| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.08.2025 | VR Revolutionizes Pilot Training: Loft Dynamics Secures $24M to Reshape Aviation Safety | Loft Dynamics secured $24M in Series B funding, revolutionizing pilot training with advanced VR simulators. Led by Friedkin, with Alaska Airlines joining, this round brings total funding to $60M. The capital will expand commercial airline o... |
| 21.08.2025 | Loft Dynamics raises $24M Series B to redefine pilot training with VR simulators | Swiss VR Flight training company Loft Dynamics has raised a $24 million Series B funding round led by Friedkin with participation from Alaska Airlines and existing shareholders Sky Dayton and Craft Ventures, as well as UP.Partners.
The roun... |
| 19.05.2025 | Is Fixed Wireless Access the next big thing? | - |
| 19.08.2023 | EarthLink Acquires One Ring Networks | EarthLink, an Atlanta, GA-based internet service provider delivering access to homes and small businesses and a Trive portfolio company, acquired One Ring Networks, an Athens, Texas-based Fixed Wireless provider of voice and data services.
... |
| 22.05.2023 | Judge Stops Plan to Bulldoze LA's Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve | Owl living in LA's Ballona Wetlands. Photo courtesy Jonathan Coffin
Egrets in LA's Ballona Wetlands. Photo courtesy Jonathan Coffin
Succession Actor James Cromwell denounced bulldozing plan for Ballona Wetlands.
Judge sides with opponents o... |
| 28.12.2022 | A Nuclear Warhead Stolen Off a US Ship in Yokosuka, Japan for Humanitarian Reasons? The Siren Sea: A Novel by Brian R. Pellar | "A fresh tale, from a fresh, accomplished writer" -- Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List
"The way to do it is by stealing a weapon in a place so sensitive, so outrageous, it will cause an enormous upheaval of emotion ... |
| 16.12.2022 | The Siren Sea By Brian R. Pellar Is "A Fresh Tale From A Fresh, Accomplished Writer" (Thomas Keneally, Author of Schindler's List) | "The way to do it is by stealing a weapon in a place so sensitive, so outrageous, it will cause an enormous upheaval of emotion and pain. Enough so that even if the military tries to cover it up, it couldn't -- the public outcry would ... |
| 21.09.2022 | Earthlink Reaches ‘Tentative’ Settlement with Filmmakers to End Piracy Liability Lawsuit | A group of litigious filmmakers, headed by Voltage Pictures, is pulling out all the stops to hold Internet providers liable for pirating customers.
The movie companies own the rights to well-known movies such as “Ava”, “I Feel Pretty” and “... |
| 22.07.2022 | MJ Harvest Announces 5 Year Lease Agreement in Cathedral City California for Manufacturing and Distribution Operations | The Signed Agreements Also Includes Purchases of Equipment and Licenses Associated with the Cathedral City Operations
LAS VEGAS, NV / ACCESSWIRE / July 22, 2022 / MJ Harvest, Inc. ("MJHI") (OTCQB:MJHI) announced today that it has ... |
| 25.05.2022 | How To Improve Your Interview Process In Just Five Steps | Scott Klinger, Chief People Officer at EarthLink. |
| 29.04.2022 | Remote Work Is On The Rise: Is Your Cybersecurity Plan Ready? | Serial technology entrepreneur. Currently, CTO of EarthLink. |
| 24.01.2022 | 2021 United States Investing Championship Winners — Minervini Smashes Record | The United States Investing Championship today reported the winners of the 2021 competition, which involved 338 international traders. The United States Investing Championship is a real money verified competition which gives up and coming t... |
| 22.12.2021 | 2021 United States Investing Championship Eleven Month Results | The United States Investing Championship today reported the leaders for the first eleven months of the 2021 competition, which involved 338 top traders from around the world. The United States Investing Championship is a real money verified... |
| 08.10.2021 | Blast from the past EarthLink re-enters wireless | The retro look is making a comeback in some circles. EarthLink, a pioneer in wired internet more than 20 years ago, re-entered wireless this past week as a no-frills service provider using the same network as Ultra Mobile.
