Back-to-school hug
Ron Eland/Boulder City Review
James Brainard gets a big hug from daughter Paisley, second grade, and son, Wyatt, on Wyatt’s first day of kindergarten, at Mitchell Elementary School Monday as students returned to school.
Ron Eland/Boulder City Review

Ron Eland/Boulder City Review
James Brainard gets a big hug from daughter Paisley, second grade, and son, Wyatt, on Wyatt’s first day of kindergarten, at Mitchell Elementary School Monday as students returned to school.
By Ron Eland
Boulder City Review
Roy Poindexter is of the generation that doesn’t give up easily and, if there’s a will, there’s a way.
It is a can that has been kicked down the road for almost three years – or more like 14 years, depending on how you count. And it got kicked down the road again last week as the city council failed to come to a consensus on the issue of pet breeding in Boulder City.
The most important part of what happens in a city council meeting is not always the vote. Sometimes it is something that seems minor at the time. This week, as the council finally voted unanimously to tighten up Boulder City’s notoriously lax leash law, the important part came long before any discussion about the actual law.
There are a couple of things that unite most Nevadans: how people often mispronounce that state’s name and for those who have been around a while, their dislike of the Duke men’s basketball team.
Parents of student athletes playing on Boulder City High School’s football team received a note last Thursday morning from BCHS Principal Amy Wagner informing them that the team’s head coach would be “unavailable” for that night’s playoff game.
It’s a case of making something positive come out of a tragedy.
Robert Brennan and Richard Gilmore met in eighth grade and became instant friends, the kind of friendship that most kids can only dream of.
Anyone who has been around the Boulder City political world for any stretch of time already knows that Mayor Joe Hardy is a pretty humble guy and not one to toot his own horn.
When Utilities Director Joe Stubitz briefed the city council on the status of Boulder City’s Dark Sky initiative, which involves replacing hundreds of street light fixtures with modern versions that aim light onto the ground and not into the sky, it was notable for reasons beyond spending and how soon the program would be finished.