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BikeFest ready to rumble back into town

Hundreds of motorcycles will converge on Cashman Center, 850 Las Vegas Blvd. North, for the three-day BikeFest, which hosts bikers from 13 countries and 40 states.

Foliar fertilization good for flowering woody plants

Question: We have a crape myrtle tree in our southwest back yard. It gets plenty of water, and I fertilized it last month with some Miracle Grow flowering fertilizer. At the time, there were some burned edges on some of the leaves and some yellowing. Now it is really burned on the edges of all of the leaves with yellowing. HELP!

Book sings the praises of 1960s amateur golfer

So, what’s the greatest major championship ever played? My choice is the 2000 U.S. Open played at Pebble with Tiger winning by 15. My friend’s is the 1960 U. S. Open played at Cherry Hills Country Club in Colorado. What?

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State park’s Pioneer Day a look at history’s homesteaders

The cluster of small, old sandstone cabins at the foot of the Spring Mountains play host to Spring Mountain Ranch State Park’s annual Pioneer Day, scheduled for Saturday.

R-J storyteller Vogel joins Nevada press luminaries

Slow and steady wins the race. Ed Vogel, a veteran Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter who got his start covering sports for a $1.50 per story in his native Michigan, was inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame on Saturday night by the Nevada Press Association.