By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review The Boulder City Bypass took a big step forward Tuesday night with the state Senate passing a bill directing the state Transportation Department to establish a public-private partnership to finance a toll road around the city. Senate Bill 214, authored by Sen. Joe Hardy of Boulder City, passed [...]

By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review Boulder City Police Chief Thomas Finn wishes teenagers would listen. A residential neighborhood’s late-night tranquility was broken April 20 by the sound of a 2005 Volkswagen Beetle crashing into a tree at the base of a small incline in Oasis Park. The driver and the passenger, drunken 16-year-old [...]

By Deborah Wall, Outdoors After driving dozens of miles of remote desert road through the 1.6 million acre Mojave National Preserve in California people are often quite surprised when they come upon the Kelso Depot. Here is a railroad station large and elaborate enough to serve a small city, sitting virtually in the middle of [...]

By Jack Johnson, Boulder City Review The Historic Preservation Committee presented residents Jack and Katie Gaal with the first annual Historic Preservation Award for their 540 Birch St. home at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. The award, which was given for a remodel that kept the historic character of the neighborhood, came with a rectangular bronze [...]

By Carolyn Schneider, Senior Class Sometimes I can’t make heads or tails out of what our young people are saying these days. Now that I’m in the senior class so much has changed. It used to be simply a case of what part of our nation you hailed from – North, South, East or West [...]

By Pedro F. Fonteboa, Boulder City Review She never did it for the honors it might bring, but rather for smiles and hugs. She did it for the love of her family. Anyone asked is not surprised that Rose Stewart Woodbury, the matriarch of the Woodbury family of Boulder City, has been selected as the [...]

By Jim Konst, Boulder City Review While many students were enjoying their spring break with family and friends, the Boulder City baseball team was getting some much needed work by competing in the Blazer Spring Bash at Durango. The Eagles (7-11) split their four-games April 18-20, defeating Western and Rim of the World, Calif., but [...]

By John L. Smith, Nevada Smith My grandfather Smith was at home in the Eastern Sierra. With a fly pole in one hand, he had an innate sense of direction and had no need of a compass to find the trout that filled his creel. My father possessed an even greater ability to read nature [...]

By Jim Konst, Boulder City Review Boulder City graduate Zane Grothe may only be a freshman on the Auburn University swim team, but he already has the coaches and other teams taking notice. At the 2011 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Minnesota on March 24-26, Grothe set school records in the [...]

By Dennis Myers, Commentary The memorial for the Pentagon tragedy on Sept. 11, 2001, opened three years ago with little controversy. The memorial for the New York World Trade Center site, on the other hand, has been the subject of endless angst. It may have been a mistake to promise that everyone would be included [...]