Six county sheriff’s deputies out on stress leave are not expected to return to work until at least August, sources tell the Pahrump Valley Times.
The anguish was there in Las Vegas. Soccer fans were doubled over and disappointed by the Americans loss to Belgium 2-1 in extra time. The disappointment made the front page of the Review-Journal on Wednesday.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in Wednesday’s drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $18 million.
Nye County will only have to cut its department budgets 2.75 percent this year instead of 5 percent, due to some additional revenues, County Manager Pam Webster told commissioners during a special teleconference Friday, which marked the end of the fiscal year.
Why does my phone keep ringing with deals, offers and prizes?
Beatty is holding its annual celebration called “An Old-Fashioned 4th of July.” The parade will begin at 10 a.m. at Beatty Elementary School at 301 Fourth St. and end up at Cottonwood Park on Main St. where the celebration will be held.
You know those crazy Nevadans — any excuse for a party.
LAS VEGAS — The public can participate in a virtual meeting on the Interstate 11 project, reviewing the latest project information and providing feedback online through July 18. There is also a public hearing scheduled on improvements to Highway 160 from Red Rock Canyon to Mountain Springs.
Property owners in Pahrump were spared a tax hike by the town board this year, but the Pahrump and Beatty library districts both took advantage of available tax cap room to increase their rates. The town of Tonopah also increased its tax rate.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association came out with the final rubric totals for the Division I and I-A schools for last year. The NIAA uses the rubric to determine alignment for the two divisions in Southern Nevada.
The Nevada State High School Rodeo finals will be from June 13-15 in Ely this year.
One of the ways the town celebrated its heritage during Jim Butler Days was by mucking things up during the 2014 Nevada State Mining Championships.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Private well owners in Pahrump Valley are getting organized.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in Wednesday’s drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $9 million.
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 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.
Well folks, at the BoCC meeting Monday, May 19, 2014, the commissioners made a wise choice by requiring placement of the water and sewer system on the racetrack proper instead of the fairgrounds. This was a sound decision despite reservations and opposition by many in the audience.