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The St. Vrain Valley School District (SVVSD) held its annual student art show at the Boulder County Fairgrounds from April 15 to April 20 with artwork featured from students attending Niwot Elementary School and Niwot High School. The district-wide student showcase included the mediums of ceramics, digital art/photography, drawing, jewelry making, metalwork, mixed media, painting, and printmaking. On Thursday evening, April 17, many students from the district's 55 schools, along with their art...
The St. Vrain Unframed Art Show is happening now until Sunday, April 20, at the Boulder County Fairgrounds Exhibition Hall. The event showcases student artwork from all 55 schools in the St. Vrain Valley School District (SVVSD), including creations from students attending Niwot Elementary School, Sunset Middle School and Niwot High School. The art show is open to the public daily, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The event features student art from all grade levels...
Members of the Niwot Local Improvement District Advisory Committee (LID) met on April 1 at the Niwot Inn and unanimously approved five funding requests. The committee also unanimously approved a LID resolution urging the Boulder County Commissioners to implement a moratorium on the remaining unincorporated county wage increases. Among other business matters, the LID discussed the status of the Niwot Master Plan, the vice chair vacancy, a possible policy to extend the time to make decisions...
On April 1, the Boulder County Commissioners, during a public land use hearing, approved plans for an equestrian center, an agricultural worker accessory dwelling unit, and a 5,352 square foot residence for the 68-acre parcel at 8130 North 73rd Street. According to hearing documents, the parcel is east along 73rd Street and is less than a mile north of Nimbus Road with the Holland Ditch bisecting the parcel. With Commissioner Claire Levy absent during the hearing, Commissioners Marta Loachamin...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
