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How Nye’s sheriff auxiliary operations are evolving

With their trademark, creased light blue button-down shirts, Nye County Sheriff’s Office auxiliary officers are always visible at scenes of vehicle crashes, structure fires and other incidents involving public safety. But there are now changes underway into the auxiliary program in terms of operations, certain procedures and appearances among the officers, including new polo-style shirts.

Connecting causes and community — Pahrump Volunteer Fair set for May

Thanks to an AmeriCorps Volunteer Generation Fund grant, Nevada Volunteers is embarking on three years of Volunteer Fairs that will take the organization all across the state and the very first stop will be right here in Pahrump.

Landscape Tour will highlight local yards

The Pahrump Valley Garden Club is all set to hold its 16th Annual Landscape Tour and anyone with an interest in gardening, plants or yard art will not want to miss out. This year’s event features six local yards, all hand-picked by the Garden Club members to give attendees a wide variety of landscape types to peruse.

GALLERY: Celebrating the lives of lost loved ones

Butterflies are a symbol of transformation and one of the most transformative things a person can experience is the death of someone they love.

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PVHS Science Bowl team goes head-to-head in regional competition

Calling the event a high school version of “Jeopardy” would be an accurate description according to Pahrump Valley High School Math Teacher Jim Paxton.

Test scores disappoint district officials

Poor proficiency testing took center stage during a Nye County School District Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday night.

NDOT crews witness rollover accident

Alcohol may be the cause of a late morning single-vehicle rollover accident along Highway 160 on Wednesday.

Senate chairman pushes for Yucca

WASHINGTON — The new chairman of a Senate energy panel on Thursday announced he plans to focus on nuclear energy this year, including a bid to end an impasse on nuclear waste created when the Yucca Mountain repository was terminated.

Seven wild burros adopted out

Traffic-stopping wild burros wandering the Pahrump Valley and corralled by the Bureau of Land Management in December, have found new homes.

Crime corner, Feb. 6

Man jailed for domestic battery

Nature construction firm tapped to fix Beatty field

The Nye County School District Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to approve hydro-seeding Beatty High’s football field.

Assembly holds hearing on locking guns in vehicles

CARSON CITY — Gun owners packed an Assembly hearing Wednesday to support a bill that would allow people to have guns on school grounds in their vehicles.

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