If you’re only planning on dipping in town for an afternoon, we offer these tips of “must-dos” for Jim Butler Days.
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Nye County Sheriff’s deputies say Tanya Breedlove Carter had “made threats” to her neighbor that she was “going to burn down their trailer” and was seen leaving the property on May 11, just minutes before the fire was reported.
Costs for the new elementary school are already $6 million more than initial estimates. Officials are now eyeing a plan that would build most of the school at an off-site manufacturing facility.
This rare toad is found at just one spring-fed wetland complex in Nye County’s Railroad Valley on about 445 acres and is isolated from other toads by miles of arid desert.
The 5-acre facility now includes an information kiosk, two shade structures and an all-weather vault toilet, surrounded by newly compacted gravel to provide parking for off-roaders exploring Nevada’s back country.
The discovery underscores the growth potential for the domestic-energy supply chain, according to Australia-based Ioneer Ltd. officials, who are billing Rhyolite Ridge as the “most advanced undeveloped lithium project” in the U.S.
The book, “Governing on the Ground: The Past, Present, and Future of County Government,” features the voices of 30 county leaders on topics ranging from elections to criminal justice, to housing, illustrating how issues play out at the local level.
Parents, students and teachers at the town’s schools have multiple complaints to share with trustees.
“I don’t feel comfortable making such a vote on a drastic decision … without meeting them myself,” says trustee Chelsy Fischer. Instead, trustees will engage with stakeholders in the Duckwater community next month before reaching a decision to close the facility.
Tonopah has held all six opponents to five runs or less, while they have scored 20 or more runs in four of the six games.
The venue just made sense for Althea Georgia Bell Brooks-Hall and Keith Franklin Brooks-Hall, who decided to tie the knot at Tonopah Liquor Co. where they met exactly 12 months earlier and have shared so many “firsts.”
Low enrollment likely to force shut down at the remote K-8 facility.
Nevada Department of Transportation officials on Monday closed a portion of the highway between Schurz and Hawthorne because of the heavy rocks that fell on the road.
Conservationists have filed another lawsuit aimed at protecting wildlife in the area from the environmental threats of alfalfa farming and mining operations. This time, it’s on behalf of a rare minnow found in just one spring system of Fish Lake Valley in rural Esmeralda County, about an hour west of Tonopah.
This past weekend was life-changing for many living in and around the town of Tonopah, with Remote Area Medical bringing its free, pop-up health care clinic to the community for the very first time.
