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A checklist of 20 great (non-14er) summits on Colorado’s Front Range
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Just because you set your sights lower than 14,000 feet doesn’t mean you’re setting a low bar. No, these aren’t the highest mountains on Colorado’s Front Range. But they could be called just as quintessential…
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Safeway workers in Colorado Springs vote to authorize a strike
Colorado Springs Safeway workers are poised to join statewide strikes. Local members, representing 12 stores in the Colorado Springs area, voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The vote did not mean picket lines would be going up at local Safeway stores Tuesday night, but rather that local stores may join others statewide if Safeway — and…
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Trail Talk: Horsetooth Reservoir in Larimer County a fun way to break out of a rut
When I slip on my worn hiking boots, it’s like wrapping up in a favorite afghan — comfortable and familiar. Trails are like that too, and I have my favorites — just as you likely do also. Paths so familiar that I know where to find the pasque flowers in May and the columbines in…
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Federal judge allows human trafficking lawsuit to proceed against Fort Collins motel operator
A federal judge agreed earlier this month that a lawsuit could proceed against the operator of a Fort Collins motel for allegedly violating a 20-year-old human trafficking law. The plaintiff, a transgender woman identified as P.C., alleged she was the victim of sex trafficking at the Motel 6 located at 3900 E. Mulberry Street. She claimed…
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10 spots for comfort food across Colorado’s Front Range
Just as winter is about skiing in the mountains in Colorado, it’s about finding comfort back home. It’s about finding a taste of home — that heavy chow that brings us warmth and brings us back. Consider these feasts across the Front Range: Gray’s Coors Tavern, Pueblo: We can’t talk about comfort food in Colorado…
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New trail to connect shores of popular reservoir in northern Colorado
An anticipated trail touring a popular reservoir in northern Colorado is close to complete. Larimer County is calling it the Bay to Bay Trail — a 1.8-mile path connecting two go-to areas at Horsetooth Reservoir, Inlet Bay and South Bay. A news release announcing recent construction described the trail wrapping around the southern peninsula of Inlet…
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Second federal judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit against Fort Collins for officer’s wrongful DUI arrests
A second federal judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss Fort Collins from a lawsuit alleging the city’s own failures contributed to a police officer’s repeated wrongful arrests of motorists who were not actually intoxicated. Carl Sever is one of several arrestees who filed suit over their encounters with Jason Haferman, the former “DUI officer” for…
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Northern Colorado natural area expanding as part of 3,500-acre vision
An area for conservation and recreation is growing in northern Colorado, helping to realize a long-term goal of local land managers. The 140-acre addition to Prairie Ridge Natural Area “represents the final piece in a 25-year effort creating a 3,500-acre separator between Loveland and Fort Collins,” read a recent announcement from Great Outdoors Colorado. That…
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8 whitewater parks around Colorado
Drop into many of Colorado’s riverside towns and you won’t need to go far to find the culture of play. Increasingly over the years, towns have built and expanded central meeting places for enthusiastic kayakers, tubers and stand-up paddleboarders: whitewater parks of rock-made waves, drops and rapids. Whether you partake or spectate, here are eight…
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Fort Collins police officers dismissed from lawsuit over 2020 arrests of protesters
A federal judge last month dismissed four Fort Collins police officers from a constitutional rights lawsuit, finding the plaintiffs failed to specifically allege how each defendant wrongfully arrested them and contributed to their prosecutions. In August 2020, Black Lives Matter protesters and participants in a “Defend the Police” rally clashed violently. Michael Piper Townley and…