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September 2, 2009

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. At right, photos pasted on empty seats mark absence of the Nevada congressional delegation.

Emotions vivid at health care forum
Five empty seats in the front of the room were adorned with photos marking the absence of members of the Nevada congressional delegation at a town hall meeting on health care. The room was crowded with 175 people Sunday at the Pahrump Nugget Convention Center.

RICHARD STEPHENS / PVT
Anthony Turner (88), with Cedric Rankin, 13, and Dakota Dawson, 40, blocking, runs for a gain for Beatty, which opens its 2009 season at Spring Mountain, Friday (3 p.m.) in a Southern Nevada Class A Eight-Man football league game.

AT SPRING MOUNTAIN FRIDAY: Hornets open in 1-A game
BEATTY -- With eight seniors on its 25-player roster, the Beatty High School football team will launch its 2009 season Friday (3 p.m.) at Spring Mountain, in a Southern Nevada Class A League battle.

News

• Finance company litigating water to Willow Creek may buy course
• Obama proposal compared with Canadian health system
• PHOTO: STEADY THERE
• Two White Street homes threatened
• California Lottery
• Community assistance
• Community Calendar
• Neth hearing slated
• PHOTO: CAR FIRE INFLAMES OWNER
• Rally slated for Sept. 23
• Extravaganza bodes well for Pahrump
• New signs cut accidents
• PHOTO: SMOKY SHROUD
• College enrollment expands
• Emotions vivid at health care forum
• BOOK REVIEW: 'Ask Me Anything' useful for kids and adults alike
• Academic Success Center will open at GBC Sept. 8
• PHOTO: TOYOTA VS. TRUCK
• Correction
• Two arrested for home invasion
• Sheriff's Report
• IN BRIEF
• Obituaries

Opinion

• DENNIS MYERS: The breadth of Kennedy's accomplishments
• GARRISON KEILLOR: A place where right is right
• Letters to the Editor

Sports

• AT SPRING MOUNTAIN FRIDAY: Hornets open in 1-A game
• Lady Hornets among six in PV tourney
• Girls booters start 0-3; boys, Crusaders clash
• PHOTO: SHARKS IN ACTION
• PHOTO: CHAMPS
• COLLEGE FOOTBALL
• POKER TOURNAMENTS
• Trojans 4-4 at Las Vegas; Clark is next
• NDOW offers fall almanac online
• PHOTOS: HORSEPOWER
• PV AT HOME THURSDAY: Lady Trojans second in Sunset 4-A match