LYONS – The Rock n’ River Resort, located at 16858 N. St. Vrain Dr. just west of Lyons, has new owners. Jay and Elaine Hodge recently purchased the resort from Guy Gibson. The Gibsons owned and operated the resort for about 19 years. The Hodges came to Lyons from western Pennsylvania. They lived in Greenville where Jay worked for a while in heavy industry and most recently in human resources.

LYONS – In April Lyons residents will vote on whether they want to keep medical marijuana centers, formerly called dispensaries, open in Lyons, or whether they want to close all the shops, ban any new grow facilities and marijuana centers, and follow the lead of Longmont and Fort Collins.

BOULDER COUNTY – LEAP, the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program, will continue to take applications through April 30.
LEAP assists low-income households with paying winter heating bills. Income criteria and other eligibility factors apply.
For more details or to obtain an application, please contact the State of Colorado LEAP Information Line at 866-HEAT-HELP (866-432-8435). The Boulder County LEAP office is located at 529 Coffman St., Suite 190, in Longmont, and can be reached at 303-678-6097.

LYONS – Lyons Mercantile, 441 Main St., will open on November 19. The new shop, located at the former Ohm Salon + Gallery, will be a consignment/used furniture business. Owner Monica McGuckin said that there will not be a grand opening, but rather a soft opening on November 19.

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.