In a City Council meeting that lasted just over a half-hour Tuesday evening, Boulder City officials recognized a solar company’s donation to light the city’s entry signs, granted land access and a temporary construction license to two existing solar projects and updated the city’s zoning ordinance.
The winds of change are upon us. I’m sure you’ve all seen and felt it in the past couple of weeks.
Several tenants at a mobile home park near the edge of Boulder City are at odds with the park’s new owner three months after the property was sold in bankruptcy to a local real estate developer.
At 6-foot-2, 240-pounds it’s easy to see the raw potential that Boulder City High senior Dawson Livingston is gifted with.
Boulder City Library board of trustees took the next step to finding a new director after announcing during their meeting Tuesday night that their former director, Lynn Schofield-Dahl, submitted her letter of resignation March 24 and accepted the severance package that was offered.
A group of scientists is applying for a grant to study asbestos in Boulder City and if it gets the money it will be relocating to the arid Southern Nevada desert and digging for answers as early as next spring.
It’s a sort of cruel prank by Mother Nature that the same colorful, aromatic blooms that speckle the desert greenery during spring are stripping people of their senses of smell and making their eyes scratchy and swollen.
Ben Collins is retired now and living in Oregon, but he spent most of his career roaming Nevada and the region with the Bureau of Land Management.
Pride in Purity International will host its second annual Old School Block Party on Saturday, joining forces with the VWs Invade the Dam car show to bring a day of free, family-friendly fun to Boulder City.
Marshmallows are an old favorite around the campfire, but this spring the classic treat is serving a new purpose: promoting safe habits at Lake Mead National Recreation Area for the fast-approaching summer.
Arches National Park, just outside the town of Moab, Utah, lives up to its name. The park contains more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches, the densest concentration in the world. Besides arches you will also get to see natural windows, balanced rocks, fins, pinnacles and hoodoos.
Boulder City residents are invited to help paint the town purple in support of this month’s Relay for Life fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.
Last year was the best on record for the Boulder City Hospital Auxiliary.
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 Preston VanDiest, who is a pitcher and plays first base for the school’s varsity baseball team. Coach Bobby Reese said VanDiest played a key role in the Durango Classic during spring break, was 8-for-13 with two walks, 4 RBIs and three runs, as well as pitching five innings and giving up only two earned runs. The Eagles won two and lost two games during the tournament. He is the son of Maria and Ron VanDiest.
Historic Boulder City can be viewed from many different perspectives and whoever is looking at it may see many different things. To gain one perspective a person could take a drive and look at the city from the view of a traveler on his or her way to visit Lake Mead or the dam, that traveler being fully aware of the historic significance of Boulder City.
Budding Boulder City stars are invited to showcase their abilities as entertainers during the annual BC’s Got Talent.
1OLD-FASHIONED FUN: Area residents are invited to join the festivities of the Old School Block Party and VWs Invade the Dam car show. Events are scheduled from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Bicentennial and Wilbur Square parks. There will be arts, crafts, face-painting, entertainment, food and more. The first 50 guests will receive a gift bag and bowling pin to paint. For details, email prideinpurity@gmail.com.
More than 2,000 people showed up to the fourth annual Boulder City Beer Fest on Saturday, and they showed up ready to drink.
Chronic diseases, which include heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancer and chronic lung diseases, account for most deaths in the United States. They are also the major drivers of sickness, disability and health care costs in the nation.
We will explore the best things to do — and not to do — if you find yourself the victim of some basic types of crime.
Boulder City High’s baseball program split its spring break tournament 2-2 against California teams in the Blazer Spring Bash this past week, leading them up to a firing 19-1 league victory against Sunrise Mountain on Monday.
Picking up where Boulder City High’s softball team left off from the March Warm-Up Tournament in Utah over spring break, the bats were certainly cranking Monday in the Lady Eagles dominant 11-2 victory over Sunrise Mountain.
