LYONS – The Upholstery Shop, 401 Main St., will soon have a new business in the front of the shop called the Orchard. Georgia English, shop owner, is about to launch the Orchard on November 12 after she does a little remodeling on her upholstery shop located behind the Art Bank on Fourth Avenue.

The new shop will have handmade leather bags, creams and lotions, throw pillows, towels, handmade jewelry by three different jewelers, some furniture from the Upholstery Shop and some of English’s handmade clothing designs. There will be hats, belt buckles, glassware and many other items. A grand opening for the new shop will be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday Nov. 12.

LYONS – The goal is good food fast at a decent price. Oh, and ice cream. The soon-to-be Lyons Dairy Bar, in the former Dairy Lite location at the Village Central Shopping Center in east Lyons, has been percolating in the minds of Juli and Kenyon Waugh for many years.

The idea was planted in Kenyon’s mind long ago, when his grandfather operated a Dairy Bar off his Pennsylvania dairy farm and was successful at it for 50 years. It was called the Good News Dairy Bar. Although now Kenyon has an MBA and sells satellite imagery, he has never lost sight of the restaurant business.

LYONS – If you are in the market for a rare, hand-built custom steel-framed belt-driven single speed mountain bike that loves tough terrain then head to Redstone Cyclery in Lyons. If this bike jargon isn’t making sense Dave Chase, proprietor of Redstone simply explains it this way: “It’s a badass bike.”

LYONS – The town board decided at a regular meeting in September to officially refer to the development area at the east end of town around the intersection of Colorado Highway 66 and U.S. Highway 36 as the Gateway Corridor, GC, rather than the former name if Commercial Eastern Corridor, CEC.

Several of the commissions in town made the recommendation to the town board. Gateway seems to reflect the image Lyons has created for itself.

LYONS – Word on the street moves quickly but changes in the business community around Lyons move even more quickly. Ma’s Pizza, 430 Main St., was recently sold to Gavin Moore and Josh Baranauskas, two friends who joined forces to bring fresh produce from garden to table and potentially extraordinary pizza. They took over the pizzeria on Sept 2.

LYONS – Juli and Kenyon Waugh, Lyons residents, plan to open a new ice cream and dairy shop called Lyons Dairy Bar in the former Dairy Lite space at Lyons Village Central at the east end of Main Street.

Robin Young who owns the shopping center with her partner, Nancy Liquori, the City Chicks, said the Waughs will be renting the former Dairy Lite space along with the unit next to the ice cream shop. “The Waughs are going to do their own ice cream business,” said Young. “I believe that they have some experience in the ice cream and frozen yogurt business. They hope to have it up and running on the weekends in a short time and then a little later expand to week days. By March they want to have the inside seating in place.”