The hometown news thread.

[BobR]

I figured as we are all products of our environment and we all live in different locales I would start a thread so I could post up my hometown news, interesting or not.

Where I live: Pahrump, NV. Home of the world famous Prairie Fire NV shooting complex, or as you may remember the lucrative pyramid scheme run by Iggy, Front Sight. About 60 miles due west of Las Vegas. Basically on the CA border but thankfully only a couple of roads there and then mountains between us. The main population center of Nye County, about 18K square miles of scrub brush and desert. Home of the Nuke Test Site in NV, Across the mountains from Area 51, and home to a couple (or more) of legal brothels. Population of about 46,000 and the County is about 55,000. So, they all live here just about.

On to the News.

Early on 9/17/2024 there was a crash involving two semis on Highway 95, the major North/South route to Northern NV from Las Vegas. One of the truck was carrying a load of lithium batteries. As you may have already guessed the road is still closed and looks like it may need repaving. Maybe some of you remember that recently I-15 was closed down in CA because of a collision resulting in a prolonged lithium battery fire. It seems to be a trend.

https://foxreno.com/news/local/nevada-state-police-investigate-semi-truck-crash-carrying-lithium-batteries-in-nye-county

In a more light hearted and closer to home (about 5 miles) story a human interest story in the local paper. We now have what many believe is the first mother-daughter team working at one of our brothels. I guess the money can be pretty good. As an aside, they had a watch party there for the debate and we would have gone except we had an HOA board meeting then and I was on the board. Bummer.

The North Carolina natives are the first known mother-daughter sex workers to provide services at the same southern Nevada bordello, according to Chief Operating Officer Will Paccione, who spoke to the Pahrump Valley Times about keeping it “all in the family.”

I know, worthless without pictures;



https://pvtimes.com/news/first-ever-mother-daughter-duo-a-popular-act-at-pahrumps-infamous-chicken-ranch-135631/

More to follow, feel free to add your own local quirkiness and news. :)

bob

[Brad Johnson]

Also in Pahrump

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cbs-reporter-finds-only-3-harris-supporter-3-nevada-restaurants-people-really-excited-about-trump

Brad

[BobR]

Are you ready to become a land/junk baron? The perfect retirement gig for the crotchety old f(ellow). It may be cheap at twice the price. Just don't show up without calling first. Welcome neighbor!

https://pvtimes.com/news/after-25-years-an-empire-of-junk-in-pahrump-is-being-sold-135686/

bob

[K Frame]

Back in college I was friends with an older student.

She put herself through college by working as a prostitute at one of the brothels in Nevada during the summers. Earned more than enough money to see her through the year without having to worry too much about working while she was attending classes.

As she said -- it's a means to an end, nothing more.

[Kingcreek]

Our town had a brothel when I was a kid but it was shut down around the time I got my drivers license. It was in the old black part of town when the town was kind of traditionally segregated.
There isn’t much good or interesting news in my small Midwest town.
https://kewaneevoice.com/kewanee-man-faces-numerous-charges-after-police-chase/

I live out in the country on a quiet secluded road in a small wooded valley. I avoid town as much as possible.

[HeroHog]

My dad and I left my home town (my mom died when I was 13 and dad was a traveling salesman so I was mostly on my own), Lafayette, LA, when I was 15. Haven't really looked back since.

[cordex]

We had a homicide about 3.5 miles away a couple of weeks ago, which is notable in the rural area we are in.  Young guy got shot in his car.  I don't know anything specific, but it's an easy bet that it was drug related.

There was also a parade in the closest town recently.  It was mostly school sports teams and organizations, some tractors, some horses, local businesses, fire and police - that kind of thing.  There were some prospective candidates for 2026 county sheriff that had floats, as well as a state rep who had a pretty showy one.  The county Republicans had a big float, and the Libertarians just drove a big blue Silverado with all the doors wide open blasting Beastie Boys' Fight For Your Right while waving signs for the Libertarian candidate for Governor.  The county Democrats had a sad, little booth at the festival, but didn't bother with the parade.  Lots of candy was thrown to the kids.

