Amy Bounds

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Amy Bounds

Amy Bounds covers K-12 education for the Daily Camera and Times-Call, plus some early childhood and local government stories. She first joined the Times-Call in 1997 after graduating with a journalism degree from the University of Colorado Boulder. She's lived in Colorado since she was 12, growing up in Littleton. When not writing, she's a marching band mom, rescue dog mom and unpaid Uber driver for her teen sons.

Steven Truesdale, left, and Ray Middleton test ride a tandem bike they were working on at the Boulder Valley Velodrome in Erie on Oct. 22, 2014.

Supporters making last push to save Erie鈥檚 Boulder Valley Velodrome

December 22, 2019 at 8:59 p.m.

Supporters of the Boulder Valley Velodrome, the Erie cycling track that has been up for sale for two years, are making one last push to find investors to buy it...

Anti-Semitic propaganda distributed on Boulder鈥檚 Pearl Street Mall

November 3, 2019 at 4:26 p.m.

A group of men, posing as Jews, distributed and posted anti-Semitic propaganda on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall around 10:30 p.m. Saturday night, according to social media posts.

Aubrey Lockhart teaches a kindergarten class at Heatherwood Elementary School in Boulder on Friday.

BVSD piloting dyslexia screening tool

October 27, 2019 at 12:45 p.m.

Boulder Valley School District is planning to pilot a dyslexia screening tool starting in the spring in a move being praised by local dyslexia advocates.

Boulder music journalist Wendy Kale to be posthumously inducted in Colorado Music Hall of Fame

October 22, 2019 at 11:22 a.m.

Longtime Colorado Daily music writer Wendy Kale, a fixture of Boulder鈥檚 rock clubs for decades and a staunch supporter of homegrown music, will be posthumously inducted into the Colorado Music...

N1017UND13.JPG The pedestrian under pass from the Hill to the University of Colorado campus. Cliff Grassmick/ October 16, 2008

University of Colorado Boulder investigating verbal altercation with racial slurs

October 6, 2019 at 10:31 p.m.

The University of Colorado Boulder is investigating a verbal altercation between students that included racial slurs, according to a statement from CU system President Mark Kennedy.

LAFAYETTE, CO – MAY 26, 2019: Firefighters work to clean up the scene of a structure fire caused by a truck that crashed into the house on Sunday in Lafayette. (Photo by Jeremy Papasso/Staff Photographer)

Man drives truck into Lafayette house, setting truck and house on fire

May 26, 2019 at 6:37 p.m.

鈥婣 man drove his truck into his ex-girlfriend鈥檚 house Sunday afternoon in 鈥媡he 300 block of Simpson Street in Lafayette, setting the truck and house on fire, according to Lafayette...

Skiers ride the lift up the mountain to ski at Eldora Mountain Resort in Nederland.

6-year-old girl injured in 40-foot fall from Eldora chairlift

February 25, 2019 at 1:07 p.m.

A 6-year-old Boulder girl fell about 40 feet from Eldora's Sundance Ski Lift around 1 p.m. Sunday, according to the Boulder County Sheriff's Office.

In a recent report, a White House memo misspelled "attacker" or "attackers" as "attaker" or "attakers" 27 times, San Bernardino lost its second "r," and "Denmark" became "Denmakr."

Child with autism discriminated against by St. Vrain Valley schools, complaint alleges

February 20, 2019 at 10:53 p.m.

The mother of a 10-year-old Latina girl with autism has filed an Office for Civil Rights complaint alleging the St. Vrain Valley School District discriminated against her daughter.

First grader Sebastian Carvajal samples a quesadilla con calabacitas on Nov. 16 at Sanchez Elementary in Lafayette. Boulder Valley School District is is seeing a resurgence of Latino parent activism. The quesadilla along with other changes to lunch menus is an example of how that involvement is taking shape at the school level.

Boulder Valley schools seeing resurgence of Latino parent activism

January 13, 2019 at 2:40 p.m.

Latino parent leaders from Lafayette were concerned when they noticed their students more frequently coming home from school hungry.

Police tape stretches across a street in Denver's Montbello neighborhood as police investigate a missing 7-year-old boy's disappearance.

Boulder police arrest man for attempted first-degree murder

December 2, 2018 at 7:56 p.m.

Boulder police arrested Joshua Male, 40, on suspicion of attempted murder after police said he assaulted his girlfriend Saturday under the bridge near Goose Creek Path and Foothills Parkway.

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Supporters making last push to save Erie鈥檚 Boulder Valley Velodrome

Anti-Semitic propaganda distributed on Boulder鈥檚 Pearl Street Mall

BVSD piloting dyslexia screening tool

Boulder music journalist Wendy Kale to be posthumously inducted in Colorado Music Hall of Fame

Man drives truck into Lafayette house, setting truck and house on fire

6-year-old girl injured in 40-foot fall from Eldora chairlift

Child with autism discriminated against by St. Vrain Valley schools, complaint alleges

Boulder Valley schools seeing resurgence of Latino parent activism

Boulder police arrest man for attempted first-degree murder