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...
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,...
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....
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...
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....
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...
GILPIN COUNTY - At the January 14 meeting of the Gilpin County Commissioners, The Mountain-Ear (TME) and the Weekly Register-Call (WRC) performed their annual dance/duel in competition to be the newspaper of record for Gilpin County. As you will...
Dear Editor, I keep hearing people "complain" that we don't have a "local" police department. As a full-time resident, I would like to praise the efforts that have been shown here by the Boulder County Sheriff's Office. They are trained far more...
Nederland NEDERLAND - Today I sit at the Nederland office, working on some ideas for 2025, thinking about our accomplishments in 2024 as a TEAM. The year started off with a lot of enthusiasm for new projects and to continue projects...
Dear Editor, In the Republican frenzy to slash our government, control our reproductive lives, pass big tax cuts, cut the welfare state supports, and starve the federal government, they also want to de-regulate everything. What does that...
Dear Editor, Happy New Year Nederland Community! That means all of you, and I want to celebrate the very special community we collectively are. I want to give a special shout out to Dan and Susan Ball for showing us a beautiful example of...
BLACK HAWK - For over three decades I have made empty promises to myself and others about how much I am going to change in the new year. How I’m going to drink less, exercise more, walk the dog more, clean my house more, be a better mom, be a...
Dear Editor, I was saddened to read of Sue Henry’s passing in this week’s paper. Sue was a treasure for the county, always willing to share her vast range of knowledge for the benefit of Gilpin...
Dear Editor, An old friend and I were reminiscing about the “good-ole-days” – varied topics and memories woven, without symmetry, covering the period beginning around 1952 when we were classmates in pre-first (now known as kindergarten), in the...
NEDERLAND - I do think Christmas is a wonderful time of the year. I love the music and I start listening to it earlier than most people. From the pop Holiday tunes to the hymns, I love it all. Can you believe Wham’s “Last Christmas” is 40 years...
DENTON, TEXAS - It’s Chrismukkah this year. Twice in eight years! That’s twice, when Hanukkah and Christmas occur at the same time. This year, Hanukkah starts on the night of December 25. I forget what the overlap was in 2016. All my long...
Dear Editor, We’re facing a dark and ominous time. Americans have handed unfettered power to a vengeful, deranged individual and his cronies. It seems that everything we treasure is under assault: they intend to hasten environmental collapse, to...