James Burky

1 week ago | dailycamera.com | James Burky

The Boulder City Council has unanimously approved an ordinance to adjust the city’s current budget for 2025. Ordinance 8699, passed Thursday, essentially allows the city to move around $11.6 million in its budget, known as adjustments-to-base (ATB). Mid-year adjustments such as these are common to address emerging needs, city staffers said in a memo to the council. The city will appropriate $2.5 million to a pair of transportation improvements.

1 week ago | dailycamera.com | James Burky

Boulder City Council and city officials convened on Thursday for the first time since an antisemitic attack on the Pearl Street Mall days prior, and discussion of that attack and the council’s response dominated the discussion. Mark Wallach and other City Council members criticized fellow Councilmember Taishya Adams for not signing a Monday council statement denouncing the attack.

2 weeks ago | dailycamera.com | James Burky

The public has a chance to help upkeep one of the Boulder area’s more popular trails on Saturday. In conjunction with National Trails Day, the Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks team is sharing with volunteers the importance of trail maintenance. Volunteers will have the opportunity to help clean and fix up the South Mesa Trailhead near Eldorado Springs. Volunteers will be assisting with drainage work, adding surfacing material to the trail and erecting fencing.

2 weeks ago | dailycamera.com | James Burky

The Boulder Police Department detained a male who they say was armed and suicidal outside of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Boulder police posted on the social media platform X at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday that it was “attempting to contact an individual at NCAR” and that the road leading to the facility was closed. The subject was in custody as of about 3:15 p.m. and there was no risk to the public, spokesperson Jamie Barker said. The road opened back up as well.

2 weeks ago | dailycamera.com | James Burky

Speakers stood beneath an overcast sky Wednesday morning in the same spot where, three days earlier, an assailant injured at least 15 people in an antisemitic attack with a makeshift flamethrower and incendiary devices.