1 in 5 teachers holds a second job to make ends meet
In Colorado, average salary lags behind national average
DATE: Jul 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education
KELLY RAGAN
Modern Band Summit teaches students and teachers to love music
FORT COLLINS (AP) – Mariana Henke stood barefoot while strumming her black guitar on stage. She played several original songs as teachers from across the country listened.
More th...
DATE: Jul 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education
Fort Collins vet treats dogs, exotic animals with stem cells
FORT COLLINS – Tootle used to hate going to the vet.
The purebred dachshund didn’t like the humans poking and prodding his nose with all kinds of different medicines.
B...
DATE: May 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Fort Collins vet treats dogs, exotic animals with stem cells
FORT COLLINS (AP) – Tootle used to hate going to the vet.
The purebred dachshund didn’t like the humans poking and prodding his nose with all kinds of different medicines. ...
DATE: Mar 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Burmese refugee family to get home from Habitat for Humanity
GREELEY (AP) – Marry Naing grew up in a refugee camp in Thailand. No one had cars. There were no big buildings. There was no electricity. When she looks back on her childhood, she remembers ...
DATE: Oct 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Veteran works to restore helicopter he flew in Vietnam
GREELEY (AP) – The bodies of two old helicopters sit uncovered on Bob Fritzler’s property. They tower over him as he walks by them on his way to his large garage.
He had to use a ...
DATE: Jul 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Thrift shop owner sells medical supplies
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) – Heather Bennetts got her daughter’s favorite mobile chair at GoodHealthWill. It’s an old chair. Bennetts bought it used from her own store. Though it has some years beh...
DATE: May 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Greeley man helped design Svalbard World Seed Vault
GREELEY (AP) – A concrete triangle juts out of the side of a mountain in Svalbard, Norway. It could almost fade into the mountain when it’s covered in snow in the winter months or even when ...
DATE: Mar 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
From mobile shop, man removes gang tattoos for young people
GREELEY (AP) – Jesus Bujanda and his wife, Gayedine, got the idea to open up a tattoo removal business thanks to their nephew. He’d been incarcerated and had a big neck tattoo. He’d had his ...
DATE: Feb 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Couple makes old-time ice cream on hot day in Greeley
GREELEY – Making ice cream used to require a hand crank, ice, salt and a lot of elbow grease.
Marvin and Violet Knopp, both 85, brought some of those old methods back for the Adve...
DATE: Jun 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News
