Today’s eco-friendly bathrooms can do more than just save water. They can help save trees and electricity, too.
As residents of the Las Vegas Valley, it doesn’t take much beyond the summer’s scorching temperatures and rapidly diminishing greenbelts to remind us that we’re living in the desert. For us, water is a precious commodity, and not one to be wasted or squandered unnecessarily.
We read every day about how many baby boomers are “coming of age” and the effect this fact will have on almost every sector of our lives. Boomers may be collecting Social Security or we may continue to work and therefore affect the work place. The health of boomers is a big concern to the medical profession; and there is an entire industry dedicated to making products for boomers. This generation is confronting the aging process in a new way and is not going down without a fight.
Wow! Every week in October and November is my favorite gardening week. There’s so much to do. No bugs, no heat, no sweat. Any person with a gardening or landscaping to-do list should take full advantage of this welcome opportunity to be very busy. Here are just a few things that you could or should be doing now.
: I have small children in my house and one of them grabbed onto a staircase spindle as he was rushing down the stairs. The spindle snapped and I need to repair or replace it. Tell me how.
It’s been a couple of years since I last wrote about the benefits of getting a good night’s sleep in a healthy bed. I’ve had a little more experience with the idea since then so I figured it would be a good time for an update.
: I have English, Spanish and French lavenders that stopped flowering. My English and French lavenders had lots of flowers in their first year but haven’t had any for 21/2 years now. A batch of volunteer French lavenders, not too far from the parent plant, had flowers this spring but stopped flowering since summer. They are less than one year old. I planted some Spanish lavenders last spring. They had flowers during that season but none since summer.
With a grade-point average above 4.0 and the ability to step out and hit a 3-pointer, Dannielle Diamant had everyone from Duke to California to Harvard interested in her.
• LAKE MEAD — Fishing near Temple Bar has been an off-and-on proposition for the past few weeks, but it turned on at the right time for one angler who hauled in a 45-inch, 42-pound striped bass that was weighed and measured at Temple Bar Marina last week. The fish smacked a Rattle Trap the angler cast into a boil. Largemouth fishermen have had to work for their fish in that area.
When Ryan Sniezyk’s brother, Chase, first came to Faith Lutheran, there was no boys soccer team.
There was a time when the great thing about living in Southern Nevada was its wide-open spaces, most of it on public land. One could travel in just about any direction and find someplace new and interesting to visit or someplace new and inviting to hunt.
• BASIC — Football player Anthany Lessier had nine tackles and an interception in a 21-11 win over Silverado. Girls golfer Megan Scharf shot 82 to finish third in a Southeast League match at Legacy.
Every hockey fan remembers Reggie Dunlop. He never starred in the NHL, but he was an important contributor to the sport’s popularity.
The good news for UNLV: It probably won’t face a quarterback like UNR’s Colin Kaepernick again this season.
Nevada’s skyrocketing foreclosure rate combined with its growing profile as a battleground state in next month’s elections could encourage political groups to falsely challenge voters who changed addresses after losing their homes.
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s state government spent $1.6 million last fall looking for missing multimillionaire pilot Steve Fossett in the wrong place.
RENO — A new study suggests a warming climate could upset Lake Tahoe’s food chain and delicate ecosystem.
RENO — A new report shows health insurance premiums for Nevada families are going up more than twice as fast as earnings.
Here’s your chance to make an offer on a bank-owned golf course home in Summerlin that’s shed more than 20 percent of its value. The place is a steal at — cough — $7.95 million.
A new independent statewide poll finds Democrat Barack Obama leading Republican John McCain in Nevada.
The Clark County district attorney’s office should get another chance to prove Geovanny Torres is guilty of murder, District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez ruled on Wednesday.
A woman who was convicted of killing her 11-year-old diabetic daughter and later was granted a new trial was indicted on murder charges this week.
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Aces waive veteran guard in latest roster move
Former Raiders head coach sells Henderson home for $4.8M
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