Posts Tagged ‘parking’
Photo & Review by Stu Wright Kia Motors, based in South Korea, is the country’s second largest auto manufacturer, trailing only Hyundai, its one-third owner. As recently as 1986, Kia only produced 26 automobiles, but the total was 1.6 million last year. The two combined companies have exploded on the scene to become the world’s fourth [...]
Tags: AWD, car, Detroit Auto Show, door, driver, game, gas, GM, guidance, Hankook Optimo, Kia Motors, Kia Sportage, model, parking, road, Signal Red, South Korea, SX, TT, USB
Photo & Review by Stu Wright Volvo builds the XC60 in Ghent, Belgium, and the car has been the company’s best seller since its introduction in 2008. It is a compact crossover SUV that was unveiled at the 2007 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. I tested one this past week both in Denver and [...]
Tags: ABBA, AWD, car, climate, Denver, Front Range, Greeley, highway, IKEA, Mamma Mia, North, North American, parking, problem, roof, side, Super Trouper, SUV, USB, week
by Jack Minor – Many parents who went to drop their children off at school today were surprised to learn that District 6 had cancelled classes on Tuesday. At around 5 AM District officials made the decision to cancel classes because of the extreme cold, winds and blowing snow. District policy requires a [...]
Tags: AM, check, class, closure, Communications Director, day, decision, district, District 6, drop, FM, morning, parking, Principal Lazlo Hunt, Scott, show, snow, Theresa Myers, today, Tuesday
Photos & Review by Stu Wright Lexus has been in a position to offer the most popular luxury SUV since its introduction in 1998. My latest test car was the RX450h hybrid model available since 2009. It came in Stargazer Black metallic paint and featured saddle tan leather seating for five. This was a loaded RX, [...]
Tags: AWD, car, control, driver, Dunlop P235, Grand Trek Touring, LCD, LED, Mark Levinson, model, movement, parking, road, RX, side, sound, Stargazer Black, SUV, system, vehicle
by Craig Maasters It is only February, and already this year the administration has announced it is allowing the transfer to China of the high technology battery systems for weapons and defense guidance on which the American taxpayers invested millions of dollars and years of research and development. In the famous words of Hillary on [...]
Tags: America, American, ATF, China, Congress, Craig, debt, February, gun, justice, lot, money, news, Obama, parking, press, store, transfer, value, year
Photos and Review by Stu WrightOn Tuesday I received a new Lexus to test; the ES series hybrid available since early 2012. It came in “Deep Sea Mica,” blue metallic paint and it was quite attractive. I’ve previously tested six Lexus cars and SUV’s, and this ES350 looks like it may end up being my [...]
Tags: car, com, Deep Sea Mica, driver, end, ES, foot, GS, highway, mph, parking, process, road, Semi Aniline, speed, SUV, technology, Tuesday, Ultra Luxury, week
Photos & Review by Stu Wright 1st The first impression of this car was good. Front visibility! Nimble and quick, I had to check the specs to see it had no turbo. Black everywhere, but that’s OK; it looks pretty. The leather front buckets are supportive, and in the back there appears to be [...]
Tags: AWD, car, control, day, driver, EPA, Friday, highway, Kersey, lot, Mazda Adaptive Bi Xenon, morning, night, OK, parking, Pirate Radio, roof, SUV, system, Toyo P225
Photos and Review by Stu Wright The GMC Yukon XL is a version of the General Motors (GMC/Chevy) Suburban that has been around since 1935. In fact, several manufacturers offered a “suburban” for years, but GM landed an exclusive trademark on the name in 1988. For the 2007 model year, GMC rolled out the latest, [...]
Tags: Association, AWD, Bose Centerpoint, Chevy Suburban, Club, control, Denver, Denver Press Club, driver, Driver Shift Control, General Motors, GM, GMC, lot, model, parking, speed, Summit White, vehicle, Vortec V8
Photos and Review by Stu Wright The latest test car in my possession was the new (for 2013) Lexus ES350 sedan that came in Silver Lining Metallic. The interior included black Nuluxe leather appointed bucket seats up front with three passenger seating in the rear. This new ES350 design provides a whopping 4” of [...]
