Tag: Colorado Network
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Rising suicide rates prompt coordinated response in Routt and Moffat counties
By Tricia Stortz Special to The Gazette Routt and Moffat counties have been going through a difficult period. Over the past few years, residents have lost neighbors, coworkers and longtime community members to suicide, losses that hit hard in places where people often know one another by first name. Last year, 10 people in Routt…
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Fort Collins as one of USDA’s regional hubs: ‘It began to make sense’
FORT COLLINS – SeonAh Kendall was initially caught off guard when she got word that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had named Fort Collins as one of its regional hubs. That Fort Collins was being lumped in with larger metropolitan cities — Kansas City, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City and Raleigh, N.C. — as a selection…
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Federal funding suspended: Palisade sewage lagoon project in limbo
Overlooked by sloping vineyards and peach orchards, Palisade’s four sewer lagoons will soon stand empty without the $3 million in what is known as B2E (Bucket 2 Environmental Drought Mitigation) funding from the Bureau of Reclamation. In the 1960s, the town of Palisade built four sewer lagoons on a raised bank of the Colorado River…
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As lodging tax hikes hit ballots, Beaver Creek threatens to incorporate
BEAVER CREEK – Mountain counties across Colorado are jumping on the lodging-tax bandwagon at the polls this November following the passage last session of a bipartisan state bill (HB25-1247), but one ski county has run afoul of one of its largest tax sources over the issue. The Eagle County commissioners last month approved a Nov.…