Fort Collins, CO – Fort Collins residents can now add one more material to their recycling bins: paper cartons! Starting immediately, Fort Collins residents can include food and beverage cartons in their curbside recycling bins. In addition, these cartons can also be recycled at the commingled containers bins at the City of Fort Collins’ Recycling[continue reading...]

Fort Collins, CO – Recycling opportunities for Fort Collins businesses and apartment complexes just got easier thanks to a new program called WRAP. The Waste Reduction and Recycling Assistance Program is a municipal program by the City of Fort Collins to encourage businesses and apartment complexes to recycle and compost. WRAP consists of rebates, free[continue reading...]

At approximately 1:00 am on March 5, 2012, Sheriff’s Deputies and wildland firefighters from several area fire departments responded to a report of a fire near the 4 mile marker of Lefthand Canyon. A two acre fire was found approximately one and a half miles north of the 4000 block of Lefthand Canyon, situated on[continue reading...]

Gov. Hickenlooper, The Denver Post and Viaero Wireless steer two-wheelers east to “Pedal The Plains”. Gov. John Hickenlooper, in partnership with The Denver Post and Viaero Wireless, announced a recreational Eastern Plains bicycle tour called “Pedal The Plains” to take place this fall. “Pedal The Plains will be a one-of-a-kind Colorado cycling event celebrating the[continue reading...]

From vintage tractors and picturesque sunsets to happy hogs and rolling wheat fields, the winning pictures from the fourteenth annual “Colorado…it’s Agricultural” Photography Contest showcase the spirit of Colorado agriculture. “All of the judges commented on the high technical quality of this year’s entries,” said Wendy White, marketing specialist at the Colorado Department of Agriculture.[continue reading...]

Fort Collins, CO – Residents of Fort Collins can now rely on a new program that helps individuals and families breathe easier. Healthy Sustainable Homes is a free, volunteer-driven program designed to assist families improve the indoor air quality of their homes. Residents can benefit from free, in-depth home health assessments conducted by experts and[continue reading...]

FORT COLLINS, CO. January is National Radon Action Month. Radon is a radioactive gas responsible for approximately 1,400 Colorado cancer deaths each year. It’s a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that enters homes and other buildings through cracks in the floor or spaces around utility pipes. It accumulates unless properly vented, and long-term radon exposure is[continue reading...]

FORT COLLINS – Help save landfill space by recycling your Christmas tree instead of throwing it in the trash! This holiday season, residents of Fort Collins and Larimer County will once again have the opportunity to recycle their post-holiday, undecorated Christmas trees. From December 26, 2011, through January 17, 2012, residents will be able to[continue reading...]

LAKEWOOD – On January 3, 2012, the City of Lakewood will host the All America City Quilt Exhibit at the Civic Center Atrium in Lakewood. The City of Lakewood has the honor of being one of the 25 finalists who contributed to this project. The Quilt will be on exhibit until January 6th for the[continue reading...]

LITTLETON – The non-profit “Friends of Roxborough State Park” have created the Barbara Fritts Scholarship Fund to pay for transporting economically disadvantaged school children, pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, to the park for a special program by a park volunteer naturalist. Fritts was a Roxborough State Park Volunteer Naturalist from 2003-2011. She was devoted to teaching[continue reading...]