Staff Reports – GREELEY – A series of meetings has been set to gather oral histories from long time residents of neighborhoods in the University District. The next meeting will be in the Glenmere neighborhood. Staff from the Historic Preservation and Neighborhood Resource office will be recording oral histories from attendees. It will be [...]
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By Craig Masters Forty-five elementary, middle and high schools across Colorado have been recognized by the Anti-Defamation League for successfully completing the 2011-2012 school year program titled, “No Place for Hate.” This May marked the sixth year of the program here in Colorado and three local districts accounted for 21 of the 45 total Colorado [...]
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Staff Reports – Greeley – May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. This year, Healthy Weld 2020 joins the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports to challenge residents to get moving for health and to get active and fit during the month of May. According to the executive director of the President’s [...]
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The public will have just one chance, today at 5:30, to tell the members of the Larimer County Board of Health whether or not to spend public money supporting drug dealers and users in Northern Colorado. A plan for enabling drug users to have free access to needles is being seriously considered by the Board. [...]
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Staff Reports – Brentwood Middle School presents a spring musical, Into the Woods, Jr., April 4—6. The fractured fairy tale follows the story of a baker and his wife, who have been cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door. The pair set off on a quest in search of four special objects [...]
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Staff Reports – Students and staff at Chappelow K-8 Arts Magnet School proudly present The Pirates of Penzance, playing this Thursday and Friday at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $2, and are available at the door. About 50 middle school students are involved with the production, under the direction of teachers Will Pharis, Andrea [...]
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Staff Reports – The city of Evans is currently hiring lifeguards, swim instructors, front desk attendants, assistant managers and a pool manager. The Evans City Council has decided to open the Evans Municipal Pool for the 2012 season. Our re-opening party will start at 4pm on Friday, May 25. More information will follow. Memberships [...]
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by Jack Minor – A pro-family group has said makers of the Star Wars videogame caved into pressure from a small group of homosexual activists at the expense of children who could be exposed to explicit material. Approximately 1.7 million copies of “Star Wars: the Old Republic” have been sold. Bioware , [...]
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By Craig Masters An open letter To all Thompson School District custodial staff, families and friends: In response to dozens of requests since January, two articles have been published to bring attention to the failures of school districts across the country to successfully allow custodial services within public schools to be adequately managed by private [...]
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When the NOAA announced the results of its acidic study of the oceans last spring, I asked one simple question, “You claim the oceans are more acidic now than they have been in 800,000 years and it is due to human, specifically American, activity. Where was the human population that caused the acidic level to [...]
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By Craig Masters Monday afternoon February 20, the Greeley Gazette posted an informative article about the possibility that many computer users might lose their access to to the internet when, not if, the FBI shuts down servers it put into place last November to replace rogue computers operating malware called “DNS Changer.” Almost immediately readers [...]
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Rules providing information does not violate defendant’s 5th Amendment rightsby Matt Lacy– Civil-rights advocates have said a ruling by a Denver judge ordering a woman to unlock her computer for authorities chips away at constitutional protections in the digital age. Civil Liberty groups have been watching the case carefully saying it pits the rights against [...]
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by Peter Grady – Last week a federal judge in Denver slapped down a 10-claim complaint made by federal prosecutors against a peaceful abortion protestor in a case that has far reaching ramifications for those engaging in demonstrations across the country. As part of an ongoing assault on the rights of pro-life protestors, the Obama [...]
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by Craig Masters A media release by the energy industry association, Western Energy Alliance, includes information about testimony to be given today before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy & Environment. According to the hearing schedule, on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and [...]
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Movie originally scheduled to be released in time for Nov. elections by Jack Minor – The Pentagon has opened an investigation into accusations by a member of Congress that a liberal Hollywood filmmaker may have been given access to classified information for a movie on the death of bin Laden. Rep. Peter King, (R-N.Y.), chairman of [...]
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Company makes decision six months after being told of car catching fire by Matt Lacy – Months after being made aware of issues with the Chevrolet Volt catching fire, the company is advising owners to bring their cars to dealers for modifications. In an announcement Thursday, General Motors has said it is advising every Volt [...]
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DOJ claims Ken Scott doesn’t have Fifth Amendment rights against self-incriminationby Jack Minor – An abortion protestor is Colorado that is being prosecuted for passing out flyers outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Denver, has received legal help from a law firm that specializes in pro-life cases. Kenneth Scott has been defending [...]
