Deborah Swearingen

Boulder County reinstates indoor mask mandate

September 3, 2021 at 7:42 a.m.

Due to high levels of transmission of the coronavirus in Boulder County, people soon will be required to wear masks in indoor public spaces once again.

A dilapidated gate and barbed wire fence stand around a building on the CU Boulder South campus site in Boulder in November. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)

Draft CU South agreement outlines path forward for Boulder, University of Colorado Boulder

July 18, 2021 at 7:42 p.m.

Boulder is moving closer toward an annexation agreement that will guide the CU South project and allow for flood mitigation at the 308-acre site owned by CU Boulder.

Boulder City Council on board for more aggressive climate approach

June 13, 2021 at 5:52 p.m.

In light of the urgency of climate change, Boulder City Council is on board with city staff鈥檚 plans to adopt more aggressive climate goals and targets and to shift the...

While almost all Boulder residents agree a South Boulder Creek flood mitigation project is necessary, some harbor concerns that Boulder is not getting a good deal in its proposed CU South annexation agreement with the University of Colorado Boulder. Some also disagree on the speed at which flood mitigation work is progressing. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

Signature gathering underway for CU South initiative

May 24, 2021 at 9:18 p.m.

PLAN-Boulder County and Save South Boulder are continuing to collect signatures on a ballot measure that, if approved, would guide the annexation process for the CU South project.

Kelsey Sullivan browses through shelves of books on the first floor of the Boulder Public Library main branch on Monday. (Timothy Hurst/Staff Photographer)

Boulder City Council agrees to create tax-supported library district

May 19, 2021 at 2:29 p.m.

Bruce Norikane remembers walking the aisles of the public library as a young child, perusing the selection until he found a book that caught his eye.

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Environmental advocates sue Boulder over Rocky Mountain Greenway

May 13, 2021 at 2:58 p.m.

A group of environmental advocates and health care workers filed a lawsuit against Boulder that argues the city should have considered other alternatives and held a public hearing when it...

Red Letter Secondhand Books owner Seth ...

“The place you鈥檇 come and lose yourself”: Red Letter Books closes Pearl Street location

May 1, 2021 at 4:24 p.m.

Red Letter Secondhand Books has always been the type of store where a person can spend hours searching, only to find a book they didn鈥檛 realize they needed.

Elmar Dornberger, not pictured, displays an image of damage done by the 2013 flood to one of the bathrooms in the home he shares with his wife Laurie Dornberger, not pictured,
on Qualla Drive in south Boulder. The Dornbergers support Boulder’s plan to annex a parcel of land known as CU South that belongs to the University of Colorado Boulder. The annexation agreement would allow the city to use part of the land for flood mitigation. While almost all residents agree such mitigation is necessary, some are concerned the city is not getting a good deal and others are concerned by the pace of the mitigation work. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer)

With CU South annexation agreement inching closer, Boulder residents remain divided

April 18, 2021 at 7:15 p.m.

Disagreement about how quickly flood mitigation work at CU South should be moving and whether Boulder is getting a good deal in its agreement with CU Boulder remains.

March 22 named Boulder Day of Remembrance

April 7, 2021 at 5:38 a.m.

March 22 will forever be seared into Boulder鈥檚 collective memory as the day 10 community members were killed by a gunman at the King Soopers in south Boulder.

BOULDER COUNTY, CO – MARCH 22:Barbara Gould poses for a portrait at Coot Lake in Boulder County on Monday, March 22, 2021. Gould had COVID-19 early in the pandemic and was on a ventilator for 65 days. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

“I have a life”: Recovery continues for north Boulder resident who spent 65 days on ventilator

April 4, 2021 at 7:26 p.m.

Barbara Gould isn鈥檛 the same person she was at this time last year, when she was first hospitalized with COVID-19.

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