosa Days is running April 27 through April 29 as part of a dynamic celebration, organizers said.
On the day after Christmas, 1925, at the edge of the little hamlet of Shoshone, within whistling distance of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad and close to the warm-water spring that kept the town alive, a healthy baby boy opened his eyes to the desert for the very first time.
Nye County School District elementary menu for the week of April 16 – April 20:
Tuesday, April 17, is National Tax Day, where most Americans around the country will file their taxes for the IRS.
Denise H. Rohan, the first female national commander of the American Legion (coincidentally sworn in during the group’s national convention in Sparks in 2017) toured Southern Nevada.
The American and Nevada flags are shown flying at half-staff in Pahrump, a tribute to an Air Force Thunderbirds pilot killed when his jet crashed April 4 on the Nevada Test and Training Range.
Tye Hardy won his third bull riding competition of the season to highlight the efforts of the Pahrump Valley rodeo team April 7-8 during the Nevada High School Rodeo Association’s Fallon event.
From midnight to 5 a.m. April 11, maintenance was planned on fiber-optic cabling that carries Valley Communications Association’s digital TV services. The maintenance will affect approximately two-thirds of the channels, but most channels from 3 through 89 should be unaffected, Valley said in a recent announcement.
Nye County School District elementary menu for the week of April 9 – April 13:
There are many tragic and memorable events that occurred during America’s role in the 20-year-long Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War.