Does Hollywood portray a version of life? Speaking with a resident the other day, we found a common bond discussing a TV show that began and ended before I was born. I presume the resident was raising children during this time. From 1957 to 1963 “Leave It to Beaver” portrayed a different America from today. Family, parents, children and social responsibility had defined identities. Good, bad or indifferent, it was a vision that reminds me of Boulder City.
Halloween is just around the corner, which means trick-or-treaters will be out hunting for candy. There are a few precautions we can take to make the evening safer for everyone.
Although it’s always easy to say that many residents don’t speak up about city issues, right now I’m going to comment on actions and not words.
Under shady trees Don Walker scoots between tables laden with household goods, linens, jewelry and electronics. Furniture of all sorts fill the grounds behind Grace Community Church on 1150 Wyoming St.
In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, columnist Dan Henninger declared the ongoing failure of inner-city schools “remains the greatest moral catastrophe in the political life of the United States.”
About 20 members of the Boulder City Democratic Club gathered at Frank Crowe Park Oct. 10 to honor its deceased members and dedicate a plaque in their honor. Some of these members were Ralph Denton, Gene Segerblom, John Tryon, Cyril Murphy, Wendy Rockenfeller, Richard McHale and Francillo Durfey.
Despite a 2-5 record, the Boulder City High School football team has its sights set on a playoff berth.
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.
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.
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.
