: I am replacing an interior door that needs to be cut down. Either I bought the wrong size door or the opening for it is not a standard size. The door is hollow and I need to cut it down by about an inch in height and one-quarter inch in width. What is the best way to do this, and does it severely weaken the door?
Dear Readers: As we approach the holiday season and time for decorating our spaces, I would like to offer, what I hope to be, a helpful hint. Holiday decorations tend to hold special places in our hearts for specific reasons.
Just as a bear emerges from his cold winter home to a world renewed with nature’s bounty, today’s home furnishings and accessories are renewing souls along with our relationship with Mother Nature.
As soon as the leaves drop from your fruit trees, you can begin to prune them. On Saturdays, Dec. 12 and 19, I will be conducting peach and nectarine pruning classes at the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Orchard in North Las Vegas. The class will be held from 10 a.m. to noon both days.
If you see Billy Etbauer today, just call him “Timex.”
Legacy boys basketball coach Charles Janette expects returning Longhorns starters Sian Laine, Samuel Johnson and Ira Haywood to lead a run toward the postseason.
The fish-stocking truck had just left when I arrived at Boulder Harbor on Friday morning, but the fishing pier already was packed with anglers who were casting assorted hardware and other trout baits. Many were stacked up at the end of the pier, while others were spread out between there and the shoreline.
No one ever asked Spring Valley sophomore Raymond Waters if he wanted to wrestle.
I am trying to determine how UNLV will inform the two finalists who won’t be offered the school’s athletic director job, given the ridiculous manner (e-mail from a search committee chairman) in which others were told Tuesday.
• LAKE MEAD — Striper fishing is good using live shad or lures in the Vegas Wash area. Trout fishing has been good because of plants. Anglers have been catching trout off the docks at Hemenway, Boulder Harbor and Crawdad Cove with PowerBait as well as catching a few stripers with shad. Stripers are coming in to chase the trout. Trout plants are set for Friday.
The work ethic that John Johnson developed growing up working in his dad’s automotive mechanic shop still serves him well.
Southern Nevada high school football fans weren’t the only ones paying attention to Bishop Gorman’s undefeated run to the Class 4A state championship.
Promoters of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight abruptly canceled a trip to Dallas on Wednesday, dealing a possibly fatal blow to the chances of Jerry Jones landing the bout for Cowboys Stadium.
SALT LAKE CITY — Carlon Brown scored 10 of his 12 points in the second half, leading Utah on a late 9-0 run that clinched the Utes’ 68-52 victory over Michigan on Wednesday.
Final exams required most of UNLV sophomore Oscar Bellfield’s attention this week. When his mind shifts to basketball, all of his thoughts revolve around Kansas State.
• ARBOR VIEW — Girls basketball player Erika Lang totaled 24 points and 18 rebounds in victories over Virgin Valley and Del Sol. Boys basketball player Darington Banks had 25 points, eight assists and four rebounds in a 77-55 win over Del Sol.
From NFL diva to fashionista, Terrell Owens might be too sexy for his shirt, too sexy that it hurts, too sexy for Milan … just like the Right Said Fred song.
Nevadans will have a chance to vote in 2012 on whether the state should tax and regulate marijuana, according to a pro-pot group.
While Clark County and Southern Nevada cities look to Washington, D.C., for advice in estimating jobs to be created or saved through the Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the Congressional Budget Office last month stated it wasn’t using such estimates to measure the stimulus’ impact on employment and the nation’s economy.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons plans to issue an emergency regulation enacting the federal Real ID Act even as the federal government contemplates delaying the controversial measure.
The Nevada State Board of Nursing has opened a probe into the treatment of a pregnant Las Vegas woman who said she was ignored as she moaned and pleaded for help while waiting for six hours in University Medical Center’s emergency room. … Meanwhile, two other people in the waiting room on the night 25-year-old Roshunda Abney sought help backed up what she and her fiancé told the Review-Journal: When others in the waiting room asked a nursing assistant to aid Abney, they were told to mind their own business or they wouldn’t get a chance to see a physician.
An argument that started Friday over a breach of bathroom courtesy ended with one man dead, another injured and a third arrested for murder, according to Las Vegas police.
Allegations of willful destruction of evidence and lying to police were among the arguments heard Wednesday by a Nevada Supreme Court panel.
