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Goodbye rabbit. Enter the dragon. To celebrate the Chinese New Year that began Monday, the Chinatown Plaza, 4255 W. Spring Mountain Road, will host its annual Chinese New Year Celebration and Asian Food Festival.
Now is a great time of year to head out to Lake Mead National Recreation Area and enjoy the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail.
Question: When is a good time to plant fruit trees?
“We need your help.” That is the Clark County School District’s stance. The district launched the Watch Us Grow campaign and website this month in conjunction with Superintendent Dwight Jones’ State of the District address Jan. 5 at Chaparral High School.
All the wonderful flavors and spices that we have come to expect from outstanding Thai and Asian foods are on display at this family restaurant, where the house specialty is Thai barbecue chicken with papaya salad and sticky rice.
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Metal theft is not new to the Las Vegas Valley, but the number of abandoned homes due to the foreclosure crisis has thieves hopping. From July to September of 2011, there were 76 incidents with a total value of $735,000 documented by the Metropolitan Police Department.
The blueprint for Las Vegas of the future has been in forward motion for quite some time, irrespective of the unyielding economic meltdown. Re-creation of downtown Las Vegas, which continues to move rapidly, is a principal step in the overall process. But that’s followed by plans for expansion and growth.
Home repairs can be costly, especially for low-income residents. But Rebuilding Together Southern Nevada, 611 S. Ninth St., aims to assist these residents by providing no-cost repairs to veterans, the elderly and low-income homeowners.
Eleven students at Hyde Park finished in the top 1 percent in the Mathematical Association of America’s American Mathematics Contest 8, an international competition held in November. One Hyde Park student, Ian Johnson, got a perfect score for the second year in a row. Hyde Park is one of the Clark County School District’s magnet schools.
Three uniformed figures guide the craft carefully out of its protective structure. Two wear green flight suits, the third wears gray and blue attire; all wear dark aviator sunglasses. Their inspection of the Cessna is organized and procedural, though they trade jokes in the relaxed manner of a crew intimately comfortable with its vehicle. What makes the members of this aircrew different than other private or commercial Cessna crews is that they collaborate with the Air Force on humanitarian missions. These flyers are civilians who serve in the Civil Air Patrol (CAP).
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Harrah’s Las Vegas would like to congratulate famed Las Vegas headliner and legendary U.S. entertainer Donny Osmond for again taking home the gold. For five years running, he has won the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Best of Las Vegas readers poll for entertainment awards.
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The mountains were expected to get between eight and 16 inches for areas above 7,500 feet, said the National Weather Service, with wind gusts up to 35 mph.
Last year, about 10,000 Christmas trees transformed into 86 tons of mulch for use in city parks.
Rosa Cortez was unanimously ratified as a deputy city manager on Aug. 20, becoming the first Latina at the post in the municipality’s history.
A lawyer for Carrie Cox asked a judge to dismiss a felony charge against the Henderson councilwoman for allegedly recording another councilwoman’s private conversation due to insufficient evidence.
