Posts Tagged ‘town’
Photo & Review by Stu Wright When I asked the press fleet manager what kind of vehicle was coming here for testing this week, he answered, “Soul, man”, and it brought to mind one of my favorite old songs by Sam & Dave – “Soul Man”. It was co-written by Isaac Hayes, of “Shaft” fame, [...]
Tags: Billboard Hot, car, control, Dave, DOHC, Grammy Award, highway, Isaac Hayes, list, model, OK, press, Sam, Sam Dave Soul Man, Sam Moore, Soul Man, television, top, town, vehicle
Israeli rocket damage, Israel news photo by Peter Grady – In what can only be described as an act of barbarism, Muslim terrorists in Gaza fired a barrage of missiles at Israeli men, women and children during the end of the school day to obtain maximum violence. The Israeli National News reported that [...]
Tags: Barbara, capital, country, daughter, day, end, fire, Golan Heights, home, Israel, Israeli National News, Muslim, National, news, Peter Grady, Sunday, Syria, time, town, week
by Jack Minor— In what appeared a throwback to another age, Faith Bible Baptist Church in Greeley hosted an unusual conference, men and their families who are engaged in a ministry going back to frontier days, the circuit riding preacher. During the settling of the American West, the small towns would [...]
Tags: age, America, Baptist, Baptist Church, BCRM, burden, century, church, circuit, Don Giffin, Faith Bible Baptist, Greeley, meeting, ministry, Old, part, pastor, time, town, Wyoming
by Brett Reese – I asked the editor of the Northern Colorado Gazette to reprint my letter of Feb 2011 to help us all decide whether or not to trust this administration… As easy and fun as it would be to air out the many silly antics my colleagues on the Greeley/Evans [...]
Tags: America, board, Brett Reese, district, District 6, Evans, Greeley, Greeley Evans, item, Lib Trib, member, property, Reese, report, self, system, tax, town, Tribune, year
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
The Town of Windsor on Monday closed Windsor Lake until further notice after swimmers there reported becoming ill. Melissa Chew, director of Parks, Recreation and Culture for the Town of Windsor said samples taken from the lake outside the beach out-of-bounds area Friday tested positive for the E. coli bacteria. She said additional testing was [...]
Tags: area, com, Friday, illness, Melissa, Melissa Chew, Read, story, testing, town, Tuesday, Windsor, Windsor Lake, www
by Brett Reese – After reading the Greeley tribune story of July 20th about raising property taxes to tear down and rebuild John Evans Middle school, I was convinced the three lattes a year sacrifice each of us would have to make for this school was an easy decision. And, as always, The Tribune couched [...]
Tags: Ave, BEST, board, building, District 6, Evans, grant, Greeley, help, issue, John, John Evans, location, property, side, story, tax, town, Tribune, use
RV Park manager says local firms afraid to take on project helping expand sewer facilityby Jack Minor – Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway said previous comments by the media attributing him as saying the county would never allow man camps was a misunderstanding of what he was trying to say. “What I told the media [...]
Tags: code, county commissioners, Greeley, Grover, highway, issue, land, man, oil, park, RV, solution, something, system, time, town, use, USR, Weld County, year
by Craig Masters Two days after activist Sandra Fluke testified to congress that she needed taxpayers to buy her birth control in order to be able to afford to keep up with the amount of sex she was having at Georgetown University, an organization named “eyesoncongress” scheduled a program its web site describes as “Teaching [...]
Tags: accountability, birth, control, district, e mail, Gardner, mail, Media, Media Matters, meeting, org, organization, program, Rush, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, School, town, use, web
Photos & Review by Stu Wright This past week I had the pleasure of test driving a new 2012 Chevy Volt four-door sedan. The Volt was painted “Viridian Joule,” the silvery green color that is the official color of the car. The color was so named by David Thomas of Sanford, FL [...]
