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Rock & Rails ended its summer concert series last week, and organizers say it was the best so far. More than $81,000 in beverage sales was raised over the 13 weeks of concerts at Whistle Stop Park in Niwot. Vicki Maurer, one of the event’s organizers, can usually be found pouring drinks for concert-goers on Thursday evenings in the summer. She said she is very happy with how this year turned out. “It was our most successful concert series so far,” Maurer said. “And it all goes back to the com...
The 11th-annual Niwot Trot will have a different route on September 18, but will keep the same mission - raising funds for the Niwot Elementary School PTAC. Previously the race used the Niwot Loop Trail, but as numbers grew, organizers like Gretchen Johnson started to consider a new route. "We're extremely excited for the new location," Johnson said. "We moved because of an increasing number of participants. We had over 375 last year, and we wanted to have a more structured race and more room for our runners." The race will start and end at...
The Mwebaza Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes cross-cultural exchange between schools in Africa and Colorado, held a children’s concert fundraiser on Sunday, August 28 in Niwot. The event, which took place at Whistle Stop Park Sunday afternoon, featured The Pop Ups, a Grammy nominated children’s music group, along with other activities for kids. With the support of the community and the event’s sponsors, Founder Dale Peterson was hoping for a better turnout. “We think the kids t...
With only five Thursdays left in the season, Rock & Rails is enlisting a noteworthy lineup to end the summer with a bang. Headliners such as Chris Daniels and the Kings with Freddi, The Hazel Miller Band, and Face are expected to attract plenty of fans to Niwot’s popular summer concert series. Since its inception in 2006, Rock & Rails has grown to be one of Niwot’s most well-known summer events, with locals and visitors alike filling Whistle Stop Park every Thursday evening. Attendance has bee...
As Wise Buys Antiques in downtown Niwot celebrates its 30th anniversary, owners Tim and Carrie Wise reflected on the ups and downs they’ve experienced over the years. Wise Buys Antiques opened on July 15, 1986, and was originally located where Little Bird is today on Second Avenue. Prior to opening the store, Tim worked in another local antique store in Niwot for five years, giving him the passion for antiques and restoring them. “We are very thankful for Jim and Erma Knoch,” Tim said of the o...
On July 1, Selene Hall finished her final day at Bank of the West in Niwot as the Front Range area manager, ending a 30-year career in banking. Hall, who has lived in Niwot for 33 years, certainty hasn’t allowed her work to define her. Outside of her career in banking, Hall raised two children, served as president of both the Niwot Community Association (NCA) and the Niwot Business Association (NBA), served on the Niwot High School Education Foundation, ran Niwot Nostalgia Days for a decade a...
The Niwot Community Semi-Marching Free Grange Band has been given the honor of playing the National Anthem at the Colorado Rockies game on June 27, but their story neither starts nor ends there. The band formed in 2005 to dedicate the new community bandstand at Whistle Stop Park on the Fourth of July. “We had this project going then realized we didn’t have a band,” organizer Bruce Warren said. “The bandstand was a rough recreation of one that had existed in the early 1900’s when Niwot had a ban...
After over three years of planning, fundraising and constructing, the Niwot Children’s Park is finally nearing completion. Members of the building committee estimate that the park will be open by September 1, if not sooner. The park is located on the corner of Murray Street and First Avenue, across from Whistle Stop Park. The concept for the park was first formed by Jeff and Cynthia Lambert, who purchased the property at 101 First Avenue in Niwot before proposing the creation of a new c...
After over three years of planning, fundraising and constructing, the Niwot Children’s Park is finally nearing completion. Members of the building committee estimate that the park will be open by September 1, if not sooner. The park is located on the corner of Murray Street and First Avenue, across from Whistle Stop Park. The concept for the park was first formed by Jeff and Cynthia Lambert, who purchased the property at 101 First Avenue in Niwot before proposing the creation of a new c...
Niwot is known for many events, including the 4th of July and Halloween parades, Enchanted Evening, First Friday Art Walks, and Let’s Wine About Winter. But its most popular and well known event may be its summer concert series Rock & Rails, which runs from June through August. This year, Rock & Rails is planning for another successful year by bringing in people who may not have attended one of the concerts before. Niwot resident Satir DeMarco, the Rock & Rails emcee, schedules all the bands a...
The second annual Let’s Wine About Winter event, went off without a hitch last Saturday, Feb. 20. But if you attended last year’s event, you noticed one very stark difference—the weather. A blizzard accompanied last year’s inaugural event, which still has people talking about to this day. Many were hoping another blizzard would roll in just in time, but Mother Nature had other plans. It was a balmy day for winter, about 65 degrees, sunny and just a tad windy. One event goer said it was more like, “Let’s Wine About Wind,” than winter. But p...
The 2016 edition of Niwot’s “Let’s Wine About Winter” is set from 1 to 5 p.m. on February 20, and a limited number of tickets are still available. It began last year when the idea was brought back to Colorado from a similar event in Chicago. “It seemed like such a great idea,” one of the many organizers Anne Postle said. “It’s an event on a usually quiet day in February that brings people to town and allows them to visit different businesses in town.” There are 26 businesses lined up this yea...
If you’ve been near Whistle Stop Park lately, then you’ve seen all the progress being made at the future Niwot Children’s Park across the street. Playground equipment is going up and community members are anxiously awaiting the park’s opening. Progress has also been made on the fundraising side of things, but donations are still needed to reach the park’s goal of $500,000. Niwot residents Jeff and Cynthia Lambert, through the family’s Reiman Foundation, provided the first $250,000 to spark their...
Niwot’s Local Improvement District (LID), reconvened in the New Year at its January meeting on Tues., Jan. 5, where they returned to a quiet month. There were only two funding requests on the agenda, one for Let’s Wine About Winter and the other for the maintenance of the recent trees planted along Second Avenue. Anne Postle, of Osmosis Art Gallery, was present to request $1,191 from the LID on behalf of the Niwot Cultural Arts Association for Let’s Wine About Winter. Last year was the first...
