The master-planned community of Summerlin is launching a three-week back-to-school promotion, Summerlin School Days. The multi-media promotion, which showcases the community’s 24 public and private schools, also includes a fundraiser for Summerlin schools via a School is Cool in Summerlin T-shirt, which will be sold at participating schools; a school supply drive for the Public Education Foundation’s Teacher Exchange and drawings for back-to-school shopping sprees at Fashion Show and/or Meadows Mall in addition to the grand prize of a new laptop computer.
The state of Nevada’s Housing Division Administrator, Chas Horsey, said, “Buying a home can be one of the most important decisions a person can make during his or her lifetime. For the first-time homebuyer, emotions can tend to guide the way to the decision-making, rather than approaching this major investment in a carefully thought-out way.”
With local and national news-paper reports of the housing market stabilizing, consumers are looking at the option of buying a new home.
At Pardee Homes’ Horizon and Northpointe neighborhoods in the builder’s master-planned Eldorado community, a select number of move-in ready homes are being offered with prices starting from $299,925 for a five-bedroom home.
A federal government stimulus offering up to $8,000 to first-time homebuyers, along with Rhodes Homes current incentives, is reducing the price of new homes at Rhodes Ranch in southwestern Las Vegas. The Greens Collection in the master plan is offering three floor plans starting at $184,990.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Again, Barbara Holland will take a break from her Q&A format to address Assembly bill 251 and Senate bill 253 that were passed into law during the last legislative session this summer.
Real Estate Disposition Corp., a national real estate auction firm, will auction 45 condominium homes located at Monterey at the Las Vegas Country Club Aug. 16 at Palace Station Hotel and Casino, 2411 W. Sahara Ave. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the auction starts at 11 a.m.
According to James Byczek, Chartwell Group, tours of brand-new condominiums slated for auction have brought hundreds of home shoppers to the Newport Lofts high-rise community.
Q: We live in Michigan but visit Las Vegas often. I could retire anytime but likely not for three years or so.
On a wall in his office in the Lied Athletic Complex, Kris Cinkovich has hung framed action photos of UNLV’s wide receivers.
Bishop Gorman entered the American Legion Western Regional knowing its potent lineup would be hard to keep down for the duration of a nine-inning game.
UNLV’s football media guide lists Malo Taumua at defensive tackle and Isaako Aaitui at defensive end, just where both juniors ended the spring.
Buck Coats had four hits, Travis Snider added three, and Randy Ruiz drove in three runs Friday as the 51s reached .500 for the first time this season with a 6-3 Pacific Coast League victory over the Omaha Royals in Omaha, Neb.
Horses aren’t the only animals that strut their stuff at Del Mar Race Track. There also are plenty of cougars on display at the San Diego-area venue.
PHILADELPHIA — The last time BJ Penn competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, he was battered and beaten for four full rounds by Georges St. Pierre before Penn’s corner mercifully called a halt to the carnage.
Clark County commissioners are being pulled deeper into a feud between two rival contractors battling for a lucrative road-widening job on the Las Vegas Beltway.
A caption in Friday’s Review-Journal accompanying a story about the Robert Kahre tax evasion trial misidentified the attorney for Kahre’s girlfriend, Danille Cline. She is represented by Lynn Panagakos.
CARSON CITY — A former state director of the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada, who worked to cool rhetoric and build partnerships for managing public lands, was confirmed Friday as the agency’s national director.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Two Southern Nevada men charged in an alleged prescription drug conspiracy rooted in northwest Arizona pleaded not guilty during their Friday arraignment in Mohave County Superior Court.
An 11-year-old Las Vegas boy died in Death Valley National Park after he and his mother became stranded in one of the world’s most inhospitable areas and survived for several days on bottled water and cheese sandwiches, authorities said Friday. Alicia Sanchez, 28, was found severely dehydrated and remained hospitalized a day after being found with her dog, her dead son and a Jeep Cherokee buried in the sand. … The events leading up to young Carlos Sanchez’s death, the third in the park this year, has authorities baffled. Many questions remain unanswered about the decisions the woman made.