Tags: car, charge, Chevy Volt, credit, David, David Thomas, DVD, gas, Goodyear Assurance, Goodyear Assurance Fuel Max, Max, Rodeway Inn, tax, Thomas, town, train, unit, Viridian Joule, week, XM
April 2, 2012 (GREELEY, CO) — DreamWorks Theatricals and NETworks Presentations, LLC. are pleased to announce that SHREK THE MUSICAL with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori, will play theUnionColonyCivicCenter inGreeley, on April 15 at 3:00 pm. An entirely new musical, which opened on Broadway on December, 2009, SHREK [...]
Tags: April, Business, Chris, CO, David, Good, Good People, Greeley, Jeanine Tesori, Jerry, Jerry Springer Opera, LLC, Make, MUSICAL, Project, SHREK, Stephen Sposito, Tim, town
by Peter Grady – The head of an “ecumenical alliance of Christians” says moving leftward politically is likely a key reason membership in the United Methodist Church, which was once the largest Protestant denomination in the US, and other mainline denominations continue to decline. In 2010, membership in the United Methodist Church was a little [...]
Tags: America, American, Christ, church, circuit, decay, drop, England, friend, George, George Whitfield, Institute, left, Mark Tooley, Methodist, Methodist Church, Peter, Peter Cartwright, town, united methodist church
by Stu Wright Remember when Peter Noone called out, “Second verse, same as the first!” between the choruses of “Henry the Eighth” by Herman’s Hermits? The song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965.It was a revision of British music hall star Harry Champion’s 1910 smash hit. I’ve made some modifications [...]
Tags: April, Billboard Hot, body, car, control, CVT, DOHC, foot, Harry Champion, Honey Nut Cheerio, Nissan Versa, second, SL, something, sound, star, system, town, week, year
By Craig Masters As the Presidential campaigns gain more attention and the republican contenders continue their relentless attacks on each other, a lesson about how Obama will be successful might be in order. Without cable, dish, satellite or whatever other pay to view system may be available these days, the alternative of free ‘over-the-air’ broadcast [...]
Tags: age, Although Daniel, American, Daniel, Daniel Boone, death, help, Kurt Russell, man, Obama, pay, pirate, Russell, scene, system, town, use, wife, word
by Craig Masters On January 17, the Greeley Gazette posted an article authored by Craig Masters recapping town-hall style meetings held in the area by U.S. Congressman, Cory Gardner. The Keystone XL pipeline was one of the topics the congressman addressed. His position on the Energy and Commerce Committee gave the audiences a rare opportunity [...]
Tags: agreement, area, Blomberg News, Canada, China, Congressman Gardner, Craig, Craig Masters, December, Gardner, Gazette, Greeley, Greeley Gazette, International Union, Japan, New York Times, Obama, oil, town, value
Staff Reports – January 19, 2012 (GREELEY, CO) It’s been almost thirty years since brothers, Jake and Elwood Blues, played by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, invited the world to join them on a ‘mission from God’ in The Blues Brothers movie. Now, thirty years later, the Blues Brothers’ live on in the Official Blues [...]
Tags: Blues Brothers, CO, Dan, Dan Aykroyd, Greeley, January, John, John Belushi, movie, music, Office, Official Blues Brothers Revue, Saturday, Saturday Night Live, show, Ticket Office, town, UCCC, UCSTARS, Wayne
The congressman noted that January 24, the scheduled date for the State of the Union address, will mark the 1000-day anniversary since the senate passed a federal budget. He explained that the current republican-led House of Representatives has sent several budget proposals to the democratic controlled Senate where each proposed budget has failed to receive [...]
Tags: agreement, budget, Canada, caption, China, Colorado, Colorado River, Congressman Gardner, control, debt, Gardner, industry, issue, Mexico, oil, Platte River, security, town, United States, water
Personhood USA is hosting a national tele-town hall meeting with the Republican presidential candidates this Tuesday evening. Individuals are encouraged by Personhood USA to sign up on their website to participate in the forum. The town hall conference will be held from 7 – 8:30 p.m. Mountain Time this Tuesday, Dec. 27. Personhood USA serves [...]
