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At the Boulder County Planning Commission’s Wednesday, Oct. 19 meeting, members decided in a 5-1 vote to reconsider their original decision to approve the medium-density residential land-use designation for the Twin Lakes parcels. The change in zoning for 20 acres of vacant land on both sides of the 6000 block of Twin Lakes Road in Gunbarrel, which are owned by the Boulder County Housing Authority and Boulder Valley School District, will be up for reconsideration at another hearing not yet s...
It’s a sad fact that Colorado is hamstrung by complicated provisions of the state constitution that prevent the state legislature from adequately funding public education, but fixing that problem is not on the ballot. As a result, local school districts are forced to turn to voters time and again to ask for bond issue approvals and mill levy overrides to keep pace with the demands of increasing populations and escalating costs. The St. Vrain Valley School District has proposed a bond issue (3A on the ballot) which would generate $260 million f...
Niwot Community Association (NCA) board members agreed to continue the group’s policy of serving only as an information conduit for the Niwot/Gunbarrel community when St. Vrain Valley School District (SVVSD) officials asked for the group’s endorsement of the district’s proposed mill levy increase on the November ballot. Although several board members expressed individual support for the measure and praised the school district’s student academic achievement and fiscal responsibility, the NCA board agreed that the NCA’s primary function...
Dear Editor: Did you know: * The Twin Lakes Action Group (TLAG) has offered three alternate locations for the proposed development that are closer to bus stops, stores and services. The proposed site at the Twin Lakes has the City’s lowest possible score for walkability—hardly the best place for 280 urban-density apartments. * Even the Housing Authority’s own flawed habitat study shows the fields to be the SOLE wildlife corridor linking the Twin Lakes to Walden Ponds. The biologist even discovered meadowlarks and mallards nesting in the tallg...
Dear Editor, I found the Courier online poll chart in last week’s paper to be very misleading. Close to 1,700 people from Gunbarrel and the surrounding areas have signed the Twin Lakes Action Group (TLAG) petition opposing upzoning to medium density on the Twin Lakes parcels. Therefore, I was surprised to find that 72.7 percent of those who filled out the online LHVC poll were for this development, until I found out that only 32 people filled out the online poll. This omission of the very small sample size gives the impression that the m...
Life for Lora Cantele seems pretty normal from the outside. She lives in Gunbarrel with her husband and two teenage children, both of whom attend Niwot High School, and she has her own aromatherapy business. Besides taking care of her family and her business, Cantele finds herself sitting in a comfortable office every other Monday morning with other moms who are all walking the same path of raising children with special needs. Cantele’s 17-year-old son was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder when he w...
On Oct. 5th, the Niwot Historical Society and President Kathy Koehler kicked off the 2016-17 Niwot: Now & Then lecture series with an examination of baseball and its impact on the town. From its earliest days, when Evart “Toots” Conilogue got together with his brothers and friends to form the Niwot Farmers; to the modern era, when Coach Bob Bote led the Niwot High Cougars to five state championships in eight years, the national pastime has been an integral part of Niwot’s civic identity. In Ba...
Boulder County Commissioners held a public hearing on Tuesday, September 27 to make their decision on the land-use change request for Twin Lakes, which would open the doors for affordable housing to be built. The commissioner’s hearing followed the Boulder County Planning Commission’s vote, which ended in a 4-3 approval of the land-use request. The change would allow the land use designation to become mixed density residential on the 20 acres of land next to Twin Lakes in Gunbarrel. Even though the county commissioners took their time on del...
The Niwot Historical Society is continuing its lecture series, and the newest could knock it out of the park. A panel of speakers will discuss the history of the sport of baseball in the area, each with their own bank of knowledge and insight to provide. “We’re putting together a panel of people or their families who have been involved in baseball in the Niwot area from the very early 1900’s to the present,” organizer Biff Warren said. The speakers include: John Conilogue: His ancestors go way back in the Niwot area, he has a lot of artifac...
Members of the Boulder County Planning Commission voted 4 – 3 to support changing the land use designation to medium density for 20 acres in the Twin Lakes area in Gunbarrel at its Sept. 21 meeting. But that vote could have had a different outcome if it had happened before board chairwoman Natalie Feinberg Lopez had to leave the meeting early to catch a plane. Earlier in the meeting, Feinberg Lopez had indicated that she did not support the land use change, and her vote could have pushed the o...
The third floor of the Boulder County Courthouse was filled once again as people attended a joint public hearing of county commissioners and planning commission on Tuesday, August 30, to discuss the proposed affordable housing at Twin Lakes. County Commissioner Elise Jones explained that the reason for the joint hearing was so that people don’t have to come multiple times to give their testimonies. She said they wanted to hear from everyone who has something to say on the issue, “Everyone has...