What makes the Ea... |
| 22.07.2021 | EarthLink Has the Happiest Internet Customers, According to HighSpeedInternet.com | |
| 02.06.2021 | Christophers Announce Winners of Youth Poster and Video Contests | NEW YORK, June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Christophers have named the top prize winners in their annual student contests -- the 31st Annual Poster Contest for High School Students and the 33rd Annual Video Contest for College Students.
In ... |
| 26.05.2021 | Entrepreneur Interviews ZiphyCare Founder and CEO Dr. Rada Sumareva; Innovative HealthTech Start-Up Also Featured in Crain's New York Health Pulse | NEW YORK, May 26, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Entrepreneur Interviews ZiphyCare Founder and CEO
Dr. Rada Sumareva; Innovative HealthTech Start-Up Also Featured in Crain's New York Health Pulse
"Bringing physicians to patients' homes wit... |
| 24.02.2021 | 7 Tech Upgrades Your Business Needs in 2021 | Technological advancements don’t stop for anything, including Covid-19. During 2020, innovators kept testing and iterating, pushing technology farther ahead despite the pandemic. Though your business may have scaled back on spending a ton o... |
| 14.02.2021 | How Entrepreneurs Can Establish a Successful Customer-First Strategy | February 14, 2021 5 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
The customer has always been right, but Covid is putting even more pressure on businesses to cater to their consumer base. Companies simply cannot a... |
| 21.10.2020 | Office In A Box: Technology Solutions For The Remote Worker | Serial technology entrepreneur. Currently, CPO of EarthLink. |
| 09.02.2019 | Boulder County History: Rotary Club members got down to business | A century ago, in February 1919, the “war to end all wars” finally was over. Soldiers were on their way home from overseas, and even the deadly influenza pandemic had subsided.
Four of Boulder’s leading businessmen looked to the future and ... |
| 15.12.2018 | Boulder County History: Friends replaced family for Ethel Joan Bransall Stout | ‘Greater Boulder Memories: The Early Years’
What: An heirloom-quality, pictorial book featuring a glimpse of the greater Boulder area from the early years to 1939. The stunning historical photos include those from our readers as well as our... |
| 30.10.2018 | Unique service model puts experience and expertise at customers’ disposal | Linton Crystal Technologies (LCT) has enhanced its pre- and post-sale service offerings in support of its Czochralski (CZ) process crystal growers. Full-time process engineers and experienced technical staff will work with customers to get ... |
| 21.10.2018 | Boulder County History: Decades after vandalism, mystery gravestone rests in peace | ‘Greater Boulder Memories: The Early Years’
What: An heirloom-quality, pictorial book featuring a glimpse of the greater Boulder area from the early years to 1939. The stunning historical photos include those from our readers as well as our... |
| 23.09.2018 | Boulder history: CU’s Mary Rippon defied convention with love affair | ‘Greater Boulder Memories: The Early Years’
What: An heirloom-quality, pictorial book featuring a glimpse of the greater Boulder area from the early years to 1939. The stunning historical photos include those from our readers as well as our... |
| 28.07.2018 | Boulder County History: Reunion plans recall memories for Boulder High alum | If you go
What: BHS reunion brunch
When: 10 a.m. Aug. 19
Where: Boulder Country Club, 7340 Clubhouse Road, Boulder
During the mid-1940s, Boulder had a population of approximately 15,000. Vivian and her friends enjoyed the freedom to roam th... |
| 26.11.2017 | 2017 Holiday Happenings Calendar | ILLUSTRATION BY KIP AOKI / KAOKI@STARADVERTISER.COM
Celebrate the season with one of many holiday events scheduled around Oahu this year.
In keeping with Santa’s standards, there’s something for everybody in this year’s winter calendar of e... |
| 22.01.2017 | Big Island shops celebrate quilting | The 9th annual Big Island Quilt Shop Hop returns Feb. 1 for a monthlong celebration of the craft.
Five shops from Kona to Hilo will be offering “passports” that traveling quilters can have stamped at each stop for a chance to win prizes and... |
| 12.11.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 11/12/16 | Adobe bought TubeMogul; Google acquired Leapdroid; Facebook acquired CrowdTangle
Tesla acquired Grohmann Engineering, a German engineering firm that specializes in automated manufacturing processes. No financial terms of the deal were discl... |
| 07.11.2016 | Dial-up pioneer EarthLink still exists, and it’s merging with Windstream | Enlarge / Back in 2006, EarthLink planned on being a major broadband player.