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by Jack Minor – A Planned Parenthood program in New York that employs teenagers required them to attend a homosexual pride parade as a condition of employment, causing some to question the organization’s use of taxpayer dollars. The Planned Parenthood program, Seriously Talking About Responsible Sex (STARS) employs teenagers as “peer educators.” According to the organization’s [...]
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By Craig Masters Weld County news readers should be familiar with the name Stratfor Security. This is the Austin based international security ‘think tank’ that has been mentioned several times during the news coverage of the David Hartley shooting on Falcon Lake Reservoir on the Texas, Mexican border. On Christmas day the web site of [...]
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Staff Reports – School District 6 is seeking local businesses that can offer job shadowing and internship opportunities for high school juniors and seniors in 2012. Interested businesses are invited to send representatives to a breakfast meeting from 8—9 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 13, at the District 6 Administration Building to learn more about [...]
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Staff Reports – The Rodarte Community Center will host the 20th Annual Community Christmas Party on Saturday, December 10 from 10am-12pm. The event will be held at the Rodarte Community Center, located at 920 A Street in Greeley, and is free. The event will include a visit from Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, Pancho or Pancha [...]
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Greeley City crews have completed neighborhood curbside pick up of storm damaged tree limbs and will not be back to pick up limbs curbside. For those who missed the City pick up, they can take their tree limbs to the free drop site near Island Grove Park through December 9. The site, located at the [...]
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by Craig Masters – Transparency is a popular buzzword for politicians these days. But if the thick black smoke of the Wyoming state legislature’s transparency is allowed to spread south over Weld County – God help us all. According to a report posted October 26, on the website of the Wyoming Liberty Group by JP [...]
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Is there something to hide? Who is juggling the books? The transparency of a rock mentality of the Obama regime has spread like the proverbial rotten apple that spoils the whole bunch. In Colorado, the Public Employees Retirement Association is reported to be underfunded by $21billion. Taxpayers have to pay to make up the [...]
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Services blocked in Arab countries due to high level of encryption by Jack Minor Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research in Motion, which produces Blackberry handsets around the world, apologized to customers affected by worldwide outages. “Since launching Blackberry in 1999, it has been my goal to provide reliable real time communications around the world. We [...]
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Staff Reports – Frontier House and Mental Health America will be sponsoring Northern Colorado LEAD Day 2011, this Friday. Colorado Insurance Commissioner Jim Riesberg will be speaking on health care changes as a result of “Obamacare” this Friday, Oct. 14. Northern Colorado Legislative Education and Advocacy Day will be providing grass roots training, information [...]
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Staff Reports – The Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment (WCDPHE) will offer a second free Men’s Health Screening event that includes cholesterol, body mass index (BMI), blood sugar, and blood pressure. WCDPHE’s goal is to increase awareness about men’s health issues and to educate men and their families about the importance of [...]
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One of ten finalist couples to win a $ 15,000 wedding package sponsored by Greeley Events GroupStaff Reports A newly formed group of Greeley professionals, dubbed the “Greeley Events Group”, is sponsoring an on-line contest with the prize being a $ 15,000 wedding package for the winning couple. The local couples entered the contest via [...]
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Jimmy John’s said “way to give back to the community” by Jack Minor – During these difficult economic times local Jimmy John’s sub shops offered a grand bargain for lunch September 22nd; 8-inch long subs for $1. The two Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwich shops; one at Centerplace and one on 11th Ave, ran the special deal [...]
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Saturday, September 10, 2011, Greeley’s Centennial Park will be center of the potato universe. No, the President won’t actually be there in person, but he does send his best wishes to the friends of the Greeley museums, who sponsor this annual event as a major fund raiser. This is an affordable festival the whole family [...]
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Requirements for affected counties would include active outreach to minority communities by Jack Minor – Weld County has learned that data indicating if it is one of 16 counties in Colorado that will be required to provide election materials in Spanish will not be available in time for the 2011 elections. Weld County [...]
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Wallbuilders, David Barton set Oct. 2 to stand On October 2, 2011, pastors and churches will have an opportunity to participate in a rapidly growing movement to regain the relevance of the church. For decades, pastors and churches have wrongly been told they should not participate in the political world, but both the Bible and [...]
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Studio to release killing of Bin Laden movie in time to help Obama win re-election by Jack Minor A Hollywood filmmaker has reportedly been given unprecedented access to details of the “Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden” in order to release a film of the event just in time for the November elections. [...]
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