By Jared Fiel On Feb. 1, the Lunar New Year was celebrated as the Year of the Tiger, but for the city of Fort Collins, which hosted its second-in-a-row virtual State of the City event Tuesday night, this is clearly the year of the butterfly. For a little over an hour,...

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Fort Collins Medicinal Herb Farm Launches Medicine Farm School
Berchta Botanicals expands resilient farm programming to offer continuing education for adults. Berchta Botanical’s flagship program in the agroecology of medicinal plant growing combines a mix of grounded theory, science, academic instruction, and hands-on learning...
Lovely Little Meet-cutes
These NOCO couples found love in adorable ways By Jared Fiel In romantic comedy movies, there are certain things you can kind of guarantee are going to happen: the main couple will have funny friends who hate each other, the couple will probably get back together...
2018 Rapids Draft Pick Thomas Olsen Signs with Hailstorm FC
Goalkeeper who represented USA at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup gets the gloves in NoCo Goalkeeper Thomas Olsen, who backed up current Manchester City stopper Zack Steffen with the USA at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup and was a third-round draft pick by the...
Check out Dearfield: The town built on hope
By Jared Fiel Driving east of Greeley on US 34, you see a lot of…well, nothing. The mostly one-lane highway usually hosts truckers and other drivers just trying to get between Greeley and Interstate 76 as fast as possible. But along this lonely road is a place...
Day-tripping in Downtown Fort Collins
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Day-tripping in Greeley
A cowboy town. An art town. A burgeoning foodie town. A music town. Downtown Greeley is full of historic charm, unexpected urban delights and high drama artwork.
Day-Tripping in Johnstown
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Day-Tripping in Loveland
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