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City of Las Vegas staffers are set to say goodbye to the Bridge Gallery on the second floor of Las Vegas City Hall with “A Walk on the Wild Side.” The Musical Arts Chorus plans to perform Felix Mendelssohn’s St. Paul Oratorio and Las Vegas Academy is putting on “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
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After losing her daughter, a Henderson mother is embarking on a campaign to end bullying and raise awareness of suicide.
A decade-long vision is scheduled to come to fruition next year when construction of the La Concha Visitor Center at the Neon Museum, 821 Las Vegas Blvd. North, is complete.
From a magic-loving kid in California to a former University of Nevada, Las Vegas student who’s seen his dreams come true, Seth Grabel has come a long way.
The Las Vegas Academy Paws for Change club plans to host a Puppy Pow Wow fundraiser Saturday to raise funds to help spay and neuter cats and dogs for families at Canyon Springs High School in North Las Vegas, which recently started its own Paws for Change club.
A few weeks ago, I disappeared from your copy of View, sitting weekly in your mailbox or in your driveway. Poof! I was gone. I was relocated to the View online. From hence, this is where I’ll be answering reader questions. From here I hope you will continue to write, to risk your questions, so that together we can talk, think, reach, struggle and find.
There are times when you really don’t know what you want for lunch or dinner. Here’s a place with such a varied menu that you’re bound to find something to satisfy your hunger pains.
Officials from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are doing what they can to increase interest in post-secondary education in at-risk schools. The Clark County School District’s 34th annual college fair at Cashman Center Oct. 25 was preceded by pep rallies at Canyon Springs, Desert Pines and Rancho high schools.
Question: I recently moved into a home in Henderson, and I have a large back yard with about seven pine trees lining the property. The trees are spaced approximately 8 feet apart. I am contemplating planting fruit trees between the pines, and once they reach maturity, I would remove the pine trees. What do you think about this approach?
Oenophiles, please take note. There’s a new trend popping up in the golf world and in Las Vegas in particular, which I find very cheering. I’m all for it, and I believe you will find it to your liking as well.
Stefani Lindenberg, 12, participated in the 2011 Miss Pre-Teen Las Vegas pageant on Oct. 23.
You don’t build a person with a single blueprint. Instead, you build them with a thousand small, unseen moments. A question that cracks open a new world. A line of red ink that teaches you to mean what you say. A quiet nod of encouragement from across a chaotic classroom. This is a letter of thanks to the architects of those moments, my teachers at Lewis E. Rowe Elementary School, Helen C. Cannon Junior High School, and Valley High School.
The videos were released hours after the Las Vegas Review-Journal published a column disputing the department’s earlier refusals to share the recordings.
The Henderson Police Department said this week it has begun a campaign targeting illegal electric motorcycle use ahead of the holiday season. Meanwhile, Clark County created a public service announcement with a pediatric doctor at UMC.
Las Vegas is closing out a calm, mild week with another day of sunshine Friday, continuing the stretch of clear skies that has held over the valley since earlier in the week.
Mojave Desert adventurers might just be in luck: In a Thursday news release, rangers said the ephemeral water body has re-emerged.
