A town frequented by visitors to Rocky Mountain National Park has a new restaurant courtesy of a former senior aide to the governor who wanted to preserve a piece of local history.

The Lyons Locale opened a month ago in a property off Main Street, at 442 High St., Lyons, next to bakery Moxie Bread Co. Moxie takes care of breakfast and lunch, while the Lyons Locale opens at noon on weekends and caters to the cheese-and-wine crowd.

The restaurant business is new to Lisa Kaufmann Wicker, whose previous career included, most notably, a long-serving stint as the chief of staff to Gov. Jared Polis . Wicker and her family moved to Lyons after she and Polis toured the area following the September floods of 2013 , the worst of which had swept through the town.

In 2022, after leaving the post

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