Jessica Purdy, who has signed a national letter of intent to swim for the University of Northern Colorado, swam three good times at the 2014 California/Nevada Swimming Sectional Championships on Dec. 19-22 at East Los Angeles College.
Happy New Year, Boulder City and friends. Hope the past year has brought you some joy, love, experience and insight. I’d love to meet the person who says the entire year has been one of positivity. Truth be told, we really don’t learn much unless we have some fire to go along with the ice.
It isn’t the current winning streak that has the Boulder City girls flag football team looking ahead to its most difficult week of the year.
The basketball guard tandem of Alyssa Ybarra and Katlyn Daly has been 11 years in the making.
St. Jude’s Ranch is in the opening stages of its “Pathways to Careers” program, an experience that helps Boulder City and Laughlin residents aged 17 to 21 gain insight and education into the professional world.
Last week’s dedication of Nevada’s third national monument, Tule Springs Fossil Beds, brought out a name from the past. News reports noted that Willard Libby, a Nobel chemist who developed carbon dating, had done some fossil work at Tule Springs in 1962.
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.
In a Dec. 16 interview with conservative talk-show host Alan Stock, Republican Majority Leader Michele Fiore discussed her situation relating to Internal Revenue Service tax liens filed against her businesses. Stock asked her to name the three individuals Fiore said were working to undermine conservatives in the Republican Assembly Caucus.
Bobbe Wilson wasn’t looking for a career at the Boulder City Pool. It was supposed to be a part-time job to keep her busy while her kids were in school.
The legislative chairwoman of the Society of Military Widows, Nevada’s Janet Snyder, is well-versed on local veterans issues and travels across the country gathering information and promoting legislation that helps members and veterans in general. Recently, she participated in a Veterans Affairs’ Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships conference call. The topic was “Journeying Together: An Overview of Partnerships with Local Clergy, VA Chaplains, and Community Leaders in Caring for Our Returning Combat Veterans.”
As Boulder City High School awaits a makeover to modernize its 66-year-old campus, several teachers are displeased with how it’s being done.
As the once-devastated housing market continues to stabilize across the Las Vegas Valley, Boulder City remains one of the healthiest locations for Southern Nevada homeowners.
Most people don’t go to the hospital, or to work, for fun. However, the staff at the Boulder City Hospital Department of Rehab Services goes to work every day to have a good time.
The Vons in Boulder City will become a Haggen in 2015 as part of an agreement for the Bellingham, Wash., chain to acquire 146 stores from Albertsons and Safeway as the companies merge.
Boulder City Councilman Rod Woodbury has announced his intention to run for mayor in 2015.
Though the lights may not have dimmed on your Christmas tree yet, it won’t be long before needles start falling to the floor and you begin thinking about how to dispose of the once-lush evergreen.
He didn’t know what he wanted to do after high school. In fact, while attending Boulder City High School, Carl Youngs said, “I wasn’t a good student in high school. I barely made it through. I was just there … I was one of the kids who didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life for a long time.”
The Lady Eagles may be the No. 2 ranked girls flag football team in Southern Nevada, but they are No. 1 when it comes to collecting and donating toys.
As promised by coach Paul Dosch, the Boulder City girls basketball team survived its difficult start only to get better as a team.
For those tired of the holiday hustle and bustle, there was an alternative this weekend in Boulder City — attacking a Christmas tree.
The Boulder City boys basketball continues to play hard but is losing close games. Such was the case again Friday at home as Sunrise Mountain edged the Eagles 57-52.
It is a well-known fact that Boulder City is a planned community. In 1931, the Bureau of Reclamation hired Saco Reink DeBoer, a recognized master of city planning, to design the city. DeBoer was also a great landscape architect and artist.
Careful as you may be in choosing Christmas gifts for your children, it’s a rare gift that won’t eventually be broken, outgrown or worn out. ‘Tis the nature of material things.
Floor hockey clinics for children begin in January. Boulder City Parks and Recreation Department will begin its youth floor hockey program in early January.
Last week, there was an auction at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management office in Reno of public land parcels in Nevada for oil and gas exploration, an auction that raised concerns among opponents of fracking.
