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Articles from the February 14, 2019 edition


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  • Photo Gallery: Niwot makes waves at Class 4A swim championships

    Jocelyn Rowley, [email protected]|Feb 14, 2019

    The Niwot girls swim team took second overall at the 2019 Class 4A State Swim Championships, held Feb. 7-8 at the VMAC in Thornton. Freshman Mary Codevilla won Niwot's first individual title since 2003 in the 200 IM, and also took second in the 500 freestyle. Junior Abbie Shaw was second overall in the 200 freestyle and the 100 backstroke....

  • Niwot makes waves at Class 4A swim championships

    Jocelyn Rowley, [email protected]|Feb 14, 2019

    Codevilla and Shaw lead Cougars to 2nd overall The Niwot girls swim team kicked-off the final round of the 2019 Class 4A swim championships on Feb. 8 with a dramatic fourth-place finish in the 200-medley relay, and the surprises just kept coming. Over the next 11 events at the VMAC in Thornton, Cougar swimmers collected six top-three finishes and ended the night with what head coach Sarah Stamp called “the best surprise of all.” “We’ve been fourth before, but never gotten the hardware for run...

  • Flagstaff Academy students launch a Green Team Club

    Vicky Dorvee, [email protected]|Feb 14, 2019

    Last school year, a pair of fourth-grade students at Flagstaff Academy in Longmont approached elementary science lab teacher Stacy Wolff to discuss the school’s recycling program. Brainstorming on the subject led to creating surveys to see if other students were interested in helping out (which they were) and with that, the students officially started a Green Team school club. “They were very, very passionate about getting something started,” Wolff said. Twenty-eight students are onboard and r...

  • Boulder Healing Arts brings holistic alternatives to Niwot

    Dani Hemmat, [email protected]|Feb 14, 2019

    The signs by the side of the road in Niwot that read “Psychic Fair” show up every few months or so. They may be dismissed or ignored by some, while others might be excited that it’s time once again for the Holistic and Intuitive Arts Fair presented by the Boulder Healing Arts Association (BHA). The fair, which has been held at the Left Hand Grange in Niwot since 2006 (except during Grange renovations, when it was at the bicycle shop across the street), features bodyworkers, intuitive reade...

  • Students produce play to fight human trafficking

    Vicky Dorvee, [email protected]|Feb 14, 2019

    More than 50 women and girls are taken from Nepal to India every day to begin a horrific existence as a sex slave. Learning about this statistic and an unfathomable number of young girls around the world being forced into lives of misery had such an impact on Sunset Middle School (SMS) students Maya Lary and Anna Eastland that they felt compelled to take action. Every SMS student is in the Middle Years Programme (MYP), part of the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum. MYP is centered on...