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Town sets sights on profitable rally

Exactly six months from today, local residents, town officials and area businesses will learn if a Pahrump sponsored motorcycle rally was worth the effort.

IN PROFILE: Jill Cory

BUSINESS: Fitness Director for Fitness for $10

Ceramics studio is ‘All Fired Up’

Small businesses are always opening here. Some of them don’t succeed, while others do. One successful approach comes with an attempt to fill a niche market where the business offers a services not in competition with the bigger box retailers — even the ones in Las Vegas.

Bill introduced to transfer land for college

WASHINGTON — A proposal to convey 285 acres near Carpenter Canyon Road and Highway 160 just outside Pahrump as a Great Basin College campus was included with a bill granting special status to thousands of acres containing prehistoric artifacts north of Las Vegas that advanced in Congress on Thursday.

Weather cooperates for annual bird count

AMARGOSA VALLEY — Seventeen volunteers took part in the 19th Annual Christmas Bird Count at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Dec. 15, serving as citizen scientists joining tens of thousands of volunteers as part of the National Audubon Society’s 114th Annual Christmas Bird Count.

Board votes to dump fireworks producer

The Pahrump Town Board put safety first for next year’s Fourth of July celebrations at Petrack Park.

Man arrested on felony lewdness charges

Police took one man into custody last week after they received a report that he had allegedly molested two girls under the age of 14 sometime between 2010 and 2011.

Suit fails to thwart well contract

Nye County commissioners Tuesday awarded a $98,800 contract to Great Basin Drilling for a 600-foot deep, 10-inch diameter agricultural well at the Calvada Eye, despite a lawsuit filed by Utilities Inc. of Central Nevada.

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