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Commissioner Wade Poulsen reporting on BLM land appraisal at Alamo Town Board meeting.

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Councilman Tom Acklin explaining the Caliente electricity and water rate increases.

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Hospital Administrator, Jason Bleak, explaining plans for the Alamo Clinic.

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Gov. Jim Gibbons with some students at the Caliente Youth Center.

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Gov. Jim Gibbons speaking at the Homeland Security Rural Communities Committee meeting.

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Tom Norris of Norcal speaking to the Lincoln County Commissioners.

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Homeland Security Rural Communities Committee Chairman, Bob Fisher, and Rick Easton, director of Nevada Homeland Security office.

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Vaughn Higbee reporting to the Commissioners about his finding on routes for the Caliente Corridor nuclear waste rail lines.

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Chairman Keith Larson leading the LCAT meeting planning upcoming county tours.

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Klif Andrews of pardee Homes of Nevada (left) and Harvey Whittemore, CEO of Coyote Springs Investments.


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Harvey Whittemore.

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Left to right:Tyler Thompson, Raymond Thompson, Mike Cravey and Riley Thompson.



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Chili Cookoff participants enjoy Labor Day.

Latest News
September 27, 2007
BLM Appraisal Given for Alamo Industrial Park
By Dave Maxwell
County Commissioner Wade Poulsen reported at the Alamo Town Board meeting Tuesday night that the BLM.................. read more...

LC Power Proposes Average Rate Increase of 8.3 Percent
By Dave Maxwell
Months of work has gone into the planning of necessary rate increases by Lincoln County Power, and it was all made public................. read more...

New Impact Rates for Caliente
By Dave Maxwell
Costs of new construction impacts on systems maintained by the City of Caliente will increase in January. At the regular................. read more...

Caliente Pool Repairs Accepted
By Dave Maxwell
Attorney John Brown, counsel for the City of Caliente, reported in a telephone conference at the regular city council meeting................. read more...

New PA Hired for Alamo Clinic
By Dave Maxwell
Grover Dils Hospital Adminstrator Jason Bleak reported to members of the Alamo Town Board Tuesday night that a new PA................ read more...

BLM Expected to approve Parks and Recreation Plan in Alamo
By Dave Maxwell
With the expected approval of architect plans for the Parks and Recreation project in Alamo, bids could go out for construction................. read more...

More Money to Repair Thompson Opera House
By Dave Maxwell
Phyllis Robistow, County Grant writer, reported to the Lincoln County Commission meeting September 17 that a State Historic Preservation Office grant................. read more...

Landscaping Plans for the Alamo Clinic
By Dave Maxwell
Jason Bleak, Grover C. Dils Hospital Adminstrator, explained the desert type landscaping planned for the new clinic building in Alamo................. read more...


September 20, 2007
Governor Gibbons Visits Caliente Youth Center
By Dave Maxwell
A shining star in the Nevada State Youth Correctional System is the Caliente Youth Center. Governor Jim Gibbons and his party visited.................. read more...

Nevada State Attorney General to Speak in Alamo and Pioche
By Dave Maxwell
State's Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto will be speaking on Monday, September 24 at 10:00 a.m. at the Alamo Senior Citizens Center................. read more...

Nevada's Homeland Security Committee Meets in Caliente
By Dave Maxwell
Rick Eaton, the newly appointed director of Nevada's Homeland Security Department was introduced by Governor Jim Gibbons at the................. read more...

LC Commissioners Accused of Misusing Federal Funds
By Dave Maxwell
Marge Detraz of Caliente, outspoken critic of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Project and co-chairman of the Lincoln County Nuclear Opposition................. read more...

Governor Says Homeland Security Issue Unites Nevada
By Dave Maxwell
Speaking at a meeting of the Nevada Commission on Homeland Security Rural Communities Committee before a full city council chambers in................. read more...

LC Power Not Quitting UAMPS Completely
By Dave Maxwell
Lincoln County Power will not participate in the lawsuit between the Utah Associated Municipal Power System (UAMPS), Rocky Mountain Power................. read more...

Norcal Seeks 30 Percent Rate Increase
By Dave Maxwell
Having realized that residents of Lincoln County did not want to have local waste drop box facilities be open only twice a year................. read more...

LCAT Planning Demonstration Tours in October
By Dave Maxwell
Plans and dates have been set for LCAT, the Lincoln Communities Action Team, to have five demonstration tours in the month of October ................. read more...

