36 years ago this month:

Nuclear testing will resume at the Nevada Test Site with a shot in early June and with several other approved shots already planned, according to Robert E. Miller, AEC Nevada chief. Employment at the site is increasing and is expected to surge from the 4,000-5,000 man shutdown level to 7,600 at the end of June.

Better access to the Mt. Charleston recreation area from Pahrump Valley via Wheeler Pass Road is one of the long range management proposals made in late May by the Las Vegas Ranger District. However, plans to improve Wheeler Pass Road to an all-year over-the-top thoroughfare that would join with Highway 52 coming off Highway 95 were denied.

30 years ago this week:

A five-member fair board will direct this year's Fall Harvest Festival, is scheduled for Sept. 11-12 in Pahrump Valley. Frank Woner will represent the Harvest Festival committee, which originally put the event on. Ken Redelsperger will represent the Chamber of Commerce, John Raetz the 4-H Club, Wayne Floyd the Junior Chamber of Commerce and a representative from the town board.

Flying cinders from a trash fire at the Blosser ranch July 13 apparently landed in a nearby area containing miscellaneous articles, including old ammonia nitrate cylinders, causing an explosion that blew out the windows of a ranch house 50 feet away. The explosion was felt as far away as Highway 160, Mesquite and Simkins Road.

Fletcher Jones Chevrolet offers brand-new 1977 Chevrolet Camaros for $4,596, 1977 Vegas for $3,377, and 1977 Impalas for $4,389. A 1975 Corvette, full power with air, was offered at $7,988 and a 1973 Monte Carlo with automatic transmission and air conditioning was on sale for $2,788.

20 years ago this week:

The Pahrump Town Board unanimously approved the idea of building permit fees at its special town board meeting Tuesday at the Community Center.

The board also indicated building permit rates now in place in Clark County might be used here. Those fees, according to Clark County ex-chief building inspector Gene Frederick, are already lower than what is now recommended nationally.

All organizations and individuals interested in reserving booth space at the 4th of July annual celebration co-sponsored by the Southern Nye County Search and Rescue and the Pahrump Volunteer Fire Department, may obtain booth space application forms from Ron Floyd Ace Hardware or from the fire department.

Plans by the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct intensive studies of Yucca Mountain's suitability as a high-level nuclear dump have been delayed. The announcement was made by Sen. Chic Hecht. The DOE, apparently responding to a protest letter written earlier by Hecht, told the senator it wouldn't conduct the test at Yucca Mountain before holding similar probes at the other two potential high-waste sites in Washington and Texas.

10 years ago this week:

Developer: No Wal-Mart, Lucky's in new center. If there is a "Walmart/Lucky's shopping center" coming to Pahrump, as suggested by a Taco Bell spokesman recently, it won't be on the 27-acre parcel being developed on Highway 160 just south of the community center. Not officially anyway. All tenants in the parcel have remained a closely guarded secret, and it is going to stay that way, at least for a couple of weeks.

Finicky McDermott turns down the town manager job: George McDermott was willing to move more than 2000 miles west to accept the job of Pahrump town manager.

It was the last 60 miles he had a problem with. McDermott, of New Jersey, was offered the job; he accepted the job, then had reservations about living in Pahrump and decided not to take the job.

The Nye County budget crisis is over. No layoffs, no salary concessions. Positions vacated by attrition in the last year can be filled by elected officials and department heads. None of the bad things predicted will come to pass. Commissioners voted unanimously to approve a motion to reinstate every vacated position to the July 1 level in every department, with funding provided by the Payments Equal to Taxes account (PETT).

Pahrump school enrollment increases 16 percent over last year. The final numbers are in for the 1996-97 school year, and as it turns out, the Nye county School District's enrollment crunch is not quite as bad as originally expected.

The official count for the tenth and final month of the school year shows enrollment at 5,065, down 23 students from the nine month total. Nye County enrollment remains locked in a steady 9 percent annnual climb, fueled by a 12-16 percent growth in Pahrump.