Nearly everywhere you look in the downtown area these days, there are reminders of why Boulder City came into being — statues, bus stop shelters, murals, even the dam-shaped electronic billboard at Nevada Way and Buchanan Boulevard.
When I was small I did not think there should be homework. Actually, I still feel that way. I analogized it to adults — when they came home from work, they read the paper and watched television. A dry cleaner didn’t spend evenings at home dry cleaning.
A gaggle of school voucher-haters — led by the Arizona School Boards Association and the Arizona teachers union — filed a lawsuit challenging the Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program. Among other things, the voucher haters maintained that the voucher program violated the state’s constitution since the vouchers could be used in religious schools.
The Las Vegas chapter of the Mongols Motorcycle Club hosted its 10th anniversary party at the Boulder Inn & Suites on Saturday, free of any reported incident.
In honor of the National Firefighter Memorial, the Boulder City Fire Department will host its annual pancake breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the fire station, where we will be cooking and serving breakfast to all who join us. Our doors will be open to all.
Boulder City golf coach Regina Quintero has been waiting for her team to shoot its best round of the season. It finally came Oct. 3 in a Sunrise League match at Stallion Mountain Golf Course.
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Newspapers and magazines often have a page containing “brain teasers,” word or picture puzzles geared to test your cognitive abilities. Although such things are meant mostly for entertainment, in our senior years we need to do more than that.
If they can find a way to get along, Nevada Republicans figure to be in the driver’s seat in the 2014 election cycle.
A local real estate brokerage celebrated its opening Oct. 2 with the first dual-chamber ribbon cutting event hosted by the Boulder City and Henderson chamber of commerces.
The Boulder City football team will play Moapa Valley tomorrow night. Not much more has to be said.
Led by junior Chandler Harkins and senior Evan Klouse, the Boulder City boys’ cross-country team improved to 4-2.
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is home to perhaps the most stunning buttes, mesas, arches and panoramas in the world. So familiar are some of these views, through Western films and television, that even an informal mental list of things to do before “kicking the bucket” often includes seeing them in person.
Like fish out of water, some event organizers are flailing about to find alternatives to their carefully laid plans at Lake Mead since a congressional budget stalemate closed the national recreation area last week.
It is difficult to measure exactly what the economic effect of the ongoing U.S. government shutdown is on Boulder City, but it doesn’t look good.
Saturday and Sunday at Bicentennial wasn’t just a walk in the park — it was Art in the Park, a Boulder City staple since 25 women started it in 1962. Now entering its sixth decade, an estimated 100,000 people attended the most important fundraiser of the year for Boulder City Hospital Foundation.
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