Anniversary Issue
Christin Evans, North Boulder Lucky’s Market staff member, on building community
Grocery store workers have always had a tough job, often logging long hours, on their feet, sometimes dealing with unruly customers. Of course the...
‘A part of the legacy and the lineage’
There’s an annual tradition where new graduates from the University of Colorado line up outside The Sink to ink their signature onto the ceiling....
Celebrating 27 years of local, independent journalism
For the last several years, Boulder Weekly has celebrated its anniversary by shining a light on the unsung heroes in our community. Over the...
Feeding the front lines
In the early days of the pandemic lockdowns, Paul Chansingthong asked a friend — a nurse at Life Care Center in Longmont — how...
26 years of no-holds-barred, independent journalism in Boulder County
For the last few years, Boulder Weekly has celebrated its anniversary by shining a light on the unsung heroes in our community. Over the...
‘To be a useful being and to make positive change’
I
love being a human,” Ava Hamilton says. “I love being alive, and I love the
Earth. I want everyone to love the Earth instead of...
Michelle McParland relied on constant communication to get Frasier retirement community...
For the staff and residents at Frasier retirement community in Boulder, it’s Michelle McParland’s commitment to communication that makes her a hero.
That’s because for...
A different walk to death
Some might call Jane Anderson’s path to death work, as she calls it, a circuitous one — starting with a bachelor’s degree in Asian...
So we struggle on
While
he was walking to volunteer at a soup kitchen in Denver a few years ago, Phil
Barber ran into one of his first pro bono...
André Houssney
From where he stood in the Boulder neighborhood near Indian Hills, André Houssney could see houses burning in every direction—in the foreground, the mid-ground...
Local educators share how they help students and their families through...
Even though Katie Miles has been teaching for 10 years, nothing could have prepared her for how teaching would change in light of a...
Annika Spilde
After class on a Thursday afternoon, Annika Spilde orders a latte at Trident Cafe. Wearing a black-and-white checkered skirt, jean jacket and ankle-high black...
