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“In a shocking move, Thursday, Nederland Town Hall announced plans to incorporate into the City of Boulder.” So led the front page article of Nederland’s local weekly newspaper, the Mountain-Ear . Just the thought of such a preposterous idea led me to shudder. What??? For some local residents who didn’t…
Continue readingPOP! At first, I wasn’t sure what happened. Was the car backfiring? Did a tire blow out? No, the car seemed to functioning just the same as always. Still, I’d definitely heard a loud pop and it seemed to be coming from the rear of the car. Only upon arriving…
Continue readingTractor-trailers jack-knifed into a ditch. Small sedans sliding backwards down the hill. It’s like navigating a slalom course of cars stuck hither and yon all over the roadway. What started out as the routine commute to get home had turned into an endurance contest of navigating cars spinning out of…
Continue readingEven in the mountains… No place is exempt from potential terrorism or violence. We like to think that our small mountain town is immune to crime, that we all get along. And for the most part that is true. Reading the police reports in the local Mountain-Ear newspaper, the reports…
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