Tag: Lyons
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Traffic cameras coming to U.S. 36 with St. Vrain Canyon fiber link
The Colorado Department of Transportation is now able to tap into previously installed fiber-optic network through St. Vrain Canyon to connect traffic cameras that can quickly alert first-responders to disasters like flooding, fire and rock falls. In 1976, flash flooding in Big Thompson Canyon killed 144 people and destroyed hundreds of homes. In 2013, days…
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Man on the run after armed robbery in Lyons on Friday
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A man is on the run after robbing cash from a convenience store in Lyons on Friday evening. The suspect is described by witnesses as a white man in his early 20s, according to a news release from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office. He was…
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1 dead, 5 structures impacted by Stone Canyon fire near Lyons
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One person died and at least five structures were impacted by the Stone Canyon Fire near Lyons, according to a Wednesday morning update from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office. Lyons, which is normally buzzing with visitors and traffic as a gateway town to Rocky Mountain…
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The Denver Gazette’s holiday gift guide: 20 Colorado-made ideas
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save We tend to think the best gifts come from the heart. It’s the thought that counts, indeed. And it’s the thought we find so admirable among our fellow Coloradans. The authenticity. The ingenuity. The craftsmanship. The sort of pioneering spirit that built this state. It’s…
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Since 1929, this Colorado family has perfected the cherry pie | Craving Colorado
LYONS • A sweet smell drifts through the sweetest memories of Anthony Lehnert. He’s transported to an old home in the Wisconsin countryside, a converted school house where there always seemed to be a pie in his grandma’s oven. “You could smell that burnt apple when you woke up,” Lehnert recalls. Now, you can smell…
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Donation marks momentum for bike path along notorious highway in Colorado
Boulder County is one step closer to realizing a long-envisioned bike path along a popular, notorious roadway. Nonprofit Cyclists 4 Community recently announced a $30,000 donation to the county to help pay for a feasibility study that could pave the way for a bike lane along the North Foothills Highway. That’s the stretch of U.S.…
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Colorado Highway 7 between Lyons, Allenspark officially reopens this weekend
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Department of Transportation, the U.S. Forest Service, the Federal Highway Administration and Kiewit Infrastructure on Thursday announced the completion of the last recovery project for the catastrophic floods that hit the Front Range in 2013 Highway 7 through St. Vrain Canyon, west of…
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Several hundred dead fish found in North St. Vrain Creek after gas spill near Lyons
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As Colorado Parks and Wildlife continues to assess damages to the North St. Vrain Creek after last week’s gasoline tanker spill, several hundred dead fish have been identified in the past few days. The gasoline…
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Several fish killed after tanker crashes, spills up to 1,000 gallons of gas near Lyons
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Highway 36 will be closed during daylight hours for the next several days as crews work to clean up a major gasoline spill from a rolled tanker near Lyons that resulted in an extensive fish kill. The tanker rolled aboiut noon Tuesday on Highway 36…
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Boulder County restaurant loses business license, liquor license over COVID-19 health order violations
Boulder County’s Lyons Den Restaurant & Tap House had its business license revoked after the restaurant continuously violated the county’s COVID-19 public health orders. Following more than four hours of discussion, the Lyons Town Board of Trustees voted 4-3 to revoke the restaurant’s business license and suspend its liquor license late Monday night. Despite Boulder…