The talk among some in town this past week or so has surrounded the Clark County School District’s plan to save money as enrollment numbers decrease.
Opinion
If you’re reading this and have not yet read the page 1 article about the concerns of the Damboree committee and the popular water zone, I will stop typing until you do.
Every family likely celebrates love in a different manner during the holiday season, don’t they? Isn’t it likely that in this 250th year of our nation’s independence from Great Britain, America would celebrate love in a unique manner?
Boulder City has always been a place that knows who it is.
If you’re like me, you already have Feb. 6-22 marked on your calendars.
Actors Dennis Hopper, Jeremy Irons, Laurence Fishburne, Lauren Hutton and the rest of the Guggenheim Motorcycle Club were on their way through Boulder City in 2000 when a horrible accident occurred near Hoover Dam. The accident resulted in a flood of media coverage and left one celebrity in a two-week coma.
Low electric rates and limited growth greatly appealed to me when I moved to Boulder City in 2014. Now it appears that both attributes will cease to exist as Boulder City becomes Henderson East. As a relatively new resident, I assumed that the draconian electric rate increases being discussed earlier this year would evolve into something more reasonable. With 25 years’ experience in the electric utility industry, I should have joined the discussion earlier.
Friday at 5 p.m. a group of women will take a stand against violence.
Recently, I attended a conference at Green Valley Ranch in Henderson and the talks were amazing — but the noise! I’m not talking about the conference room itself or the audio-visual technology but the socialization afterwards.
Sometimes I think the world has gone mad. Other times, I’m touched by the kindness of one individual. Are we on the brink of destruction or is there hope for the planet?
Boulder City lost a great friend when Billie Waymire died July 12.
In 1936 Warner Bros. was in a race to put out a movie called “Boulder Dam.” The movie company wanted this film to open the same weekend as the completion of Hoover Dam hoping to cash in on the press attention surrounding the massive engineering project. The Six Cos. turned over Hoover Dam to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. “Boulder Dam” the movie premiered six days later.
In response to Mayor (Rod) Woodbury’s editorial in the Boulder City Review dated Aug. 4, 2016.
You could see it on their faces — despair, hope, fear, love and anguish. They were a bundle of emotions.
LISTEN TO THE TOP FIVE HERE
This past Friday evening, a large and appreciative crowd turned out for the Nevada Shakespeare Festival’s performance of “Henry V” in Bicentennial Park. The performance was hosted by Main Street Boulder City and the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce. NSF featured six actors and actresses, who each played six to eight characters during the 80-minute performance.
The Boulder City Council received an update last week on the new community pool and were shown renderings of what the new facility may look like and a possible completion date.
A half-dozen Boulder City residents signed on the dotted line seeking office for mayor and city council.
Both Boulder City High School track and field programs are off to a hot start, each winning a weekday event at 4A Spring Valley.
