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Empty chairs line the stage after Pahrump Regional Planning Commission members leave the Bob Ruud Community Center. Audience members remain to pepper Hogle Ireland consultants with their zoning complaints.
MEETING ABORTED: RPC exits as residents wrangle
Pahrump Regional Planning Commission members promptly left the second workshop Wednesday to consider the zoning map, due to the improper posting of the agenda, but a crowd of 80 people stayed to air their differences with the study with Hogle-Ireland consultants.

Inmates' ed is best in Nevada
Twice a week Mike Domagala, a high school teacher at Round Mountain High School, drives 35 miles one-way to the Tonopah Conservation Camp, an all-male, minimum-security correctional facility run by the Nevada Department of Corrections.


MEETING ABORTED: RPC exits as residents wrangle
Pahrump Regional Planning Commission members promptly left the second workshop Wednesday to consider the zoning map, due to the improper posting of the agenda, but a crowd of 80 people stayed to air their differences with the study with Hogle-Ireland consultants.

Smith files federal suit
Robert Smith's lawsuit against the Nye County Sheriff's Office (NCSO) is going nationwide, according to a press release from his attorney, Blake Horowitz.

Got warrants?
TONOPAH -- Laurie Danielle Corrigan, 29, found herself being getting served a felony warrant May 24 when the wanted person was spotted by Sheriff's Dep. E. Doege.

PHOTO: SK8N FUN

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Dems show solid front against Yucca
LAS VEGAS -- According to the deputy executive director of the Democratic Party of Nevada, supporters of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository Mountain need not look toward the party's presidential hopefuls for any support.

Community Calendar

Alleged T-bird thieves lost in desert, then found
Christopher King, 23, of Pahrump, and Jesse Gawlik, 28, of Pahrump, found themselves celebrating Memorial Day by getting arrested after they allegedly stole a vehicle.

Students in the News

Freshman leads the way for LeadAmerica
Megan Johnson is proving that you're never too young to start working toward your dreams.

BAT ON HIS BACK: Long-time teacher retires
BEATTY -- There is only one other faculty member at Beatty High School who has been at the home of the Hornets longer than English and art teacher Richard Stephens.

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California Lottery

PHOTOS: Memorial Day '07

Nuts & Bolts with Buffalo Jim

Pahrump says 'Mabuhay' to ex-Philippine president
Pahrump accomplished another first Monday -- a visit by a former head of state as ex-Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos came out to Mountain Falls golf course to play 18 holes and appear at a luncheon afterwards.

IN BRIEF

Neighbors target dairy polluters
TAOS, N.M. -- In Western states, neighbors of large dairies are turning to the Clean Air Act to clean up air pollution emitted from cows housed in these industrial dairies.

Tire tracks trap vandal
TONOPAH -- Nicholas Stone, 19, recently learned that not only television C.S.I. officers perform good old-fashioned investigative work when he was arrested for allegedly damaging school property.

PHOTO: DAPPLED BURROS

Man rescued from flames near 372
When the Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue Service were dispatched to a brush fire near the area of Bannavitch Street and Highway 372 at about 6:30 a.m. May 22, at first the first responders only saw smoke on the open BLM land.

Petition challenges ordinance review
BEATTY -- The Beatty Town Advisory Board's ongoing reworking of town ordinances came under fire at the May 23 meeting.

Sheriff's Report
The following information was provided by the Nye County Sheriff's Office. All crimes are alleged and all defendants are presumed innocent:

Pampered pooches find a welcome
Together, Carol Gardina and Donna Napolitano have been pampering pooches with an artistic flare for 30 years.

Fish and Wildlife to review Mt. Charleston butterfly
RENO -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced it has completed its evaluation of the petition to add the Mt. Charleston blue butterfly to the federal list of threatened and endangered species and determined substantial scientific information exists to warrant a more in-depth examination.

Cheatgrass: It's just waiting to burn
RENO -- Cheatgrass doesn't look like much, but it poses a major threat to our environment and public safety in Nevada.

PHOTO: FILIPINO VISITOR

Senior News
Pahrump Senior Center menu (menu subject to change) and activities for the week of June 4-8:

Possession arrest made
BEATTY--Steven Koehler, 25, was arrested last Tuesday when Dep. Pineau pulled him over for what began as a traffic stop.

May speeds to arrest
James Michael May, 24, of Pahrump had his Memorial Day weekend cut short when he was arrested after a routine traffic stop for speeding and drugs were discovered in his vehicle.

Expired plates are just a start
Gregory Alan Hatfield, 43, learned the reason people are required to register their vehicles last Saturday, after fictitious plates on his vehicle led to his arrest.

High school band strikes silver at Cal St. Fullerton
BEATTY -- The Beatty Junior-Senior High School Band struck silver in its first out-of-state music festival competition May 25.

Inmates' ed is best in Nevada
Twice a week Mike Domagala, a high school teacher at Round Mountain High School, drives 35 miles one-way to the Tonopah Conservation Camp, an all-male, minimum-security correctional facility run by the Nevada Department of Corrections.














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