Educating the public is the main goal of the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE) through hands-on classes, training programs, information seminars and video-conferenced presentations. The list of subject matter is almost endless when it comes to gardening, food preservation, consultations with commercial growers, pruning trees and landscaping.
The season for fundraisers is gearing up and by mid-September will be in full swing. The Fall Festival will be later in September.
The topic of concussions has rocked the NFL all the way down to the Pop Warner level. It’s the hottest issue in football.
Little League World Series: The Las Vegas team, Mountain Ridge, advances to the U.S. title game on Saturday at 12:30 p.m., after beating the Philadelphia team and Mo’ne Davis 8-1. The team did it with hitting and defense as they belted 2 home runs in the game.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in Wednesday’s drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $12 million.
Asthma is a chronic and serious lung disease. Even though asthma-related deaths are few and far between they can occur – sometimes suddenly and without early warning symptoms.
You learn something every day. I’ve been volunteering at the Path of Hope food distribution program through New Hope Fellowship and learned that many of the people receiving donated food aren’t sure how to cook the food so that it tastes good.
Often referred to as “Gypsy Scams,” the word Gypsy is NOT used to denigrate any segment of the population, but rather as a descriptive that those who perpetrate such crimes often do not stay in the same place for more than a short time.
Francine (Francie) Winters grew up in Oregon in a theatrical and artistic family. She first stepped on the stage at the age of four. Later, in recognition of her talent, she was placed on scholarship for dance.
• Mathew Clayton Field was charged on July 17 with preventing or dissuading victim, person acting on behalf of victim, or witness from reporting crime, commencing prosecution or causing arrest; false imprisonment; injuring or tampering with a motor vehicle; domestic battery.
The Friday edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal lately is filled with advertisements for housing developments like Pardee Homes Alterra and Solano developments, William Lyon Homes projects like Tuscan Cliffs in Southern Highlands, along with Beazer Homes developments like Dorado Skies, The Cliffs at Dover, Weston Hills and Rancho Bella.
Patti Diamond and Bob Lauder founded Divas on a Dime in 2009 after many of Diamond’s friends found themselves tight on money as a result of the recession.
Moose Lodge holds donation dinner for Special Olympics
I’ve observed many funerals over the last decade in Arlington National Cemetery’s Section 60, where war dead from Iraq and Afghanistan are buried.
In physics, a unified field theory is an attempt to explain with a single hypothesis the behavior of several fields.
Pahrump could end up on top of the Sunset League this year. I am going to go out on the limb and say that the Trojans finish near the top — either first or second in the Sunset League, Division I-A.
A local organization is celebrating more than three decades of political and community activism.
Members of the Pahrump Youth Advisory Board (PYAB) want to shed some light on the skate park area of Ian Deutch Memorial Park.
The Trojans girls soccer team are coming off a great season. Last year was almost perfect, if not for the one loss in the state final to South Tahoe. However, they did beat their rival, the Faith Lutheran Crusaders, three times and anytime you do that it’s a good season for the Trojans.
Officials at Desert View Hospital will officially welcome two new family medical practitioners to the Mountain Valley Physicians Group Monday.
For one brief moment, the Nevada detective thought he’d finally learn what happened to Maureen Fields years ago in the desert.
