By DON McDERMOTTPVT BEATTY — The Best in the Desert TSCO Vegas to Reno Off-Road race, contested less than a week after a deadly accident killed eight spectators during an event in California, was fast and furious — and considerably more safe. The 534-mile race, which started here early Friday morning and had the winners[...]

This listing includes school and senior center menus, California Lottery, community calendar, support meetings and community assistance.   Community Calendar Today     Salvation Army Pahrump Corps Youth Night — 5:30-8 p.m., Worship Center at 721 Buol Road.  VFW donation dinner — 5-7 p.m., VFW Post 10054, Homestead Road, $6. Open to the public. Prayer meeting[...]

By GINA B. GOOD PVT Tim Sutton was appointed to the Nye County School Board of Trustees Tuesday night during a meeting of the board in Pahrump. Trustee Edna Forsgren, who attended the meeting via teleconference from Tonopah, cast the last “aye” vote to make Sutton’s selection unanimous. The board interviewed the three most qualified[...]

Todd Michael Hart passed away July 29, 2010, at Hilo Medical Center in Hilo, Hawaii. He was born June 20, 1968, in South Burlington, Vt. After graduating from high school in Milton, Vt., he moved back to Hawaii. Living in Ainaloa, Hawaii, he was a wonderful dad and a very successful, self-employed small engine technician,[...]

By JOHN L. SMITH “Nevada Smith” Imagine what some of the long-haul truckers and cross-country vacationers were thinking Saturday morning when the friendly folks from Esmeralda County rerouted traffic off US 95 and down a side street on the edge of Goldfield. Traffic accident? Highway construction? Nothing so tame. It was the annual Goldfield Days[...]

By DENNIS MYERS “Against the Grain” Back in the 1960s or ’70s, Washoe County Sen. Cliff Young asked the Nevada Legislature’s bill-drafting office for a cost figure on how much it costs to draft, introduce, and process one basic piece of legislation. Nothing fancy, just drafting, introduction, a hearing and a vote. As I recall,[...]

By GINA B. GOOD PVT Three came; three voted; three accomplished their tasks. A quorum of three board members attended Tuesday night’s town board meeting. With Chairman Nicole Shupp and Vice Chairman Bill Dolan absent, the board’s clerk, Vicky Parker, was tasked with conducting the meeting. There were just a handful of agenda items that[...]