So much is going on with our many businesses in Boulder City that it is hard to keep up. If someone leaves for a few weeks, he’ll need to take another look around the city once he returns. Many of our regular stores have moved, switched places, or have simply closed.
There may not have been a vote on the proposed smoking ban by the City Council on Tuesday night, but the defeat for the bill’s supporters was no less resounding.
President Barack Obama recently declared that “no one who works full time in America should have to live in poverty.” His proposed solution is to “give” 15 million American workers a raise by increasing the federal government’s minimum wage.
A galvanized metal giant with the other-worldly noggin welcomes all peaceful beings from throughout the universe to the Alien Research Center, but mostly he’s expecting those traveling by automobile on state Route 375, also known as the Extraterrestrial Highway.
With the return of students to the classroom this week, it also marks the return of high school athletes to competition.
A varsity football roster with only six seniors and 25 athletes could be cause for concern. But Boulder City head coach Alex Kazel sees an opportunity for building.
The starting lineup for the Boulder City girls’ volleyball team that begins its season tomorrow in the Las Vegas Invitational at Las Vegas High probably will be quite different from the one that heads into the regular season a week later.
An 82-year-old widow, who wishes to remain anonymous, read an article in the Boulder City Review explaining the city’s amnesty program for building projects erected without a permit and went to building official Ron Nybo to apply for a permit for a patio cover.
The sun has barely peeked over the mountains to the east, but at Broadbent Park, a group of athletes is stretching and preparing for their morning run.
More than two dozen girls competed Aug. 12-14 in the All-American Volleyball Camp at Boulder City High School hoping to get an edge to help them later this month when the season begins.
Former cheerleader Vivian Sanders will take over the coaching position for Boulder City High School’s cheerleading squad.
For Curt Thompson, the executive director at the historic Railroad Pass , ideas to improve this iconic property never come short. Thompson is well aware that his hotel is the gateway between Boulder City and Las Vegas.
A recent letter to the editor commented on city business license practices, and the Boulder City Review went to Jim Petrie, the utility billing and collections supervisor and license officer, to look into the practices.
Principal Benjamin Day continues the third year of The Leader in Me youth leadership program at Mitchell Elementary School.
A dropping Lake Mead water level is forcing marina operators and the National Park Service to spend large amounts of money maintaining the lake’s accessibility.
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.
