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(Mark Richey/Special to the Boulder City Review) New steel power poles extending from the Bould ...
(Mark Richey/Special to the Boulder City Review) New steel power poles extending from the Boulder City Tap substation to substation 3 at Adams Boulevard are being installed to replace 56-year-old wooden poles. Transmission and distribution wires also are being replaced. “The new lines are sized to handle the city’s full power load to be able to provide better, more reliable service to our residents and businesses,” said City Engineer Jim Keane.
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By Mark Richey Special to the Boulder City Review
December 1, 2021 - 4:18 pm
 

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New steel power poles extending from the Boulder City Tap substation to substation 3 at Adams Boulevard are being installed to replace 56-year-old wooden poles. Transmission and distribution wires also are being replaced. “The new lines are sized to handle the city’s full power load to be able to provide better, more reliable service to our residents and businesses,” said City Engineer Jim Keane.

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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.

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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.

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BCHS coach ‘unavailable’ for football playoff game
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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.