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Boulder City is planning a beautification project for Nevada Highway, and several local merchants are concerned with how it could affect their businesses. As part of the Boulder City Parkway complete street project, the plan is to widen the sidewalks, create bike lanes, improve pedestrian and bike crossings, improve the median, and create bus turnouts from Gingerwood Street to Buchanan Boulevard. All these additions will take away space from the businesses along that portion of the roadway. Chris Gatlin, owner of Woodchuck’s, is concerned about the lack of space he’ll have once the sidewalk and road are widened. Woodchuck’s, at...

BASRAH – Iraqi government and U.S. military and State Department officials welcomed Iraqi media to view an empty lot here, April 1, that until recently had been the site of a pile of scrap metal as tall as the surrounding buildings. "The project here at Hamden Hotel involved the removal of 6,000 tons of scrap metal and took 20 days of around-the-clock work to accomplish," said Jerry Mallory, acting team leader of the U.S. State Department's Basrah Provincial Reconstruction Team. As part of a larger plan to remove solid waste from areas in and around Basrah, this project is the...