Tonopah News

Special to the PVT Christmastime, complete with an early 20th century "pin-up" and fine wines in the dugout dwelling occupied by Josiah Irving Crowell at his Chloride Cliff mine.

Sharkey's Casino manager Ron Terrell in front of the Rib Room's new bulletin board on Friday.

This year's Tonopah Get-Together in Reno, open to all former and current residents of Tonopah, will be at 5:30 p.m. July 11 at Coney Island Bar, 2644 Prater Way in Sparks.

Years ago, a woman from Goldfield told me about a place in central Nevada that she said deserved to be a state park.

Steve Loye asks for justification of study-abroad opportunities provided to Nevada students by UNR and UNLV [Letters, June 16], implying that these overseas programs should be cut until sales tax revenues improve.

Nevada JobConnect will have $1.4 million to spend on administration and job training this coming year, thanks partly to a $500,000 grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Of the four original discoverers only "Manny" Penrod survives, living in Elko and planning to attend the festivities.

MARK WAITE / PVT Front Sight consultant Dennis Bradley, at right, points while he gives a tour last month of the shooting ranges inside Spanish-style facades to Nye County officials, from left, Commissioner Butch Borasky, planner Steve Osborne, building inspector Dick Johnson, Nye County Manager Rick Osborne, consultant Al Balloqui and Commissioner ...

Ivins and chamber part ways Lucy Ivins is no longer the executive director of the Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce after a board of directors meeting Monday.

The Nye County School District trustees will meet briefly at 3 p.m., Thursday, June 18, in Pahrump to discuss Superintent Rob Roberts' annual evaluation and announce results.

Tailing piles and ruins are nearly all that remain of the historic mining town of Delamar in Eastern Nevada.

The annual Nye County treasurer's sale in Pahrump garnered $579,765 in revenue on 162 properties, while a similar sale in Tonopah resulted in $20,718 collected on seven properties, according to Deputy Treasurer Angela Schallenberger.

Denver Otteson Kicker Punter Tonopah High School 10 - 40 yard Field Goals in 40 seconds.

The site commonly referred to as the "Cow Camp," Ron Metheny's 40-acre private spread in Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, was long a popular getaway for Pahrump residents for the monthly chuck wagon barbecues on the weekend nearest the full moon.

Time is running out for people with outstanding misdemeanor and traffic tickets in justice court to pay the fines without the additional fees under a spring amnesty program, after which bailiffs will begin aggressively seeking out scofflaws.

Workers at the Nevada Test Site were still waiting on word about any resumption of testing.

The annual Jim Butler Days and Nevada State Mining Championships are gearing up for Memorial Day weekend.

Lawmakers need to find $1.13 billion to meet a total budget of just less than $7 billion for the rest of this year and the coming biennium.

There's a shrine in my clothes cabinet. Every time I slide open the door I am reminded of a dear friend.

Tonopah Middle School fifth-grade teacher Mary Thibodeaux has been selected DARE Educator of the Year in Nevada.