Tonopah briefly fell behind Round Mountain before Dustin Otteson broke his own rushing record and the Muckers rolled to an 80-20 victory.
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Tonopah opened its home schedule with a 70-0 Mucker Bowl victory over Virginia City as Dustin Otteson rushed for 318 yards and scored five touchdowns.
At this year’s event, over 400 attendees enjoyed historic building tours, a land auction and parade.
The three-day event is set to kick off on Friday, July 31.
A community party is planned this Saturday to celebrate new skatepark, basketball and pickleball courts.
TONOPAH- Tanner Otteson has been honored with an invitation to play in the 2017 13th Annual Max Emfinger All-American Game in Hammond, Louisiana, which is the oldest all-American game in the country.
The newly opened Crescent Dunes solar plant in Tonopah is offline, a shutdown triggered by a salt spill, a plant official confirmed to the Times-Bonanza on Thursday.
TONOPAH – Though the announcement that a second Nye County solar plant is in the works was the national headline at SolarReserves’s recent solar celebration near Tonopah, the event also provided a behind-the-scenes look at the Crescent Dunes solar plant off Gabbs Pole Line Road.
Rejecting yet another proposed change to an open grazing exemption, the Tonopah Town Board voted 5-0 to give its OK to a resolution aimed at reassuring cattle ranchers that a massive annexation making the town one of the USA’s biggest in land size won’t harm their interests.
Seeking to keep its commitment to concerned Nye County cattle owners, the town of Tonopah is revising a proposed resolution to allow grazing in a wide swath of newly annexed land.
Tonopah voters returned one incumbent and elected two newcomers to the town board on Tuesday night.
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I’m still finding my way around Nye and Esmeralda counties, trying to make sure I don’t miss anything, or at least catch up with news as quickly as possible.
Robert Norman “Bobby” Revert, a lifelong resident of Beatty, passed away in a Las Vegas hospice in the early hours of Nov. 4, 2016.
Depending on the point of view, a land-use draft plan that didn’t make it out of Esmeralda County Commission chambers marked a victory for small government advocates, a lost opportunity, a chance for community members to engage on the issue, or all of the above.
The Bureau of Land Management has announced plans to transfer ownership of the ghost town to Esmeralda County, ending a decadeslong property dispute that has prevented residents from getting clear title to the land.
The town of Tonopah is all set to see a new addition to the fleet that provides emergency medical transportation to the community and surrounding areas.