I took my daughter to her guitar lesson yesterday in an old part of the county seat.  I typically avoid going to the county seat whenever possible, but the area she has her lesson is quaint.  While we were waiting my son and I got some treats from an old-fashioned candy store.  Going to get a malt at the soda fountain there next time.

[Brad Johnson]

My home town is Crowell, TX. A little burg of roughly 900 in north central Texas. Foard County. One of those places that clings to existence mainly because it's the county seat and has the county's only school. The part of Texas where towns are laid out in roughly 30 mile grids, a holdover from steam locomotive water stops and what you could travel in a day by horse. Ranch country, mostly, with a healthy dash of farming in the county's NE quadrant (wheat, hay, and cotton).

No brothels. No gang hideouts. No mob boss mansions. Not really much of anything anymore. We had a bootlegger when I was a teenager, but he "retired" when the next county over went wet and folks didn't have to drive an hour for beer anymore. Had a domino hall, too, but in name only. Was really just the ass end of a retired farmer's shop where he set up a pool table and a couple of card tables. Most people just went to sit around, drink coffee, and gripe about politics and weather.

We'll have the occasional excitement, but in the grand scheme it's usually low-key. I've pretty well documented here on APS the few happenings which merited comment.

Brad

[WLJ]

The county Democrats had a sad, little booth at the festival, but didn't bother with the parade.  Lots of candy was thrown to the kids.

Democrat policy in a nutshell

[Bogie]

I'm in a gentrified neighborhood in St. Louis. It went 95% for Clinton.
 
Closest body to my front door was a dump on Route 66, about 75 yards away.
 
A grocery is two blocks away - the shoe store that got protested at is about three. Probably a hundred restaurants within a couple of miles, many that just don't thrill me. Many are "crafty," and the help can tell you the name of the chicken that laid the eggs for the omelet.

[WLJ]

10-15 years ago a murder anywhere near me was extremely rare but then the city decided we didn't have enough Section 8 type apartments in our area. In the past two years there have been maybe 10-12 murders near me all clustered around those apartments.

[MechAg94]

I'm in a gentrified neighborhood in St. Louis. It went 95% for Clinton.
 
Closest body to my front door was a dump on Route 66, about 75 yards away.
 
A grocery is two blocks away - the shoe store that got protested at is about three. Probably a hundred restaurants within a couple of miles, many that just don't thrill me. Many are "crafty," and the help can tell you the name of the chicken that laid the eggs for the omelet.

I don't think I had any bodies dumped near my home, but I don't keep up with news and there are some thick woods nearby that I think are owned by Dow Chemical.   

[Kingcreek]

Guy walking the tracks or laying on them got hit by a train at 2am within the last 2 weeks.
Occasional drug overdose and a couple homicides this year. County jail supervisor was busted with images or video of female inmates without their clothing or permission.
We have 34 video gaming parlors for a town of 12,000 people.
Our number one export is smart young people.

[Ben]

Guy walking the tracks or laying on them got hit by a train at 2am within the last 2 weeks.

We've not to my knowledge had people walking killed by a train in these parts, and the train goes through town a lot. There have been at least a few vehicles hit by the train within probably 20 miles of me.

Interestingly, back in Santa Barbara, people used to get hit by the train all the time. I swear it was a monthly occurrence. Homeless, drunks, druggies, suicides.

[MillCreek]

bob

I would hit the mom.

[lee n. field]

Our town had a brothel when I was a kid but it was shut down around the time I got my drivers license. It was in the old black part of town when the town was kind of traditionally segregated.
There isn’t much good or interesting news in my small Midwest town.

One of the 2nd floor apartments* of the first place I worked in town was supposed to have been a whorehouse, way back in the day.  The one time I went through that one, yes, I could see it.  Alcoves along one long hallway, each with bathtub.

*(the other second floor apartment was my shop, and come to think of it, the layout of that was a little weird too.)

