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People tend to feel strongly about New Year’s resolutions. They either never make them (“I don’t need any improvement” one gentleman told me), or they make them religiously every year and keep track of their progress on spreadsheets—like my friend Jamie, who’s on the fast track to becoming a career novelist at 29 years of age. While the New Year might seem like an arbitrary marker to some, the turning of the calendar page can act as a kind of reset button for those good intentions that fell l...
HOCKEY One of the country’s top collegiate hockey players, Andrew Sturtz of Penn State, is the nephew of Niwot residents Brad and Jane Langdon. Sturtz is from Buffalo, NY, and is currently a sophomore forward for the Nittany Lions. As a freshman, he led the team in goals with 18, which was the fifth-most in the country by a freshman. The performance earned him the freshman of the year award. His first goal for Penn State was named the NCAA’s No. 1 Play of the Week on Oct. 23, 2015, coming agains...
On October 26, 2016, 19-year-old Jared Lizakowski died in a motorcycle accident on Niwot Road. Lizakowski, who lived in Niwot and worked at Niwot Rental and Feed, was also a student at Boulder Drum Studio. His teacher of four years was Larry Bennett. With 35 years of experience — the last 14 being in Colorado, Bennett decided to remember Lizakowski with a new program called Drumming for Jared. Bennett remembers Jared fondly, recalling recitals and lessons. “Jared was a great student, we bon...
I’m going to teach the fashion industry a lesson. I’m going naked. No, I’m not protesting the slaughter of innocent polyesters. I want to give fashion designers an object lesson in reality. Make clothes that real people can wear or else… Women’s fashion can be a mystery and it starts in early childhood. Clothing categories are labeled as infants, toddlers and little girls with sizes marked in either months, “T”s or regular numbers. For the most part the kids’ age matches the number of the size. But if you are a girl, you eventually hit...
