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The Longmont Leader reached out to candidates of the races listed in our voter’s guide with a list of questions. Each response will be published as it is received and may be edited for clarity and/or length.

A triceratops skull, nicknamed Pops, is leaving its home in Greeley and heading to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where it will be studied by a team led by Joe Sertich, the museum’s curator of dinosaurs. 

Kristin Hefflon, the district’s Student Services coordinator, said counselors have formed a community to swap knowledge and expertise. All of which can be used to aid students who might fear going back to brick-and-mortar classrooms after a month of online learning.

The counselors are coming on board through a $930,899 grant from the Colorado Department of Education’s School Counselor Corps Grant Program. The three-year initiative will fund an additional full-time counselor at Skyline High, Trail Ridge Middle and Mountain View Elementary schools.

A daily crime report in Longmont.

Record number of people have signed up with the Colorado Secretary of State's Office to work the polls and hundreds are filling roles in Boulder and Weld counties.

Creating wildlife habitats among crops helps yield a more fruitful agricultural ecosystem.

Children ages 2 to 5 raced through Willow Farm Park on bikes made by Strider Sports International, Inc. The no-pedal, two-wheel balance bikes are meant to ease the transition to traditional bikes for young children, rather than relying on training wheels or tricycles. Bike riders use their feet to push themselves forward.

The forum will be livestreamed on Facebook and Youtube.

Prescription drugs were involved in nearly a third of overdose deaths in 2018. For a point of reference, only 3,442 people died from prescription drug overdoses in 1999.