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Articles from the January 9, 2019 edition


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  • Niwot wins three straight at Roughrider Shootout

    Jocelyn Rowley, [email protected]|Jan 9, 2019

    The upstart Niwot boys basketball team improved to 6-3 on the season, after going undefeated at the fifth annual Roughrider Shootout, held Jan. 3-5 at Roosevelt High School. The Cougars averaged 56 points per game in wins over Denver West, Skyview and Conifer during the three-day round robin tournament, thanks to their uptempo play on defense and contributions from players off the bench, according to second-year head coach Eric Hejl. “When we play defense with energy, we can give teams t... Full story

  • Teen vaping use in Boulder County second highest in state

    Dani Hemmat, [email protected]|Jan 9, 2019

    Nicotine, a legal substance, is as addictive as heroin or cocaine. In the 1990s, 46 states brought lawsuits against the big tobacco companies, hoping to hold them responsible for the healthcare costs—and deaths—associated with their products. It was a long fight, and ultimately successful. The companies were ordered to spend millions on anti-tobacco campaigns, with the purpose of educating people to the real dangers of tobacco use and nicotine, and expressly keeping cigarettes out of the hands of children. But nicotine has found a new del...

  • New Horizons' mission flawless thanks to scientists from Colorado

    Vicky Dorvee, [email protected]|Jan 9, 2019

    Any one of a thousand things could have gone wrong, causing New Horizons’ flyby to Ultima Thule, four billion miles from Earth, to fail. But the team of scientists led by Niwot’s Dr. Alan Stern made the most distant space mission ever a smashing success on the first day of 2019. “It not only worked, it worked flawlessly,” Stern said. “Every single scientific instrument worked, the spacecraft had no issues, the navigation was perfect, the ground operations were perfect. It’s amazing. Can you tel...