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Chauncey Billups to play in the 3rd annual "Hoops for Hope"

Adam’s Camp announced today that they are teaming up with Partners in Pediatrics (PIP) again to host Hoops for Hope, a basketball/entertainment event to raise funds for the children, youth and families of Adam’s Camp and Chauncey Billups is joining the team for this third annual event, expected to draw up to 1000 in attendance.

LEAP Helps With Heating Bills

As cold temperatures continue across Colorado, help is available for Boulder County residents who struggle to pay their winter heating bills. LEAP, the Low-income Energy Assistance Program, is accepting applications now through April 30.

LEAP assists low-income residents with covering the costs of heating their homes. The program is designed to pay the highest benefit to

Creating Connections - Diversity Training

Boulder County will conduct a free diversity training seminar for executive directors and current board members on Wednesday, January 28, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Longmont Community Foundation Center (636 Coffman Street, Suite 203). This training will focus on

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About Town - January 22, 2015

In the interest of full disclosure, let it be known that the author of this column is an elected official. The opinions stated here are hers, and do not necessarily reflect those of the entire Board of Trustees.

Here it is, another week gone by. A lot of good music in town always; at Oskar Blues, The Fork, The Stone Cup, Spirit Hound Distillery, and others. You are always invited to attend and enjoy.

HOUSING
The Town of Lyons is getting lined up for the sixty recovery homes on a portion of Bohn Park, although a vote is still required. It is indeed a challenge to give up a part of that beautiful park, but what else? I do want to compliment members of the Housing Replacement Task Force

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Lions Lose To Huskies - Beat Warriors

By Kari Basey
The Lyons High School Varsity boys basketball team lost to undefeated Highland 71 to 80 last week. The nine-point margin was significantly better than when the two teams played earlier this season. Shea Gilman and Zach Christiansen led the Lions in scoring with twenty-three

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Lady Lions Fall Short

The Lyons girls’ basketball team fell short last week with back-to-back losses, and their record for the year now stands at two wins and eight losses. The young Lyons squad couldn’t quite find a rhythm as a team, and started slow in both games. The squad will need to find a little

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How Do They Do It? - Gold Hill

Lyons Preparedness

By Emily Gubler
How have our neighboring mountain communities organized around preparedness? We are fortunate to have several examples to look to and learn from. For this article I interviewed Amy Hardy about Gold Hill’s Neighbor Link program. I started off by asking Hardy: What inspired Gold

Town of Lyons Receives LCF Grant Award for AED Units

By Sally Van Meter
In October of 2014, I had a conversation with Kyle Miller (Public Works Director for Town of Lyons) about Automated External Defibrillator (AED) units, and the result of that conversation was that I sat down and wrote a grant proposal to the Lyons Community Foundation,

BOT Goes With BoCo Housing

The normal Monday night meeting for the Board of Trustees (BOT) was held on Tuesday this week to accommodate the legal holiday celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday. A full agenda got considerably thinner when two applications for business licenses for medical and

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