St. Jude’s Ranch for Children held a ceremonial ribbon cutting Monday morning, kicking off its 50th anniversary, celebrating half a century of providing support for traumatized children in Southern Nevada.
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Boulder City Art Guild’s 31st annual Spring Art Festival inundated Bicentennial Park on Saturday and Sunday with dozens of artists displaying their unique goods, from handmade jewelry, oil paintings and metal work to vibrant desert photography and wooden plaques etched with stylized designs of your favorite pro team’s logo.
Residents of Boulder City looking for a good book can take a ride down Elm Street and turn into Moore’s Mobile Home Park. At space No. 117 you’ll find Susan Reams’ Little Free Library, a tiny wooden box with a red roof that offers free books to the community.
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.
Boulder City is an anomaly in Southern Nevada. Only a short drive from a major metropolis, the town that built Hoover Dam is surrounded by a diverse range of terrains and outdoor excursions.
A group of 448 students gathered in the patriotic-poster-lined gym of Garrett Junior High School on Friday morning to honor veterans’ service with an assembly and donate $3,600 to a nonprofit veterans help group.
Boulder City resident Taylor Blatchford was named Miss Las Vegas’ Outstanding Teen on Feb. 28, securing her third local pageant title in as many years.
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.
Spring has sprung, and that means more than 130 artists from the Southwest will flock to Boulder City’s Bicentennial Park next weekend to show their work off to an anticipated 15,000-plus visitors.
The High Scalers, Boulder City High School’s robotics team, now in its eighth year, competed against 48 robotics teams from around the world to take 10th place at a regional competition held at the Las Vegas Convention Center last weekend.
Several teams were racing through Boulder City on Saturday as they gathered an assortment of goodies while participating in the Relay For Life of Boulder City’s Paint the Town Purple scavenger hunt.
Pride in Purity International hosted its second annual Old School Block Party at Bicentennial Park on Saturday in conjunction with the VWs Invade the Dam car show.