Tags: ballot, facility, foot, hospital, Kenneth, language, law, legislation, life, Oakland, Pastor Walter Hoye, Rick, Salem, Scott, show, sign, time, town, Tuesday, USA
Staff Reports – Are you looking for a unique holiday gift this year? Why not give the gift of health and family fun! December 15-January 31 you can get 10% off an annual membership at the Family FunPlex or the Greeley Recreation Center. Memberships are good at both facilities and include miniature golf at the [...]
Tags: Avenue, call, Center, com, December, Family, fun, gift, Greeley, Greeley Recreation Center, greeleygov.com, January, part, right, sale, Saturday, town, Vacation Station, www, year
“Knowing English key to succeeding in this country” official says by Jack Minor – A town trustee is standing firm amidst a media onslaught, stating that he is not a racist and his comments are actually intended to help Spanish-only speaking persons succeed in America. Recently the town of Gilcrest sent nearly 30 notices to [...]
Tags: America, Bob Gandelman, budget, burden, country, help, idea, incentive, issue, Jack, language, meeting, officer, pay, percent, someone, story, time, town, Tribune
BBC – “We ain’t got no jobs, no money … We heard that other people were getting things for free, so why not us?” explained E. Nan, surrounded by other youths in Hackney in east London. Google ‘British riots’ and you can read the details of riots across England in the King’s English. Many of [...]
Tags: Africa, America, BBC, caption, England, Google British, man, org, property, protest, respect, side, socialism, something, South Africa, television, town, US, use, width
Mike McCune In George Orwell’s 1984, government had made it a crime not to think as it wanted you to. It had broken down the family by having individual members report on other members. So everyone was essentially alone in his or her private battle with authority and particularly the Thought Police. [...]
Tags: AARP, Baby Boomers, control, country, debt, end, Euro Union, government, Greece, IMF, life, New York, path, pay, Social, Social Security, Social Security Permanent Trust Fund, Spain, SURPRISE, town
“Just a misunderstanding” church board member says By Jack Minor A local businessman has said that government officials in Wyoming removed a mobile home that he purchased from a resident’s property and burned it without warning. Merlin Dirks, General Manager of Blue Bird Mobile Homes inc., said in June he purchased a rare 1959 three [...]
Tags: Bible, church, Dean, February, government, home, idea, issue, June, Mike, month, property, reason, right, size, someone, something, stage, town, Wyoming
The faithful gather for the final Harry Potter installment Story and photo By Odil Macias Many faithful Harry Potter fans began gathering early at the Cinemark Theater in the Greeley Mall on Thursday in anticipation of the premier of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part two”. This movie is the last of the Harry [...]
Tags: alignleft, anything, caption, Cinemark Theater, end, environment, Greeley, Greeley Mall Security, Harry, Harry Potter, large crowd, movie, Odil Macias, photo, Rachel Best, show, something, Thursday, town, width
Teachers, other employees fear retaliation for talking to board members at Reese town hall meeting Story and photo By Jack Minor Former and current School District 6 employees spoke out during a town hall meeting held by Brett Reese saying they were afraid to discuss the problems in the district, fearing it might cost them [...]
Tags: anything, board, Brenda Pilch, care, coverage, district, Following Pilch, graduation rates, Greeley, greeley tribune, home, meeting, reason, Reese, speech, support, teacher, time, town, Tribune
Brett Reese, as an individual not as a school board member, will be holding an open town hall meeting for residents of Greeley/Evans District 6 on May 28th at 11:00 am at the Farr Library 1939 61st Avenue Greeley, CO 80634. Residents are encouraged to bring questions or concerns to the meeting. This will be [...]
Tags: Avenue, Avenue Greeley, board, Brett Reese, CO, District 6, Evans, Evans District, Farr Library, Greeley, Greeley Evans, Greeley Evans District, meeting, member, place, Reese, school board member, security, town, Tribune
The following is the statement that Brett Reese gave during the D6 Board meeting held Wednesday May 18 at 8am. The Board tried to convene an Executive Session at the beginning of the meeting, but Mr. Reese objected saying he “insists that this be an open meeting to the public”. The Board then retired to [...]
