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Boulder Country program brings local produce and education to child care centers
In Boulder County, a program called Farm to Early Care & Education (Farm to ECE) is helping change how some of our...
Jack's Solar Garden creates Artist on the Farm residency
For several months, artist Rachael Scala visited Jack's Solar Garden weekly to gain inspiration for a series of large scale...
Niwot author publishes debut novel
R.L. Maizes is a Niwot local whose debut novel "Other People's Pets" is set in a fictional small town on the front range of...
Harness Energy makes the move to Niwot
Harness Energy is a small business that provides meteorological measurement services to renewable energy developers and...
Three Niwot High students honored as National Merit Semifinalists
When high school students take the preliminary scholastic assessment test (PSAT) in their junior year, some know that they...
Local commercial real estate market is evolving
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the commercial real estate market in Niwot and surrounding communities in Boulder County was...
First Friday Art Walk marks return to Niwot
The First Friday Art Walk returned to Niwot on Friday, Sept. 4, after a five-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic....
St. Vrain Rotary merges with Niwot Rotary Club
The Rotary Club was founded over a century ago in Chicago, and since then, the organization has advanced to nearly every...
Social distancing service opportunity at Jack's Solar Garden
Jack's Solar Garden met several milestones over the past few months. The experimental agrivoltaic farm and solar power plant...
Niwot artist handcrafts mugs for virtual Sunrise Stampede winners
The Sunrise Stampede is one of the many local events to be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Despite everything, the 35th...
Preschool should be almost as usual in the fall
The littlest children in the Left Hand Valley will get to have a relatively normal school experience this fall. Childcare...
Trying to find local food this summer?
The local food scene in the Left Hand Valley is normally thriving in the summer. Things are more complicated this year. In...
New restaurant opens in Gunbarrel
Gunbarrel has seen what some might consider more than its fair share of triumphs and trials in the restaurant scene over the...
After weeks of online training, children return to gymnastics
Pam Turner opened Airborne Gymnastics and Dance in 1991 in Longmont. On March 12 of this year, the business had over 1000...
Local performing arts venues might be the last to reopen in pandemic
Live theater arts in the Left Hand Valley were effectively shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic in March, along with most ev...
Beloved Niwot teachers and administrator retiring
This year has been strange and challenging for educators everywhere, including in Niwot. In a time of unprecedented change...
McCauley Family Farm receives grant for regenerative agriculture
Marcus McCauley has an ambitious personal mission "to heal people and the planet with delicious food." The farm manager and...
Black Cat Farm experiments with organic pasture cropping
According to Eric Skokan, owner of Black Cat Farm, one of the best resources Boulder County has to offer "is the total...
Ollin Farms rehabilitating Boulder County land with an agricultural grant
Mark Guttridge speaks and walks quickly while casually throwing out phrases like "ultraviolet spectroscopy," "collaborative...
Groundbreaking on Jack's Solar Garden imminent
Here is a ray of sunshine in these dark times; a ray of sunshine, shining on a solar panel, producing energy locally in...
New business teaches financial literacy to kids
When Lorne Jenkins was eight years old and his sister was five, they were constantly asking their mom, Ellen Ross, if they...
Tired of Netflix? These local creators are offering content online
Can you imagine how we would all be feeling if this had happened in the '80s? The question came up in a friendly Zoom...
Video conferencing in a pandemic
It turns out having a big birthday during a global pandemic is a bit of a bummer. March 20, 2020, was a milestone birthday...
Niwot's Cathy Olkin sending Lucy to the sky
According to Cathy Olkin, a planetary scientist at Boulder's Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), "Probably you've never hear...
'Once upon a time...' in Longmont
In an era of instantaneous digital communication and screens everywhere, the art of traditional storytelling is still alive...
Bronski family publishes definitive gluten-free pizza cookbook
When South Longmont resident Peter Bronski was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2007, the Italian-American author, who came...
Youth leaders rally for action on climate
Youth leaders came together last weekend in Boulder for a summit on climate change, with a broad call to action on climate,...
Burns night supper brings Scottish traditions to Niwot
Even if you're not sure who Robert Burns is, you've almost certainly heard one of his most famous poems. Should auld...
New flood maps may surprise some residents
FEMA will soon be implementing new floodplain maps for Boulder County. A move by the county last week to begin community revi...
'Tiny Goat, Big Cheese' Event at Inkberry
When Kate Johnson, author of "Tiny Goat, Big Cheese," started learning about goats and cheesemaking, she didn't realize she...
