Not too long ago, powerball fever hit the country. People were going crazy when the lottery prize topped several hundred million dollars.
Ann Barron has only been executive director of the Senior Center of Boulder City for four days, but she hit the ground running.
A local woman upset with the upcoming demolition of the 66-year-old Boulder City High School has recently circulated a petition rallying against the changes.
One way to beat the January blues is taking a day trip to nearby Death Valley National Park. From Boulder City you can be at the hub of the park, Furnace Creek, in less than three hours. The visitor center there is a good place to start any visit. You can pick up maps, learn the latest road conditions, and get in-depth information on the places you might want to visit.
There was still snow on the baseball field at Veteran’s Memorial Park early Saturday morning, but the briskness didn’t slow down the baseball community. Boulder City Little League held its fourth annual Winter Skills Camp, which was attended by 39 campers from age 5 through 13.
The Boulder City boys basketball team heads into the second half of its season with a road game tonight at Desert Pines, which has not lost a Sunrise League game in more than two years.
Trying to get healthy as a team and play better defense are the goals this weekend as the Boulder City girls basketball team begins the second half of its season.
The boy’s bowling team at Boulder City High School picked up right where it left off before the holiday break by taking all nine points against Sunrise Mountain Tuesday afternoon at Sam’s Town Bowling Center.
Friday afternoon is the big one. It’s Green Valley, the defending Sunrise Region champion and county runner-up from a year ago, coming to town to play at Boulder City.
It’s 2015! Back in mid-December I wrote my article so I could meet my deadline early. It was perfect! It had just the right number of words to meet my editor’s request. It was iconic, yet witty. It was all about the overhype of setting goals. After all, I am 64 and goals are for young folks, right?
At my request, conservative Republican Assembly Majority Leader Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas, set up a meeting for me with her accountant so I could review and seek clarity on this whole brouhaha related to Internal Revenue Service tax liens filed against her business.
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.
In December, we saw those lists published of the people we lost during the year. These are lists that, in journalism’s inimitable way, are nearly always incomplete because they are published before the year has ended.
The bill drafts are flying in Carson City, where for the past 150 years legislators have been deeply concerned about the future of our neediest children.
The Boulder City softball team pounded second-place Moapa Valley 10-0 Friday to clinch first place in the Sunrise League.
By most definitions, giant sequoias are the largest trees on earth, and they will surely inspire awe in anyone fortunate enough to see them. And because they grow within a long weekend’s journey of Southern Nevada, you can be among the fortunate. But if you intend to do that this summer, it’s best to plan now, for this kind of trip will be most pleasant if you make reservations, allowing time to incorporate other activities.
Muy caliente! Is there a relationship between increasing temperature and crime? A study conducted in Dallas, Texas, by the Environmental Protection Agency and Emory School of Medicine finds there appears to be somewhat of a correlation.
During the past year, Michael McDonald has cemented himself as perhaps the most consequential Nevada Republican Party chairman since John Mason rode herd over the party faithful in the mid-1990s. This is no mean feat.
West winds, east winds, winds from the north and winds from the south sculpt goblins and goblin abodes. In one outcropping there is a whale. Another wind sculpture fashions a frog, and yet another contours a buck-toothed monster.
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