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Articles from the February 9, 2018 edition


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  • This little piggy needs a fence

    Vicky Dorvee|Feb 9, 2018

    There are some things in life that are sure to bring a smile. In this neck of the foothills, one of those sure things is a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig named Winston. Winston and his family live near Dodd Lake by the three-way stop at 73rd Street and Niwot Road. Anyone who has seen him there once is sure to crane their head and search the yard for another sighting of his 90 pounds of grin-inducing, speckled snout-twitching, creamy-colored elliptical shape. Elizabeth Wright and Rod Mazzone adopted...

  • Girls swimming: Irwin and Yie power Niwot to second place at Northern League meet

    Jocelyn Rowley, [email protected]|Feb 9, 2018

    With 420 team points, the Niwot girls captured second place in the 2018 Northern League swimming championships, held Feb. 2-3 at the Veteran’s Memorial Aquatic Center (VMAC) in Thornton. Niwot swimmers claimed conference titles in four of the 12 events, and three more Cougars qualified to compete in next weekend’s Class 4A state meet. “They were fantastic days of swimming for all of our girls,” Niwot head coach Sarah Stamp said. “It was an awesome performance by everyone.” Sophomore Payten Irwi...

  • Student-Athlete of the Week: Emily Creek

    Jocelyn Rowley, [email protected]|Feb 9, 2018

    On Jan. 26, Niwot High freshman Emily Creek took first place in the CHSAA girls slalom race at Copper Mountain. With a time of 1 minute 35.66 seconds, Creek beat out more than 70 other competitors for her first high-school win and her third top-ten finish of the season. On Jan. 18, she was just 12 one-hundredths of a second out of first in the girls slalom at Winter Park, and on Jan. 12, she finished fifth in the giant slalom (GS) event at Eldora. With the wins, she is qualified to compete at...