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Best of the West: Readers’ Poll [Health & Wellness]
You all voted; we listened. Health and wellness is important to us Boulderites, and this is the best there is, according to you lovely readers.
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Lafayette
This Month in Coalfield History: The Spanish Flu Epidemic
In Lafayette’s coal mining days, diseases rushed through towns like a flash flood. Extended families lived in small cottages, using chamber pots and outhouses instead of indoor sewer systems. Vaccinations were uncommon, and while the existence of germs was…
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Timeline of Progress: Boulder County | Home & Hood
I’m sure you’ve heard that Rome wasn’t built in a day. Neither was Colorado. At the risk of adage abuse, I’ve also heard told, everyone’s on their way to Colorado. Some just take longer to get here. This timeline is…
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Tales of the Northern Coal Field: When Mrs. Nixon Came To Town
Tales of the Northern Coal Field: When Mrs. Nixon Came To Town On March 4, 1970, at 2:20 PM, secret service agents swarmed around Lafayette Elementary. The front parking lot was packed with two hundred onlookers, news reporters, and law enforcement.…
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2017 Locavore Holiday Guide
Boulder ZUNI A certified member of the Indian Arts and Crafts Association, Zuni offers stunning Native American arts from across the Southwest. What Zuni does, providing a place for these artists, is extremely important in a tourist, materialist culture that…
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Tales of the Northern Coal Field: Coal-Country Gridiron
On December 10th, 1937, Lafayette High School won the state football championship. This December marks the 80th anniversary of their win, the most celebrated athletic achievement in Lafayette history.
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Roasted Veggies. Yum!
Roasting is one of the simplest and oldest ways of cooking. Fall is prime roasted vegetable season. Warming up the house with a hot oven starts to sound like a good idea as temps drop and our bodies crave something…
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Switchboard Saviors
IN 1921, A FLOODED LAFAYETTE STAYED CONNECTED THANKS TO AN ALL- FEMALE CREW OF PHONE OPERATORS. Coal Creek travels over 30 miles, from Coal Creek canyon in the Front Range, down into the Boulder Valley. The towns of the Northern…
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Hood Guide: 8 North Metro Neighborhoods
New Urbanism,” much like art movements or political philosophies with hybrid names — Postmodernism or Neoconservativism, Classical Realism or ProtoFascism —is a compound “ism” that would likely lead to blank stares if you dropped it matter-of-factly in casual conversation. But…
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