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Well owners, utilities quarrel over water plans

Deputy State Engineer Kelvin Higginbotham said his office could take other steps to avoid listing Pahrump as a critical management area for water under a new state law, like declaring it a less severe “active management area.”

County will co-sponsor airport grant application

Nye County Commissioners Tuesday agreed to co-sponsor a $750,000 grant application by the town of Pahrump for an environmental impact statement at the Pahrump Airport.

New War Memorial Walk honors vets, teaches visitors

Pahrump Town Board members voted unanimously for some major upgrades to the veterans’ section of Chief Tecopa Cemetery this year. The addition of a Pahrump Veterans Memorial Walk was approved late last month.

NCSD bond question goes to general election

Nye County School District officials will soon begin forming ballot question committees to learn arguments advocating and opposing the district’s General Acquisition Obligation school bond question on November’s general election ballot.

Oscarson collects $28,000 in campaign contributions

Nevada Assemblyman James Oscarson, R-Pahrump, is unopposed, but he still reported $28,110.99 in campaign contributions by the end of the first reporting period May 20.

Town board pays over $120,000 for PVFRS medical equipment

Pahrump Valley Fire Rescue Services began using four new combination vital signs monitors/defibrillators and two semi-automatic defibrillators last week after medics noted earlier this year that the department’s old equipment wasn’t working efficiently as needed while tending to patients out in the field.

County wants control of marijuana facilities

Nye County Commissioners changed their minds Tuesday and decided to have applicants for medical marijuana licenses appear before them, prior to the state considering licensing, which will be between Aug. 5 and Aug. 15.

Pahrump GBC campus benefits from donation

ELKO — Great Basin College announced that Barrick Gold of North America pledged nearly $1.2 million in additional funding for the college’s programs and facilities.

Taxable sales, unemployment rates drop

Taxable sales in Nye County dropped 49.3 percent in March, according to the Nevada Department of Taxation, but that is compared to March 2013, when taxable sales were near their peak, due to construction of the SolarReserve plant near Tonopah.

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