We had a homicide about 3.5 miles away a couple of weeks ago, which is notable in the rural area we are in.  Young guy got shot in his car.  I don't know anything specific, but it's an easy bet that it was drug related.

Reatively quiet summer here, this year.  Except for the mag dump (I assume) someone did in the street behind us last week.  I haven't heard of any murders this year.  Some years it's hopping.

Guy walking the tracks or laying on them got hit by a train at 2am within the last 2 weeks.

Heard about one of those, from a Carroll County sheriff deputy.  He figured possible suicide.  Longer ago than 2 weeks, so not the same incident.

Occasional drug overdose and a couple homicides this year. County jail supervisor was busted with images or video of female inmates without their clothing or permission.
We have 34 video gaming parlors for a town of 12,000 people.

You too, huh?  Video slots places every quarter mile or closer.  Yuk.

Our number one export is smart young people.

you too, huh?

[French G.]

Local young lass three times the legal blood limit for meth flips truck, her and 3 year old not in the car seat that was in the truck both ejected. Kid still with mom after several months in ICU. Entire county wants two or all three supervisors recalled, recall petition fails on technicalities. Totally unintentional technicalities.... Embarrassed I was duped into voting for one, the turdlike nature of the other two was easy to see and smell. Still exporting smart young people. Low rate production, 15 graduates this year.

[BobR]

I would hit the mom.

I imagine you would have to get in line and bring a fat wallet, but yea, that is what she is there for.

bob

[K Frame]

When I was with the newspaper I'd occasionally go through the coroner's inquest books in the county records.

Back in the late 1800s/early 1900s a pretty common cause of death was people being hit by trains while walking along the tracks.

Not surprising when you think about it, really. The rail beds were elevated, dry, mud free, and were often the most direct route between towns.

Another common cause of death in the books was "caught in an overhead shaft."  In other words, getting pulled into the belts/gears/shafts that ran machines back in the day. Lots of dismemberment.

[WLJ]

Sheriff shot and killed a judge.
We're hearing the judge raped the sheriff's daughter
This isn't too far from where the I-75 shooting happened


 Judge shot and killed at Letcher County Courthouse, Kentucky State Police investigating
https://www.wdrb.com/news/crime-reports/judge-shot-and-killed-at-letcher-county-courthouse-kentucky-state-police-investigating/article_f3234156-76cb-11ef-a340-abb9416746fd.html

[Ben]

In my town this week, the big news is a Chihuahua invasion. Somebody apparently dumped like a dozen of them just outside of town, and the poor little guys are on the loose and getting injured and killed by cars. I normally am anti-Chihuahua (or purse dogs in general), but somebody needs to be hung by their underdeveloped testicles for this. A couple of local gals are trapping them and setting them up for adoption.

I think we are the stray and "dumped dog" capitol of Idaho. The local cop shop does more business with stray dogs than they do with criminals. They actually have a big kennel in the police station.

[K Frame]

"I normally am anti-Chihuahua (or purse dogs in general)"

So you're a sizeist?

You're a *expletive deleted*ing monster!

All dog lives matter!

[WLJ]

In my town this week, the big news is a Chihuahua invasion. Somebody apparently dumped like a dozen of them just outside of town, and the poor little guys are on the loose and getting injured and killed by cars. I normally am anti-Chihuahua (or purse dogs in general), but somebody needs to be hung by their underdeveloped testicles for this. A couple of local gals are trapping them and setting them up for adoption.

I think we are the stray and "dumped dog" capitol of Idaho. The local cop shop does more business with stray dogs than they do with criminals. They actually have a big kennel in the police station.

Any Taco Bells nearby?

[lee n. field]

In my town this week, the big news is a Chihuahua invasion. Somebody apparently dumped like a dozen of them just outside of town, a

Not exactly News-news, but I saw yesterday that the animal hospital has a lab-chihuahua mix for adoption.

"How???"

[WLJ]

Not exactly News-news, but I saw yesterday that the animal hospital has a lab-chihuahua mix for adoption.

"How???"

He stood on a stool