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IN VALLEY’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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Football season is under way at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Lefty’s is a good place to gather before or after the game.
Review-Journal sportswriter Ed Graney makes me think, which is the highest compliment I have to pay any writer, not to mention the highest compliment I can receive as a fellow pounder of the keyboard. His commentary last week on Notre Dame suspending radio analyst Allen Pinkett was … well, it made me think.
Sitting in a circle, PB&J youth staff members practiced an experience-sharing exercise with Starburst candies. They later did the exercise with their campers at the nonprofit PB&J Leadership Training Inc.’s Leadership Camp 2012, at Camp Lee Canyon, on Mount Charleston, in late July and August.
A man who fell or jumped to his death from a freeway overpass Friday might have been running away from a state trooper because he was in the country illegally, his family said Sunday.
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch from 9 a.m. Monday until 5 a.m. Tuesday for Southern Nevada. Other areas included in the watch are eastern California and northwest Arizona.
The Review-Journal is still accepting details for its annual list of holiday bazaars sponsored by nonprofit organizations and clubs.
It’s a hot summer afternoon, and the tourists are swarming around downtown. The Fremont Street Experience garage is packed, and visitors are lined up 20 deep to soar high above the crowds on a zip line.