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| 07.11.2016 | Term Sheet — Monday, November 7 | Et cetera
A G Thing: When Google reorganized itself as Alphabet last year, it immediately struck the “Google” brand from a number of its divisions. Google X, its “moonshot” division, became simply “X,” and Google Ventures, its VC arm, becam... |
| 08.10.2016 | Boulder County History: Recognition for Buffalo Soldier’s grave | Several years ago, when Jack Box lived on Eighth Street and walked his dog through Columbia Cemetery, he noticed that many of the headstones of veterans either were leaning or had sunk several inches into the ground. He saw work needing to ... |
| 30.09.2016 | SMiLE, Boulder: Mysterious street artist treads line between beauty, vandalism | SMiLE’s cast of characters
The artist known as SMiLE has painted dozens of images around Boulder over the last year, and these are some of his recurring subjects:
Dalai Lama: One of these images of the Tibetan spiritual leader, with a faint... |
| 24.09.2016 | Boulder County History: Aspen leaf tour reveals colorful past | One advantage to living in Boulder County is that we can easily experience the changing fall colors over an extended period of time. Boulder’s deciduous trees are only starting to turn, but a short drive into the mountains should reveal bri... |
| 28.08.2016 | Boulder County history: Shining Mountain school reflects on its past | In 1986, prior to starting kindergarten at the Shining Mountain Waldorf School, Nita Mickley — now Davanzo — had attended another school’s preschool.
“I hoping and praying that it was the weekend so I wouldn’t have to go to school,” she sai... |
| 31.07.2016 | Boulder County history: Trains brought riders closer to nature | Wildflowers are in full bloom in the mountains, reminding us that the area’s natural beauty has always drawn visitors to western Boulder County.
Nowadays, we may drive to a trailhead and take a hike, but in the early 1900s the average Bould... |
| 05.07.2016 | Colorado Music Festival echos patriotism of predecessors in Chautauqua concert | Music is a time-honored way to pay tribute to our nation and to our veterans, especially on the eve of Independence Day. In Boulder, concert-goers will get the perfect blend of tradition and song in the Colorado Music Festival‘s July 3 “Pat... |
| 10.04.2016 | Stripper took CU campus by storm | Although it might surprise people today, several male University of Colorado students in the 1950s frequented strip clubs in Denver. Some of the students even took their dates. And, once, a stripper name Tempest Storm visited the CU campus.... |
| 11.03.2016 | Man’s disappearance remains unsolved mystery | On April 23, 1916, John W. Gates walked out of his Coffman Street home in Longmont and never returned.
Left behind that fateful Easter Sunday was his wife, Delphia, and their three young children. Did the 33-year-old husband and father suff... |
| 15.01.2016 | Boulder Community Hospital set health care standards — and affordably | Almost everyone who has lived in Boulder for any length of time knows someone who was born, had an operation, was treated for an illness or died at the former Boulder Community Hospital on Broadway.
The building has been sold to the city of... |
| 25.09.2015 | Ditch a remnant of Boulder County’s mining legacy | An adage that “gold is where you find it” indicates that, unlike silver, gold can be found in veins underground, as well as in gravel deposits on the surface. The surface deposits require water to recover the gold from the gravel.
Surface d... |
| 21.07.2015 | Why Bitcoin Should Embrace Stupidity | My first memory of the Internet involves four rows of pixelated hamsters, spinning and gyrating to music that sounds like it's scraping your brain.
It was the late 1990s or maybe early 2000s, my family used EarthLink via a dial-up connectio... |
| 10.04.2015 | Charlie Eagle Plume a man of mystery | Charlie Eagle Plume liked to tell stories to tourists.
In one of his tales, he claimed to have arrived in Estes Park by horseback, from a Blackfoot Indian reservation in Montana. Whether Eagle Plume made the ride is unknown, but he managed ... |
| 13.03.2015 | Louisville police officer’s memory lives on, 100 years after his murder | On Oct. 28, 1915, a fatal shot ended the life of Victor B. Helburg, Louisville’s deputy town marshal. At age 48, he was gunned down on Main Street in the eastern Boulder County town by a fruit peddler who refused to buy a license.
