Letter: Finish parks and trails first
Dear Editor: For many years residents of Wellington have been waiting for the Town to begin development of the Buffalo Creek Town Park, a portion of Wellington Parks and Trails Master Plan. This spring, Town […]
Year: 2013
Letter: Finish the park before the new town hall
Editor: Six or seven years ago, I attended a meeting in Wellington that unveiled the new parks plan for our town. It was a beautiful set of plans (that cost $200K to create) and showed […]
Wellington Public Library update for July, 2013
Build it and they will come, or in our case have it and they will come. I’m writing about our Summer Reading Program, “Dig into Reading.” We had an amazing sign up so far for […]
Celebrate National Grasslands Week with a trip to the Pawnee
Come celebrate National Grasslands Week, June 23-29, by experiencing all the Pawnee National Grassland has to offer. From hiking to birding to stargazing, there is something on the grassland for everyone. The Pawnee National Grassland […]
Feeding a horse without breaking the bank
Prices for hay and grain mixtures fed to horses have been on the rise for a long time, and since 2011 have doubled, and sometimes tripled in Northern Colorado. Local horse owners are coping as […]
Larimer County Health Department vaccinating for measles
In response to the confirmation of two cases of measles in Denver, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is supplying extra MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella) to county health departments as part of […]
Softball players confront OKC tornado
Robyn Hall, 15 a sophomore at Poudre High School and her teammates, Mya Boehnke, and Brittany Bigge, both 16, members of the Stars competitive softball team, didn’t get to play in their Oklahoma tournament the […]
Lory State Park hosts 40 in the Fort endurance mountain bike race
The third annual “40 in the Fort” Endurance Mountain Bike Race will be held June 29 at Lory State Park west of Fort Collins. Organizers call it one of the Front Range’s toughest mountain bike […]
Colo. Division of Securities orders Fort Collins executives to cease and desist selling unregistered securities
Colorado Securities Commissioner Fred Joseph announced June 19 that he has entered a final cease-and-desist order against a Fort Collins real estate company and its two executives for allegedly violating the securities registration provisions of […]
Wellington artist donates carved gunstock to veteran's group
It took close to 110 hours for Wellington artist Chris Corley to carve an intricately detailed figure of an American Eagle into a gleaming wooden gunstock. He may never know who the eventual owner will […]