Softball clinches first place in league

The Boulder City softball team pounded second-place Moapa Valley 10-0 Friday to clinch first place in the Sunrise League.

Giant adventures await Sequoia park visitors

By most definitions, giant sequoias are the largest trees on earth, and they will surely inspire awe in anyone fortunate enough to see them. And because they grow within a long weekend’s journey of Southern Nevada, you can be among the fortunate. But if you intend to do that this summer, it’s best to plan now, for this kind of trip will be most pleasant if you make reservations, allowing time to incorporate other activities.

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Study: As temperatures rise, so do violent crimes

Muy caliente! Is there a relationship between increasing temperature and crime? A study conducted in Dallas, Texas, by the Environmental Protection Agency and Emory School of Medicine finds there appears to be somewhat of a correlation.

GOP chief ushers in exciting new era

During the past year, Michael McDonald has cemented himself as perhaps the most consequential Nevada Republican Party chairman since John Mason rode herd over the party faithful in the mid-1990s. This is no mean feat.

Letters to the editor

City staff reacts promptly to water meter problem

Wind-shaped stones are open to interpretation

West winds, east winds, winds from the north and winds from the south sculpt goblins and goblin abodes. In one outcropping there is a whale. Another wind sculpture fashions a frog, and yet another contours a buck-toothed monster.

Las Vegas could steal convention’s spotlight

The latest phase of the Republican National Committee’s search for a site for the party’s 2016 presidential nominating convention has come to an end in the past few days.

Senior center

Hours of operation: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday at 813 Arizona St., 702-293-3320. Visit the center’s website at www.seniorcenterbouldercity.org.

Talk of tax reform just hot wind

Listen closely, and you can hear the indifferent desert wind as it chides and whistles around the politics of the Education Initiative margins tax measure.

Police blotter

April 29, 1:49 p.m.

News briefs

Letter carriers to collect food for annual Stamp Out campaign

King Elementary fifth-graders to go ‘war’

“Left! Left! Left! Right! Left,” ordered one fifth-grader as his 30 classmates dressed in Civil War attire followed suit.

Community briefs

Democratic Club to hold meeting tonight at library

Spring Jam boosts Boulder City, residents’ spirits

Under the May periwinkle sky and the 90-degree Fahrenheit desert heat, thousands of people basked in the Spring Jamboree to kick off the season of good vibes in Boulder City.

Boulder City Eagles’ baseball team avenge early season loss

Boulder City’s baseball team defeated Tech 6-­0 Tuesday to avenge an earlier loss and clinch the No. 2 seed in the Southern Region Tournament that is scheduled to start Tuesday.

Boys to swim for fourth state crown

Senior swimmer Cori Molisee wants to make it annual event, a tradition at the school. She wants to follow her counterparts on the boys team and win the state championship in multiple years.

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