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Stage 1 FIRE BAN in place

Effective Thursday, June 17, 2021, at 12 p.m., Stage 1 fire restrictions are effective for all of Gilpin County. For details on restrictions, please visit the Gilpin County Sheriff’s Office website at https://www.gilpincountysheriff.com/firerestrictions or read below. Gilpin County FIRE RESTRICTIONS Stage 1 Prohibited Items Building, maintaining, attending, or using an open fire, campfire…

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2021-06-17

Click here to download a pdf copy of the June 17, 2021, edition of The Mountain-Ear.

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Mountain Ear Podcast Episode 23: Tim Underwood Talks the closing of Mineshaft Mercantile in Rollinsville, and local news

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NFPD Seeks New Board Director

The Nederland Fire Protection District is looking for a new director to fill a vacancy on their board of directors. Vice President Patrick Richardson resigned, effective June 20th, from the board as he will be moving outside the boundaries of the District. The board of directors consists of 5 members who represent the interests of the taxpayers of the district. The board is responsible for…

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Mountain Ear Podcast Episode 22: Music and Barbecue returns at the Stage Stop Pub, and Jamie Lammers talks the Backdoor Theatre in Ned with Guy Falsetti

In this episode, you’ll hear from Judd Kaufman of Gold Dirt Distillery and the Stage Stop Pub on some fun plans for food and music to come this summer. Listen in for a feature interview from Jamie Lammers with Guy Falsetti on the Backdoor Theatre after reopening from a 14-month hiatus. Listen in for local news, updates, specials and more.

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2021-06-10

Click here to download a pdf of the June 10, 2021, edition of The Mountain-Ear.

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David A. Weiss: 11/22/1951 to 5/2/2021

David A. Weiss, 69, of Boulder, Colorado, passed away at home on May 2, 2021, after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. David was born on November 22, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, to Betty and Robert Weiss, who both preceded him in death. He is survived by his wife Amy, son Danny, daughter Kayli, sisters Julie Murad, Kathy Weiss, Eli Weiss, niece Jihan Murad and many other…

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Belvidere Theater restoration project funds requested

Rainn Johnson, Central City. The Central City Council met on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. Mayor Jeremy Fey called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. All five council members were in attendance. The agenda was approved unanimously, with revisions – those being the deferment of Item 7 regarding the Historic Train Land Lease between the City and Z Casino, and to move Covid-19 policy updates to the Staff…

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Discover Colorado: The two Elberts

Omayra Acevedo, Elbert. Elbert is a small rural community in the eastern plains of Colorado. It was a busy business center in the middle of what has been called some of the best farms and ranches in Colorado, until a flood swept away most of the town on May 31, 1935. Like most places that have gone through their fair share of tragedies, it took several years before Elbert began blossoming once…

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Fire mitigation improves town

John Scarffe, Nederland. The Wild Bear Nature Center and the Boulder County Parks and Open Space Department (BCPOS) are participating in a fire mitigation project near Wild Bear’s property. Jill Dreves, director of the Wild Bear Center, contacted BCPOS on October 21, 2020, regarding the strip of Mud Lake Open Space between Wild Bear’s new property site and Highway 72, with concerns focused…

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High school musical awards at last!

Jamie Lammers, Nederland. In 2020, the Nederland Middle-Senior High School Music and Theater Awards were supposed to change format. Before then, the awards ceremony had been held as a separate event toward the end of the school year. For the 2019-2020 school year, music and theater director Elizabeth Evans wanted to incorporate the awards into the final choir concert of the year, allowing for…

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All that the water brings

Michelle Witte, Nederland. Pitter, patter, pitter, patter. We’ve been hearing the many sounds of rain, snow, and rushing waters of local creeks this spring. We can sometimes find ourselves yearning for nothing more than a sun-filled hot day once the resorts have closed and we feel winter has truly ended. However, part of our high elevation life comes with the unpredictable nature of the Rocky…

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Beyond Microgreens looks to the future of nutrition

Arthur DeVitalis, Peak to Peak. Founder Steven Callen started Beyond Microgreens as an effort to learn more about farming. He says that vegetable farming has been an experiment in mass-production. According to Callen, soils are depleted of nutrients, and plants grown today aren’t the same as those our grandparents ate. “You’d have to eat about four times as many vegetables today to match the…

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Extrospectives: Everything is Connected: Part II

Derek Ridgley, Peak to Peak. In his 2019 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Overstory, author Richard Powers uses a diverse mélange of characters to illuminate the crucial role that forest ecosystems play in supporting life on earth. Perhaps appropriately for environmental fiction, Powers’ book is meandering and moody, a melancholy meditation on the damage that results from humanity’s increasing…

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Read in Ned: New hours, summer programs

Janette Taylor, Nederland. Nederland Library Director Elektra Greer and the staff of the library are very excited to move into a new phase in our Covid recovery plan, starting June 1st. The Nederland Community Library was one of only three libraries in the state that remained open, though at fewer hours and patron numbers, during a time when many other libraries reduced their services to the…

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Nederland boys’ soccer season wraps up

Alex Jaffe, Nederland. The 2020-2021 Nederland Panthers boys’ soccer team played hard the entire season. They started to practice on March 8, 2021, and had their first game on the 19th, against Rocky Mt. Lutheran, and they lost 10-0. On the 30th they played against Union Colony, lost 10-0, and again on April 1st against Loveland Classical, lost 9-2. On the 6th against Champion Academy, and they…

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