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10 attend workshop on public lands acquisition

The hue and cry has arisen throughout rural Nevada for years about the 87 percent of federal land in the state, but only 10 people were interested in a Monday workshop in Pahrump about the workings of a Nevada Land Management Task Force plan to transfer some of it to the state.

Town, county’s insurance premiums drop

Wayne Carlson, the executive director of the Nevada Public Agency Insurance Pool (POOL/PACT), delivered some welcome news to the Town of Pahrump on Tuesday.

Nye vote was polar opposite of state results

Nye County voters bucked statewide trends in two races higher up the ticket in Tuesday’s primary election.

Esmeralda murder suspect takes plea deal

A suspect in the July 2013 murder of a Silver Peak man has reportedly taken a plea deal in the case and will be sentenced on a single charge of second degree murder next month.

Crime Corner

COPS: Man breaks into home, demands pills

Primary winners, runners-up prep for November election

Almost 30 percent of the registered voters turned out for Tuesday’s primary election in Nye County, with the main draw the sheriff’s race, where Sharon Wehrly, a county resident since 1965 and special investigator for the district attorney’s office, captured almost one-fourth of the vote split among 10 candidates. She garnered 1,634 votes.

DA’s Report

• Dillon Thomas Major was charged on May 24 with attempted murder with use of a deadly weapon and domestic battery with use of a deadly weapon.

First medical marijuana rezoning approved

The first two requests to rezone property for medical marijuana establishments were recommended for approval by the Pahrump Regional Planning Commission Wednesday.

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