Niwot Community Band to play at Rockies game

The Niwot Community Semi-Marching Free Grange Band has been given the honor of playing the National Anthem at the Colorado Rockies game on June 27, but their story neither starts nor ends there.

The band formed in 2005 to dedicate the new community bandstand at Whistle Stop Park on the Fourth of July.

“We had this project going then realized we didn’t have a band,” organizer Bruce Warren said. “Th...