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When additional vaccine doses become available during Phases 2 and 3 in the spring and summer, local health care providers will be invited to enroll in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Vaccination Program

The Longmont farm this year was honored as a Community Food Champion by the National Farm to School Network, and also received a Good Food Farmer & Purveyor of the Year award from Good Food 100 Restaurants,

Since the 1950s there has been varying recognition of the need for governments to provide extremely low-cost or subsidized housing. This need has been addressed piecemeal, with different levels of government taking different parts of the responsibility. There were spectacular failures, but we are getting better at it. Longmont is working on it.

Bipartisan legislation passed last week clears the way for the gift to the park, which will provide protection for the region’s high-elevation ecosystem and connectivity to three popular trails.

A daily crime report in Longmont.

The rink is divided and the practice schedule is shortened, but young players can still hit the ice at Roosevelt Park.

A daily crime report in Longmont

Weld County last week extended the amount of time people can live in their RVs as a means of social distancing or quarantining during the pandemic. Longmont's new ordinance aimed at keeping RVs from parking on city streets goes into effect Friday.

A deadly pandemic was far from the only thing that left its mark on a tumultuous year in Colorado politics.

I realize that being able to donate anything this year is a privilege.  For those of us that want to do more and have both limited capacity and means to contribute, your local community foundation can be a great ally in supporting your community.