Tags: American, car, Cherry Creek, company, control, Denver, ES, foot, highway, LCD, Mark Levinson, model, parking, Silver, Silver Lining Metallic, speed, SUV, system, Weight, year
Photos & Review by Stu Wright The CT series sedan was introduced by Lexus in March of 2011. Last week I tested a 2012 model of this hybrid vehicle, a “Premium” edition with a Nebula Gray Pearl paint job. Since its introduction, I have been paying a little extra attention to the car, mostly because [...]
Tags: car, CT, Denver, EV, gas, highway, IKEA, lot, mph, Nebula Gray Pearl, night, parking, Pontiac Vibe, speed, store, Toyota Matrix, train, USB, week, Weight
Photo and Review by Stu Wright This white little Swedish number was waiting for Ruth and me at DIA upon our return from Chicago last week. In Latin, the word Volvo means “I roll”, so we rolled up to Greeley, and I was forced to familiarize myself with the controls in the dark (late arrival). [...]
Tags: AWD, car, City Safety, climate, DIA, driver, highway, list, lot, parking, program, roof, someone, speed, Sweden, system, USB, Volvo S60, week, word
Photos and Review by Stu Wright This past week in Illinois I was presented an Infiniti FX35 to drive around the state. Ruth and I picked it up at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and set sail to the Northwest towards Rockford. Our ultimate destination was Galena, Illinois, an old lead mining town that is [...]
Tags: AWD, car, Civil War, FX, Illinois, Limited Edition, model, parking, Phoenix, rest, road, roof, Ruth, speed, state, top, town, USB, vehicle, week
Two weeks after a red car is stolen from a Colorado Springs apartment parking lot, it appears outside a hotel east of Fort Collins. Several hours of undercover surveillance pass, but there’s no sign of the thief. Larimer County sheriff’s deputies fan out, some knocking on hotel-room doors while others wait near the exit of [...]
Tags: car, Collins, Colorado, Colorado Springs, evidence, Fort, Fort Collins, Honda Accord, Larimer County, lot, model, parking, percent, Plaza Hotel, Read, sign, story, vehicle
Photos & Review by Stu Wright Since Scion has chosen to feature donuts in its automobile advertising campaign, I decided to take a few of them out to Pirate radio 104.7 FM so that the radio personalities (George Gray and The Big Kahuna) and I could eat them and look over the Scion iQ, the latest [...]
Tags: car, control, CVT, DJ, door, driver, gas, George Gray, Goodyear Assurance, HD, highway, hub, lot, parking, right, side, Smart Car, suspect, The Big, week
Staff Report – GREELEY – The Greeley Historic Preservation Commission invites the public to a walking tour of the Highlights of Designated Properties in Cranford on Monday, July 9, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. Participants will visit some of the properties within the Cranford neighborhood that are designated on the Greeley Historic Register and learn [...]
Tags: Avenue, Betsy Kellums, City, corner, Greeley, Greeley Historic, Greeley Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Preservation, July, location, Meeker Home Museum, parking, SE, Staff Report, Street, Street Corridor, SW, tour, Wilshire Shopping Center
Photos and Review by Stu Wright I was pretty excited this last Monday about receiving the Infiniti luxury SUV for testing. The QX that arrived represented the second year of the third generation of QX56’s, and is the biggest Infiniti to date and first to be built in America. It’s Q lettering comes from [...]
Tags: Around View Monitor, Bridgestone Dueler, climate, control, Coors Field, degree, DVD, highway, Infiniti Intuitive Park Assist, Land Rover, parking, QX, second, side, SUV, system, vehicle, View, week, XM
by Craig Masters Obama’s visit to CU yesterday was the first visit by a sitting President since Dwight D. Eisenhower some 58 years ago. It would seem an event that rare would draw a crowd if for no other reason than it is such a rare event. But inside Coors Arena, this president was only [...]
