Eagles can still make playoffs

Despite a 2-5 record, the Boulder City High School football team has its sights set on a playoff berth.

Chandler Harkins places third in the Lake Mead Invitational

Boulder City’s Chandler Harkins recorded his best time ever over the 3.1-mile course at Veterans Memorial Park to finish in third place Oct. 12 in the Lake Mead Invitational. It is the largest cross-country meet in Nevada this season.

Tennis teams in regional championships

Boulder City has five singles players and five doubles teams competing in the Division 1-A Southern Region Tennis Championships that started Wednesday and continues through Saturday at three sites in Las Vegas.

McKeeversville settlement topic of 31ers luncheon

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.

Police Blotter

Oct. 1, 6:27 p.m.

Intuition vs. information

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.

Huge victory for school choice … but not in Nevada

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.

Mongols: ‘We have the right to party’

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.

Firehouse to hold pancake breakfast

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 shoots best round of season

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.

Senior Calendar

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Pet of the Week

This week we would like to feature Sheeba in Pet of the Week.

Learn a few tricks to help with those senior moments

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.

Michael McDonald still chair of state Republicans

If they can find a way to get along, Nevada Republicans figure to be in the driver’s seat in the 2014 election cycle.

Blessing of the Animals

Photo by Dale Napier

Realtor opens new office

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.

Boulder City prepared to take on Moapa Valley

The Boulder City football team will play Moapa Valley tomorrow night. Not much more has to be said.

Harkins, Klouse continue to lead

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 open

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.

Community Briefs

Bethany Baptist to hold fall festival

Sucking fun out of lake

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.

Shutdown affects local economy

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.

Art in Park raises funds for hospital

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.

Owners of guns have responsibilities

Guns. They are a hot topic. We are not here to debate any philosophies regarding the Second Amendment. However, a review of the calls this week brings to light the need for a brief dialogue on securing firearms.

Lake Mead jobs gone after federal shutdown

Lake Mead National Recreation Area visitors will have until 3 p.m. today to leave the park, which was closed after a budget stalemate Tuesday shut down the government.

Local woman survives breast cancer

Shannon Pinkard has a T-shirt the color of bubble gum with the word “pink” written on it in giant black letters. She has earned every stitch of it.

Police investigate woman’s death

A 22-year-old Boulder City woman, who was related to one of the main figures in building Hoover Dam, died last week.

BC’s Jack Johnson wins Outstanding Journalist

Boulder City Review staff writer Jack Johnson has been named the 2013 Outstanding Journalist in the Nevada Press Association’s “Better Newspaper Contest.”

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