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CCFD Officials Discuss Fire Tax With MVTAB
03/19/2008 COMMUNITY
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- The Moapa Valley Town Advisory Board heard a presentation from the Clark County Fire Department (CCFD) regarding Moapa Valley Fire District funding at a meeting held Wednesday, March 14. In the presentation, CCFD officials discussed the revenues and expenditures of the local fire distric... View
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Whose Moral Obligation?
03/19/2008 EDITORIAL
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- At the Moapa Valley Town Advisory Board (MVTAB) last week, the top brass from the Clark County Fire Department (CCFD) came out and brought some real ?dollars-and-cents? numbers with them. Though these figures, which showed the revenues and expenditures of the Moapa Valley Fire District, ... View
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Overton Dragster Wins March Meet
03/19/2008 SPORTS
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- Overton resident and sometime race-car driver, John Lyon, travelled to Bakersfield, California over the weekend of March 7-9 and came away a winner. Lyon entered a car in the 50th annual March Meet drag races and drove it to a first place finish in his class. ... View
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Logandale Woman Receives Business Distinction
03/19/2008 PEOPLE
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- Logandale resident, Hilarie Robison, was recognized by business publication, In Business, Las Vegas as one of the magazine?s ?40 Under 40? recipients for the year 2007. On February 29, the publication released its annual supplement entitled ?40 Under 40?. According to the section?s edito... View
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Logandale Hobbyist Hosts Bowler Field Trip
03/12/2008 HUMAN INTEREST
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- The first grade class at Grant Bowler Elementary school took a walking field trip on Friday, March 7 to see the many model train displays of Logandale resident, Gary Pearson. The students, teachers and a group of parent chaperones took a brisk walk to Pearson?s home on the end of Liston Avenue east... View
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No One Asked Me But...
03/12/2008 COLUMNIST
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- No one asked me but?I went to the barbershop Saturday. Unless you have been on the moon you know that is an interesting statement. Bevan Dalley the only practicing barber in town was working around the house when he had an accident and lost the fingers on his left hand. &... View
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Who Should Pay The Rural Sewer Bill?
03/12/2008 EDITORIAL
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- Last week the inevitable occurred. Members of the area?s environmentalist movement began pumping irrational and illogical dialogue into what had been a perfectly rational and logical discussion regarding the needed updates of aging rural sewer systems in Clark County. ... View
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Learning The Steps At Dance Camp
03/12/2008 HUMAN INTEREST
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- The Pirate Motion Dance Team of Moapa Valley High School held it?s annual Junior Dance Camp last week from Tuesday, March 4 through Friday, March 7. The camp serves as a fund raiser for the MVHS Pirate Motion Dance Team. It provides funds for many things including competition ... View
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Logandale Resident Helps Regional Boy Scouts
03/05/2008 ACCOMPLISHMENT
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- Towards the end of 2007, the Las Vegas Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America got some alarming news. Council officials were notified that a large funding allocation which had traditionally come to the scouts from the United Way would be severely reduced. In response to this, the council hurried... View
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No One Asked Me But...
03/05/2008 COLUMNIST
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- No one asked me but?We have a young new track coach. Shane Hickman is one of us. He graduate from Moapa Valley High School and will be remembered for leading MVHS to state football and track championships. He was one of the ?Cardiac Kids? who went down 20-0 at halftime against... View
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No One Asked Me But...
02/20/2008 COLUMNIST
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- No one asked be but?Our Republican President and our Democratic Congress seem to agree on one thing, this country can spend itself into solvency. The government has decided that it will give each tax payer $600 to spend during this next year. This gift comes from a government that is presently ru... View
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Moapa Valley Credit Union Celebrates 50 Years
02/20/2008 BANKING
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- Seven Moapa Valley residents met and organized the Moapa Valley Federal Credit Union on Tuesday, August 19, 1958. The need for a local financial institution had been keenly felt in the community. With the help of Harold McKay, a Southern Nevada educator and Vice President of the Clark Co... View
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Mountain Man Rendezvous Held On Paiute Reservation
02/20/2008 CLUB AND ASSOCIATIONS
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- In the early 19th century when fortunes could be made in the fur trade in the Western United States, a much-romanticized group had its beginnings, Mountain Men. In 1824, William Henry Ashley a soldier and a businessman developed a method of supplying fur trappers by hauling needed suppli... View
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The Most Exciting Place In Town
02/20/2008 EDITORIAL
Moapa Valley Progress / STPNS
Overton, Nevada (STPNS)- I have many fond and definitive memories of childhood experiences in the Moapa Valley. One of the clearest of these memories was of one Saturday morning when my father cryptically, but enthusiastically, made an announcement. He told my brother and me that today he would be taking us to the most exc... View
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