Dear Amy, I’m a 45-year-old woman, married to my wife for five years. My issue is my 21-year-old son, who lives with us. He’s a good kid but he’s now unemployed (for four months) and spends his days playing video games. My son is very book smart, had a full ride to a prestigious university, but only stayed for a year and a half. He recently applied for the police academy, but he never really follows through with anything. He also dropped out of the fire academy – because he was bored. He was working as a forklift operator while in school. He’s always done very well in school, but he’s laz ..read more

Your Daily Horoscope: April 24, 2024 ARIES (March 21-April 19): There can be many reasons to be cheerful, and you might begin to see the results of your hard work and efforts reflected in your earnings. Stay true to the promises you’ve made even if there might seem to be an advantage in wiggling out of them. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may be trying different things out for size; if one feels right for you, consider moving forward. You might experience a compelling urge to begin a creative project or a pressing need to act after being infused with breathtaking inspiration. GEMINI (May 21-Jun ..read more

NIWOT — The margin for error dwindled as the rain grew stronger in Tuesday night’s Skyline-Niwot girls’ soccer game. None of it would spoil an expert standoff in goal, though, as the Falcons and Cougars settled for a scoreless stalemate. “Obviously, I was hoping she would make a mistake,” Skyline junior netminder Lauren Pratt smiled as she talked about a counterpart who was just as good on this night, Mariah Fletemeyer. “That’s all you can hope for, really.” Flawless, in conditions anything but — Pratt and Fletemeyer took turns making stops amid a second-half downpour, each time saving their p ..read more

As enrollment declines continue to squeeze the budget, Boulder Valley School District Superintendent Rob Anderson is worried a bill that would overhual the state’s school funding formula will make it even more challenging. “If this were to pass, that we need to prepare for a different future here in BVSD,” Anderson said. “These conversations get tougher and tougher.” Anderson at Tuesday’s school board meeting called on the community to join him in lobbying against House Bill 1448, which was spearheaded by House Speaker Julie McCluskie, a Democrat. The bill’s goal is to create a more equitable ..read more

Boulder County officials recently wrapped up a $649,000 traffic study about U.S. 287 in hopes of one day ending traffic fatalities and serious injuries along the busy transit corridor. The study calls for officials to decide on safety improvements along the major thoroughfare that connects Longmont, Lafayette and Erie. One of the study’s findings is that 29% of all fatal crashes in Boulder County from 2021 to 2022 were on U.S. 287. In January, two people were killed in a head-on collision just north of Longmont along U.S. 287. The Longmont City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to accept the s ..read more

The wait is over for Longmont fans of La Mariposa Mexican Restaurant, as Tuesday marked the grand opening of the business’s new location in the city. The previous Longmont home for the Northern Colorado Mexican restaurant chain was inside a strip mall at 1240 Ken Pratt Blvd. Now, the restaurant lives just down the street inside a building at 2033 Ken Pratt Blvd., which was most recently occupied by Beau Jo’s pizza restaurant. The move comes after more than three decades of growth for La Mariposa. The family-owned chain, started by Mexican immigrants Rene and Maria Cervantes, began as a burrito ..read more

Fire managers are monitoring weather conditions to decide whether to burn the Forsythe II prescribed burn area near Gross Reservoir on Wednesday, according to a release from the U.S. Forest Service. “It’s possible that no ignition occurs depending on weather and the parameters with which we are able to burn,” said Marya Washburn, public affairs specialist with the U.S. Forest Service. If there is smoke and fire in the area, fire managers advise the public not to call 911. People nearby can expect to smell and see smoke from the Lakeshore subdivision; Crescent Village; Crescent Meadows; Gross R ..read more

The Larimer County commissioners spent Monday evening, not for the first time, hearing arguments for and against a pipeline through the county that would bring water owned by the city of Thornton purchased in the 1980s to Thornton proper. Proponents, largely comprised of Thornton representatives and housing developers in the area, argued during a lengthy public comment portion of the land use hearing that the water is crucial to further housing development in the growing suburbs north of Denver and would help address the limits to that development. Opponents worried about the health of the Pou ..read more

One driver went to the hospital and police arrested the other driver on an unrelated charge Monday morning after a crash involving a white Cadillac and a gold Subaru near 17th Avenue and Collyer Street. Longmont police responded to a report of an injury crash at 6:17 a.m., according to Longmont Public Safety spokeswoman Robin Ericson. The white Cadillac was driving northbound on Collyer Street when the accident happened, Ericson said. The female driver of the white Cadillac left the crash and ran north on Collyer Street. Police found her in the 1800 block of Collyer Street. Police arrested the ..read more

Police found a deceased man inside a vehicle after responding to a medical call at 12:14 p.m. Sunday at 4901 Nelson Road, according to Robin Ericson, Longmont Public Safety spokeswoman. The Boulder County Coroner’s Office identified the man as 18-year-old Brennan Warren, who was found deceased in a parking lot located off Nelson Road, according to a press release. The death is not being investigated as a suspicious death, Ericson said ..read more