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A Landscape Design with the Desert in Mind series of classes is being offered by the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension every Monday from 9 a.m. to noon starting Feb. 1 and running through March 22. For more information call the master gardener help line at 257-5509.
By definition, something that is neutral has no particular characteristics. In home décor, something that is neutral has no hue and matches well with many or most other colors and shades.
In recognition of the National Association of Professional Organizer’s observance of Get Organized Month, here are a few tips to get you started.
They say the dream of the older generation was to pay off a mortgage, while the dream of today’s young families is to get one. In this economy, that’s no joke. That dream is now taking on new dimensions that include managing the ever-rising cost of energy and water.
DEAR DESIGNER: While shopping for custom draperies and a few throw pillows, I found the fringe incredibly expensive. Will you help me weigh the pros and cons of using trim on my new draperies? — Aileen
Quirky fads or unexpected favorites sometimes appear in the world of collecting. Prices go up based on supply and demand, but what creates the demand can be a mystery. Lunchboxes, plastic purses, plastic radios and Beanie Babies are all recent examples.
Every once in a while something special grabs hold of your bait and bends your fishing rod over so hard that it causes adrenaline to surge through your veins as your heart races to keep up.
RENO — Jared Quayle scored 21 points as Utah State outlasted UNR 79-72 in overtime Wednesday.
The leading scorer in Southern Nevada boys basketball isn’t an athletic specimen blessed with towering height. He hasn’t attracted a long list of Division I scholarship offers or mounds of hype on recruiting Web sites.
Disappointed with his play, UNLV junior Tre’Von Willis began talking to himself. Usually that’s a bad sign for any player. … But a personal pep talk pointed Willis in the right direction, and he turned himself around and led the Rebels to a 76-66 comeback victory over San Diego State on Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
They always want to know. The coach. The player. The fan. The usher. The janitor. The opponent.
Joaquin Rivas doesn’t much like talking about his achievements on the soccer field.
The UNLV women’s basketball team trailed 49-17 at halftime, and it didn’t get much better in the second half of a 70-41 Mountain West Conference loss to host San Diego State on Wednesday night.
• AGASSI PREP — Girls basketball player Alannah Conway totaled 44 points in two games.
Bishop Gorman senior tight end Xavier Grimble is excited about Southern California’s hire of Lane Kiffin as its football coach and remains “firmly” committed to USC, his father, Bill Grimble, said Wednesday.
• LAKE MEAD — Anglers have been catching stripers and catfish with anchovies and live shad along the beaches south of Boulder Beach and south of Hemenway Harbor. Fishing is best in the morning, when the shad are close to shore.
A former Bishop Gorman High School football player appeared in District Court on Wednesday to assure a judge he is following through with the terms of his sentence.
It’s one thing for an announcer to be a homer and openly root for the team he covers, but it’s another thing for a television producer to try to alter the outcome of a game he’s airing.
The formula for a successful league basketball season hasn’t changed since the Mountain West Conference was formed in 1999: Hold serve at home and try to steal a few road wins.
Sen. John Ensign, in his first open forum with Southern Nevadans since he confessed to a sexual affair with a staffer last year, got a pass Wednesday from the public on his personal troubles during a carefully controlled town hall meeting on health care reform.
The Nevada Supreme Court has referred Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett to a state bar disciplinary board because of his conviction for reckless driving last year.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating allegations of racial discrimination against the mostly minority students at West Prep Academy, a federal spokesman confirmed this week.
Southern Nevada health officials are offering free rapid HIV and AIDS testing in Las Vegas as part of a multi-city event on Friday night.
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