I moved here five years ago. So tired of reading about huge teacher vacancies and mental health shortages. Let the out-of-state professionals in.
Summerlin/Centennial Hills
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Attendees included adults, children and therapy dogs in costume during the Oct. 8 Reading with Rascal at Desert Spring United Methodist Church, 120 Pavilion Center Drive.
Solutions to View’s puzzles, Nov. 10, 2016.
View rounds up dining events and news from across the Las Vegas Valley, from restaurant openings to special dinners and promotions.
Crews are putting the final touches on a new median for Summerlin Parkway, and it appears the high-tension steel cable barriers are already doing their job.
The developers proposing a housing development for the Badlands Golf Course are requesting to withdraw a significant portion of their application to the city in advance of a possible City Council action on the project later this month.
Naloxone — sold under the brand name Narcan and administerable as either a nasal spray or via intramuscular injection — is an opiate antidote. According to Joe Engle, founder of the Las Vegas-based nonprofit There is No Hero in Heroin, it’s also saving people’s lives.
On Oct. 17, the Junior League of Las Vegas presented a number of Clark County School District teachers with checks to allow them to pursue projects that otherwise wouldn’t be part of their school’s budget.
Actress Pia Zadora wants families in the valley dealing with autism to know that “it’s going to get better.” Her now 19-year-old son was diagnosed with autism 15 years ago, and she was on hand Oct. 13 to celebrate the opening of the UNLV Medicine Ackerman Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment Solutions.
When Tyler Kim decided to offer his own baseball camp, he knew he wanted to donate the profits to Little League.
One student is out to put Las Vegas on the map. Fifteen-year-old Eshaan Vakil of Summerlin came away with seven medals, including gold, at the International History Olympiad held July 17-24 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu.
Fifty years of learning. Fifty years of fun. Boy Scout Troop 102, part of the Bighorn District, marked its 50th anniversary Sept. 24 with a special celebration at Westminster Presbyterian Church, its home since 1966.
The First Friday arts festival is Nov 3 at venues throughout the 18b Arts District. In celebration of the upcoming election, the theme for November is Suffrage, the right to vote.
The PGA and its golfers are a wonderful lot.