Archive | October, 2010

Obit: Thomas Gerald Simmons

THOMAS GERALD SIMMONS July 22, 1922 – October 15, 2010 Thomas Gerald Simmons, 88, passed away Friday, Oct. 15, in Boulder City. He was born on July 22, 1922, in Forest, Texas, and lived in Boulder City since 2005. He was a carpenter and worked in construction before retirement. He was also a member of [...]

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Obit: Bob Ray Woods

BOB RAY WOODS Bob Ray Woods, 85, of Boulder City, passed away Oct. 17. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and was a retired aircraft mechanic. No services are scheduled.

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Obit: Richard Austin Carver

Obit: Richard Austin Carver

RICHARD AUSTIN CARVER February 24, 1926 – October 21, 2010 Richard Austin Carver, 84, passed away Oct. 21 in Boulder City at his daughter’s house. Richard was born Feb. 24, 1926 in Buffalo, N.Y. His parents Alfred and Gladys Mae Austin Carver raised him on the farm on Butter Hill in Livermore, Maine. After high [...]

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Easing the trials of cancer for BC: Cancer Closet provides for fight

Easing the trials of cancer for BC: Cancer Closet provides for fight

By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review Janet Martines is currently battling what many people unfortunately have to battle in their life: the dreaded c-word. On Tuesday, she was seeking a little help in that fight by picking up some bottles of the nutrition drink Equate that helps cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and other radiation [...]

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Opinion: Meet Lucky Joe Richards of Nye County

Opinion: Meet Lucky Joe Richards of Nye County

By John L. Smith, Nevada Smith Thanks to its long history of legalized gambling and open-pit gold mining, there is no shortage of candidates for the distinction of being the luckiest man in Nevada. But for my money, it will be hard for anyone to beat the apparently unsinkable Maynard “Joe” Richards. He’s not well [...]

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Councilwoman Strickland offers opinion on questions

By Linda Strickland, Special To Boulder City Review With so many ballot questions, here are my views on some of the ballot questions: I support Question 8 to elect the city attorney. The raiding of the utility reserve funds to build Boulder Creek, suing BC citizens for engaging in their constitutional right to circulate initiatives, [...]

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Opinion: Sandoval leads effort to suppress free speech

Opinion: Sandoval leads effort to suppress free speech

By Chuck Muth, Commentary So there’s this group called “Latinos for Reform” which doesn’t like Republican positions on immigration reform but is also fed up with Democrats who have paid only lip service to the issue for the last two years. As such, the group, exercising its free speech rights, produced a simple and factual [...]

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Police Blotter

Oct. 19, 8:33 a.m. Police received a report from an Alaska man that his credit card was used to pay a Boulder City utility bill. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member

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BC goes quietly into the Overton night

BC goes quietly into the Overton night

By Jim Konst, Boulder City Review With a playoff birth on the line, Boulder City gave a lackluster performance Oct. 22 in Overton as the team was overwhelmed by Moapa Valley, 42-6. “We didn’t play well enough to win,” head coach Alex Kazel said. “We gave up three or four fourth-down conversions, and you just [...]

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BC Bypass plans discussed with residents: Phase 1 to begin by end of 2011

By Nikki Villoria, Special To Boulder City Review About 40 residents from Boulder City and Henderson attended a meeting with representatives of the Nevada Department of Transportation on Monday to discuss phase one of the Boulder City Bypass project. The intent of the meeting, which took place at Mannion Middle School, was to update residents [...]

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