BOULDER COUNTY

Residents can enter library card art contest

Any Boulder County resident can submit a design for a Boulder Public Library card art contest.

Participants can create cards that show off global designs or highlight connections they see in the world, according to the Boulder Public Library website. The top two winning designs will be added to library cards for the “Summer of Discovery” program.

Entries must use a paper form or high-resolution digital image. Entries will be accepted on the Boulder Public Library website or in person at any Boulder Public Library branch through March 31. Digital media, photography and fine art, including acrylics, drawings, oils, prints or watercolors, will be accepted.

Residents can view and vote for the adult and teen entries on the week of April 7 at the Boulder Public Library website at https://boulderlibrary.org/art-contest/.

LAFAYETTE

Italian eatery Bucatino gets official welcome

A restaurant featuring the tastes of Rome will get an official welcome to Lafayette today as the Chamber of Commerce holds a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5 p.m.

Bucatino Trattoria Romana, 1265 S. Public Road, specializes in homemade mozzarella, fresh pasta and handcrafted desserts. Its menu is crafted by Marco Monnanni, the chef behind Sforno Trattoria Romana on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall and Caprese Trattoria in Longmont. Monnanni was born in Rome and was a restaurant apprentice by age 14.

The Lafayette restaurant’s name comes from the thick but hollow bucatini pasta the restaurant makes on site, and three different dishes feature it: bucatini bolognese, bucatini amatriciana and bucatini al forno.

BROOMFIELD

Officials to discuss $73.5M police, courts building

The Broomfield City Council plans to discuss its planned, new, $73.5 million police and courts building at a meeting that starts at 6 p.m. today.

The council is expected to discuss an amendment to its consulting agreement with Anderson Mason Dale Architect, which is related to the planned 81,000-square-foot police and courts building. The building may be built at the corner of East Third Avenue and DesCombes Drive, according to city documents. The new building is to be paid for with cash and a $66 million general obligation bond, which is expected to be issued in 2026, according to city documents.

— BizWest and staff reports