Tags: area, Boulder, bus, campus, Coors Arena, Craig, Craig Masters, CU, event, Greeley, home, Katie Irvine, Obama, parking, place, problem, right, security, shuttle, Tuesday
by Jack minor – A pastor’s mother and her murderer were both shot and killed yesterday outside of a suburban Denver church. According to authorities the pastor’s mother was shot when she went outside the New Destiny Christian Center in Aurora just as services were ending Sunday. Police report the shooting happened after an argument between [...]
Tags: building, Center, Christian, church, Colorado, Delono Straham, Denver, Destiny Christian Center, hospital, Jack, Josephine, Josephine Eccles, lot, mother, officer, parking, pastor, shooting, Sunday
Review & Photos by Stu Wright Last week in Phoenix I was able to test drive a 2012 Infiniti SUV, courtesy of PageOneAuto of Chandler, Arizona. Carrie Owens, of POA, was nice enough to have the vehicle waiting at Sky Harbor airport for my visit to the Valley of the Sun where Ruth and I [...]
Tags: AWD, AZ, BMW, car, class, DVD, flight, FX, highway, Japan, KC, Nissan Motors, parking, Phoenix, POA, Ruth, spring, SUV, vehicle, week
by Stu Wright The new, bigger, Toyota Prius V (vee) was introduced in our country in October of 2011. It was designed as a station wagon/multi-purpose vehicle to complement the Prius lineup. The Prius has been around since 1997 and is America’s number one selling hybrid. In fact, it accounted for almost 51% [...]
Tags: America, Auto Review, car, climate, control, country, Estes Park, EV, gas, lunch, model, nancy pelosi, night, October, parking, Ruth, side, Toyota Prius, USB, week
By Stu Wright Lexus automobiles have been shipped to the United States since 1989. The company is a division of Toyota and is in fact headquartered in Toyota City, Japan. They initially shipped the highly successful LS-400 to our shores and it was a pretty good seller right off the bat. The nomenclature is [...]
Tags: Auto Review, car, control, corner, Dan Seals, ES, highway, Japan, Lexus Enform, LS, lunch, Mark Levinson, model, month, parking, right, show, Smoky Granite Mica, speed, week
Staff Reports – The Greeley City Council is currently soliciting applications from community residents who are interested in serving on an ad hoc committee to help review the City’s Code Enforcement program and services that relate to nuisance and zoning violations on properties, such as weeds, trash, parking, landscaping and so forth. The work [...]
Tags: City, City Council, code, Code Enforcement, com, Community Development Department, Council, December, Greeley, greeleygov.com, hearing, help, January, parking, process, program, Staff Reports, support, The Greeley City Council, work
by Jack Minor – A group which helps journalists find answers to questions about religion issues they may cover is offering $5,000 scholarships for religion classes. The Religion Newswriters Association bills itself as the world’s only association for journalists who write about religion in the mainstream news media. The organization says its [...]
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Ignoring over charges cost most of us a few dollars a month By Craig Masters How often do you leave a grocery store and later notice you were overcharged for an item or two by just a few cents? Most of us have, but few of us decide the value of the refund is worth [...]
Tags: America, caption, charge, day, effort, end, Free, grocery, item, King Soopers, month, parking, right, sale, size, store, time, value, width, wife
by Stu Wright Volkswagen was originally founded in 1937 by the German Labor Front, a Nazi trade union. The venture included production of an inexpensive car for the common man along with state-sponsored financing (“five marks a week you must put aside, if in your own car you want to ride”). Until then [...]
