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.
“It’s an experience of life to have people experience what you have created,” artist Sandra Messina said.
The City Council unanimously agreed to defer an accelerated payment to pay down its debt to make improvements to aging electrical utilities and avoid a potential failure that could leave as many as half of the city’s residents without power.
Sally Denton sits in her backyard overlooking the entirety of Boulder City. Her glasses sit on the patio table right next to the book she just put down.
The Boulder City track and field teams advanced more than a dozen athletes to the Nevada Track &Field Championships May 23-24 in Carson City, but they could not garner any individual championships.
The Lady Eagles won nine of 11 events to dominate the Division I-A girls swimming state championships and claim their second consecutive title this past Saturday at UNLV’s Buchanan Natatorium.
Not many high school athletes can claim to have achieved what several of the seniors on the Boulder City boys swimming team have done.
Memorial Day weekend was a kaleidoscope of differences with a single purpose.
Memorial Day weekend in Boulder City is about the colors and the glitz of the car show, the slingshot ride for the kids, the musical entertainment, the celebrities, the politicians and most of all, the people. It’s also about the vendors with their many items for sale and the giant dragon slide next to the polar bear slide.
The work of Boulder City Native American master flute artist and performer Tim Blueflint will be exhibited in “Toubat: A Canvas of Wind and Wood” presented by the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery, 1017 S. First St., No. 190, Las Vegas, in the Art Square Garden Courtyard.
Boulder City junior golfer Luke Logan is a three-time Division I-A region champion and the defending state champion. He was not going to claim foul — or darkness — as an excuse.
Last week in this space, I told a tale of a 2011 measure at the Nevada Legislature that would have switched the state to digital records storage to solve a problem that didn’t exist.
This month, Seattle hosted the American Alliance of Museums annual meeting, which is four days packed with workshops, seminars, keynote speakers and networking events for museum people (administrators, volunteers, board members and consultants) by museum people.
