Tag: Lafayette
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‘Brews with Roos’ event combines craft beer with kangaroos in Colorado
Want to meet a kangaroo? Your chance to do so is coming up next month. An event dubbed ‘Brews with Roos’ is set to take place at Lafayette’s Odd13 Brewing from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on November 8, hosted in partnership with Kangaroo Ranch. Kangaroo Ranch will be bringing their animals to the brewery…
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Blue Canyon Technologies’ new satellite might have a role in Golden Dome and other space applications
A small satellite company is going (just a little) big. Blue Canyon Technologies, a Lafayette-based small satellite manufacturer, unveiled its Saturn-400 last week. The craft can fill a variety of roles and may be part of the ongoing Golden Dome effort, a new missile defense shield planned for the nation. Golden Dome, which lacks an…
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Motherhood wasn’t part of the mission for first Black female fighter pilot, until it was
Rochelle Kimbrell knew by fourth grade what she wanted to do with her life, and spent the next 15 years on a trail-blazing trajectory of singular purpose. For the first Black female fighter pilot in the history of the U.S. Air Force, becoming a mother was an entirely different kind of mission, an unknowable challenge…
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10th Circuit upholds immunity for Lafayette officers who used dog to bite unarmed man
Lafayette police officers who deployed a dog to bite an unarmed, allegedly unconscious man for 15-20 seconds cannot be held liable for excessive force, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled last week. Adrian Martinez was lying in the fetal position in a locked storage closet when police broke the door and immediately told…
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Lafayette Police investigate homicide, suspect identified
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Police are investigating a homicide after finding a man dead and a woman injured, both with gunshot wounds, in a Lafayette home, the Lafayette Police Department said in a release. Lafayette police responded to a report of a shooting in Lafayette at 3 a.m. Saturday. They reported to the Copper Stone apartment complex at 750 S.…
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2 Colorado companies plan to lay off hundreds
Houston-based Chord Energy Corp. and Lafayette-based Planterra Foods plan to layoff 225 Colorado workers in coming weeks, according to notices the companies filed with the Colorado Secretary of State’s office. Chord will lay off 104 employees as it closes its Denver office, located at 1700 Lincoln Street. Denver-based Whiting Petroleum and Houston-based Oasis Petroleum merged…
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Blue Canyon Technologies unveils expanded small satellite manufacturing factory
Lafayette-based aerospace company Blue Canyon Technologies on Wednesday unveiled its recently expanded “cubesat” factory in Boulder, which will eventually allow for the production of up to 85 small satellites per year. Blue Canyon, a Raytheon Intelligence & Space (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary, doubled the manufacturing space at the Boulder factory, off Airport Road, to 31,000 square…
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Broomfield high student killed, four others injured in crash in Lafayette
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One Broomfield High School student was killed and four others were injured in a crash in Lafayette on Thursday. Three of the students, all males, remained hospitalized as of Saturday afternoon, said Lafayette police Administrative Sgt. Jeremy Molander. None of the victims have been identified. …
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Disaster assistance center for victims of Marshall fire to close
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Boulder County Disaster Assistance Center in Lafayette is scheduled to shut down Saturday after serving victims of the Marshall fire for nearly three weeks. The center’s closure comes as officials said they are shifting their focus to longer-term recovery efforts in the aftermath of…
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Colorado native Jessica Watkins making history with planned flight to space station
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Twenty-three years after the International Space Station launched, Jessica Watkins, a Lafayette native, will become the first Black woman to stay on the space station for a long-duration mission. Two Coloradans are on the short list to travel to the moon. NASA Astronauts Matthew Dominick…