Tags: alignleft, area, caption, car, check, door, end, line, lot, lunch, model, parking, problem, speed, top, Volkswagen Jetta, VW, Weight, width, year
Greeley Police offer tips to repel criminalsby Vanessa Dominguez Summertime has seemed to ignite the theft bug in many criminals. But before you order “Trunk Monkey” - the hilarious commercial of a monkey-in-the-trunk-protector, consider the following points. According to Greeley police spokesman, Sergeant Joe Tymkowych, people can ensure they are not a victim of theft by [...]
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Click below for pictures of itemsPress Over the past five weeks an investigation into an organized theft ring has been ongoing with initial arrests coming this past weekend resulting in two search warrants and a substantial recovery of property taken in numerous vehicle trespass cases in the Greeley area. The Greeley Police Department Special Enforcement [...]
Tags: area, Colorado, com, Department, DOB, Frontier, Frontier School, Greeley, information, investigation, lot, parking, Police, Police Department, property, School, search, vehicle, warrants, WCSO
I’m not in the habit of kicking dogs. The one dog I’ve been hired by the voters of Greeley/Evans to kick is this school district. Of course this is one ugly animal. I’m still in this dogfight, which usually ends with me on the bottom of a dog pile, but there are a couple [...]
Tags: Bob, Current Monfort, dog, downtown, Evans, FM, Greeley, lot, money, movement, parking, reaction, right, Tointon, Tom, Tom Norton, top, UNC, work, year
Renfroe encourages members at ground breaking service Story and photo by Jack Minor At a time of economic turmoil; rising gas prices, uncertainty in the housing market and unemployment still high, one Greeley church is going against the grain with plans to build a new, larger facility. Faith Bible Baptist Church was founded 40 years [...]
Tags: Baptist, Brown, building, church, day, economic downturn, facility, Jack, Jack Brown, Joyce Fleck, lot, money, morning, parking, pastor, Roy Bush, School, Sunday, Sunday School, time
By Mike Bauman As early as 8:45 on Thursday April 14, parents were lining up to enroll children into West Ridge Academy. At that time, there were approximately a dozen cars with waiting parents sitting in them in the parking lot of Grace Church, which is adjacent to the future sight of West Ridge. Mountain [...]
Tags: Academy, Breaking News, By Mike, By Mike Bauman, Grace, Grace Church, line, lot, Mike, Mountain, Mountain View, mountain view academy, parking, Police Department, Thursday, Thursday April, View, West, West Ridge, West Ridge Academy
hmmmm, is that Monfort or Tointon??Matt Andrews - Greeley and Evans both have taxpayer money they are preparing to squander. Whenever taxes are proposed to be raised, or needlessly spent, it should be a knee-jerk reaction of the community to examine the respective governing agencies. Starting with the efficiency of their respective operations and moving [...]
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Story and photo by Jack Minor – An officer on the Evans Police Force was presented with the Officer of the Year award at the city council meeting April 5th. William Haslett, an officer with over 9 years experience in the department, was given the Officer of the Year award by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars [...]
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Not an option to refine current budget; money must come from higher taxes The Greeley city engineer said he personally would like to see a $5 or $6 gasoline tax to properly fund street repair, saying that with the current funding system the city could end up spending the entire budget amount for patching in [...]
Tags: America, budget, City, concept, end, engineering, Europe, expectancy, gas, Greeley, life, Loveland, money, parking, pay, road, side, Steve Bagley, tax, year
by Vanessa DominguezThe Greeley City Council voted down the traffic calming surcharge. In the past, anyone with a three point traffic ticket had to pay the surcharge. There are similar surcharges to court costs, probation, drug and alcohol offenses, and deferred sentencing These will remain in place. The Traffic Calming Surcharge was created in 2003 [...]
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by Vanessa Dominguez Texting, talking, and even e-mailing while driving has become an increasingly dangerous day-to-day event that most engage in frequently. According to a recent news story published by KKTV, last year 6,000 teens died as a result of texting while driving. In surveys, as many as two out of every three people admit to [...]
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