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Wrapping meaning in fun
The lobby of the Museum of Outdoor Arts (MOA) in Englewood is bright with natural light, but a few steps past the ticket counter,...
Why take an ‘off-ramp’ to nowhere?
In recent months our community has focused on whether or not Boulder should keep its municipal electric option. Voters will decide the issue this...
Astrology 7/16/20
ARIES
March 21-April 19: “If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time,” wrote Aries educator and activist Dorothy Height. This approach...
Get in a hot tub, get healthy
Back in the Middle Ages, when public health, immunization and plumbing weren’t realities of daily life, things like feces, urine and butchered animal’s blood and guts would be left out in the streets. The black plague would soon follow...
Can new home construction fit with a sustainable economy?
The burst of the housing bubble in 2007 shined a spotlight on the big weak spot in economics: human behavior...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…
EVENTS
Lyons Garden Club Mountain Blooms Garden Tour. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, June 18, Sandstone Park, 350 Broadway St., Lyons. Suggested $5-$20 per person donation,...
Shifting seasons
As fall harvests wind down, some backyard gardeners may think the work is at an end. But local agricultural experts agree that there are several steps that should be taken to make next year’s growing season even more bountiful. Or even prolong the current yield...
Cottage foods 2.0
The 2012 Colorado Cottage Foods Act was supposed to allow farmers and entrepreneurs the opportunity to make foods in their home kitchens and sell them to consumers, offering farmers an extra revenue stream and entrepreneurs a testing ground for business ideas...
Pigskin preview
Buffs aim for a better season There is an ugly wreck in Ralphie’s rear-view mirror. Colorado football has suffered through seven consecutive losing seasons, three recent coaching changes and the indignity of a one-win season. New head coach Mike MacIntyre, the ...
Get out
The National Park Trust has dubbed May 19 National Kids to Parks Day, a day when they invite every family in America to visit a national, state or local park. Their slogan, which is touted by their mascot, Buddy Bison, is simple — “Explore outdoors, the parks are ...
Zero-waste checklist
• Reusable shopping bags — Eco-Cycle recommends the ChicoBag because it is made from 99 percent recycled materials and because plastic shopping bags are bad for the environment when they are manufactured and disposed of improperly...
