Summer break is officially over, and if you didn’t know, the streets will be busy with children enthusiastically making their way to school. As students are out buying new school clothes and supplies to last them through the school year, you as a parent and motorist should be aware of some back-to-school safety tips. By talking to your children, and taking a few extra precautions while driving we can keep our roads safe for our children and help maintain their well-being throughout the year.
The music group sings “We don’t need no education.” First of all that’s wrong; but name that group if you can!
Local waitress Courtney Thompson has just returned home from her third trip to Uganda . Thompson works for Kyampisi Child Care Ministry in the Ugandan schools as a counselor and spends most of her time with children. Thompson sees herself as a communitarian who has been called to help and make relationships with the people of Uganda.
A local man was arrested last week on graffiti-related charges. Boulder City resident Daniel Michael Dryjanski , 23, was arrested Aug. 11 on one misdemeanor charge of placing graffiti on or otherwise defacing property, police say.
Last week a reporter for KLAS News in Las Vegas reported, “Vaccines have been debated for years in the medical field. While some doctors believe they are vital to a child’s health, other doctors believe in a more natural approach to disease prevention.”
Some logizomechano-phobics (the term for computer-phobic people) may feel as if they are thrown into an airplane and told to fly it when asked to use a computer.
Definition: n. someone who volunteers without being forced to. v. to offer or choose to do something without getting paid, to say to someone else that you will do something before asking them if they are willing to do so.
Since tarring and feathering tax collectors and other government bureaucrats is no longer considered an appropriate form of shame and humiliation, the question arises as to what to do with the Reno apparatchik who recently issued a citation to a pair of kids operating an “illegal” lemonade stand.
The Bureau of Reclamation recently announced the promotion of two locals in its Lower Colorado Region office.
Dance Etc. teachers Sarah Vanetti, 20, and Jayme Server, 21, began performing in Super Summer Theatre’s production of “Legally Blonde the Musical” Aug. 7. Super Summer Theatre is an outdoor theater venue in Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.
Luanna Mitchell is gone now, and there is a hole in the world where she used to live.
A public hearing on the business impact statement relating to Boulder City’s Smoke Free Air Ordinance was held at the Aug. 13 City Council meeting.
The Nevada State Veterans Home celebrated its 11th anniversary Monday at the home. The Boulder City Chamber of Commerce has made it a tradition to hold its August mixer at the veterans home closest to Aug. 12, the day the first resident arrived at the home.
The Colorado River is locked in the grips of a slow-moving natural disaster, and Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager Pat Mulroy thinks the time has come for some federal disaster aid.
Can anyone say stop? Where does the time go? Summer vacation is coming to an end. We all know what happens next. School is around the corner. And with that in mind, let’s remember the safety of our children.
Smoking is dangerous, smoking is bad, and smoking is unhealthy. You have probably heard it your whole life — from the time you were a kid in school to every time you light one up on your smoke break; the looks, the sighs, the disbelief, you’re thinking this could never happen to me. Take a few minutes and review the facts, not the opinions or myths of smoking, but the stone cold hard facts.
After a six-month delay, construction is underway on a gateway arch that will welcome visitors to downtown.
What do you get when you take 100 women wearing bikinis and put them on horses in a high-speed rodeo event? Sponsorship dollars.
Recently one of my colleagues at our newspaper wrote a piece about the efforts of some Nevada beekeepers who are attempting to deal with neonicotinoid insecticides as a possible cause of honey bee colony collapse. The article had nothing to do with the University of Nevada, Reno, but one reader took the opportunity to post a comment about the campus:
My friend Barbara is tired of obeying the rules that have been laid out for seniors regarding diet and exercise.
This past month was the 100th Tour de France. Late at night, I watched man and machine spin through the beauty of the French countryside. Rolling hills seem to dot the landscape and ebb to steep snow-covered mountains. As the camera panned over castles and small picturesque towns, I grew jealous that France was saturated in history.
It’s not just wishy-washy Gumby Republicans who need to beware this upcoming election cycle. Even Republicans with generally conservative voting records — but have otherwise been AWOL on the front lines of the battlefield — have political targets on their backs.
This week’s Clean Energy Summit 6.0 was Sen. Harry Reid’s green party, of that there can be no doubt.
Dareian Kujawa, local dance teacher at Dance Etc., goes from reality show star in “So You Think You Can Dance” to a full-time dancing position for “Love,” a Cirque du Soleil work inspired by The Beatles.
With two nearly decades as a pyschologist in Boulder City — first with a hospital program and then private practice — Brent Dennis has finally put down roots in his own building at 555 California Ave.
