Amargosa Valley News

Sleepyheads can rejoice. Nye County Commission meetings will now start at 10 a.m. instead of 8:30 a.m., following a 4-1 county commission vote Tuesday.

GINA B. GOOD / PVT ARES/RACES operators Jerry Fuge, left, and George Cox work on getting the Morse Code key to function while Steve Bird looks on.

MARK WAITE / PVT Former Nye County Commissioner Peter Liakopoulos, at right, and public defender Tom Gibson leave 5th District Court after the guilty verdict.

MARK SMITH / PVT Sheriff Tony DeMeo outlines a variety of law enforcement matters during his most recent public forum at Wulfy's Sports Bar.

Special to the PVT Christmastime, complete with an early 20th century "pin-up" and fine wines in the dugout dwelling occupied by Josiah Irving Crowell at his Chloride Cliff mine.

A 32,699-acre tract of western Amargosa Valley, just east of U.S. Ecology, is one of 24 solar energy zones in the Southwest that will receive intense scrutiny for a fast track environmental analysis.

In "Border Circle Roundup," he was quoted as saying $4 "is too much." Today it costs $20 for a passenger car to enter Death Valley National Park.

Ivins and chamber part ways Lucy Ivins is no longer the executive director of the Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce after a board of directors meeting Monday.

Nevada Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, R-Amargosa Valley, said legislation passed this session granting 55 percent abatements on real and personal property tax to solar power projects will still generate ample revenue for Nye County, countering the concerns of officials like Commissioner Joni Eastley.

Family to Family Calendar The Center has moved to a new location at 621 S. Blagg Road, behind No to Abuse.

Solar energy was at the forefront of the discussion when the Valley Electric Association board of directors held their monthly meeting Friday.

STATE LEGISLATURE: County reps vote against overriding the Gibbons veto Both state legislators representing Nye County in Carson City -- Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, R-Amargosa Valley, and Sen.

Both state legislators representing Nye County in Carson City -- Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, R-Amargosa Valley, and Sen.

The site commonly referred to as the "Cow Camp," Ron Metheny's 40-acre private spread in Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, was long a popular getaway for Pahrump residents for the monthly chuck wagon barbecues on the weekend nearest the full moon.

Everyone in the filled-to-capacity Pahrump Nye County School District office Wednesday night anxiously waited to hear what school jobs would be reinstated, using the additional $2.07 million allocated to the district by the state Legislature last week.

Nye County may not qualify for economic stimulus funds for chip-sealing projects, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could have money for drainage improvements at Wheeler Wash, Acting Public Works Director Dave Fanning said Monday.

HORACE LANGFORD JR. / PVT Teachers, parents and children rally in front of the Pahrump Nugget in support of children and against deep cuts proposed in Nye County School District's proposed budget eliminating elementary school teachers.

MARK WAITE / PVT Dale Norton, representing the Nye County School District, at left, and Assistant Sheriff Rick Marshall, discuss the school surveillance system with county commissioners by video conference.

Water Rights Attorney Peter Fahmy's name usually appears on the protests of water rights applications filed in Amargosa Valley that are protested by the National Park Service.

District 36 Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, R-Amargosa Valley, was reprimanded after it was reported by Legislative Police he was viewing "what appeared to be women dancing" on his laptop computer May 2 in the Assembly gallery.