Niwot garden grows produce for Lucile’s restaurants

It doesn’t take long once you meet Judy Richards to understand that she is a student of life — literally. Take, for example, the time she tried to put a fence around the back yard of her old house on 26th Street in Boulder and ran up against lawyers for the power company that had [...]

Longmont teen graduates from instability to success

Daniel Vigil is more than a survivor. He’s also an achiever. That’s because ever since he can remember, this quiet, brown-eyed 18 year old has been working to get himself into a situation better than the one in which he was raised. Vigil spent most of his life bouncing from living with his mom to [...]

Dawson senior has already made her mark in the world

Actually, Shevins already has been hard at work to improve the lives of folks both locally and in Africa. In fact, she’s got more than 500 hours of community service under her belt.

Nothing patchwork about interfaith quilting project

Sure enough, they made so much money that first year the group decided to keep going and became known as the Interfaith Quilters of Longmont. On Friday and Saturday, the group will hold its 24th annual Quilt Show & Sale at First Lutheran Church in Longmont.

Sweet desire: Art, Italian heritage infuse Longmont woman’s custom chocolates

When some people sleep, they dream about faraway places or stresses at work.

But when Vanessa Metalli Dionne’s head hits the pillow, sleep tends to take her into the kitchen, where she dreams about combinations of spices and ingredients that might taste delicious in her chocolates.

Vanessa Metalli Dionne uses her artistic background, Italian heritage — even her dreams — to create her Desiderio Chocolates. Julie Fowler photo

Those nighttime concoctions have resulted in some award-winning recipes, too, working to the advantage of her real-life business, Desiderio Chocolates.

Italian born and raised, Dionne says she’s been creating recipes for nearly as long as she can remember. The Italian system of high school, which is different than in the United States, allowed her to focus her education on art.

Niwot students adopt families for holidays

Niwot High School freshman Devon Wright admits that sometimes teenagers earn their reputation as being lazy and self-centered. But she and a group of her fellow International Baccalaureate – IB, for short – students want folks to know that most kids aren’t that way. For the third year in a row, all four NHS IB [...]

564 games later: After 47 years, pinochle club – and friendships – still strong

Most of us may think of pinoch´le as an old-fashioned and compli´cated card game played by past generations. But for one group of Longmont area women, it’s the thread that has bound their worlds together for almost half a century. “We all had small children and felt like we needed a social out´let,” says Leota [...]

Hands on: Guild supports weavers, quilters, felters, even basket makers

Little did Bickell know that one wool spinning class would lead to raising “too many” sheep, three goats and one llama on Maplecroft, her picturesque farm off 75th Street in eastern Boulder County, all in the name of art