Great Basin College News

The Lyon County School District has approved a memorandum of understanding with Great Basin College Technical Prep Department to provide dual credit for several agriculture-related career and technical education courses.

MARK WAITE / PVT People interested in installing solar hot water heaters attended informational meetings sponsored by Valley Electric Association at the Pahrump Nugget Events Center Tuesday night.

Great Basin College will again offer driver's education to high school and adult students in Elko, Eureka, Lander, Humboldt, Nye and White Pine counties.

In a step designed to give students taking agriculture-related classes a chance to earn dual college credits, the Lyon County School District Board of Trustees approved as a first reading a memorandum of understanding with the Great Basin College of Technical Prep Department.

Do you want to know more about the opportunities and education that lead to mining careers in Nevada? Join the "Nevada Mining Rocks" tour Oct.

The Great Basin College Transport Technology Department has openings for a Pahrump class beginning Nov.

The Great Basin College Health and Human Services Department will offer a two-credit, online emergency medical technician's basic and intermediate refresher course.

HORACE LANGFORD JR. / PVT Heidi Fleiss smiles on her way out of the courthouse after being granted three years probation on felony drug charges.

Nye County School District officials think a request by Great Basin College to operate dual credit courses on a college schedule this fall is denying many high school students the opportunity to earn college credit at the same time as they attend high school.

HORACE LANGFORD JR. / PVT Speaker after speaker went to the microphone to voice their opinion about health care reform during a town hall meeting at the Pahrump Nugget Convention Center Sunday.

GOLCONDA, NV, September 4, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Lisa M. Bennett, Postmaster for the United States Postal Service, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in public services.

She is only 17 and, to say the least, slight in stature, but she's also a first lieutenant in the Civil Air Patrol and considering either Air National Guard training when she graduates, or perhaps entering the U.S. Air Force itself.

Students have returned to class at Great Basin College, and the state of the art Academic Success Center will officially open for student tutoring the day after Labor Day, Tuesday Sept.

MARK WAITE / PVT Howard Fried, owner of H & M Wholesale Pipe & Supply, at left, discusses the Valley Electric Association program getting under way next week.

Great Basin College can now provide mental health counseling to students enrolled at each of its campuses and learning centers across rural Nevada.

A multitude of opinions were offered at Saturday's seminar given by the Nevada Center for Public Policy Dialogue, brought to Pahrump by the League of Women Voters.

SPECIAL TO THE PVT Members of the Pahrump Nugget All-Star Swing Band are, center, Kellie Wright, and from left, Wyatt Rackich, Steve Fillippini, Phil Schwart, Dick Kostel, Roger Simon, Robert Acencio and Angelo Stefanelli.

To show support for classified employees facing a 4.6 percent loss in pay and to offset state-mandated budget cuts to their campuses, Nevada's university and college presidents are voluntarily reducing their salaries.

MARK WAITE / PVT Former Nye County Commissioner Peter Liakopoulos, at left, listens to public defender Tom Gibson argue his case.

MARK WAITE / PVT John Rice, Great Basin College director of institutional advancement, talks to the Great Basin College Pahrump campus advisory board in Pahrump last week.