Celia Shortt Goodyear/Boulder City Review
An 82-year-old woman hit a concrete bollard at the corner of Arizona Street and Nevada Way on Monday afternoon. The police and fire departments responded, and there were no injuries.
It was one of those cases in which the most important news came at the very end.
A recent encounter is etched in the mind of Thomas Memmer following a close call with the rider of a scooter.
In the 1986 film “The Best of Times,” Robin Williams has lived with the regret of dropping a ball thrown to him by quarterback Kurt Russell in the big game in high school. That is, until he gets a chance at redemption more than a decade later.
It was just the opening salvo, but it appears that lost patience with riders of e-bikes and scooters are to the point that they are ready to go well beyond the “Well, how about more education” approach they opted for back in April.
For those who may have seen any of the recent social media posts put out by reps of the firefighters union calling out the city about pay and benefits, they might have been surprised that one collective bargaining agreement covering fire department personnel was approved by the city council this week without any discussion at all.
With staff and administrators from all five of Boulder City’s public schools together, BCHS Principal Amy Wagner explained in one sentence why they were all gathered last Friday.
Had the Clark County School District gone through with its plan, a new K-8 campus would have been welcoming students this week.
With Christmas music playing in the background, dozens of children and adults filled the Lake Mead Water Safety Center at Boulder Beach this past Friday with the same goal in mind.
There are 1,450 power poles in Boulder City and 880 of them support equipment owned by private companies who don’t pay for the privilege.