Helburg i... |
| 13.02.2015 | Humane Society volunteers have history of touching animals’ lives in Boulder | Learn more
For more information about volunteer opportunities, contact the Humane Society of Boulder Valley at boulderhumane.org.
In 1959, after the death of Boulder County Humane Society president Anna Belle Morris, the obituary writer sta... |
| 18.12.2014 | Mobile Commerce Consolidation As Mozido Takes Majority Stake In CorFire | Just days after Dutch digital commerce provider Adyen announced a $250 million round of funding, another heavily capitalised player in the space has made an acquisition to up its game. Mozido, a mobile commerce specialist that raised $185 m... |
| 25.10.2014 | James H. Roberts’ photos captured an era of Boulder history | James H. Roberts once compared his work as a commercial photographer to that of a general practitioner in medicine, saying that he was subject to call at any time and took photos or worked in the darkroom at all hours.
From 1955 through 199... |
| 28.09.2014 | Boulder woman’s death shrouded in mystery | If you go
What: “Meet the Spirits,” a joint fundraiser for Historic Boulder Inc. and Boulder Parks and Recreation
When: Noon-5 p.m. Oct. 12
Where: Columbia Cemetery, Ninth and Pleasant streets, Boulder
A Camera reporter called her an “estee... |
| 29.08.2014 | Boulder threw heck of a party for 50th anniversary of silver mining | Ever since the 1880s, the first Monday in September has been set aside as Labor Day to acknowledge the social and economic achievements of American workers.
In 1919, Boulder County residents went all out by designating that year’s holiday a... |
| 01.08.2014 | Boulder’s Scott Carpenter Park has a hidden past | In 1898, the Boulder City Council passed an ordinance giving park names to several tracts of land. Oddly, the name Valverdan (possibly a combination of the words “valley” and “verdant,” to give the illusion of a “green valley”) was given to... |
| 04.07.2014 | Search continues for identities of ‘Fremont’s men’ | I’ve been writing this history column for many years and often get questions from readers. A few years ago, local residents Dr. William M. “Bill” Johnson and Gary Flauaus each emailed me and asked about a specific historic grave site on pri... |
| 12.04.2014 | Reliving driver’s dramatic ride over Rollins Pass | Years ago, I was fortunate to have purchased a dozen black-and-white photographs that chronicle a Jeep driver’s 1954 ascent to the summit of Rollins Pass. Of importance to historians is that the images document the section of this former ra... |
| 28.03.2014 | Remembering longest labor strike in Colorado history | On April 20, Colorado will mark the 100th anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre.
Only a week after Ludlow, the Northern coal-field workers would experience their own violent conflict.
Coal mines in the Northern field were numerous throughout t... |
| 15.02.2014 | Colorado Insurance Building still stands tall in Boulder | In February 1957, financier and insurance-tycoon Allen J. Lefferdink held an open-house after the completion of downtown Boulder’s first, and only, skyscraper. Doing the honors at the ceremony was former state senator Donald Brotzman, who l... |
| 19.01.2014 | Family’s poultry farm became a Boulder business | In September 1911, Boulder real-estate developer D.E. Dobbins took out a large advertisement in the Camera to sell “Four Little Farms in Town.” These “little farms” were four nearly identical brick bungalows on the southeast corners of Blue... |
| 21.12.2013 | Convicts helped rebuild roads in early 1900s | One of the biggest challenges after the September flooding has been rebuilding roads. The state highways, including Boulder and South St. Vrain canyons, were completed by Thanksgiving, but James Canyon and many of Boulder County’s other roa... |
| 25.10.2013 | Community spirit saves Salina’s Little Church in the Pines | In 1902, residents of the western Boulder County community of Salina ran out of funds while building their church. With the community eager to finish the construction before winter, a carpenter came down from the mountains to Boulder, where... |
| 02.08.2013 | Drive-in restaurant era in Boulder hit fast lane in ’50s | After World War II, gas was cheap and cars were big and roomy. People didn’t want to get out of them, even to eat. And that’s a big reason the drive-in-restaurant era took off in the 1950s.
