The Age was the name of one of the first Las Vegas newspapers, around 1906. If the current spate of cold weather continues here, someone could start a newspaper called The Icicle.

In what surely will become a historic front page for Las Vegas, the Summerlin News for Jan. 19-25 published this headline over its lead story:

Freeze bursts pipes

And the readout noted: “Temperature dips to 18 degrees in parts of Summerlin.”

The story dealt with broken breaker valves, and water gushing down driveways.

In sync with the Great Vegas Cold Snap of ’07, the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Sunday, Jan. 21 illustrated its Week in Review section with a color photograph of a three-tiered frozen water fountain in the Tuscany Gardens on East Flamingo Road.

Deep in December (and in late January, too), it’s nice to remember the three-digit Las Vegas temperatures often seen and felt in June through September.

Hey, we moved out here to the desert to get away from the cold, didn’t we?