Feb 17 2025
In February, Governor Polis, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), and Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) announced grant recipients for the Outdoor Regional Partnerships Initiative (RPI) awarding $1.17 million dollars to coalitions around the state. Regional Partnerships convene community leaders from across outdoor recreation and conservation sectors to ensure that Colorado’s wildlife, recreation opportunities, and outdoor resources …
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Feb 10 2025
Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine. Through later folk traditions, it has also become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the …
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Feb 01 2025
Would you want to live to 150? The question sounds hypothetical. But thanks to a handful of scientific breakthroughs that have emerged in just the past two years, it might not be. In 2023, Tony Wyss-Coray and his team at Stanford University were able to calculate the rate of aging of 11 major organs using …
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Jan 27 2025
Today, the Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budget released its quarterly economic forecast. “Today’s forecast shows that Colorado’s economy remains strong, with excellent wage growth, slowing housing costs, and healthy reserves. While this economic forecast shows potential challenges could emerge, Colorado’s budget environment remains tight, and the reality is that the legislature must make …
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Jan 20 2025
Attorney General Phil Weiser has joined a coalition of attorneys general in sending a letter to the Federal Communications Commission in support of rules that would require Internet, cable, voice, and broadcast satellite providers to take some of the pain out of routine customer service calls and allow for better customer choices. The Colorado Office …
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Jan 01 2025
Happy New Year and welcome to 2025! We’re excited to share this New Year with you. We continue our support of our Front Range counties while bringing local news from your areas. From our inception over 33 years ago, we have heard how much you appreciate our support of local advertisers, activities, events, celebrations and …
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Jan 01 2025
Cheers to the New Year! Maybe this is the year to embrace something new. Or, it may be enough to live these next 365 days to the fullest without much change. Perhaps this is the year to stop waiting for just “the right time” whatever that might be. Life’s full of needed waiting time some …
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Dec 23 2024
Christmas or Feast of the Nativity is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world’s nations is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians as …
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Dec 16 2024
The annual ceremony honoring the memory and service of our veterans and first responders is a moving tribute that takes part in the National Wreaths Across America program to “Remember, Honor, Teach.” Many participating cemeteries in Northern Colorado and the United States have the annual ceremony displaying the $17 wreaths at many participating cemeteries. Many …
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Dec 09 2024
Colorado Gives Foundation is a community foundation with a mission to make good things happen by connecting people, ideas, and nonprofits. Statewide, we created ColoradoGives.org, a year-round giving platform that makes it easy for individuals and businesses to support nonprofits, and for nonprofits to raise the funds they need to grow their impact. Last year, …
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Dec 02 2024
Good news for many Medicare enrollees: Average monthly premiums for Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage plans will fall in 2025. The average monthly premium for a stand-alone Part D prescription plan is projected to be $40 next year, a decline of $1.63, or nearly $20 annually, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) …
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Nov 25 2024
The Thanksgiving holiday’s history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation in the early 1500s. It includes the harvest festival in New England that occurs well before the late-November date on which the modern Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated. Pilgrims and Puritans who emigrated from England in the 1620s and …
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