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Smart teachers: Charlie Garcia

August 21, 2012 Like 2 Andra Coberly

Charlie Garcia Erie Elementary: Fourth Grade Charlie Garcia started teaching in Erie the day Elvis died. Thirty-five years later, the town has grown substantially: the old town streets have been paved and new suburban neighborhoods continue to envelope its historic…

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Smart Teachers: Andre Adeli

August 21, 2012 Like 2 Andra Coberly

Andre Adeli Boulder Prep: Principal & civics Andre Adeli’s summer school civics class at Boulder Prep High School is weird. The students call Adeli, who is both a teacher and the headmaster of the Gunbarrel charter, by his first name.…

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Boulder Gets Fashionable

August 21, 2012 Like 0 Monica Arevalo

Fall is a very fashionable time of year. Especially in New York, when the city becomes a runway for the best designers in the country during New York Fashion Week. Although Boulder was once dubbed one of the worst dressed…

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How to Shop Smarter With Your Smartphone

August 21, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Chances are, you’re as tethered to your smartphone as the next guy or gal, incessantly texting, browsing and emailing throughout the day. But chances are equally high that you’re not using that smartphone as well as you might to save…

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Bare Necessities

August 21, 2012 Like 1 Greg Campbell

To hear Bob Pierce describe it, the scene inside the Boulder County Courthouse on Tuesday, July 19, was pretty bizarre. It all started when his wife Cathy was prevented by a sheriff’s deputy from entering the courthouse. She was clad…

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Q&A with Sheriff Joe Pelle

August 21, 2012 Like 1 Greg Campbell

Bookended by historic blazes on the north and the south, Boulder’s Flagstaff Fire ignited on the same day that Colorado Springs’ Waldo Canyon fire exploded, eventually destroying more than 200 homes. Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle, the county’s fire warden…

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Barely a Bronze Medal in Education

August 21, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

With the Olympics dovetailing nicely with August’s typical back-to-school frenzy, we thought it would be a good time to see how the old “U-S-A” stacks up against the rest of the world in the gold-medal competition of educational spending and…

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The Month in Review

August 21, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

The Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs was the worst in the state’s history, destroying 248 homes and killing two; investigators still don’t know the cause. June was the hottest month on record in Colorado and the first six months…

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The Good Apples

August 21, 2012 Like 0 Andra Coberly

I’ve seen a lot in my nearly 31 years of life. As a reporter, you end up being a witness to a lot of crazy stuff. I’ve watched undocumented immigrants being pulled onto buses as their families watched, tears streaming…

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The Bolder Life: Happiness Is…

August 16, 2012 Like 0 Tyra Sutak

Some people find happiness at the bottom of a giant bowl of triple fudge ice cream. Others define happiness by the amount of extra zeros on their paycheck. For me, happiness…