A September announcement that developer Jim Rhodes will be walking away from the Tuscany development in Henderson is coming as welcome news to residents, who say Rhodes has done a poor job managing the project’s beleaguered homeowners association. In a statement from Rhodes Homes, the company said it has a history of working to provide dedicated management for Tuscany.
Log in to Facebook these days, and you can catch up on what a friend on the other side of the country did last night, go shopping, or, if you get bored, stir up some trouble in a mafia game or two. And if the last one leaves you feeling a little guilty, there’s a new Facebook application: church.
Green Valley Christian School’s request to expand its junior high and high school operations into a vacant office building across the street from its main campus won the approval of the Henderson Planning Commission on Thursday night.
Leaders of cities and counties throughout Nevada gathered in Henderson Wednesday afternoon to discuss how they can respond to Nevada’s changing political and financial landscape.
A former board member of a homeowners association in Henderson whose landscaping company performed work for the association he represented -- while he sat on the board -- was disciplined last week by the state board that regulates homeowners associations.
The City Council unanimously appointed Councilman Steve Kirk as mayor pro-tem. As mayor pro-tem, it will be Kirk’s duty to lead meetings in Mayor Andy Hafen’s absence. Kirk narrowly lost to Hafen in June’s mayoral race, with 49.9 percent of the vote to Hafen’s 50.1 percent.
The operators of a group home that the city mistakenly licensed earlier this year in a rural Henderson neighborhood won approval from the City Council Tuesday night to continue operation, to the chagrin of neighbors and some Council members alike. The City Council approved a use permit for Sweet Home Belmont, located within the Serene Country Estates rural preservation neighborhood, by a 3-2 vote.
The Henderson City Council’s monthly financial update brought good news and bad news Tuesday night. The bad news? Tax revenues have continued to fall more steeply than the city’s most dismal projections.
For decades the chapel tower of St. Jude’s Ranch for Children in Boulder City was topped by a mosaic tile dome and a 6-foot-tall ornate wrought iron cross. But cracks in the tiles allowed water to leak in and damage the wood underneath so badly that after some high winds last winter, the cross tilted about 20 degrees.
