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Officials from both local school districts plan to cut back on their expenses during the coming fiscal year in hopes of getting off emergency supplemental funding.

In an effort to pull it off, both school districts have not been filling vacant positions, and West has even eliminated some positions.

At Las Vegas City Schools, the union is recommending a reduction in force for next school year rather than continuation of furloughs, which results in lower pay for staff.

By Margaret McKinney
Highlands University

New Mexico Highlands University media arts graduate Mariano Ulibarri put Las Vegas on the map in the makerspace movement when he established the fifth Hacker Scouts guild in the country, with cities like New York, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles following suit.

Ulibarri’s cutting-edge Parachute Factory makerspace at 166 Bridge St. was featured recently in a story in Getting Smart, a Seattle-based technology and education website.

The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to award a bid to Lumar Construction Company of Mora for the renovation of the Bridge Street Breezeway.

Work will include roofing the existing structure, placing light fixtures under the roof canopy and adding electrical outlets to be used by the Arts Council for special events.

The façade of the Breezeway will also be remodeled as approved by the State Historic Preservation Office.

Lumar’s base bid for the project came in at $92,000, without gross receipts taxes.

A pit bull that bit a woman numerous times in late April was ordered released from the pound and returned to its owner by Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Eddie Trujillo.

“Normally I have zero tolerance for biting dogs and if this had happened on the streets, in a park or anywhere else in public I probably would have had it put down,” Trujillo said of the dog in the case. “But this was on private property, and I had to take that into consideration.”