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Sunday afternoon at 4:40 p.m., Boulder County sheriff’s detectives arrested two men at the Nederland High School evacuation site for their suspected role in the start of the Cold Springs Fire. Jimmy Andrew Suggs, 28, and Zackary Ryan Kuykendall, 26, both of Vinemont, Alabama, have been charged with 4th Degree Arson, a class four felony. The men face a felony arson charge because lives were endangered as a result of the fire. Fire investigators and sheriff’s detectives were able to determine tha...
Classes may not be in session, but there is always plenty of activity over the summer on the Dawson School campus, from Dawson Summer Camps and the Dawson Summer Initiative, to the big Prep Lacrosse Showcase, and Boulder County's sheriffs using campus for training. Among all of those folks coming and going, you will find a dedicated core of volunteers who look after Dawson's two Learning Gardens and look in on the school's newest 'enrollees' : chickens. The four gorgeous hens (a Rhode Island...
Jake Butler, an upcoming senior at Niwot High School and a three-year member of the NHS Boys Golf Team, has been busy on the junior golf circuit this summer. Butler tied for fifth place at the Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado Tournament held at Twin Peaks Golf Course June 8th. The following week he placed third in the Boys 15-19 division at the Idaho Challenge in Nampa, ID, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Junior Golf Tour, with identical scores of 78 on both days for a total of 156. His...
Reilly Herbst of Niwot recently participated in the USA Hockey Rocky Mountain District Player Development Camp in Salt Lake City May 4 to May 8, which included on-ice skill evaluation and games. The District Camp is part of USA Hockey’s player development process where they identify national team caliber players from across the country. Each of the twelve districts across the United States that make up USA Hockey conduct the player development camps every spring and have a specific allotment o...
The prestigious P.E.O. STAR Scholarship, for the 2016-2017 academic year, was presented to Kelsey Dawson, a senior at Niwot High School. Dawson was recommended for this scholarship by Chapter JD of Broomfield, Colorado. She has been accepted and will attend Colorado State University beginning this fall. The P.E.O. STAR Scholarship is a $2,500 award based on excellence in leadership, extracurricular activities, community service, academics and potential for future success. The program is open to...
The end of the school year comes with many transitions and in the case of Flagstaff Academy, Longmont’s public charter school, the students, staff, parents and alumni will be saying goodbye to two beloved and longstanding teachers, Timothy Baldwin and Lisa Wilkins, who are retiring from teaching. Wilkins, one of the original middle school teachers since Flagstaff Academy added grades six through eight in 2007, has been contributing her extensive background in English and American history into t...
Although the Colorado high school wrestling season ended two months ago, Niwot junior Tommy Stager is continuing to add to his impressive resume. On Saturday, May 14, Stager won the Colorado USA Wrestling Junior National Team Qualifying Tournaments in both Freestyle and Greco Roman wrestling at 138 pounds. This qualified him to represent Colorado in the USA Wrestling National Duals in Tulsa, OK in June, as well as the USA Wrestling National Championships in Fargo, ND in July. On May 21, Stager...
For the second year in a row, Twin Peaks Charter Academy (TPCA) won the STEM engineering competition at Metro State University (MSU) Math Day. The goal of the event is to encourage interest in math and science, while fostering constructive competition among area high schools. Many schools from throughout the Front Range participate, and each can bring up to three teams. Students compete in three subjects: geometry, engineering and algebra. In the geometry competition, teams of students work...
Niwot law firm Warren, Carlson & Moore was recognized for the firm’s pro bono work at the annual Boulder County Legal Services Pro Bono Luncheon April 4. The firm received recognition for meeting the goal of 100 percent firm participation in the pro bono program, with attorneys Bruce Warren, Thomas Moore, Laura Moore and Brett Landis donating free legal services to low-income clients through Boulder County Legal Services. Landis also received individual recognition for providing between 50 a...
Boulder Country Day School (BCD) 8th grade artist, Xan, dedicated her mural (12”x 9”) at the Boulder Homeless Shelter on Saturday, May 7. An extremely talented student, Xan chose to design a multi-panel mural for the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless for her 8th grade capstone project. This exceptional piece (pictured above) took 170 hours and three months to design, and was done all with paints she obtained from hazardous waste recycling. She mixed all the colors herself. The mural is str...
The Boulder Valley Lacrosse Association (BVL), one of the largest youth lacrosse programs in Colorado, has announced the formation of The Boulder Valley Lacrosse Scholarship in memory of former Boulder resident and lifelong lacrosse player and ambassador, Stephen C. Muir. The BVL Scholarship was established to honor the service, commitment and value that young adults have given to the local lacrosse community. BVL will award $2,000 in scholarships that may be used at any accredited institution of learning, including schools with 4-year,...
Gunbarrel Center, the new apartment community located at 5340 Gunbarrel Center Court in Gunbarrel, is welcoming Proto’s Pizzeria Napoletana (Proto’s) as the community’s first restaurant. Proto’s, the popular, Boulder-based pizzeria founded by Pam Proto in 1999, will open an 1,800 square-foot restaurant at Gunbarrel Center this summer. Proto’s is the first commercial tenant to be announced at Gunbarrel Center. When complete, Gunbarrel’s new pedestrian-friendly Main Street will feature sev...
Centennial State Ballet (CSB), formerly Longmont Dance Theatre, has been in operation for 18 years as the exclusive, pre-professional ballet academy of Longmont, Colorado. CSB is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing classical ballet performances for the community. CSB is proud to present Coppélia for its spring gala performance on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1. Coppélia first premiered on May 25, 1870 at the Théâtre Impérial L’Opéra in Paris and is considered the last great ballet of the Romantic era. The ballet tells t...
The First Annual International Festival was an event where Twin Peaks Charter Academy celebrated the cultural differences and diversity in their school and community. The festival encouraged TPCA students to be aware of the larger world around them and to embrace the different cultures at TPCA. The Festival was held at Twin Peaks Charter Academy on February 26, 2016, with over 550 guests in attendance. They were given the opportunity to visit fifteen different booths represented by families...
Some may see broken boxes, empty water bottles and cut up rubber bands as trash, but not Sara Hopp’s 8th grade science students—they see musical instruments. Hopp’s classes recently finished up their sound waves unit by building musical instruments created out of recyclable materials. Working in groups, the students had to choose a country or region their musical instrument would likely come from—such as Mexico, India or Eastern Europe. They worked together, researched and narrowed it down to...
Flagstaff Academy’s “Up-A-Creek” robotics team, comprised of a number of middle school students and led by middle school technology teacher Teresa Ewing, won the Chairman’s Award - the highest award given at the FIRST robotics national level. This award honors the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate, and that best embodies the purpose and goals of the FIRST robotics program. The team will also be competing at the national finals in St. Louis, Missouri, from April 2...
Twin Peaks Charter Academy announced the addition of an elementary and secondary principal to the administrative team. Amber Coniff joins the staff as K-5 Principal. She has a history of working at Charter Schools and first-hand knowledge of the Core Knowledge Curriculum. David Yu, current interim 6-12 Principal, has accepted the full time position as Principal moving forward. He brings a wealth of knowledge on Classical education and has already made a positive impact on secondary students,...