Dear Editor, Once again I am writing to the Courier to thank all those responsible for the beautiful flowers all around Niwot in hanging baskets, pots, wheelbarrows, a piano, and a bicycle, among other things. They are glorious this year, even more bountiful and colorful than in years past, and I know it takes a lot of planning and maintenance to produce such a wonderful display. My husband and I walk around downtown Niwot almost every day and marvel at the beauty all around us. Many kudos to...
A new attorney has joined the team at Warren, Carlson and Moore (WCM) from another Boulder County law firm. Jeff Foltz started at WCM just a couple weeks ago, coming from Hensley and Kennedy law firm in Boulder. Foltz, who lives in Gunbarrel, moved out to Colorado to attend law school at CU Boulder in 2002. After working in Boulder County for awhile, he said his interactions with the attorneys at WCM led him to apply for an open position there. “I had worked with some of the attorneys here b...
There is a new place to eat in Gunbarrel, and it’s been busy Element Bistro, located on 63rd Street right next to the Hampton Inn & Suites, is a restaurant/convention hall, suited to meet the needs of the area. Eric Lee, managing partner and one of four owners, said that he had done a feasibility study for Hampton about three years ago. “It started off as a consulting job for me,” Lee said. “The hotel wanted to build a restaurant, so I did a feasibility study for them. That was about two and a half years ago. “They decided they did not want...
On Monday, Aug. 8, Boulder County and the City of Boulder held an open house to discuss land use change requests for three properties in Boulder County. The open house, which was held at Mt. Calvary Bible Church in Boulder, discussed requests concerning 6655 and 6500 Twin Lakes Road and 0 Kalua Road; 2801 Jay Road; and 3261 3rd Street. Staff planners had their draft land use change recommendations displayed for the public to see and ask questions about, for each request. Members of the Twin Lakes Action Group (TLAG), Boulder County Housing...
SWIMMING Roman Tagliola, grandson of Gunbarrel residents Paul and Mary Tagliola, took first place in the state finals in Grand Junction in the 10U swimming competition in the 200M Freestyle July 28. Tagliola, who swims for the Flatiron Athletic Club team in the summer, moves on to the Western Zone AG Championships in Salt Lake City Aug. 10-13. TRIATHLON Niwot High grad Brie Kingsley Chambers finished 53rd in the women’s 35-39 division at the Boulder Ironman Triathlon Aug. 7. The bike race portion of the event wound through Gunbarrel. B...
Boulder Community Health (BCH) is expanding access to health care in Gunbarrel with the opening of a new Boulder Community Health Urgent Care clinic at the existing BCH medical offices, which have served the local community for years. Located at 6685 Gunpark Drive East, Suite 102, the BCH Urgent Care is open to treat patients seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., 365 days a year. Patients are seen on a walk-in basis, with no appointment required. The BCH Urgent Care provides a convenient...
The future of the Twin Lakes land parcels hinges on the perceived value of the land as an environmental and recreational refuge, or as a much-needed affordable housing plot. The Twin Lakes parcels are located south of the Twin Lakes Open Space and together make up 19.8 acres of land in residential Gunbarrel. The parcel located north of Twin Lakes Road is owned by the Boulder County Housing Authority (BCHA) while the parcel located south of the road is owned by the Boulder Valley School District...
Boulder County residents donated more than $10,000 in less than 36 hours to take their legal fight to the Colorado Supreme Court in a bid to force Boulder County Commissioners to rehabilitate and repave county subdivision roads without new taxes. Boulder County Fairness in Road Maintenance (BoCo FIRM) announced July 19 that they intended to appeal a June 30 ruling by the Colorado Court of Appeals, which said homeowners do not have legal standing to bring their claims against Boulder County. Along with that announcement, BoCo FIRM asked for dona...
With only five Thursdays left in the season, Rock & Rails is enlisting a noteworthy lineup to end the summer with a bang. Headliners such as Chris Daniels and the Kings with Freddi, The Hazel Miller Band, and Face are expected to attract plenty of fans to Niwot’s popular summer concert series. Since its inception in 2006, Rock & Rails has grown to be one of Niwot’s most well-known summer events, with locals and visitors alike filling Whistle Stop Park every Thursday evening. Attendance has bee...
Twin Lakes Action Group (TLAG) has more on its plate than concerns about housing density on what has been Boulder County Parks and Open Space vacant land. With the county in talks to annex the land to the City of Boulder, TLAG is concerned that annexing county open space to the city will be the gateway to annexing other Gunbarrel neighborhoods, without those county residents’ consent. These were the sentiments expressed by Jeff Cohen and Rolf Munson, both TLAG board members. Cohen, an attorney in Gunbarrel, said the issue is, “The way the [City...
