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SHADOW LANE IMPROVEMENTS START BETWEEN ALTA AND CHARLESTON

Book Briefs for June 26-July 2

Highlights this week include signings for local author Lindsey Leavitt’s final Princess for Hire book “A Farewell to Charms” and information about the Black Mountain Institute’s 2012-13 Diana L Bennett Fellows.

Sequoia National Park a must-see in high summer

If you have a few days and dollars this summer to invest, you can get much for your money and time at Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks in California. In these adjacent and jointly managed parks about six hours from Las Vegas, you can wander among the largest trees on earth, hike some of the 850 miles of maintained trail, swim in cool snow-fed mountain streams, and maybe see a black bear or three.

Pointless to attempt olive elimination

Question: Last fall, we planted an olive tree that was certified to be nonfruit blooming. Now, it is full of olives! I just want it to grow. So, should we pluck the little olives off the tree so it can put its energy into growth?

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DOMINO’S PIZZA TO COLLECT CANNED FOOD FOR THREE SQUARE FOOD BANK

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Lounge rising from ashes of east Fremont Street’s blight

Celebrity stories hang like stale cigarette smoke in the dusty, dead Atomic Liquors lounge in downtown Las Vegas.
Entertainers Barbra Streisand, Burt Reynolds and Tom and Dick Smothers are said to have graced the squat, brick hut just a few blocks east of Fremont Street’s flashy casino lights.

Like many others, Mexican national leaving Las Vegas

Every man has his breaking point, and Elias Garcia Vicente, it would seem, has reached his. After five years of hustling for jobs in Las Vegas, the undocumented immigrant from Mexico’s Gulf Coast is calling it quits and heading back home to Veracruz.

Missing Creech airman feared dead at Lake Mead

Those looking in Lake Mead for a 28-year-old airman from Creech Air Force Base changed their tactics Sunday after the man was feared dead.

Valley librarians dumbfounded by popularity of ‘Fifty Shades’

Libraries and bookstores nationwide have been hopping to keep up with demand for the hottest book to come around in years, “Fifty Shades of Grey.” More than 800 people are waiting for a copy of the book with the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.

Young valley immigrants find hope in Obama’s policy change

Astrid Silva, Rafael Lopez and Blanca Gamez are undocumented immigrants living in the Las Vegas Valley. Tired of living in the shadows, they are striving to become U.S. citizens.

Man shoots at wife, then kills himself

Las Vegas police said a 74-year-old Las Vegas man committed suicide early Saturday after firing a weapon at his wife who fled their home on Furnace Gulch Avenue near Fort Apache Road.

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