Today, most of Boulder’s fast-food restaurants of ... |
| 19.07.2013 | Soap Box Derby cheating scandal put Boulder boy in spotlight | A hometown hero was celebrated, then immediately fell from grace, in the summer of 1973.
That August, 14-year-old Jimmy Gronen won the 36th annual All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio. His victory came with a sizable trophy and a $7,5... |
| 05.07.2013 | On a mission to find Boulder’s first reservoir | Every once in awhile, it’s fun to find a new piece of Boulder’s past.
I’ve long been familiar with Settlers Park, where I had focused on the gold prospectors thought to have camped in the shadow of Boulder’s own “Red Rocks,” in 1858. I rece... |
| 07.06.2013 | Music isn’t all Michael Christie will miss about Boulder | In 1999, when Michael Christie was a candidate for the position of music director for the Colorado Music Festival, he and his parents drove into Boulder on U.S. 36. Like many first-time visitors, he initially viewed the city from the overlo... |
| 12.04.2013 | DNA aided ’50s Jane Doe case | This time of year, I think about Dorothy Gay Howard, formerly known as Jane Doe. The young woman’s body was found along Boulder Creek, in Boulder Canyon, on April 8, 1954. Two weeks later, when the fruit trees were beginning to bloom in Bou... |
| 05.04.2013 | Google, BlackBerry EarthLink and Red Hat Take A Stand Against Patent Trolls, Ask FTC, DoJ To Do The Same | Google, along with BlackBerry, EarthLink and Red Hat, today appealed to the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice to take stronger action against companies like Lodsys, Intellectual Ventures, and other “patent assertion entitie... |
| 15.03.2013 | Hazel Schmoll made a name for herself as a female scientist | Women’s
History Month
Women’s History Month is part of the National Women’s History Project, founded in 1980. For more information, visit nwhp.org.
From 1919 to 1935, Hazel Schmoll was Colorado’s state botanist, educating the public about t... |
| 01.03.2013 | Boulder foodies first tasted Furr’s 50 years ago | Fifty years ago this month, Furr’s Cafeteria opened the first of its chain restaurants in Boulder. When former Camera food columnist John Lehndorff was asked what he remembered about it, he recalled that a group of people from the newspaper... |
| 16.02.2013 | ‘Railroad war’ culminated in kidnapping of judge | Two competing railroads reached Boulder in 1873.
The Colorado Central, from Golden, was founded by entrepreneurs, including William A. H. Loveland. Five months later, the Denver & Boulder Valley, from Denver, had the backing of financie... |
| 01.02.2013 | Physician made lifelong contribution to Boulder community | W hen Lawrence “Joe” Maurer graduated from an Indiana medical school in 1939, he had no idea where his profession would lead.
He completed his residency at Children’s Hospital in Denver, then was working at a hospital in Kansas City, Mo., d... |
| 27.01.2013 | Stitched together | Patterns for these quilt blocks are available to participants in the Quilt Shop Hop on Hawaii island beginning Friday.
COURTESY CATHERINE TARLETON
DAVID SWANN / DSWANN@STARADVERTISER.COM
Collaboration is the buzzword in business today, but ... |
| 04.01.2013 | Longtime resident reflects on Boulder living, wrangling | The U.S. 36 overpass at Baseline Road is a maze of multiple lanes and on-and-off ramps. But Bernie Egeland can still picture the land when it was open pasture, when Baseline Road and 28th Street were two-lane dirt roads.
Northwest of the in... |
| 21.12.2012 | Silver spoon for baby’s first Christmas | A century ago, silver spoons were considered special baby gifts on a baby’s first Christmas.
Most of these spoons were small and had short handles that made them easy for babies to grasp.
