“This response we’re seeing, the panicked shopping, is people trying to gain control of an unknown situation,” one psychologist said.
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Clark County and Las Vegas Valley cities canceled a number of local events in light of the coronavirus outbreak.
Schools and parents struggle to get money back after last week’s announcement by CCSD officials of an out-of-state travel ban in response to coronavirus concerns.
Clark County schools is immediately suspending all athletic events, assemblies and extra-curricular events until further notice over coronavirus fears, the district said Thursday.
Henderson Libraries will give a children’s book and library card to each baby born at Henderson Hospital. It’s part of the library system’s “Born to Read” program.
The March 28 event will feature more than 60 authors — representing a variety of genres — from across the Las Vegas Valley. Two sessions and a book signing are planned.
The city of Henderson is considering spending more than $3 million in public funds to upgrade a planned hockey arena downtown to add more locker rooms, a weight room and offices for the Vegas Golden Knights’ newly purchased AHL team.
The project — which includes adding a 25-bed observation unit adjacent to the emergency room, another CT scanner and space for surgical suites — will be done by late summer.
It was the sixth-most visited park within the National Park Service. Visitor numbers increased at several entry points and at Hemenway Harbor near Boulder City.
The city of Henderson announced Wednesday that a resident who may have been exposed to COVID-19 while on a cruise ship is returning to self-quarantine at home.
The tournament — the first Henderson has held — will run 9 a.m.-5 p.m. March 21-22 at the Whitney Ranch Recreation Center, 1575 Galleria Drive. The event is free for spectators.
Four teachers and one administrator who traveled to Seattle last week will not return to their school for two weeks as a precaution related to coronavirus, the district said.
Henderson residents showed up in droves to a neighborhood meeting held by the city Monday. The meeting came after several residents spoke out against a proposed arena.
In Clark County, no one would say whether the child of a man who tested positive for the virus was a public or charter school student. In Northern Nevada, things were different.