Toastmasters International, an organization formed in 1924 by Ralph C. Smedley to promote communication and leadership development, has now been working to improve members’ public speaking for 15 years in the Longmont community. The club marked its June 28 anniversary by inducting new officers for the upcoming term. The organization’s name comes from the term “toastmaster” being used to describe a person who gives toasts at banquets. It began when Smedley, director of education at the YMCA, s...
On July 1, Selene Hall finished her final day at Bank of the West in Niwot as the Front Range area manager, ending a 30-year career in banking. Hall, who has lived in Niwot for 33 years, certainty hasn’t allowed her work to define her. Outside of her career in banking, Hall raised two children, served as president of both the Niwot Community Association (NCA) and the Niwot Business Association (NBA), served on the Niwot High School Education Foundation, ran Niwot Nostalgia Days for a decade a...
On Thursday, June 30, the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that asked the courts to require Boulder County to pay for the repaving of roads in unincorporated neighborhoods. The lawsuit was submitted by a group of homeowners wanting the county to fund the repaving of their subdivision roadways, led by lead plaintiff Chuck Wibby of Gunbarrel. On April 2, 2015, a Boulder County District Court judge ruled that the homeowners suing the county did not have the necessary legal standing to more forward with their claim....
The sun was out with temperatures near 90 degrees, and it was a wonderful setting for the annual 4th of July Parade in Niwot. In addition to the annual Pancake Breakfast, hosted by Bert Steele of Niwot Market and the Niwot Community Association (NCA), and all the wonderful decorations for the kids, bikes and dogs provided by the NCA, this year’s parade was bigger and better than ever. Pat Murphy, ever the volunteer pancake breakfast champ, said there was no final tally yet of the amount r...
HMK Jewelers moves HMK and Mountain Maille Jewelry Studio to Franklin Street, across from Colterra restaurant, one year ago. The jewelry stores recently made another move to Cottonwood Square, relocating right next to the Garden Gate Cafe. Owners Dennis Perez, of HMK, and Judy Perez, of Mountain Maille Jewelry, are both happy with the new stores, which officially opened on June 1. “There are a lot of good things in Cottonwood Square,” Dennis Perez said. “The traffic is nicer and the space just...
Niwot High School Athletic Director Chase McBride announced that Kelly Christensen has been hired to coach the boys and girls cross country squads at Niwot next fall. Christensen will replace Tim Flamer, who resigned earlier this spring. “Kelly comes to Niwot most recently from Palmer Ridge High School, where he coached his cross country team to a state championship in 2014 and a state runner-up in 2015,” McBride said. “Coach Christensen was also the head Boys Track Coach at Palmer Ridge were he...
The Fairview High School girls golf team took three girls to the 5A State Championship, two of whom are from Gunbarrel. Senior Maddy McCambridge and sophomore Kelsey Webster, who live in Gunbarrel, competed at state along with freshman teammate Sophie Nelsen. The two-day tournament was held at Common Ground Golf Course in Aurora, on Monday, May 23 and Tuesday, May 24. At the first day of the tournament, McCambridge finished with a score of 80, Webster came in with a score of 90, and Nelsen...
Ed Trumble has enjoyed a lifelong passion for the American West. This passion found a home, nearly 70 years ago, when Trumble founded Leanin’ Tree, a family-owned greeting card company based in Gunbarrel featuring original western artwork. On May 16, the Greeting Card Association honored Trumble’s long and successful career with its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. Trumble’s love for art of the American West began young, during his childhood on a cattle-feeding ranch in Nebraska. Trumb...
Maddy McCambridge, Kelsey Webster and Taylor Sunset, who live within a couple of miles of each other in Gunbarrel, went to state in Class 5A girls golf last year as part of Coach John Zerwin’s Fairview High School squad. They hoped to return this season, but Sunset, a junior, fell sick during the regional tournament, and had to withdraw. As a result, it will be up to McCambridge, a senior, and Webster, a sophomore, will represent the school at state again this year. Webster moved into the No. 1...
The campsite reservations are made. The kids can’t wait to roast marshmallows and throw rocks in the creek. Even the dog is excited to chase sticks and the occasional deer. But as the trip approaches, your apprehension increases. What should we pack? What should we eat? And is it really camping if my gear fills the entire back-half of my SUV instead of just my backpack? Gunbarrel resident and camping expert Dawn Bitz doesn’t want you to worry. In fact, the whole reason she founded GH Outdoor Inc., and its lifestyle brand Grasshaven, is to mak...
A Gunbarrel man is in the hospital with a non-life-threatening injury following a dispute between neighbors at the Willow Condominium Complex on the 6200 block of Willow Lane in Gunbarrel. The suspect, age 59, allegedly shot the victim, age 46, in the buttocks with a small caliber handgun. Names are not being released at this time. The victim was transported to an undisclosed hospital, and the suspect was also checked in for a medical evaluation, both transported by ambulance. According Commander Mike Wagner with the Boulder County Sheriff’s D...
