This summer’s hottest hues are cool tones, particularly classic blue and white themes. Blue and white have been used as decorative accents throughout the ages to dress up everything from regal, formal spaces to country cottage homes.
Q: I’m on the hunt for a piece of furniture I can use to display special family heirlooms. What do you recommend?
Interior designer Linda Woodrum, who worked her magic on HGTV’s Dream Home 2008, offers these decorating tips for creating your own dream home:
Saving hundreds of dollars on your energy costs could be as simple as purchasing a $5 can of insulating foam.
Q: I hope that this doesn’t sound too cheap, but I have a leak in my garden hose and I understand there is a kit to repair it. What does this kit cost, and should I try to repair the hose or buy a new one?
“How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams, with its illusions, aspirations, dreams!” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807-March 24, 1882), American educator and poet. “Morituri Salutamus” (1874)
ELY — Even incoming freshman Phillip Payne, a Western High School graduate, didn’t realize how many locals played football for UNLV when he signed.
Preseason scouting always has been an important part of the hunt preparation process, especially when it comes to hunting big game such as Nevada’s mule deer. Anyone who has spent at least one season in the field will understand that, even if they haven’t taken the opportunity to go scouting themselves. Nothing can replace time spent on the ground. Not even satellite imagery.
Just a guess: When it came time for that little meeting back in December 1991, Boris Yeltsin and the boys from some of the Soviet Union’s 15 republics didn’t sit around a remote hunting lodge and discuss abolishing the 74-year-old state in this order:
• LAKE MEAD — It’s the time of year for striper boils. Look for them throughout the lake, but especially in the triangle formed by Sand Island, Government Wash and Boxcar Cove or along the beaches.
Sophomore quarterback Andrew Hatch is locked in a three-man race to start for defending national champion Louisiana State this season, and his chances keep looking better.
Donn Roach and Paul Sewald easily could have left their Bishop Gorman teammates by now.
Some guys who cringe at the thought of watching the Olympics might want to think twice. Jennie Finch is one good reason to watch softball.
Let’s dub it the “Halverson effect.”
Longtime Las Vegas-Clark County Library District board member Louis Overstreet resigned Wednesday morning, citing a disagreement over financial issues.
Rep. Jon Porter kicked off his re-election campaign Wednesday, saying his bid for a fourth term in Congress will be about a record of “finding solutions to problems.”
Local gasoline prices fell nearly 10 percent between July 8 and Wednesday, but experts say the drop hasn’t restored the fuel-consumption habits of consumers or businesses.
With Tuesday’s primary over, a local Republican official said he was relieved the party was spared the task of choosing a candidate to run for a Clark County Commission seat in the general election.
Rhoshii Wells relied on fast feet, speedy hands and a powerful punch to escape threatening situations in the boxing ring.
CARSON CITY — By Wednesday afternoon, 30-year Assemblyman John Marvel, R-Battle Mountain, had stopped moping about his loss in Tuesday’s primary election and the fact that he will not be returning to the Legislature this winter.
A dirty look between two cliques of girls at a house party had deadly consequences.
Suspended District Judge Elizabeth Halverson’s federal court hearing scheduled for today has been postponed until September, but her hearing before the Judicial Discipline Commission is expected to resume.
Area police agencies and the FBI have teamed up to bust what they believe is a large-scale copper and auto parts theft operation at a recycling center on Carey Avenue near Pecos Road.
WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday granted Nevada 30 additional days to file license challenges to the Yucca Mountain repository, short of the extra time the state requested for its preparations.