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Brightwood Music Offers Bright New Music Store in Lyons

by Chibo Acevedo

Over the past year musicians in Nederland have noticed a slight ease of stress. I couldn’t count how many times I’ve seen a guy or gal hustling all over the bar asking everybody they can think of if they have any extra strings, a drum key, a mic cable, a saxophone reed, or any number of other little musical necessities that tend to creep up at a gig. That ease came with the opening of Brightwood Music

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Help Create a Botanic Garden In Lyons

We have a dream; a dream to create a botanical garden for the community of Lyons and visitors from Colorado and beyond. If you would like to learn more about this project, visit us during the Lyons Studio Tour at our plant and t-shirt sale, Saturday, May 21, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in front of Steamboat Mountain Foods on the corner of High Street and Fifth Avenue/Highway. (Note: we can only accept cash and checks at this time.)

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“Sketch-A-Palooza” Goes For A Guinness World Record

If you’d like to be part of an official Guinness World Record, then mark your calendar! On Saturday, June 25, during this year’s Good Old Days celebration, a large group of Lyons residents will be attempting to set the Guinness World Record for the most people drawing an Etch-A-Sketch simultaneously.

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Lions Club To Host Annual Golf Tournament

The Lyons Lions Club will host their 17th annual golf tournament on Monday, July 25, at the Lake Valley Country Club off Highway 36 between Lyons and Boulder. This is a great opportunity to support the

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Pedal Pusher’s Protection Plan

by Helen Colella
The Lyons Recorder

It’s a beautiful day and the kids are home from school - a perfect time for a family bike ride. But before you and the kids rush out and start pedaling, there’s another factor other than the weather that you need to consider – safety. And it has to start at an early age because children start cycling when they are very young. Think back…

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Welcome to Tech Talk

Bob: Hi! Welcome to Tech Talk With Bob and Lee.

Lee: Hi! We think we're as entertaining as those guys that talk about cars.

Bob: Except we talk about technology.

Lee: Its harder to make tech funny because so many people are tortured by it.

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BOT passes MMJ Ordiances

by Joseph Lekarczyk

In the interest of full disclosure, let it be known that the author of this article is married to the Mayor.

It is often said that, “politics makes for strange bedfellows.” And when you have John Burke stating in a public meeting that, “I am embarrassed to admit this, but I agree with Mike Whipp,” and you have Trustees LaVern Johnson and Ed Bruder voting against support for

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Opposition

To The Community:
On April 11, the Parks and Recreation Commission recommended to the Town Board of Trustees to further develop Bohn Park by upgrading some current facilities and equipment and by adding a new ball field. I am opposed to that portion of the recommendation relating to the construction of a new ball field and am requesting the BOT not approve it.

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One Slip Backwards Can Kill The Whole Deal

Dear Community,
It takes only one slug, one rotten spot in a pumpkin to kill the entire fruit of the seed planted. From that moment on there is no return to the value placed in planting the seed, its embodied positive energy and promise. Yet the green bean has the ability to become rotten here & there without infecting the rest of the plant. Its isolated attack between two beans can be sliced for remaining parts in a favored recipe, enjoying a garden-to-table meal like no other. You may get the impression this is about food, seeds, gardening.

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