LAS VEGAS — Alcohol sales will quickly be enabled in a small Nevada town where spiritual roots led to a decades-long restriction on purchasing beer, whitewine and alcohol.
Bars still won’t be permitted, however shops will be able to sell alcohol in Alamo after the Lincoln County Commission on Tuesday all backed a regional board vote taken anumberof months ago to repeal a restriction embraced in 1985, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Many of the roughly 1,100 individuals who live in the unincorporated jurisdiction about a 90-minute drive north of Las Vegas are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Town Board Chairman Vern Holaday informed the Review-Journal ahead of the county commission vote.
The faith, extensively understood as the Mormon church, preaches abstaining from alcohol.
Alamo’s repeal might endupbeing reliable in about 30 days, Lincoln County District Attorney Dylan Frehner stated.
That will leave Panaca as the just staying town in Nevada to forbid alcohol sale