We are creatures of preconceived ideas. One of the most common is that food gardens must be separate areas of tidy rows and conventional crops. Sadly, that image doesn’t fit into many urban backyards where space is limited. Such preconceived ideas discourage the spatially challenged from believing they can grow their own food.
: I live in Anthem and, according to my car temperature gauge, it seems to run several degrees cooler at my home. I have been babying a Mexican lime for a year now, after having lost one and a Meyer lemon two winters ago. Could you suggest where and how I might have a Meyer lemon?
So what is the well-dressed bathroom wearing today, and how is it handling water?
The Arbor View baseball team made the Class 4A Sunset Region playoffs each of its first three seasons. But the Aggies are the odd team out in the Northwest League this time around.
A former Bishop Gorman High School student followed through with a plea bargain Wednesday that allows him to keep his football scholarship and his freedom.
• BISHOP GORMAN — Girls track athlete Maddie Levine won the 3,200 meters and finished second in the 1,600 in a meet at Pahrump. Boys swimmer Patrick O’Rourke helped the 200-yard freestyle relay team remain undefeated.
Anything can happen in a Game 7 — unless it involves the Wranglers playing on their home ice.
After reading last week’s edition of ”In the Outdoors,” in which Mike O’Donnell of the Nevada Striper Club shared a few Lake Mead fishing tips, reader Robert Gunny wrote in with a few tips of his own.
• LAKE MEAD — Anglers fishing in the Vegas Wash arm have found success with cut baits such as anchovies, sardines and squid. Action is slow in the Boulder Beach area. Bluegill and crappie anglers are catching fish near Echo Bay and Stewart’s Point.
Sidney Hodge and his Palo Verde teammates already have made themselves tough to catch at the Sunset Region boys track meet.
Nothing was going right for Trevor Kirk as he auditioned for a roster spot on the College of Southern Nevada baseball team. He made a poor first impression, and was unsure if he would get a second chance.
In tough economic times, what the NBA needs is more LeBron James. He has become the league’s biggest star, blowing away Kobe Bryant in Most Valuable Player voting, and all his press is positive.
CARSON CITY — Nevada ranks fifth among states in gun-related deaths per capita, according to the Violence Policy Center, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.
A defense attorney asked for a mistrial in a murder case Wednesday when it was learned that a couple serving on the jury did not disclose that they were married.
Las Vegas police on Wednesday announced the arrests of 24 people suspected of involvement in an elaborate web of home invasions, car theft and auto burglaries.
Actor Joe Pesci, who won an Oscar for his supporting role in the mob classic “Goodfellas,” is going into business in Las Vegas with convicted racketeer Rick Rizzolo.
The Nevada Supreme Court has agreed to fast-track an appeal concerning two ballot measures that supporters want placed before Las Vegas voters June 2.
A North Las Vegas mother was arrested this week on a felony charge of child neglect after her 3-month-old daughter stopped breathing and died while with a caregiver.
NEW YORK — It seems logical: Why not try to get sick with swine flu now and get some immunity in case it comes roaring back this fall in a deadlier form? Sort of like those “pox parties” to get your kids exposed to a childhood disease.
A fire tore through a vacant 40-unit apartment building Wednesday at the historic Moulin Rouge, closing Bonanza Road for most of the day and forcing the blighted property’s one-day owners to tear the building down.
A groundbreaking for the long-awaited Smith Center for the Performing Arts has been tentatively scheduled for May 26, with construction on the concert hall and theater building expected to be complete by early 2012.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s first budget for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site will be the lowest ever and will include further directions for the Department of Energy to wind down the Nevada project, officials said Wednesday.
A man was arrested last Friday in connection with the death in November of a woman who was originally thought to have been accidentally shot.
Arbor View High School’s Crimson Players have taken their opening night bows, but Marcus Robinson’s script still sits on his bed, open to page 26.
A 5.5-acre block of land in downtown Las Vegas got tempers flaring Wednesday as the City Council debated, and ultimately endorsed, establishing a special tax district that critics say would hurt school funding.
