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Dawson has launched a new feature to its schedule this year: periodic days throughout the year designed to promote collaboration and integration between grades and disciplines, called Mustang Days. Increased flexibility built into Dawson’s schedule allows the school to spotlight larger topics and to create even more opportunities for student-driven, hands-on learning. On August 31, the focus was design thinking. Design thinking is an established learning method that integrates creativity, p...
Boulder County Area Agency on Aging (AAA) is helping coordinate more than 40 events around the county as part of Falls Prevention Week, September 19 – 23. A fall can have devastating consequences for an older adult and is a common concern for the families, friends and caregivers of the aging. Every 11 seconds an older adult is treated in the emergency room for a fall, and every 19 minutes an older adult dies from a fall. Many older adults limit physical and social activities due to fear of f...
Parents need to know the latest youth social media trends and potential dangers in order to help guide their child to post responsibly and stay safe. But how? For most parents, social media is overwhelming. There are thousands of apps and it’s a moving target; what is popular today is out tomorrow. Boulder Country Day School (BCD) is holding an interactive parent presentation that will review what parents need to know about teen social media use. It will also provide helpful resources to help th...
The Residences at Balfour, a retirement community in Louisville, announced the opening of an office of Wisdom Health, a new geriatric primary care medical practice located within the community at 1336 E. Hecla Drive. The practice is owned and operated by Dr. Anne Giesen, D.O., and is currently accepting patients from Balfour and the greater Boulder County community. “It’s a pleasure to expand our medical practice in Boulder to include Balfour, and provide outstanding geriatric care to the res...
Local advertising agency, Tool Studios, announced it will celebrate 15 years of doing business in Boulder County next month. The company opened on the fateful morning of September 11, 2001, but in weathering its rocky start, company owner and principal Charles (Charlie) Bell said, “We really had nowhere to go but up.” Tool Studios moved its offices to downtown Niwot by the end of that first year. Operating with a core of in-house, full-time staff (referred to as the company’s “Tool...
The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office will be hosting a 23-week Citizens’ Academy for area residents. Participants will receive information on different aspects of law enforcement work in a classroom setting, as well as have the opportunity to participate in hands-on learning. Participants will meet Thursday evenings from October 6, 2016 through March 30, 2017, with breaks for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Some of the topics to be covered include: •Criminal law •Patrol •Criminal and death investigations •Emergency management...
Boulder Community Health (BCH) is expanding access to health care in Gunbarrel with the opening of a new Boulder Community Health Urgent Care clinic at the existing BCH medical offices, which have served the local community for years. Located at 6685 Gunpark Drive East, Suite 102, the BCH Urgent Care is open to treat patients seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., 365 days a year. Patients are seen on a walk-in basis, with no appointment required. The BCH Urgent Care provides a convenient...
Dawson School is fortunate to have a sizable campus, and during the summer months when school is not in session it is home to a myriad of programs: numerous summer camps, as well as special programs such as those organized with the I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County, and the Dawson Summer Initiative program for high-achieving public middle school students. Periodically this summer, however, it has also been home to a marked influx of law enforcement officers as the Boulder County Sherif...
Niwot’s Tommy Stager made a strong finish to his 2015-2016 wrestling campaign, narrowly missing All American status. Since the school year ended in May, the Niwot High School senior has competed for Team Vision Quest Colorado in the NHSCA National Folkstyle Duals in Virginia Beach, and the AAU National “Disney” Duals in Orlando. Stager was 6-1 in Virginia Beach and 11-3 in Orlando. He was one of two Colorado wrestlers to win a medal (bronze) in the AAU Duals. Stager then focused his atten...
A release from Boulder County Public Health has confirmed that mosquitoes in a mosquito pool in Longmont have tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV). The positive pool came from a trap located at the Shores-Concord Way in northwest Longmont. Positive mosquito pools have also been confirmed in Larimer County this year. “Unfortunately, wet weather followed by high temperatures creates an ideal environment for mosquitos to breed,” said Lane Drager, Boulder County Public Health Consumer Protection program coordinator. “Now is the time to take...
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,...