Idell Marie Leinweber of Niwot died Friday, May 6, 2016 at Someren Glen Retirement Community, Centennial, Colorado. She was born March 9, 1924 to Charles A. Kneale and Augusta Idell (McKee) Kneale. Idell’s grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kneale moved to Niwot in 1888. Thomas was from the Isle of Mann. Her grandparents and parents owned farms east of Niwot on the north side of Niwot Road and Gunbarrel Hill. Idell attended grade school in Niwot and graduated from Longmont High School. She went to business school in Denver. She was employed by D...
Maryann Ruck, president and founder of Integrated Wealth Strategies, is moving her business of seven years to Gunbarrel in May. Integrated Wealth Strategies is a “comprehensive wealth management firm, with a financial planning emphasis,” she said. Ruck has been in the accounting and finance industry for over 20 years, and has worked in Fort Collins, Denver and now Boulder. She has lived in Niwot for the past 10 years and said she’s moving her business to acquire more space for it to grow. “It’s...
Gunbarrel Center, the new apartment community located at 5340 Gunbarrel Center Court in Gunbarrel, is welcoming Proto’s Pizzeria Napoletana (Proto’s) as the community’s first restaurant. Proto’s, the popular, Boulder-based pizzeria founded by Pam Proto in 1999, will open an 1,800 square-foot restaurant at Gunbarrel Center this summer. Proto’s is the first commercial tenant to be announced at Gunbarrel Center. When complete, Gunbarrel’s new pedestrian-friendly Main Street will feature sev...
Apex 5510 apartment complex in Gunbarrel was the first apartment community in Boulder to receive LEED certification, which is a rating system from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for improved human health and environmental performance. Last month the 231-unit apartment received its LEED silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, showing the community’s commitment to sustainability and the environment. Apex prides itself on having easy access to many bike trails and t...
For youngsters in the area, Niwot Youth Sports (NYS) has brought a lifetime of memories and experiences since its beginnings with recreational baseball in the late 1960’s. A decade later, the organization was dubbed the Gunbarrel Lefthand Valley Recreation Association, and basketball and girls softball were added. Today, NYS serves 450 children in baseball and softball, close to 300 in basketball and around 100 in flag football each year. NYS offers competitive and recreational versions of e...
Burden, Inc., is in the middle of construction of a 30,317 square-foot building on Longbow Drive in Gunbarrel, and the development will be a blank slate. Developer Keith Burden said the original design was meant to keep options open for businesses looking to move into the area. “We’ve designed it so that we can break it up into 10 separate spaces,” Burden said. “But the thought is that ultimately it will have fewer than 10, or even possibly one or two tenants that take up a larger space....
Honoring volunteers, highlighting activities and discussing issues of interest in Niwot are on the agenda of the Niwot Community Association’s (NCA) annual membership meeting set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, at the Left Hand Grange, 195 Second Avenue, Niwot. All NCA members are invited to attend the meeting; those who are not members can join the NCA that evening as long as they live in the NCA’s service area, which includes the greater Niwot area and a small portion of Gunbarrel. The cost for a yearly NCA membership is $30. The meeting wil...
A new play structure. The best backpack ever. Over 300 Heatherwood Elementary School parents and students used the Design Thinking method to dream up solutions for common elementary school problems, at the first ever family challenge night on Thursday, April 7. Participants worked together as a family to design and build a product prototype, which they presented to a classroom of participants. “I liked all the colors and using all the puff balls,” second grader Kaitlyn Tschoepe said as she exp...
After a recent special meeting, Bolder County officials now believe they have found a solution to the growing invasive population of prairie dogs. Harvey Danger, an ecologist who specializes in suburban rodent populations, presented both the Bolder Parks and Weed Department and county officials with a proposal that could curb the encroachment of two rival prairie dog colonies. The proposal begins with the introduction of several packs of wild coyotes that will be brought in from Estes Park....
Gunbarrel Optometry is moving into more eye care while still providing the same services it has for the last 23 years. Under the new ownership of Philip Wren, the office has seen some new faces and other changes since April of last year. “It’s been going really well,” Wren said. “We’ve had good reception from the existing base and we’ve been working on gaining new patients. It’s been a good transition.” Office Manager Nikki Pattermann is one of the many new faces customers will see clearly once they get their new glasses or contact lenses....
Recent concerns about wildlife and vandalism have the Boulder County Parks and Open Space Department keeping a close eye on Twin Lakes in Gunbarrel. The suburban retention ponds were split by a fence in August of 2015 due to rules regarding dogs being on leashes. On the east side, dogs must be on a leash, but on the west side, it is not required, and dogs can run free. The county’s solution was to build a fence to separate the two areas, and locals have been on both sides of it for the last few months. Shortly after the fence was completed, t...
