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.
Chamber of Commerce member Alesia Martin is opening Too Cute to Cut! Custom Cakes, a home bakery. A grand opening will be held at the Martin home, 1222 Paiute Drive, Saturday at 6:30 p.m. The opening of Too Cute to Cut! Custom Cakes will present samples of different cakes and desserts for potential customers to try.
Great Basin National Park lies less than five hours north of the teeming cities of Southern Nevada, and one wonders why it remains one of the least-visited in the park system. Certainly it offers a great summer experience; it lies in the Snake Range of Eastern Nevada and offers elevations from 6,200 feet all the way up to 13,063, the latter atop famed Wheeler Peak.
It took Bruce Reid three months of soul-searching to finally decide.
Former Boulder City High School swimmer Zane Grothe won two events at USA Swimming’s 2013 U.S. Open on July 30-Aug. 3 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center in Irvine, Calif. Grothe, who will be a senior at Auburn University this fall, won the 1,500-meter freestyle with a time of 15 minutes, 13.39 seconds, and the 800-meter freestyle in 7 minutes, 56.15 seconds. He was fifth in the 400 freestyle
(3:54.68).
CARSON CITY — Anticipating trials over the value of properties needed for the Boulder City bypass project, the state Transportation Department Board on Monday upped a contract limit with a private attorney by $850,000.
Approximately 40 local kids participated in the city’s Parks and Recreation Department’s 13th annual Cardboard Boat Race on July 17. Nearly 100 boat “cheerleaders,” mostly parents and families, learn-to–swim participants, and deep water aerobics class members that also stayed to cheer the participants on.
The latest beauty salon in Boulder City opened last month, but will host its grand opening Aug. 17
A small fire in a bush behind Pit Stop burger shop the afternoon of July 31 closed the Buchanan Boulevard business for the rest of the day, but caused no real damage to the building.
The Hacienda and 21 acres across the highway are being sold to tavern operator Dotty’s.
The city received no bids during a recent request for proposals for the operation of its dormant motocross track.