Downtown Greeley is a nice night on the town, or perhaps a great way to spend a weekend afternoon. But West Greeley is home.
Dan England
Dan England has worked for Colorado media for nearly 25 years, including 20 at the Greeley Tribune. During his time at the Tribune he won more than 100 state and national awards, including Best of Show from the Colorado Press Association in 2015. Dan loves to write about the outdoors, as they are not just a job but an adventure: He has completed more than 20 marathons and 15 ultramarathons in addition to climbing more than 200 peaks, including all the 14ers in Colorado and Mount Rainier in Washington. Dan also plays trombone, but his wife, Valerie Vampola, deserves the spotlight more, as she sings for living, doing gigs as a solo artist and with Katie Quick in addition to guest appearances with bands across Colorado and teaching with the Loveland Academy of Music. Dan has three children, Jayden and his twin girls, Andie and Allie, and a heeler, Pepper, who in addition to training with him ran her first trail marathon last year in western Kansas.
Selected works by the author:
Something Good in the Neighborhood: Band of Brothers
When four Fanning brothers were slated to form their own track relay team in mid-May for Frontier Schools in Greeley, they didn’t know what all the fuss was about. They’d been doing things like that their whole lives.
Entering the Market
Small businesses, especially local food vendors and producers, find success in a growing number of farmers markets
Something Good in the Neighborhood: Angelica Aldridge
As the Russian invasion approached, Angelica Aldridge’s worries about her home country grew a little sharper every day, until she heard the news that Putin planned to attack the military bases first. That’s when her worries morphed into nightmares.
Something Good in the Neighborhood: Tim Anderson
Pain Maker and Dream Builder
Go with the Flow
By Dan England - Margo Karsten is an optimistic person, so she thought the adult ballet class she was preparing to enter for the first time would be full of women like her. Instead, she walked into a studio full of 25-year-olds. Karsten had nothing in common with...
Bee Business
By Dan England - One of Lisa Boesen’s life missions is to help beekeepers and their hives not only survive but thrive. And one of the first things she recommends is not starting the way she did. Boesen had a friend moving to Norway who had a couple hives. Boesen had...
A Place to Play Together
Neighborhood parks act as a haven for harried parents because of the way they burn their kids’ energy while somehow recharging their own, and Bowling visits them as often as she can. But a trip to the park isn’t a walk down the block for Bowling, as least not when Miles, one of her twin boys who will turn 5 in a month, asks to go.
Something Good in the Neighborhood
Jim Stranberg - Million Dollar Grease Monkey By Dan England Many years ago, the phone in Jim Stranberg’s unassuming Loveland auto repair shop rang with a call from a guy who spotted some potential treasure on eBay: The parts to a vintage Bugatti car. The man probably...