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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.

Local families invited to Community Baby Shower

Raising a child can be hard. That’s something the members of Pahrump Mothers Corner understand all too well. In an effort to ease the challenges of parenthood, particularly for new and expecting families, this group of local moms banded together to host a Community Baby Shower and the event proved to be very popular, leading to its return for the third year running.

Tonopah to be home to experimental hypersonic testing facility

Ambitious. It’s an apt word to describe Michael Grace’s vision for the future of his company, Longshot Space Technology Corporation, which, if all goes to plan, will build what he calls the world’s largest potato gun.

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Pilkington blasts Finlinson, seeks seat

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.

Revised kennel regulations up for county vote

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.

DA’s Report

• Jeffrey Alan Smith, Sr. was charged on Feb. 7 with criminal contempt.

Voluntary well metering urged

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.

Brownfields grads head to the workforce

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.

A Q&A with new NCREDA director

Local business owner Cassandra Selbach assumed the position of executive director of the Nye County Regional Economic Development Authority (NCREDA) late last year.

Horsford fights for new Pahrump VA clinic

Congressman Steven Horsford, D-Nev., said he asked Veterans Administration Secretary Eric Shinseki at the White House several weeks ago to sign an authorization letter for a new Pahrump VA clinic.

Tourism director touts recent successes

Arlette Ledbetter, Pahrump’s tourism director, knows one thing for sure: It pays to advertise.

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