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Congratulations!
Rebecca Louzan Monroe and Alana Yerman (center with scissors) celebrated the grand opening of their Lyons Yoga and Wellness center (310 Main Street) at a ribbon cutting ceremony last Thursday evening January 3. The event was sponsored by the Lyons Area Chamber of Commerce and dozens of friends,
Mayor Catches "Bieber Fever"
In the interest of full disclosure, let it be known that the author of this article is married to the Mayor.
Citing a case of acute “Bieber Fever,” Lyons Mayor Julie Van Domelen called in sick for Monday night’s Board of Trustee (BOT) meeting. Instead of attending to her elected duties, she handed the gavel to Mayor Pro Tem Kirk Udovich and opted to attend a Justin Beiber concert at the Pepsi Center in
Cat-Man-Deux
Agents from the Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) were called to the backyard of 408 Reese Street in Lyons Monday afternoon January 7, to deal with a “cat in a tree” problem. In this case, it turned out the “cat” was a 95-pound year old male mountain lion, which had been prowling the neighborhood for
A Letter To The Shooter,
This is not a letter to Adam Lanza. I don’t know who you are, but you do. And maybe a friend was there to share your exploits. Sometime in the early hours of Friday, December 21, you were driving along Highway 71N, also known as Blue Mountain Road. You stopped your vehicle at the bottom of our
2012: Year in Review
Town Government
The Town of Lyons held elections for the positions of Mayor and the six Trustee in April. Mayor Julie Van Domelen, running for her “official” second term again ran unopposed, and won in a landslide, garnering 77 percent of the vote (she might be slipping, last time she ran unopposed she got a little over 82 percent).Mayor Van Domelen’s first one-year term [April of 2009 to April of 2010] to replace Mayor Kris Hicar, who resigned mid-term in December of 2008, didn’t count against Van Domelen’s term limit status. Five of the six Trustee incumbents; Sandy Banta, Ed Bruder, Cathy Jacobson, LaVern Johnson, and Kirk Udovich, decided to stand for re-election. Only Trustee Kathy Carroll chose not to run. Refreshingly, seven other citizens also threw their
Single-Stream Recycling Coming to Lyons
Beginning this month, Boulder County residents can avoid having to sort recycling materials by type when using any of the county’s drop-off centers or transfer sites. New equipment and strategies at the Boulder County Recycling Center now allow for easier, faster and more efficient recycling operations.
Specifically, the Niwot and Lyons drop-off centers, the transfer stations in Allenspark and Nederland, and the drop-off area at the Boulder County Recycling
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BOT Approves Marijuana Moratorium
By Joseph Lekarczyk
In the interest of full disclosure, let it be known that the author of this article is married to the Mayor.
Monday night’s Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting didn’t get started until about forty-five minutes after its scheduled 7 p.m. starting time. The reason? The Trustees, staff, and about a dozen representatives and consultants from the Utilities & Engineering Board (UEB), the Sustainable Future Commission (SFC), the Colorado Energy Office