But Ada May Vandewark was given a silver souvenir te... |
| 30.11.2012 | Well-known geologist’s house highlights home tour | If you go
What: Historic Homes for the Holidays tour, presented by Historic Boulder, features the Boulder Masonic Lodge and six homes in the Mapleton Hill area
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9
Where: Tour star... |
| 09.11.2012 | Club honored Boulder’s World War I veterans | When Carl A. Carlson registered for the draft in 1917, he was a 23-year-old farm laborer living in Red Oak, Iowa, having immigrated three years earlier from Sweden. He was assigned to Camp Pike in Arkasas, where he drilled in the infantry i... |
| 19.10.2012 | Architect left his mark on Boulder | Many are familiar with Boulder’s modern architect, Charles Haertling, but fewer people know the name Tician Papachristou.
He is the one who got away.
Papachristou designed distinctive mid-century homes in Boulder that feature economical and... |
| 28.09.2012 | ‘Sheriff’ discusses brother’s murder — in 1892 | A few years ago, when Boulder resident Bob Yates worked as a volunteer in Columbia Cemetery, he stumbled upon the gravestone of a man with the same name. Intrigued, Bob learned that the deceased had been murdered more than a century ago by ... |
| 21.09.2012 | ‘Loop tour’ combines fall colors, history | This is a good time of year to take what I call the Boulder loop tour.
If the aspens are at their height of color change, you’ll see plenty of them. The drive from Boulder to Nederland, then along the Peak to Peak Highway and then down the ... |
| 20.08.2012 | Ex-Mayor Leslie Durgin recalls Margaret Thatcher’s visit to Boulder in 1990 | Editor’s Note
This column by Silvia Pettem originally was published in the Daily Camera on Aug. 19, 2012.
On Aug. 3, 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — aka the “Iron Lady” — squeezed a 90-minute visit to Boulder on her first t... |
| 02.08.2012 | Glaciers drew summer tourists to Boulder County | In 1926, members of the American Legion in Boulder put up a large billboard just south of the intersection of U.S. 287 and Arapahoe Road. There, tourists were directed to Boulder — the jumping off point for summer tours to the glaciers.
Thr... |
| 19.07.2012 | A story of community, dynamite and arson: Engine No. 30 set in Central Park 60 years ago | Sixty years ago, the late Dr. John Schoolland, a University of Colorado psychology professor with a passion for local history, led a campaign to return to Boulder a historic narrow-gauge railroad locomotive that once connected Boulder with ... |
| 23.11.2011 | Boulder History: Corson an early community contributor | Boulder County’s very first order of business was a meeting of the county commissioners on Nov. 15, 1861. A clerk took notes — duly recorded in the commissioners’ still-surviving minutes — but there were no newspapers in Boulder at the time... |
| 13.10.2011 | History: Ward Post Office was one of county’s oldest | In 1863, Boulder County resident Samuel Breath and his business partner bought a mining claim on the Columbian vein in Ward, for $15. On Jan. 13 — the day after the transaction was recorded in Boulder — the “Ward District” post office was e... |
| 29.09.2011 | History: Sunshine school and Pilot Mine recall the past | Since 1994, the historic one-room schoolhouse in the mountain town of Sunshine has hosted a crafts fair every fall. Last year, however, the event was canceled due to the Fourmile Fire that devastated parts of Sunshine Canyon. But, the schoo... |
| 16.09.2011 | History: Boulder County mining town names recall people, places | Near the close of the 19th century, the world’s epicenter of finance was located on Wall Street, in New York’s lower Manhattan. So it’s not surprising that in 1897, when Boulder County mining promoter Charles Caryl bought 60 gold-mining cla... |
| 26.07.2011 | Corporate YouTube Lessons From A Racing Engine Builder | Can you imagine a better way to promote your racing engine business than to take your Web site visitors, on a mind-bending video demo ride? For the last decade, Tom Nelson of Nelson Racing Engines (NRE), in Chatsworth California, has been b... |
| 24.06.2011 | ‘Ansel Adams America’ blends photography and music | If you go
What: Colorado Music Festival, with the Marcus Roberts Trio, featuring Dave and Chris Brubeck’s Ansel Adams America and other pieces
When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday
Adams was an adamant supporter of the national parks and of t... |
| 29.04.2011 | Narrow-gauge railroad connected Boulder to mountains | From 1883 to 1919, residents, mining investors, tourists, and freight traveled between Boulder and several of the mountain towns by narrow gauge railroad. A few years after the trains started running, a stray bulldog often jumped on board. ... |
