Lisa Antram thought nothing was wrong with her son Gregory when a teacher told her she was concerned about his behavior at school.

Gregory, age 4 at the time, rarely made eye contact, did not play with other children, and was an accelerated math student. Those characteristics never bothered Antram.

Demian Carpenter isn't certain he'll live to see next week.

On Saturday at Tempe Town Lake in Tempe, Ariz., Carpenter will allow four of his friends to wrap him in a carpet, toss him in the back of a man-made, man-powered vehicle and push the craft off a 30-foot ramp over a lake.

One fish, two fish plopped into the water.

It wasn't a tribute to Dr. Seuss, but an effort on the part of the Lakes Association to save an endangered species. The association worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to place 200 razorback sucker fish in Lake Sahara, the 30-acre man-made lake that provides waterfront advantage to homes in The Lakes.

After the resignation of two chiefs in less than a year, the new head of the Henderson Police Department, Richard Perkins, said he is in a position to become a stabilizing force for his staff.

The last chief, Alan Kerstein, was on the job for seven months when he resigned in March. Kerstein had taken over after Michael Mayberry resigned in April 2005. Kerstein faced questions early in his tenure when he asked to have a patrol car pick him up at McCarran International Airport and when he had upgrades like a sunroof added to his own police-issue vehicle. He later paid for the upgrades and admitted asking for an airport pick-up was a mistake.

Upon entering the Threshold Dance Theater one can sense that something is different.

It may be because there are no mirrors covering the walls of the studio, it may be because the theater is a nonprofit organization, or it may because the founders were recently nursing two baby hummingbirds that fell out of a nest in their yard.

Miguel Lamadrid keeps busy -- so busy that he jokes, "I need three Miguels."

The Scoutreach senior district executive for the Soccer and Scouting Program, Boulder Dam Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, is in charge of a whole covey of elementary school soccer teams in northeastern Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, and he's planning to create more.

One North Las Vegas resident hails from Chicago and spent the last couple of years cooking at Santa Fe Station. The other was born an Oklahoman, attended Las Vegas College and worked in marketing.

Now they're both well on their way toward gaining their journeyman's cards as sheetmetal workers, and they're not looking back.

Celts, people from Scotland, Ireland or Wales, were an integral part of Las Vegas' early years.

"Ninety percent of the founders of the Las Vegas Valley are of Scottish and Irish decent," said Joe Austin, president of the Las Vegas Celtic Society. "Octavius Gass and Helen Stewart were among the group."

Cancer never sleeps.

A lot of Summerlin people won't sleep the night of May 5. That's when scores of people will descend on the grounds of Alexander Dawson School, 10845 W. Desert Inn Road, and spend the night on the track running or walking laps for Relay For Life, a fundraising event for the American Cancer Society.

They say all good things must come to an end, and so it is with Amy Arnaz.

After 27 years of teaching thousands of young women and men the fine art of dance, Boulder City's 54-year-old prima ballerina is calling it quits, at least as an instructor.