After a 12-year discussion about funding, designs, environmental studies, and what will be best for Nevada and Arizona when Interstate 11 is built, several politicians and department heads joined in its groundbreaking Monday morning outside Boulder City.
In countless old movies I have seen, strong winds changing the direction of a weather vane are a clue that something momentous is about to happen.
Joe DeSimone Jr. has been the Railroad Pass’s new boss for less than two weeks, but he says he’s ready to hit the ground running.
Mike Barth knew that something was off about that red Pontiac Grand Am he pulled over on Nevada Way, a few yards away from the Boulder Inn & Suites.
A daylong celebration to promote good and healthy living will be held Saturday.
Junior pitcher Charlene Masterson led the Lady Eagles softball team to a 12-2 win over Chaparral on Tuesday, giving Boulder City its sixth consecutive league win. The team is now 6-0 in the league.
The tension at Tuesday’s baseball game against Chaparral was so thick you could cut it with a knife.
When Louis and Linda Kish got married on April 3, 1948, the United States was still adjusting to life after World War II.
Black Canyon National Water Trail, located within Lake Mead National Recreation Area, is one of only 16 national water trails in the United States, and the first one in the Southwest. Designated last year, this Colorado River corridor stretches from Hoover Dam about 30 miles downstream to Lake Mojave.
Mark Ficarra is leaving the Boulder City Review as publisher, as well as publisher and chief revenue officer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the paper’s parent company.
Fifty Hewlett-Packard netbook computers were donated to the Nevada State Veterans Home on April 1 by the Outlook Foundation of Las Vegas, which repurposes computers for children and military being deployed.
Breann Sanford of Boulder City will represent Nevada as part of the state team competing at USA Gymnastics’ regional championships April 18 and 19 in Phoenix.
Each week the coaches at Boulder City High School nominate an athlete to spotlight for contributions made to his or her team. This week’s honoree is junior Nolan DeSantis, who was 13-for-17 in the Eagle’s spring break tournament in Anaheim, Calif., giving him a .765 batting average. The team was 1-4 in the tourney’s five games. He is the son of Susan and William DeSantis.
Time is a funny thing. Back in July I was feeling totally in control and confident, with six Christmas presents already purchased, that I would have the holiday frenzy totally under control. Then Thanksgiving landed in my lap and the scurry of buying, wrapping, baking and mailing descended upon me like the holiday tornado unrelentingly does. Where did those months from July to November flee?
The day Harry Reid announced his retirement, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch told a radio reporter, “Reid is one of my friends, but he’s been a pathetic majority leader as far as I’m concerned. He thought he was doing right by protecting his side, but I think the American people resented him because he got nothing done.”
Boulder City girls basketball forward Megan Morton was selected to the Division I-A all-state first team March 20. She also received all-state honors in 2014 when she was second-team.
This week marked the official groundbreaking on phase one of the Boulder City bypass project. After the traffic mess we’ve had in the past few weeks I, for one, am looking forward to having a little less pandemonium in our little town every day.
After a successful debut last year, the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce’s Best Dam Wine Walk returns Saturday to help boost the local economy.
David W. Toll had made a name for himself in Nevada as a writer and publisher. He’s written with unabashed affection about the state and its people for decades.
In case you’re still not sure whether Gov. Brian Sandoval’s billion-dollar giga-tax hike is not only a bad idea but completely unnecessary, conservatives in the state Assembly have removed all doubt.
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.
