🌱 Saving Prairie Dogs + Brasserie Ten Ten Is Back + RTD New Top Cop

Good morning, everybody! It's Wednesday in Boulder and I'm back in your inbox to get you caught up on all the most important things happening in the community today.

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Tuesday's weather: Mostly sunny. High: 86 Low: 61.

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Here are the top stories today in Boulder:

1. Lafayette community rallies to save prairie dogs from fumigation. The 150 or so prairie dogs have caused their share of problems near the WestGate Office Park, and the owners association wants them gone– but the plan presented only relocated some of them, and would kill the rest. (7News)
2. Brasserie Ten Ten survives the pandemic, returns to serve another day. Opened in 2003 at 1011 Walnut Street, and having been closed for more than two years, the French-inspired bistro is officially reopening. (Reporting Lab)
3. RTD appoints a new police chief. The Regional Transit District announced the selection of Dr. Joel Fitzgerald Sr. as the beleaguered transit agency's new top cop. Fitzgerald has more than three decades of law enforcement experience and has been a police chief in four cities. He's got big job ahead of him trying to sort out what's been brewing across the district's transit system. (Denverite)
4. Businesses that survived the pandemic now struggle with increased rents and finding employees. If it's not one thing, then it's another. The businesses that made it through COVID-19 are now finding the post-pandemic harder to recover from. (Your Web News)
5. Does a human poop in the woods? Regional parks and open space officials are asking the public to pack their own poop out — instead of leaving it in the parks. (CPR)

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Today in Boulder:

• Kabbalah Experience: Free intro course. (9 a.m.)
• Online TOEFL Prep Study Group: Boulder Public Library. (9:30 a.m.)
• Unknown Facts about Wine: Learn more about wine. (6 p.m.)
• EMS: Femur fractures, pain management. (6 p.m.)

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From my notebook:

• The City of Boulder is encouraging members of the public to attend an upcoming focus group to share their feedback about a proposed homelessness day center. The idea is that the center will serve as a daytime facility that would provide resource navigation and other services. (Boulder)
• The Boulder Public Library is seeking volunteers: BPL needs your help to assist the in-person return of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) to the Main Boulder Public Library at 1001 Arapahoe Ave. from Sept. 17-18. (BPL)

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