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Oldest Surviving “Beet Shack” Threatened

Posted in In the news, Modest or alternative living, Places, Preservation and renewal, tagged , , on February 12, 2010 | 7 Comments »

The Sugar Beet industry was a booming industry in Fort Collins early days. Around the turn of the 20th Century, workers were recruited from Nebraska, Kansas, and the Volga Region of Russia to work in the Beet Fields. The ‘Germans from Russia’, as these workers were affectionately called were hard working and experienced workers, mostly [...]

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Greeley pipeline: Should Larimer County get more say?

Posted in In the news on November 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »

By now you know about how the City of Greeley’s current pipeline project is threatening local natural and historic resources. And because of the way water law is historically structured, there’s not much Larimer county elected officials or residents can effectively say about that.
But that could change tomorrow night, Monday, Nov. 2. The County Commissioners [...]

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Do we still need the Food Co-op?

Posted in Grow your own, In the news, Vintage commercial on September 10, 2009 | 17 Comments »

Beet Street, an enterprise formed to bring tourist dollars to downtown Fort Collins, recently announced a “Homegrown Fort Collins” event for late September.  It has something to do with eating local. And by that they mean eating at local restaurants, or eating from local farms, or drinking local beer.  But among its partners for the [...]

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Fort Collins Historic Preservation Endangered?

Posted in In the news, Preservation and renewal, tagged on September 1, 2009 | 7 Comments »

The city plans to cut one of its preservation positions. People who know about such things tell me that it means we’ll still have plenty of regulation, but no time for incentives. This could be a big blow to Fort Collins historic preservation. You can only regulate demolition for so long, before buildings become too run down to save. Some of us plan to show up tonight at City Council to ask for reconsideration. Public comment is from 6:00-6:30 pm at 300 LaPorte Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80521. If you care about such things, we’d like you to show up. Speak, or just be present. It will mean a lot to those who oversee the historic integrity of Fort Collins.

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Colorado: America’s Uranium Basket

Posted in In the news, tagged , , on August 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »

The olden days were a simpler time, I’ve heard. And now I have proof: From the 1952 “Vacation Issue” of Colorado Wonderland magazine. “Colorado, America’s Uranium Basket,” must have seemed like a fresh article idea for a magazine that usually kept to trout fishing, skiing, and hunting.

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