Advancing to 9-1-1 on the season, Boulder City High School girls soccer picked up an 8-0 victory over Chaparral on Sept. 25, while tying with the always-tough Pahrump Valley 2-2 on Sept. 27.
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Remaining undefeated on the season, Boulder City High School boys tennis picked up three league victories this past week.
Finishing with a 5-2 record in the past week’s slate, Boulder City High School girls volleyball advanced to 9-13 on the season.
Remaining undefeated on the season, Boulder City High School boys tennis picked up a quality win over 5A Liberty on Sept. 19.
Advancing to 8-1 on the season, Boulder City High School girls soccer picked up a monumental 5-4 win over SLAM Academy on Sept. 23.
Boulder City sophomore Logan Branscumin and junior Gunnar Stanton took third place at the Ultimate Bass Team Tour on Saturday at Callville Bay at Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Austin, a formerly booming mining town founded in 1862, is home to fewer than 400 people today. Yet it’s one of the best-preserved early mining towns in Nevada and well worth a visit by city dwellers from the state’s southern end.
Boulder City High has named its fourth girls’ basketball coach in as many years. But new coach Paul Dosch promises that he will be there for several seasons.
With plenty of summer outdoor activities available in Ely, and temperatures at a perfect comfort level over the next couple of months, the town should be a priority summer destination for Southern Nevadans with itchy feet.
Looking back now to the year 1999, a hot-button decision faced city officials. Whether or not they should go forth with building a second municipal golf course that would stretch over 7,400 yards, at an estimated cost of $18.7 million.
Just when Boulder City High’s Tanner Howell thought he had received all the post season accolades he would get for his stellar 2013 season, he found out there was one more.
It may have been a new league for Boulder City athletics in the 2012-13 school year, but it was still the same result of excellence.
The rapid growth of basketball internationally has given college and professional scouts another arena to find talent in during the past 20 years. If the research is done diligently enough, a scout might find themselves somewhere such as Bahia Blanca, a small barrio in Argentina taking notes on a kid named Manu Ginobili, who now plays for the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association. Or Wurzburg, Germany, watching a goofy looking 7-footer by the name of Dirk Nowitzki, who now plays for the Dallas Mavericks, practicing his fall-away jumper.
Avalon Frantz will play Division I women’s volleyball next fall at the University of Houston. But before she went, the all-state setter got one last memory of high school competition.
Boulder City’s high school baseball program has dropped its longtime American Legion summer-league affiliation in favor of joining the newly formed Connie Mack League.
In this day and age, children are learning how to use, run and build computers at a much younger age than did their parents, who may have had one computer class offered while in high school.
The contentious issue of changing the municipal code in Boulder City to set up a system under which residents interested in breeding cats and dogs would be able to get a license for doing that is not exactly back before the city council for consideration. But it has taken the first step in getting to that point.
BCHS has a new program it’s offering and students have the opportunity to get the life skills they need. The head wrestling coach, Clinton Garvin, a Boulder City alumni, is making his Boulder City teaching debut with the JAG program at the high school.
Fall officially arrived last month. That means its time for a long-time tradition for Boulder City residents: Art in the Park.
