Lyons News

The St. Vrain Valley School District Board of Education selected new officers tonight after swearing in Niwot resident Debbie Lammers to take the seat of term-limited Sandi Searls.

Residents can meet and visit with the four finalists for the Lyons town administrator's post from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Shirley Johnson Council Chambers in the Lyons Town Hall, 432 Fifth Ave.

The larger the rural Boulder County property, the more small sheds the owner may be able to erect without having to get building permits, under Land Use Code amendments approved Tuesday by the county commissioners.

Wade Carlson's getting pretty good at this whole retirement business. He retired once in 1991 after 16 years on the St.

The Boulder County Clerk and Recorder's Office expects an overall 40 percent countywide turnout in this year's local elections, according to spokeswoman Jessie Cornelius.

The fate of a measure proposing to relax current term-limits restrictions on Boulder County district attorneys is still several hundred untallied ballots away from being settled.

The Town Board gave preliminary approval Monday to an ordinance that - beginning in mid-December - would impose a temporary moratorium on approving any new applications for locating medical-marijuana dispensaries or marijuana growing operations inside Lyons.

Salmon-pink Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca, pale green Lecanora novomexicana and an orange xanthoria create a work of art on the tundra.

If the lovable cartoon character Marmaduke were a beer, he would surely be a cool can of Ten Fidy Imperial Stout.

LYONS, Colo.-If you're a gardener or an avid farmers' market customer, suddenly it's all about winter squash and stuff that grows underground.

LYONS - Fossil Ridge High School cross country runners and coaches had mixed emotions Thursday following the Class 4A Region 2 championships.

Boulder County will pay $1.5 million for a 48-acre property northeast of North 61st Street and Hygiene Road, if county commissioners proceed with a purchase endorsed Thursday by the Parks and Open Advisory Committee.

Jesters Dinner Theatre presents 'Cell Block Terror,' a haunted house open 7:30 to 11 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in October at the theater, 224 Main St.

The inside temperature reached 725 degrees. Smoke filled the building. Time to go to work.

BCBR Article Stimulus money boosts SBA lending By David Clucas October 16, 2009 -- In addition to federal stimulus grants and contracts, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has helped fund more than $11.2 million in loans to Boulder Valley small businesses as of Sept.

Julie Artz, of Lyons, her daughter Lily, at left, and her son Gabriel hold some vegetables from the family's root cellar in their unheated basement.

Blank ballots are in the mail, or soon will be, for this fall's local election contests and questions.

Donna Auguste sits in the bedroom of her Rocky Mountain residence in Lyons, Colorado that was ransacked for information that would discredit her and her nephew in the case of her nephew, Damon Auguste, who was charged with rape.

Dale Katechis' new restaurant Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids is scheduled to open Monday, Oct.

A pair of Lyons-to-Boulder Regional Trail foes made it plain Tuesday that they're still unhappy with Boulder County's commissioners, even after commissioners shelved further study of the proposal on Sept.