By Joan Patterson Boulder City Review While a city plan to increase the rate of recycling was shelved last week, Boulder City Disposal Inc. may be taking up the baton with a proposal of its own in the hopes of extending the life span of the local landfill. The company is developing a multi-faceted plan [...]

My basketball coach, Nevada High School Hall of Famer Dave Shay, told us this before every game, as a way of easing our young nerves. “There are 100 million red Chinese who don’t know you’re playing tonight, and wouldn’t care if they did. So go out and play for yourself.”… The rest of this article [...]

By JOAN PATTERSON Boulder City Review His stories started to come in bits and pieces a little over a month ago. Sterling H. Anderson, one of the original workers on the Hoover Dam project, sat in a chair in his San Francisco hospital room turning pages in chapters his family had barely glimpsed before…. The [...]

By Laura Ludwick Boulder City Review When Garth Schulz was 8 years old, he asked his mother to let him join Cub Scouts. At 42, Schulz is now the outgoing scout master with Boulder City Boy Scout Troop 7, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary on Dec. 1…. The rest of this article is available [...]

On July 23, 1952, U.S. Sen. George Malone of Nevada announced formation of a committee, chaired by former state engineer Alfred Merritt Smith, to work for installation of the world’s first atomic power plant to be located at Ruby Hill in Eureka County…. The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or [...]

Q: We recently bought a foreclosed home. There are no dripping or sprinkler systems in place as the previous owner had a dog who chewed them up. I know that they did not receive water for a few months. The backyard has two huge tall palm trees along with a short but very lively palm. [...]

By Jack Johnson Boulder City Review On the morning of Nov. 21, Daniel Leach, 49, lost his life when a semi-truck pulled out in front of the 25-year Metropolitan Police Department corrections officer’s transport van, as he drove to pick up a prisoner in Laughlin. Though, at this point, details of the accident are vague, [...]

Staff Report The Boulder City Review welcomes reporter Jack Johnson as the reporter for the newspaper. Johnson grew up in and resides in Boulder City, where all the free time of his youth was spent riding his BMX bicycle – an avocation which found him active in the beginnings of both Boulder City’s BMX track [...]

Book drive under way During the month of November, American Family Insurance and Periwinkle Cottage are collecting books for Kids to Kids. The goal of Kids to Kids, a program of Spread the Word Nevada, is to promote literacy and to make it possible for all of Nevada’s children to experience the magic of books. [...]

In these tough economic times, it is perhaps more important than ever to give thanks where it is due. When families are tightening their belts, sometimes a heartfelt word of appreciation is the only thing that can be given in exchange for a good deed…. The rest of this article is available to premium members [...]