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Great Roads To Great Chefs
If you love dining in fine restaurants and enjoying the wonderful foods great chefs prepare, The Stanley Hotel is launching a new culinary series, Great Roads to Great Chefs. This eleven weekend series will feature the nation’s most promising chefs, the
Read more: Great Roads To Great ChefsAbout Town - January 30, 2014
Another week gone by, and we are getting some snow. We do need snow, but this year we are especially leery about the spring runoff. Work is going on in the rivers to block the water from homes and about town. A real worry!
GOOD NEWS FROM THE IRS: Mike Crumpert, the Lyons FEMA representative responded to my question: “I asked FEMA’S Individual Assistance Department to
Lyons Boy’s Basketball
By Matt Smith
Editors Note: Matt Smith is a student at Lyons High School, and has agreed to cover the boys’ basketball games for the rest of the season, and the boys’ baseball games this coming spring. We appreciate his contributions to the Lyons Recorder
On Tuesday, January 21, the Lyons Lions who are having a fairly tough season, played host to the Platte Valley Broncos. Before the game it was announced that Lyons and the
Unlikely Road Win For Lyons
By Katie Johjak
The Lady Lions (3-9) broke a five game losing streak with an unlikely non-conference road win last week. They put everything on the line in a game that had the Dawson Mustangs (8-3) predicted to handily beat the Lions. It was a team effort that had everyone contributing to the point total, and working
What’s New In Lyons?
Starting on the west side of town as you head up to Estes Park, Main Street Auto & Tire is under new ownership and management. Longtime Lyons resident Art Dudley has taken over running the garage (505 Main Street across from the entrance to Planet Bluegrass). Selling
Electric Rates are Going Up
By Joseph Lekarczyk
In the interest of full disclosure, let it be known that the author of this article is married to the Mayor.
Correction: In the Board of Trustees article of two weeks ago (January 9), I inadvertently left out the word “not” when reporting that Trustee Dan Greenberg expressed concern about the impact a contemplated electric base rate user fee increase would have on users who were currently in their homes. The sentence should have read, “not currently in their homes.” I apologize to Trustee Greenberg and our readers for any confusion and misunderstanding this caused. Joseph Lekarczyk, Editor – The Lyons Recorder
Considering there was a public hearing on a purposed electric base rate increase on the agenda, there wasn’t much of a crowd at Tuesday night’s Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting.
Library Board Ponders Future
The Lyons Regional Library District Board of Trustees will hold its initial 2014 meeting on Thursday, February 6, at 6 p.m., at Town Hall. All board meetings are open to the public. At this meeting the board will discuss the possibility of proceeding with a second vote (on
Myths
To the Editor, Lyons Recorder:
As all who care about the Town of Lyons work towards post-flood restoration, I hear certain assumptions repeated. Some of these are myths and not reality. The sooner we discard
We Need to Maintain Our Path
Dear Lyons Community,
I moved to Lyons thirty years ago, to be part of seeing if we could build a community where we could have a community that balanced the quality of life, and economic prosperity, with a stewardship of the environment. Knowing that this would best be accomplished by a
