42°F
weather icon Cloudy
Boulder City, NV
News

A Look at 2017 in Pictures

Celia Shortt Goodyear/Boulder City Review From May: The Hoover Dam was turned turquoise for the American Lung Association's Lung Force Turquoise Takeover to raise awareness for lung cancer during National Women's Lung Health Week, observed May 7-13.
Hali Bernstein Saylor/Boulder City Review From April: The construction of Hoover Dam, including the migration of the 31ers to Southern Nevada, is depicted by artwork on a sound wall of Interstate 11.
Hali Bernstein Saylor/Boulder City Review From July: Boulder City Police officer Scott Pastore and his horse Odie, seen at his stable at the Boulder City Horseman's Association, make up the city's new mounted police unit.
Paul Luisi/Boulder City Review From October: Air Force One flew President Donald Trump into McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas to speak in the aftermath of Sunday's mass shooting.
Celia Shortt Goodyear/Boulder City Review From October: The body of Metropolitan Police Officer Charleston Hartfield, a victim of the Oct. 1 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest musical festival, was escorted by police officers and other members of law enforcement to the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Boulder City High School yearbook From November: Members of Boulder City High School's girls varsity volleyball team celebrated winning the state championship. It was the school's first volleyball title win since 1989.
Rob Hemmen From August: While walking the Historic Railroad Trail, Rob Hemmen and his family from Anchorage, Alaska, encountered a bighorn sheep and had a "20-minute staring contest" before they could proceed on the trail.
Laura Hubel/Boulder City Review From May: Members of Boulder City High School's baseball team celebrate winning their second consecutive state championship after narrowly defeating Spring Creek 8-7 during the tourney's final game at Faith Lutheran High School.
Hali Bernstein Saylor/Boulder City Review From May: Bob Sturgeon, president of the Vegas Valley Lodge, Sons of Norway, came to the Desert Troll's Norwegian Constitution Day celebration in Bicentennial Park ready to demonstrate his Viking heritage.
More Stories
Courtesy photo Once and future municipal judge, Victor Miller
Meet the ‘new’ judge
An American flag was placed at one of the gravesites along with a wreath.
Honoring heroes during the holidays
Photos by Ron Eland/Boulder City Review Members of the Garrett Junior High hydroponics class po ...
Garrett’s gardening gurus
bcr default image
Council votes to approve $3M in spending
December 27, 2017 - 2:34 pm
 

As we look back on 2017, we stop to reflect on the images that made an impact on our lives.

MOST READ
THE LATEST
Courtesy photo Once and future municipal judge, Victor Miller
Meet the ‘new’ judge
By Bill Evans Boulder City Review

If that person overseeing hearings of the Boulder City Municipal Court looks familiar come Jan. 7, there is a good reason for that.

Photos by Ron Eland/Boulder City Review Members of the Garrett Junior High hydroponics class po ...
Garrett’s gardening gurus
By Ron Eland Boulder City Review

There’s a good chance that waiting under the tree on Christmas morning for several Garrett Junior High students will be at-home hydroponic kits.

bcr default image
Council votes to approve $3M in spending
By Bill Evans Boulder City Review

In their meeting of Dec. 10, the city council approved well over $3 million in spending in a single vote.

Ron Eland/Boulder City Review As CEO of the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce, Jill Rowland Laga ...
Rowland Lagan honored with city award
By Ron Eland Boulder City Review

For the past quarter-century, Jill Rowland Lagan has gone above and beyond to help promote Boulder City and its businesses as CEO of the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce.

Hundreds turned out for the annual lighting of the Christmas Tree, which is hosted by the Bould ...
Christmas came early to Boulder City
By Ron Eland Boulder City Review

This past weekend, thousands turned out for a vanity of holiday events in Boulder City including the Luminaria, lighting of the Christmas House and community tree, Doodlebug Bazaar and Santa’s Electric Light Parade.

Ron Eland/Boulder City Review Around 100 invited guests attended the official groundbreaking la ...
State breaks ground on new railroad museum
By Bill Evans Boulder City Review

A lot has changed about Boulder City since it was founded nearly a century ago but one thing has remained a constant: The lot on the northwest corner of Buchanan and Boulder City Parkway has always been vacant. But that is about to change as ground was broken on Friday for a long-awaited expansion of the Nevada State Railroad Museum that is slated to open on that corner in the summer of 2026.

bcr default image
Leafy Latitude gets their liquor license
By Bill Evans Boulder City Review

It took more than a year, but the owners of the Leafy Latitude cigar bar on Nevada Way finally got their liquor license approved last week.

Ron Eland/Boulder City Review A recent meeting about the BoR xeriscape project was supposed to ...
Residents grill BoR rep about xeriscape
By Bill Evans Boulder City Review

Vernon Cunningham, deputy public affairs director for the Bureau of Reclamation Lower Colorado Basin Region, was at last week’s meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission to make a presentation about proposed signage at the site of the bureau’s headquarters at the top of Park Street.

Courtesy photo Rose Ann Rabiola Miele and Deb Finnegan donned their favorite turkey outfits rec ...
The joy of giving on Christmas
By Ron Eland Boulder City Review

Christmas is a day about giving to others, gathering with friends and family and enjoying a turkey or ham dinner with all the traditional sides.