Tonopah News

A few residents living around the former Willow Creek Golf Course complained to the Nye County Water District board about water quality last week, but the board has yet to grasp what its mission will be.

The submission of an application for a $5 million Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant through the U.S. Department of Energy for retrofitting buildings, will be under consideration when the Nye County Commission meets at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Turnout was reported as low throughout the county, Pahrump, which would have gained a new grade school and five new rooms at the high school, was for the plan, and Amargosa Valley, which stood to acquire four new grade school classrooms, was just barely in favor, but Beatty, Gabbs, Tonopah and Round Mountain lined up solidly against it the bond.

They promptly found themselves heading straight for the state title for the second year running.

Nye County officials need to keep a close eye on the Nevada Legislature, particularly if the state continues to lag behind the national recovery and stimulus money is no longer available, Jeff Fontaine told Nye County commissioners Tuesday.

Nye County commissioners Tuesday were briefed on the difference between OSDS and ISDS by Dick Johnson, the manager of building safety and code compliance.

Pahrump gained 81 residents in the third quarter of 2009, increasing the population to 38,275, which is still 346 residents less than a year ago, according to estimates from the Nye County Planning Department.

A resolution waiving permit fees for a solar hot water heater program by Valley Electric Association is on the agenda for the Nye County Commission meeting at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

For the past 13,000 or more years, Nye County's history has been shaped mostly by its geography -- large and magnificent, to be sure.

Mack Moore will be allowed to reopen Angel's Ladies Brothel in Beatty after the Nye County Licensing and Liquor Board approved his brothel license by a 4-2 vote Tuesday.

Beatty has now arrived in the 911 age, Milan Dimac, manager of information systems, told Nye County commissioners Tuesday.

Kohbarger's job spared ... for now It was a long walk from the outskirts of the overflowing parking lot into the Bob Ruud Community Center for latecomers at Tuesday night's Town Board meeting.

Robert Steven Yowell, a homeless man living in the vicinity of Petrack Park who was found guilty of raping a Pahrump woman in 2006, was sentenced Monday in Tonopah District Court by Judge John Davis.

But two of the three commissioners said they could foresee problems. Bobby Revert of Beatty said he "would not vote for the ordinance at the second reading if there was no provision allowing some local options in the matter." Sheriff Joni Wines held a heated three-hour meeting that brought about 130 people to the community center.

Nye County School District has 18 elementary, middle and high schools spread over 18,000 miles of Southern Nevada in the communities of Amargosa, Beatty, Duckwater, Gabbs, Pahrump, Round Mountain and Tonopah.

Stan Davis, vice-president of the Calvada Meadows Aeropark Association, remarked, "I don't think there's a town in the county except Pahrump that doesn't have a public access airport." A Pahrump public airport has been in the planning stages for 10 years.

Three large projects were approved Monday by the Nye County School District Board of Trustees to meet the needs of students in Pahrump and Tonopah.

Harry Reid is majority leader of the U.S. Senate, meets regularly with the president in the White House and controls the fate of bills coursing through the world's most powerful legislative body.

"If you don't know where you came from, you're not going anywhere." - Guiding philosophy of the Pahrump Valley Museum There are two principles that ordinarily have more to do with success than anything else.

Subject to underlying royalties, Bolo is 100% controlled by Columbus Gold. The current Phase III drilling program, consisting of 914 meters in five or six angle, rotary drill holes, is designed to test for extensions of significant gold mineralization cut by rotary drill hole BL-23, completed by Columbus in late 2008.