City Councilman Cam Walker will not face a penalty from the Nevada Ethics Commission after former Police Chief Thomas Finn filed a complaint against him last year.
Adam Peterson will graduate from Boulder City High School tonight, and by the end of the month, the four-time state swimming champ will be on his way to Connecticut as a U.S. Coast Guardsman.
Five Boulder City women were honored Saturday in the third of a series of events titled “Nevada Women’s Legacy — 150 Years of Excellency,” organized by Women of Diversity. Each was bestowed with this recognition for their contributions to the history of the state in this the 150th year of Nevada’s statehood.
Before Huntington Beach, Calif., was ever a destination for beach bums, surfers and bad TV shows, it was a rural, farm town that didn’t have much going on.
Members of the class of 2014 have shined through athletics, theater, music and all other extracurricular activities at Boulder City High School. In addition to conquering state championships and producing multiple plays and musical productions, the class will graduate with 15 valedictorians and one salutatorian this month.
With graduation looming right around the corner, 39 scholarship-winning seniors were presented their awards at Boulder City High School’s Scholarship Night May 19.
An old house at the corner of Avenue G and Wyoming Street was torn down last week and will be replaced by a park.
In a giant show of school and community spirit, a group of about 50 Boulder City High School students and alumni whitewashed the B and C on the hillside on the north side of the city Saturday.
Recent news reports suggesting the Department of Veterans Affairs has neglected veterans, and in some cases been responsible for the death of several individuals who served our nation, is cause for great concern. It’s interesting that while many states, notably Arizona, have been named as having deficient VAs, Nevada has thus far escaped national coverage concerning the death of a female veteran here some months ago whose friends suggested may have been because of neglect.
In 1918, U.S. Rep. Edwin Roberts of Nevada, who was the wartime Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, stayed in D.C. until just before the election. While he was working in the House, back in Nevada his opponents did their best to poison the atmosphere against him, portraying him as a traitor for voting against the declaration of war against Germany and against the draft. By the time Roberts arrived back in Nevada, the political climate was so toxic that in Reno’s Riverside Hotel, someone called him a coward and the result was a fistfight.
Rattle! Rattle! Is that a cute baby? What? I’m not talking about the baby; I’m talking about the snake. As the mercury rises, so do our encounters with the true indigenous residents of Clark County, Mr. and Mrs. Rattlesnake.
Few legends in Nevada history approach the amazing feats of strength and endurance of the great Sierra mailman, John A. “Snowshoe” Thompson.
Boulder City Lodge No. 37, Free and Accepted Masons, which presented its 2014 scholarship award to Amy Eschner during Boulder City High School’s annual scholarship award ceremony May 19, recognized her and her family with a dinner the following evening. The $1,000 award will be paid in two installements. Attending the dinner at the Masonic temple were, from left, scholarship committee members William H. “Pete” Matchett, Thomas D. Lopas, chairman H. Jake Thiesing, Eschner, Julian H. Shull Jr. and family members Emily Eschner, Wendy Eschner and friend Andy Bowman.
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.
You could spend years exploring the 1.9 million acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, yet barely shorten the list of wonders still to see there. This remote park lies to the west of Bryce Canyon, north of the Arizona strip and south of Capital Reef National Park, extending eastward to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
When teams win state championships, they are usually full of talent, and awarding the postseason honors is not always easy.
After months of projections and predictions, the final alignments for the next two seasons of high school competition in Nevada are official.
For the second consecutive summer Boulder City will have two baseball teams competing in the Connie Mack Summer League.
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