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  • Left Hand Laurel Tony Santelli

    Stacie Johnson|Apr 2, 2025

    For his enduring leadership and volunteerism for the Niwot community and advocacy for Niwot's businesses, Tony Santelli is the Left Hand Valley Courier's April Left Hand Laurel. As a former co-owner of the Niwot Tavern, a past president of the Niwot Business Association (NBA), and a current member of the community's minimum wage task force as well as the Niwot Future League (NFL), Santelli's leadership and dynamism is apparent when he discusses his love for the Niwot community. Niwot is the...

  • Community leaders to mark Niwot's sesquicentennial with Sunday open house

    Stacie Johnson|Mar 26, 2025

    An ad hoc committee of community leaders will host an open house anniversary party for Niwot's sesquicentennial on Sunday, March 30 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. at Niwot Hall. The event will commemorate Niwot's founding as noted by the handwritten date of March 30, 1875, on a town plat recorded with Boulder County 150 years ago. Activities will include a photo booth, a then-and-now slideshow, and live music by Pete and Joan Wernick, with guest fiddler Justin Hoffenberg. According to event organizers,...

  • Design Review Committee weighs in on initial site plan for former feed store property

    Stacie Johnson|Mar 19, 2025

    The Niwot Design Review Committee met on March 10 at Niwot Inn & Spa to review the proposed site plan for the former feed store property at 291 Second Avenue and to elect officers. Committee member Satir DeMarco attended by phone, and the other committee members, Bruce Larsen, Kathy Koehler, Will Hentschel and Rachel Gart, appeared in person. Denise Grimm, a Boulder County planner and the committee's coordinator, was also present along with two individuals from the public. Because the former...

  • Architects explain proposed mixed use building for former feed store property

    Stacie Johnson|Mar 12, 2025

    An audience of close to 40 people attended a community meeting on Thursday, March 6, at Niwot Hall, to hear about the proposed development plans for the former feed store property at 291 Second Avenue in Niwot. Architects Tucker Huey and Anne Postle of Osmosis Architecture gave a slideshow presentation about the proposed two-story mixed-use building and also addressed comments and questions from the audience. The architects represent Niwot residents John and Xan Fischer, who bought the property...

  • New Niwot Wheel Works opens at new location

    Stacie Johnson|Mar 5, 2025

    Niwot Wheel Works bike shop is up and running at its new location and under new ownership, next to Fan's Chinese Cuisine, in the southwest corner of Cottonwood Square shopping center. Fernando Tapia, who worked at the original Niwot Wheel Works since its inception eight years ago, took over the ownership reins of the business from his friend and former colleague, Eric Bergeson. Bergeson announced in December that he would move on from the bike shop business and that he would not be renewing the...

  • Architects to unveil plans for former feed store property

    Stacie Johnson|Feb 26, 2025

    The architecture team representing the owners of the former feed store property on Second Avenue will hold a community meeting on Thursday, March 6, to inform the public about a proposed development plan for the site. The event, which is an opportunity for the public to comment on the proposed project, will begin at 5:00 pm at Niwot Hall, formerly known as the Left Hand Grange. Architects Anne Postle and Tucker Huey of Osmosis Architecture plan to unveil a proposed 9,382-square-foot mixed-use...