Nuclear Waste Rail Routes through Lincoln County Going to be More Expensive
By Dave Maxwell
If the Department of Energy (DOE) really does go ahead with plans to build a railroad corridor through Lincoln County to the Yucca................. read more...

Harvey Whittemore Gives Updates on Coyote Springs
By Dave Maxwell
By the end of 2007 the first Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course will be open at Coyote Springs.................. read more...

BLM Again Delays Appraisal of Alamo Industrial Park
By Dave Maxwell
It's becoming frustrating. It's becoming ridiculous. And if it doesn't happen this week, as hoped, then once again the Bureau of Land Management................. read more...

September 13, 2007
Caliente Approves Final Draft of Lincoln County Habitat Conservation Plan
By Dave Maxwell
Like the rest of the towns in the county, Caliente approved the proposed final draft of the County's Habitat Conversation Plan including.................. read more...

Harvey Whittemore Attends LC District Meeting
By Dave Maxwell
Harvey Whittemore, owner and CEO of Coyote Springs Investments, and Klif Andrews, of Pardee Homes of Nevada, were in attendance at.................. read more...

Air Force Close Air Support Training in Caliente
By Dave Maxwell
Major Bill Pugh reported at the Caliente City Council meeting last Thursday that the Air Force Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base will be conducting.................. read more...

County to Revive 1947 Flood Control District
By Dave Maxwell
The Flood Control District stopped functioning but has never been dissolved. So now, the current County Commissioners are going to reactivate it................... read more...

Blue Angels Flight Simulator Visits Rachel
By Dave Maxwell
Somewhere in the world of popular music is a lyric "Take a ride with an angel." A lot of people did that this past weekend at the Little Ale Inn.................. read more...

LC Power Taking 2007 Rate Plan to Public Hearing
By Dave Maxwell
Lincoln County Power will present their proposed rate hike for the next year to members of the public on September 24 at the Lincoln County Courthouse.................. read more...

LC Water Board Refers Two Items to County Commissioners
By Dave Maxwell
Two items on the agenda at the regularly scheduled meeting of the LC Water District last Tuesday were remanded back to the County Commission.................. read more...

Super Park to get Regulation Little League Field
By Dave Maxwell
Architect conceptual designs of four City of Caliente parks were presented at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Caliente City.................. read more...


September 6, 2007
Lincoln County Record 137 Years Old
By Dave Maxwell
The Nevada Territory was the place to be for hard rock gold miners in the early 1860's. By the mid-1860s the famous.................. read more...


Heat and Thunderstorms Fail to Dampen Labor Day Spirits in Pioche
By Linda Larson
This year's Labor Day Celebration proved that not even unseasonably high temperatures and thunderstorms could not put a damper on this.................. read more...

Governor Gibbons to Visit in Caliente
By Dave Maxwell
Governor Jim Gibbons plans to be in Caliente on Thursday, September 13th to take part in the meeting of the Rural Taskforce to the Nevada Commission.................. read more...

Several Agenda Items Quickly Approved by Commissioners
By Dave Maxwell
Lincoln County Commissioners at their regularly schedule meeting, which was held on Tuesday because of the Labor Day holiday, approved several.................. read more...

BizMobile Coming to Caliente on Rural Nevada Tour
By Dave Maxwell
This month tax, global trade and incorporation experts will once again board the State's small business ambassador on wheels - the Nevada BizMobile -.................. read more...

Pioche Receives Large Amount for Park Improvements
By Dave Maxwell
$896,000 has been awarded to the town of Pioche in a SNPLMA (Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act) grant, reported County Grant Administrator.................. read more...

Norcal Sees Curbside Service Not Right for County
By Dave Maxwell
The controversial proposal of curbside garbage pickup service by Norcal Waste Systems Crestline Landfill, Inc. is not going to work in the County.................. read more...

BLM Sets Dates for Alamo Industrial Park Land Sales
By Dave Maxwell
October 4 and October 16 are the dates chosen for the first sale of lands in the Alamo Industrial Park. At the September 4th County Commission meeting.................. read more...

Official Lincoln County Website to be Established
By Dave Maxwell
County Manager, John Lovelady, said at the County Commission meeting last Tuesday that his office expects to have a proposal by mid-September from a web.................. read more...