Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local News

“It’s a tough decision,” said Executive Director Mardi Moore said. “It doesn’t make sense to renew a lease on a space when we don’t know when we can use it again.”

From January to June 2019, the OUR Center issued 293 vouchers for rent or utility assistance. During the same time period in 2020, that number increased to 731.

“With the hybrid model we have a series of things to mitigate risk,” Superintendent Don Haddad said. “We know we will never fully mitigate 100% of all risk.”

La segunda fase de este programa, la cual proporcionará subsidios para negocios de minorías, ha recaudado $70,000 dólares de los $100,000 que quiere recaudar, comentó Eric Hozempa, el director ejecutivo de la Fundación Comunitaria de Longmont.

“We are thrilled to be able to adapt this much-loved event so that, even during this challenging time, our community can enjoy art by local artists while being safe and healthy. The arts are needed more now than ever,” Elaine Waterman, Firehouse Art Center’s executive director, stated in a news release.

The library reopens Thursday with limited hours and service. Popular curbside delivery and virtual programming started after the building closed in March also will continue.

In an email Tuesday, the library put out a call for oral histories to be part of a local project dubbed #StrongmontStories, Sharing in Place.

The majority of the 11-member task force will be women and people of color. Representatives from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, college students, senior citizens and the unhoused also are sought for the board. 

Sarah Morgan took over formal ownership of Martinis on July 1. Now when she talks about her hopes for the restaurant, a lot of her statements revolve around what she wants to serve customers and what it’s been like to welcome them back after COVID-19 closures.

The second phase of the program, which will provide grants to minority-owned businesses, has reached $70,000 of its $100,000 goal, said Eric Hozempa, executive director of the Longmont Community Foundation.