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All hail the queen: Broomfield’s Nichols sets Colorado girls’ pole vaulting record
LAKEWOOD — When Broomfield senior Lilly Nichols first cleared the 13 foot, 7 inch pole vault bar at the state track and field championships on Thursday afternoon, she had already won her third Class 5A crown and set a personal record. Then she kept going. Nichols decided to go...
Longmont’s ‘March for Childcare’ calls for more early childhood education
The Early Childhood Council of Boulder County will hold a “March for Childcare” event on Saturday in downtown Longmont. Community leaders and care providers will speak to the crowd at Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., from 9:15 to 10 a.m. about the need for more access to early childhood education. Speeches will be followed by a rally and march that’s scheduled to last until 10:30 a.m.
New Broomfield exhibit honors the 80th anniversary of D-Day
The Broomfield Veterans Museum is honoring the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The exhibit will commemorate the operation in which the U.S. and Great Britain invaded northern France in an effort to defeat Nazi Germany and its allies. The temporary exhibit, which features artifacts, maps, scale models, photographs and the personal...
Council votes to reallocate 2020 Community Development Block Grant funding
On Tuesday, Longmont City Council voted to reallocate 2020 Community Development Block Grant dollars for the eighth time. According to Molly O’Donnell, housing and community investment division director, the COVID relief dollars have shifted several times due to determining the eligibility of the projects it was assigned to. The...
Colorado Horse Rescue develops app to streamline animal evacuations
Evacuating from a wildfire — or any natural disaster — can be chaotic and frightening, especially for people with livestock. That's why a Colorado nonprofit has developed an app to streamline the process, hoping to save human and animal lives along the way. "What we're trying to do is get the right number of people with the right skills in the right places so these horses can be evacuated safely," said Katherine Gregory, CEO of Colorado Horse Rescue in Longmont. In collaboration with Initial Capacity, a Boulder-based software consultancy, CHR came up with "Horse Alert." Think of it like a ride share...
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