Beatty News

Attorney Lillian Donohue waves the flag for the Republican Women's Club in Pahrump.

The Vegas to Reno off-road race -- which will actually run from near Beatty to near Reno -- has been lengthened to 1,000 miles this year in a three-day staged event Aug.

Public comment is being sought on an environmental assessment for a proposed Las Vegas to Reno off-highway vehicle race.

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.

Kay Handy won the informal election held at the Beatty Town Advisory Board's June 24 meeting to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Joe White from the board.

DAN SIMMONS / PVT Animal control workers transplant ducks and geese in cages at the Bowman Pond Monday.

The ruins of a mining town building sit across the road from the Red Barn Art Center, part of the Goldwell Open Air Museum near the ghost town of Rhyolite, which is northwest of Las Vegas.

Local legislators may brag the Nevada state budget includes a 2.8 percent increase for education.

GINA B. GOOD / PVT The body language of, from left, School Board President Kevin Pape, Superintendent Rob Roberts and Ray Richie, chief financial officer for the school district, show the strain of working with budget constraints.

As a California college student in the 1970s, Fred Holabird would run in the mountains near Eureka, Calif., and see people digging up bottles from the 1800s.

Arlamay Rogers had been named valedictorian and Janelle Opal Ward was salutatorian.

Time is running out for people with outstanding misdemeanor and traffic tickets in justice court to pay the fines without the additional fees under a spring amnesty program, after which bailiffs will begin aggressively seeking out scofflaws.

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.

Workers at the Nevada Test Site were still waiting on word about any resumption of testing.

The comment period on the draft environmental assessment for the Reward Mine eight miles southeast of Beatty ends Thursday.

Thanks in part to the efforts of the Beatty Economic Development Corp., the town is in line to receive approximately $3 million in stimulus money for three important water projects.

Can anyone tell us what the NERVA project was at the Nevada Test Site? Seriously, if you know, give us a call or drop us an e-mail. Whatever it was, layoffs due to its mothballing at the Jackass Flats were continuing.

The Beatty Town Advisory Board managed to achieve unanimity on a number of issues at its April 22 meeting.

An application will be submitted for a $195,000 preliminary engineering report on recycling Tonopah effluent, for a second round of $740,431 available in federal community development block grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the stimulus package.

Nye County commissioners decided Tuesday not to look a gift horse in the mouth in requesting 12 new deputies which would be fully funded by the U.S. Department of Justice COPS Recovery Hiring Program.