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The great thing about Valentine’s Day is that, much like any holiday, you don’t have to celebrate it unless you want to. However, if you’re single and are looking for ways to celebrate love, here are a few ideas to get you started. First, remind...

BLACK HAWK - Often I find myself wondering about love. I can't imagine there is anyone out there that doesn't ponder this. There are so many kinds of love. Love of a parent, a child, a friend, a lover, a spouse, a beloved pet and more. This week,...

In the house I grew up in, love was something you had to work for; it came with conditions or contingencies. In that town, Darien, Connecticut, love was a new car or a diamond necklace. And though I never fully absorbed those ideals, I still spent...

Dear Editor, In a time of threats, theft of our national resources and risks not only to our national security but our personal lives, Senator Bennet is stepping up. Last week’s confirmation hearings of Russian sympathizer Tulsi Gabbard and...

Ready, shoot, aim!

Dear Editor, Donald Trump’s impulse to politicize the tragedy from the airplane collision with the Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan International Airport is sad, yet predictable. He blames others, but there is evidence that he is at least...

Dear Editor, We are at 94% of our $5,000 goal! We are asking the community and local businesses to help us raise the last $300. There are two days left! The fundraiser ends at midnight on February 7. What is After Prom? Nederland “After Prom” is...

Peak Perspectives Remembering Chip

A man of character. A man dedicated to his family and community. Hearing about the loss of our friend Chip Smith weighs heavy on our hearts. The memories of our time with Chip will always be a part of our lives.  How wonderful it was to work...

The party of law and order?

The party of law and order? Dear Editor, The latest outrage by the new administration is the pardoning of 1500 rioters who stormed the Capital on January 6. About 600 of these rioters were convicted of serious crimes of violence against the...

Dear Editor, Climate change is putting our health at risk, and we are feeling its effects now. Have you ever felt the fear and helplessness of not being able to breathe during an asthma attack? I did just this weekend - and found myself in the...

Dear Editor, The overwhelming generosity of the people of Nederland​, helped provide joy to children in need through Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts this season. Across the U.S., the Samaritan's Purse project collected 10.5 million...

Bring Blue Owl back

Bring Blue Owl back Dear Editor, Blue Owl Bookstore in Nederland lost two thirds of its inventory last week when a water issue on the floor above them caused flooding throughout the store. It's a devastating blow to the small, family-owned and...

Dear Editor, We hope the first few weeks of your new year have been filled with love, laughter, family, and joy. As we continue to hold on to these blistering cold temps here in Coal Creek Canyon. We thought what better way to warm you up than by...

Peak Perspectives: Overcoming loss

This Monday, January 27, I received a call to unlock our music store so the property folks could check it out for a leak. I was thankful to pull up to the door and find our friend Asher Hughes standing there with a spare set of keys,...

Possible correction?

Dear Editor, In your coverage of the meeting of the DDA, the headline read that emotions ran high at the DDA meeting. I did miss part of the discussion about the concert series. Perhaps emotions ran high during the part of the meeting I missed....

Thank you Denise Boehler

Dear Editor, Kudos to Denise Boehler. I'd like to acknowledge her contributions to The Mountain-Ear, and to our community. We all love our four legged companions, both domestic and wild, and Denise has long been a fierce advocate for the rights...

PEAK TO PEAK – However you think of the new administration in Washington, there are changes taking place that will affect us. One thing is dramatically clear: there is little attention paid to Main Street in the new plans, and much power given to...

Drain the swamp, indeed!

Dear Editor, I wonder if all the hoopla about the US talking Denmark into giving us Greenland or taking the Panama Canal is just a smoke screen, designed to deflect Americans attention away from the outrageous cabinet picks Trump has made, or the...

Dear Editor, Here we sit, comfortably debating what’s wrong—or even if something is wrong. Imagine being born into this world twenty, forty, or sixty years from now. People then will wish like hell that those alive today had acted differently....

On the Wolf Reintroduction Program

Dear Editor,  As a lifelong wolf lover, I voted against the Wolf Reintroduction Program in Colorado. It is, despite our best human intentions, a cruelty against animals. Many of the few reintroduced have been tragically shot with the hatred...

Dear Editor, It is an easy 1.5-mile winter hike through forest threatened by impending logging—including old-growth!—adjacent to Nederland’s Big Springs neighborhood in Boulder County Open Space and Roosevelt National Forest. See for yourself the...

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