The ''Henderson Home News'' was a

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based in

Henderson, Nevada Henderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, about southeast of downtown Las Vegas. It is the second largest city in Nevada, after Las Vegas, with an estimated population of 320,189 in 2019. The city is part of the Las Vegas Val ...

. The ''Henderson Home News'' had a close, working alliance with the larger ''

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'' throughout its existence. The ''Las Vegas Sun'' later acquired the ''Henderson Home News'' outright and closed the smaller newspaper in 2010.

Lorna Kesterson Lorna J. Kesterson (December 30, 1925 – January 16, 2012) was an American journalist, newspaper editor and politician. She served as the first female mayor of the city of Henderson, Nevada, for two consecutive four-year terms from 1985 to 1993 ...

worked as a reporter and, later,

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of the ''Henderson Home News'' for nearly thirty years. She was later elected the first female Mayor of Henderson in 1985.

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