April 2012
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Biologist uses high-tech iPhone microscope to teach science up close
Cindy Henk has a long-term love affair with science education. She’s especially enamored of microscopes and sharing the wonders of…
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Eggers School offers glimpse into Poudre Canyon history
A ride up Poudre Canyon takes the traveler through scenery of massive proportions. Granite cliffs tower over the wild Cache…
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Virginia Dale dispatch
from the Fort Collins Standard April 29, 1874 Thinking a few items from this part of Larimer County would be…
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Plant Select announces 2012 selections for innovative home gardens
With spring comes a familiar gardening dilemma: What to plant that will be beautiful and unique, while also flourishing in…
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Celebrating 150 years, the Virginia Dale stage station needs your help
[media-credit name=”Kenneth Jessen” align=”alignleft” width=”300″][/media-credit]The Cherokee Trail was the first route along the foothills through Larimer County. In 1861, it…
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Grace Notes: Remember who you're running for
The plum trees are bloom-heavy; I can almost hear them sigh with their new weight, their pink swag. Errant petals…
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Letter: Thank you to Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department
More than once, we heard it was “a perfect fire.” To those humble wildland firefighters, we clarify: it was “a…
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Bellvue Seniors
The Bellvue Senior Center is open Monday through Friday, with meetings every Thursday in the Cache la Poudre Grange Hall…
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Colorado State researchers breach the walls of M. tuberculosis
The lowly bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has plagued mankind for thousands of years. An estimated one third of our human tribe…
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Song of the Overland Stage driver
Written by Nat Stein Published in the Montana Post, April 8, 1865 Sung to the tune “High Salary Driver on…