In my previous article, it was explained that in the latter days of elementary school, children begin sorting themselves out by sex and forming separate social hierarchies. Traits such as toughness and athletic ability enable boys to rise to the top of their hierarchies. Girls can rise to the top of their hierarchies as a result of traits such as good looks, their ability to attract high-ranking boys and their family’s social status. In short, children and teenagers form ridged hierarchies that are based primarily on physical prowess and material wealth.
Two Boulder City students arrived in Hershey, Pa., today to compete in the Hershey’s Track & Field Games.
The Boulder City 14-under baseball team won a playoff game and reached the quarterfinals of the Connie Mack Summer League 14-under State Tournament this past week before being eliminated.
Preston Van Diest, who will be a sophomore at Boulder City High School this fall, has been selected to join a national age-group baseball team that will compete as part of the acclaimed Baseball Factory.
For a fourth consecutive year, Great Britain’s Challenger Sports will include Boulder City as a stop in its summerlong tour of America.
So bleeding heart liberals are in a tizzy over the fact that it took almost two hours for Joseph Rudolph Wood to die after his lethal injection in Arizona July 23. His attorneys claim their client was “gasping and snorting” for an hour, and death penalty opponents will certainly use this incident to complain of cruel and unusual punishment.
The Senior Center of Boulder City will celebrate spirit week Monday through Aug. 8. The lighthearted, fun-filled celebration is to help senior center patrons mark summer.
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.
It was 50 years ago this month that Barry Goldwater was nominated for president by the Republican Party. During this month, many competing conservative voices have been claiming him. But it’s hard to imagine him claiming some of them.
Who? What? When? Where? How? Why? These questions seem childlike at inception, but are truly the bases for our fact-finding formulation in crime investigation. Each of these queries provides a substantial slice for investigators.
The annual End of Summer Showcase, to be held Saturday evening in Veterans’ Memorial Park, has selected the After-School All-Stars Las Vegas as this year’s charity partner.
There will be a planned power outage starting at 5 a.m. Friday morning as the city’s electrical system is returned to its normal configuration, according to the city manager’s office.
The body of a 30-year-old Las Vegas man who went missing Tuesday was recovered from Lake Mead around 8 p.m. Wednesday.
If you try to search for 618 Arizona St. in Boulder City on a map, chances are you’ll have a difficult time finding it.
Visitors who made their way to Lake Mead National Recreation Area in 2013 spent $260 million in neighboring communities, according to a National Park Service report released Wednesday morning.
With rainfall that makes its way swiftly down the mountains, creating a host of problems in its wake, the Boulder City Public Works department is working with the Regional Flood Control District on a project that will prevent flooding in Bootleg Canyon.
Cardboard boats, held together with nothing but paint and glue, sailed their way across the Boulder City municipal pool last week for the 14th annual cardboard boat races. Most of the 30 boats made it all the way across the pool.
Nevada is home to 23 state parks, the majority having a unique feature. But Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park is in a class of its own, as it not only features an extremely well-preserved historic mining town but also remains of the ancient ichthyosaur (pronounced ICK-thee-o-saur), our state fossil.
From law enforcement to scientific research, all the way to public administration, Lake Mead National Recreation Area’s new deputy superintendent, Patrick Gubbins, comes to the park with a wealth of experience.
The World Cup is over and now it is time to turn attention to the soccer that matters most in Boulder City: the high school teams.
The Boulder City 14-under baseball team won six of its final seven games to climb into fifth place and qualify for the Connie Mack Summer League 14-under State Tournament that began Tuesday.
Earlier this month a book by former Republican U.S. Senate nominee Todd Akin of Missouri was released. Akin is the candidate who lost his 2012 Senate race after making the claim that the bodies of women have a chemical function that prevents rape victims from becoming pregnant.
If your childhood memories consist of spending time in the newly coined “family room,” donning your Western gear everywhere but the bathtub, or dancing in front of the TV (your home’s only TV) during “American Bandstand,” then you may have been in a generation that experienced the very beginnings of a redefined method of learning that serves to guide museums into the 21st century: nonformal education.
With pool season upon us, it’s important to remind ourselves of the dangers of sun exposure. You’re never too young or too old to be harmed by the sun.
I have an exceptionally low level of tolerance for stupidity. Which I guess helps explain why I fight so hard to shrink the size of government. Let’s face it, government is Stupidity Central.