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Mold complaints at Grant Sawyer state building prompt repairs

Crews are replacing heating and ventilation equipment in the Grant Sawyer state offices in Las Vegas after a report cited a possible link between leaks in the system and the presence of low concentrations of mold in the building’s dust.

Honeysuckle needs adequate light to produce blooms

Q: We have an 8-year-old honeysuckle plant that will not produce blossoms. They get one or two blossoms each year but do not produce massive amounts. We tried various fertilizers to no avail. What can we do to stimulate blossoms?

Diagnosing mental issues can be as much art as science

Someone with a mental disorder may be the last person to realize they need help. According to the World Health Organization, mental illnesses account for more disability in developed countries than any other group of illnesses.

Recent rains can create problems with plants

The rain this past weekend may have brought some problems along with it, the same as it did last year after a rain like this. Problems might develop during the coming week or, with some plants, even extend into May or later.

Military precision, dance combine in color guard competition

Another finals competition is coming to Las Vegas and the Thomas & Mack Center, but this one doesn’t involve basketballs or riding angry bulls. Instead, it features military precision, firearms, swords and … dance.

Literary Las Vegas: Michael Schall Johnson

In 1969, Las Vegas author and illustrator Michael Schall Johnson was pulling a telephone pole out of the Cheyenne River for the Mountain States Telephone company. As he winched the pole up a 30-foot cliff and dug it a new hole, he dreamed that he might dig up a strong box hidden by a gang of desperadoes. Now retired, Johnson revisited the area in his novel “The Bloody Road of Gold: Calamity, Wild Bill, Boone May, Courage and Romance in the Old West.” The book, which Johnson describes as “myths and truths intertwined,” follows Jack Neuman, a young man orphaned as a teen on his quest to discover the West. Visit mickeymade.com.

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