Tags: blood, board, Brett Reese, daughter, home, left, life, meeting, None, officer, Reese, School, School Board, self, session, sobriety, sobriety check, someone, town, woman
By Mike Bauman You have likely seen crews around town grinding lines in the pavement then filling them in with some black tar-like substance. These workers are conducting “crack sealing” on the streets in question. The greatest threat to an asphalt road is water. When a road is laid down, it flexes and moves slightly [...]
Tags: By Mike, By Mike Bauman, Mike, Mike Bauman, road, town, water
As usual, other “media” repeat lies; Not correct, company spokesman says by Jack Minor A spokesman from Noble Energy told the Gazette that they are currently hiring 30 employees for a new field office in Greeley. This clarifies a Tribune article that implied the office would hire 300. Based on an initial report in the Greeley [...]
Tags: CAMT, Colorado, Gazette, Greeley, Hewlett Packard, location, NASA, Noble Energy, park, Platteville, Space, Space Act Agreement, state, TAP, technology, The Colorado, The Gazette, time, town, Tribune
Story and photo by Jack Minor The Evans Police Department was awarded a plaque at a Garden City council meeting in appreciation of 23 years of police protection. Garden City is a statutory town less than one mile square. Because of its size, Garden City is unable to offer many of the services of a [...]
Tags: Aden Hogan, City, conduct, decision, Department, Evans, Evans Police, Evans Police Department, Garden City, Lyle Achziger, meeting, member, plaque, Police, Police Department, position, size, town, Ward, Weld County Sheriff Department
Auto Review By Stu Wright The Chevy Malibu nameplate was rolled out in the 1960’s when the Chevelle was in need of a new, upgraded subseries. It was named after the beachfront community in SoCal and featured patterned cloth seats, carpeting, and a dressier steering wheel. The Chevelle Malibu SS’s that were produced from 1966 [...]
Tags: Baghdad, car, Chevrolet Motor Division, Chevy Malibu, DOHC, door, GM, Greeley, LTZ, model, opinion, Pierce, Saddam Hussein, speed, SS, SUV, town, vehicle, Weight, Wright
I’m BR and the following commentary does not represent the current District 6 Board of Education….not that this sort of disclaimer has had any apparent relevance of my other recent, illuminating commentaries, but it evidently makes someone, somewhere feel better. As easy and fun as it would be to air out the many silly antics [...]
Tags: board, campaign, district, Education, Evans, fun, graduation, Greeley, Greeley Evans, item, Lib Trib, member, property, rate, Reese, report, someone, town, Tribune, year
Unfortunately, just not in District 6Story and photo By Jack Minor and Brett Reese Students of Great Falls and Charles M Russell High Schools in Montana are able to participate in a unique program that provides them with real life experience as they learn to build houses from the ground up. The 13 year-old program is a collaborative [...]
Tags: alignleft, building, caption, class, Cody Ricketts, experience, Great Falls, Great Falls High School, High, High School, home, house, life, program, right, School, size, someone, town, year
By Mike Bauman During Monday’s School Board work session, Superintendent Lang and Board President Trimberger discussed the wonderful strides the school district has taken to improve its food services program. Their proud accomplishments included removing chocolate milk from the schools. According to Lang and Trimberger, chicken nuggets are the next target. This exchange reminded us of [...]
Tags: Board President, Board President Trimberger, By Mike, By Mike Bauman, district, Doctor Seuss, friend, fun, help, Mike, Mike Bauman, program, School Board, session, Superintendent Lang, target, time, town, When Christmas, work
By Rev. Brad Just take one look around and you will see that there is a great battle in our culture. A battle some say is between the forces of good and evil. Though there is nothing new about this epic saga or east vs. west; right vs. wrong, in our modern culture of 24/7 [...]
Tags: Bible, By Rev, Christian, culture, end, evil, help, Islam, Jesus, life, Mount Matthew, movement, news, our, Rev. Brad, support, The Bible, The Coexist Foundation, town, way
© 2010 - 2013 Northern Colorado Gazette , PO Box 6, Greeley CO 80632 • All Rights Reserved •
| Powered By Zera Communications | Follow us |  |
 |  |
Entries(RSS)