| 18.03.2011 | Restaurant owners’ dream twice destroyed by fire | In the mid-1950s, Joe Cinquanta piloted a small plane and flew between Fort Collins and Colorado Springs to look for the perfect location to build a restaurant. He found it on the highest mesa south of Boulder — with a commanding view of So... |
| 03.03.2011 | Boulder was early in, late out of Prohibition | National Prohibition was in force when President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, but he lost no time signing the “Beer Act,” allowing for the consumption of 3.2 percent beer. For most of the country’s drinkers, the then-des... |
| 18.02.2011 | From the editorial advisory board: The media and public officials | Often, when the media covers politicians – whether it’s a blog discussing the peccadilloes of a shirtless Congressman attempting to cheat on his wife, or the local newspaper covering the tax assessment of a City Councilman’s home – controve... |
| 06.02.2011 | Guidebooks gave advice to early prospectors | In the late 1850s and early 1860s, many of the early residents of what is now Colorado were young men who had left their eastern and mid-western homes looking for adventure. Often, they didn’t know where to go or what to expect, but the mor... |
| 22.01.2011 | Sheriff John A. Jester was a miner, merchant, and lawman | In January 1900, former Boulder County Sheriff John A. Jester took the position of night captain at the Colorado State Penitentiary. According to the Camera, Jester “quietly slipped away” from Boulder where he had a home with his wife Laura... |
| 09.01.2011 | Keystone Ranch was Boulder County’s first farm | Although Boulder was founded by gold prospectors, not all of them made a living by mining. Sylvanus, Luther, and Henry Wellman came west during the 1859 gold rush, but they turned to farming when they realized that flour was almost as valua... |
| 29.12.2010 | Camera’s longtime location recalls the past | In 1891, a year after the founding of the Camera, the editor of the competing “Boulder News” wrote, “It presents a neat appearance but has not much in it.” Apparently, readers didn’t agree, as circulation in the frontier town of approximate... |
| 20.12.2010 | EarthLink Buys Telecom Services Company One Communications For $370 Million | EarthLink this morning announced that it will acquire telecom services provider One Communications for $370 million, which includes payment of roughly $285 million of the latter’s net debt. One Comm stockholders have the right to elect to r... |
| 28.10.2010 | Colorado women voted ahead of the country | In 1913, 23-year-old Boulder County resident Hazel Schmoll accepted a teaching job at Vassar College, in New York, and was considered a celebrity because she had already voted in Colorado. Unlike her new colleagues, however, she never fough... |
| 15.10.2010 | Bench will be final memorial to Boulder Jane Doe | Readers of the Camera are familiar with the story of Boulder Jane Doe — the young woman found murdered in Boulder Canyon in 1954 and finally identified, in Oct. 2009, as Dorothy Gay Howard. But behind the detective story is a story of compa... |
| 06.10.2010 | Private online community Passenger snags $7.5M, new CEO | Private online community and social networking firm Passenger announced today that it has raised $7.5 million in a funding round led by shareholders Steamboat Ventures, StarVest Parners and Shelter Capital Partners.
The firm also shook up i... |
| 23.08.2010 | Former bar owner reflects on the Sink and Tulagi | In 1989, when brothers Rick and Jim Kauvar bought the Sink from their father, Herb Kauvar, they pulled off the interior wood paneling added during the years that the business was known as Herbie`s Deli. Underneath and untouched, the brother... |
| 06.08.2010 | Ewing farmhouse still standing | In 1888, eight years after John and Amanda Ewing left Kansas for Colorado with five daughters and all of their material possessions, their two oldest daughters — Ida May, 22, and Myrta, 16 — died of tuberculosis. In the girls’ memory, the f... |
| 11.07.2010 | Chapman Drive was built as a scenic circle loop | Times were tough during the Great Depression, and many young men were out of work. The Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” projects brought relief to the unemployed who, in turn, greatly improved th... |
| 13.06.2010 | Hippies clashed with Boulder residents in the late 1960s | On June 13, 1968, a nationally syndicated newspaper article stated that “hundreds of hippies” were pouring into Boulder. The long-haired drug users claimed that two days later, an asteroid would hit the planet and the world would end—-but B... |
