Roamin' the Range: May 2012 entertainment calendar
May signals the start of the busy summer season, when school is out and thoughts turn to family vacations, wedding trips and the like. Just don’t overlook all the great fun that can be had […]
Month: April 2012
New principals for Stove Prairie, Red Feather and Livermore elementaries and Cache la Poudre Middle School
New principals will be greeting students at Stove Prairie, Red Feather and Livermore elementaries and Cache la Poudre Middle School in the fall. Pending formal action by the Poudre School District Board of Education, Matt […]
Music circle offers outlet for closet musicians
Jill Reynolds of Glacier View Meadows is a high-energy woman looking to share her love of making music with other nonprofessional musicians. Reynolds, a retired special education teacher, is spearheading a series of “music circles” […]
Red Feather Lakes not happy with CenturyLink service
The 21st century dream of living in the mountains while telecommuting to work is tantalizingly out of reach for residents of Red Feather Lakes. The dream can only become reality with reliable telephone service and […]
Stone circles at Tepee Rings Conservation Easement offer well-rounded insight of local ancient history
Prime properties, great views, fantastic for foraging. That’s how ancient real estate agents might have marketed these lands to prehistoric home-seekers thousands of years ago. [media-credit name=”Dan MacArthur” align=”alignleft” width=”300″][/media-credit] But such pitches would have […]
Red Feather Lakes Elementary School PTO annual Spring Swing on May 19
The Red Feather Lakes Elementary School PTO is holding its annual Spring Swing Silent Auction/Dinner/Dance event this year with a quilt drawing and live dance band in the fire barn in Red Feather Lakes village. […]
Larimer County Commissioners sunset courthouse sales tax early
The Board of Larimer County Commissioners voted April 24 to sunset a .2 percent courthouse sales tax effective July 1, six months before the normal sunset. The sales tax was approved by voters in 1997, […]
Water reserves will help keep Cache la Poudre River rafters afloat
So maybe total precipitation in the Cache la Poudre River basin was only 17 percent of average for the month of March. Maybe snowpack was only 55 percent of average at the beginning of April. […]
County manager internal search yields eight applicants
By the April 23 deadline, the Larimer County Board of County Commissioners had received eight applications from current county employees interested in becoming the next county manager. Frank Lancaster is leaving the position he has […]
Wellington Middle School named among first-ever U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, together with White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, announced April 23 that Wellington Middle School has received the first-ever […]