Niwot News

Qualifications: A candidate must be a registered voter, a resident of the school district for at least 12 consecutive months before the election and a resident of the director district in which they are running to represent.

Brad Nupp, left, and Jesus Najera, of Interface Communications Co., work set a future utility pole on Friday at the intersection of Jay Road and the Diagonal Highway in Boulder County.

It started, said the co-founder, as a simple mom-and-pop optometrists' shop. And even though it's now celebrating its 40th anniversary, The Optical Centre still fits that description, even though it has been passed along to the next generation mom and pop.

Two shop owners have opened what they're calling "pop-up" stores at Twin Peaks Mall, even as the mall is scheduled for demolition before the end of the year.

Open space throughout the Boulder Valley, and the surrounding foothills and mountains, provide a natural laboratory that draws outdoor companies here, industry leaders said Tuesday morning.

Guli Rakhimova, of the group Tofakhon, dances to traditional music on Sunday. The annual Boulder Jewish Festival is a one-day celebration of Jewish culture, featuring live entertainment, fine art and Judaica, ethnic food and community organizations on the Pearl Street Mall.

As the St. Vrain Valley School District hired new administrators this spring, the salaries for assistant principals and principals raised eyebrows.

Jody Evans, of Niwot, blows bubbles while dancing as Chris Daniels and the Kings perform Friday on the opening night of the Downtown Summer Concert Series presented by the Longmont Downtown Development Authority and Longmont Recreation Services.

To the person who complained about the Longmont golf courses being in bad shape, please drive down Third Avenue by Sunset Golf Course.

At long last, the caps could fly. Five days late, sure. But that's what happens when you get in a car accident on graduation day.

A spelling bee week that began with curiosity and angst over a new vocabulary test was set to end the familiar way - with bright kids spelling difficult words under the bright lights of prime-time television.

Denver's Himanvi Kopuri and Niwot's Eva Kitlen both advanced to the semifinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Eva Kitlen, who is competing for the second time in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., holds some of her study materials, including a huge dictionary, at her Niwot home.

Brightly adorned green caps dotted the sea of Niwot High School Cougars on Saturday morning as principal Dennis Daly ushered out a class of 272 graduates who boasted impressive academic and athletic resumes.

Filming began here May 14 , when the crew used a farmhouse just east of Lyons as a location, and is expected to continue into early June.

Erie High School principal Steve Payne greets students after school Tuesday. Payne is retiring at the end of this year after 12 years as principal at Erie High School.

Our Melanie Asmar has been writing about a new film incentives law that aims to attract movie- and TV-makers to Colorado -- and in March, she revealed that Dear Eleanor , a movie produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's company , would soon start lensing here.

Dale Sherrod, second from right, chats with Frederick High School's Stephanie Garcia, center, her mother Lissette Rivera, uncle Federoco Hernandez, and cousin Alejandro Hernandez after the 2013 Scholarship and Community Service Awards, hosted by the Longmont Community Foundation on Monday.