Sandy Valley News

The Cottonwood Cove developed area on Lake Mohave reopened at about 1:30 p.m. today after being closed for more than a week due to a water system failure.

Fifty miles southwest of Las Vegas and over a curvy Spring Mountain pass, Clark County School District officials opened a new high school last summer in the desolate desert of Sandy Valley, evicting a rattler ...

Three candidates are up for election to the newly-created District 6 on the Valley Electric Association board of directors.

Tim Hafen, spokesman for the sponsoring group, said that based on about 100 replies from Pahrump, Tecopa, Shoshone, Death Valley, Amargosa and Beatty, he thought it reasonable to project possible deposits of ... via Pahrump Valley Times

“Right in this eye. A bullet went into her brain and killed her”

Updated: All across the nation, states are dealing with an aging prison inmate population. via KLAS-TV Las Vegas

“Some of the girls haven't played softball before. We're actually getting pretty good.”

Grade school students wait for the start of class at Sandy Valley School. They share facilities with children in middle school and the town's 60 high school students. via Las Vegas Sun

“In the past this event hasn't really had any rules. This year we're setting guidelines as we go along so that next year it will be more organized.”

Sylvia Corzan from the Patio Cafe took the Peoples Choice award in 2007. Barbara Ward won the 2007 ICS chili cook-off here and went on to win the world competition. via Pahrump Valley Times

“It's the first time it's happened in the state's history. To my knowledge this is the first commercial red wine ever produced in the state of Nevada. It marks the beginning point for an industry that has potential”

MARK WAITE / PVT James Schaller and Mary Ann O'Neal were busy bottling the new "Nevada Ridge" wine at the Pahrump Valley Winery Wednesday. via Pahrump Valley Times

“It's tough getting everybody to buy into it, the education of what you can recycle”

CHRISSY OHLINGER / Special to the PVT Joslyn Martinez does her part to help clean up Pahrump's little corner of the world for Earth Day. via Pahrump Valley Times

“The witnesses themselves said that they lied - everyone in there has lied”

The defense attorney in the murder trial of a Sandy Valley man asked the judge to throw out the case just before making his closing statement on Wednesday. via Victorville Daily Press

“There's really no need for the station”

Sandy Valley resident Lana Haddad stands on the land she hopes to sell to a developer who wants to build a gas station there. via Las Vegas Sun

The Nye County Goldseekers will take a prospecting trip to Lovell Canyon this weekend. via Pahrump Valley Times

Talk of relocating Las Vegas City Hall into a new "City Government Center" on the 61 acres west of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks has apparently gone a-glimmering. Instead, the City Council on Wednesday will ... via Las Vegas Review Journal

“Will this go? I don't know. But some things are going to go.”

Valley Electric Association directors voted to expand the board from four to six members, creating two new districts, at the monthly meeting Wednesday. via Pahrump Valley Times

“We hear a lot about how things are slowing down and they are slowing down. We slowed down to 4 percent. That is still double the national average”

Valley Electric Association won't be giving a $1.5 million rebate to the members this month; last December, rebates averaged $50 per customer. via Pahrump Valley Times

We amended the soil at the time of planting to help the plants with our sandy and caliche soils. via Las Vegas Review Journal

“Seniors need to be aware of the scams out there.”

Nancy Edna Nash Pleads guilty to sale of unregistered securities Nancy Edna Nash, 67, who pleaded guilty to selling $2.8 million in unregistered securities to even older individuals, will be sentenced Jan. via Las Vegas Review Journal

“Very few houses down, they weren't real close together and people had tendency to keep a house clear more so than they do now.”

Here's another look at just how much of Southern California has been destroyed by the wildfires. via LasVegasNOW

This week's production calendar has an international flavor, with projects from Ireland, France and Canada. via Las Vegas Review Journal