Pahrump News

Thu, Oct 2, 2008 Sun Topics Yucca Mountain What is often lost in the debate over Yucca Mountain is that what we're really talking about is cancer.

1 in 125 to contract cancer? Is that 300+ residents of Pahrump? This is considered a "minimal risk"?

Patrick Putnam has been appointed the manager of the new Pahrump Field Office for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the BLM announced in a prepared statement.

The local chapter of ARES/RACES will hold a simulated emergency test on Oct. 4. The public may observe this event at the Nye County Management Emergency Services Operations Center at 1510 Siri Lane.

The Nye County Republican Central Committee is hosting a fundraiser on the Winery grounds for a "Wine and Jazz Extravaganza." The event begins at 6 p.m. Oct.

The two people killed earlier this week in a small airplane crash in Anchorage have been identified.

Dwight Lilly had plenty of time to chat at the Pahrump Fall Festival while selling souvenir license plates, T-shirts and other memorabilia Saturday afternoon.

A more scaled-down version of the annual Pahrump Fall Festival will be on display this weekend, focusing more on local entertainment.

MARK WAITE / PVT Former Pahrump Town Manager Dave Richards did the honors, picking the winning business cards for a drawing at the Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce business after-hours mixer at Saitta-Trudeau ...

Halloween is a month away, but a state agency recently gave Amargosa Valley and Beatty a good scare with a public notice sent to the PVT.

Alice Eychaner poses with Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce President Dan Rodriguez after being given the Chamber of Commerce Service Award Saturday.

We moved to this park, about an hour from Las Vegas, on Tuesday. It's a very nice park, with a wonderful pool, and lots of activities coming up.

A week or so ago, our publisher, Marie Wujek, posed a suggestion: that getting a full-blown college here might serve to keep young people in town and train them for careers they can use right here.

Seibt Desert Retreat RV Park involved in bankrupcy filing. Mark Waite / PVT Nye County

The luxury 232-space RV resort comes with a bowling alley, spa, exercise room, restaurant and lounge, and even a swimming pool fed by a cascading waterfall.Full story at: http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2008/Sep-24-Wed-2008/news/24094962.html

A rose by any other name is still a rose

MARK WAITE / PVT Lucy Ivins, chief executive officer of the Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce, testifies at left in support of the proposed federal detention center, while Bill Verbeck, director of the Pahrump ...

Feed Your Soul!

There will be a Pahrump Tent Revival Oct. 11-19 in Petrack Park. Check the Web site, www.pahrumptentrevival.com for a schedule of inspirational messages.

The mother of a 15 year-old Pahrump Valley High School student was arrested in Green Bay, Wis., last week for felony identity theft, after she enrolled in high school posing as her daughter, the Associated ...

HORACE LANGFORD JR. / PVT Some of the local officials watching the public hearing on the development agreement in the back of the Bob Ruud Community Center Tuesday include from left, Assistant Sheriff Rick ...

Pahrump residents alarmed at possibility of building of "Prison"!

Officials have released the picture of a man accused of shooting a Nye County Sheriff's deputy.

Remember the movie "Field of Dreams," starring Kevin Costner and a host of other top notch actors? Costner kept hearing, "If you build it, they will come." He was an Iowa corn farmer on the brink of losing ...

Alice Eychaner, an active volunteer in the Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce and United Way, has been chosen grand marshal of the Pahrump Fall Festival parade.