By MARK WAITE PVT Public works crews got started reconstructing a two-mile segment of Gamebird Road Monday, thanks to economic stimulus funds. Work on Homestead Road may not be far away. The Nye County Capital Improvements Advisory Committee Tuesday unanimously endorsed a recommendation from Public Works Director Dave Fanning to widen Homestead Road to three[...]

By MARK WAITE PVT Shannon Keel, the new general manager of the Pahrump Nugget Hotel and Casino, appeared to surprise Nye County Commissioners Thursday by proposing land, labor and a monetary donation for a new welcome center on the corner of the Nugget parking lot at the intersection of Highway 160 and 372. Keel spoke[...]

By MARK WAITE PVT TONOPAH — Nye County Commissioners will consider approving a brothel license for Dennis Hof, the flamboyant owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch near Carson City, during the Nye County Licensing and Liquor Board meeting at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. The five county commission members and the sheriff comprise the Licensing and Liquor[...]

By GINA B. GOOD PVT The Nye County School District Board of Trustees approved a proposal supported by parents to charge students to participate in sports and extracurricular activities. During the intense budget meetings at the end of the 2009-2010 school year, parents were adamant that the primary function of Nye schools is to educate[...]

PVT The library will welcome local author Ronda Coleman, who will be signing her book “A Curse on Serenity Island.” All who are interested in this “mysterious, mystical adventure,” should visit the library on Saturday, Aug. 7, 1-3 p.m., to meet with the author. The Favorite Authors Book Club will meet Tuesday, Aug. 17, at[...]

By CHARLENE DEAN PVT Three women left Pahrump Thursday, July 22, expecting to take a sightseeing tour to Scotty’s Castle in Death Valley and be home in time for dinner. That was not to be. Donna Cooper, 62, Gina Cooper, 17, and a house guest visiting from Hong Kong, 19-year-old Jenny Leung, left the Cooper[...]

Historians generally date the close of the American frontier at 1890. By then, most of the Western United States had been settled. Although Nevada was granted statehood in 1864, a vast region from Belmont south to what eventually became Las Vegas remained largely unmapped and unsettled. The Western frontier, with its farms and big ranches[...]

By MARK WAITE PVT A resolution urging Congress to stop enacting mandates that exceed the scope of the powers delegated to it by the U.S. Constitution was requested during the upcoming 2011 session of the Nevada Legislature by state Sen. Mike McGinness, R-Fallon. McGinness represents Nye County as part of his vast Central Nevada Senatorial[...]

By GINA B. GOOD PVT On June 1, the Nye County commissioners granted a request from the county school district for a $907,000 intergovernmental loan from the county, but it seems that loan is not going through — although not through any fault of the school district or commissioners. A few days ago, District School[...]

You’ve worked with a lot of people in your life. But there’s one you’ll never forget. He’s the one who gently corrected you just before you embarrassed yourself. She never made you feel like the bonehead you were. He fed you pointers and help. She fed you lunch more than once. You called them boss,[...]