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Record heat (the hottest of the summer) and a period of thick smoke will be pushed aside by a record-setting cold front around 5 p.m. Monday that brings in snow and bitter cold.

COLab intern and Stanford MA grad Max Lee analyzed hundreds of fundraising emails from the Gardner and Hickenlooper Senate campaigns and came up with this analysis of their partisan wording.

Colorado Fourteeners Initiative estimated that hiker days fell to 288,000 from 353,000 in 2018.

Although the district has provided the necessary technology for teachers to reach students, virtual PE classes still have their challenges.

“I lived and breathed the work on this building for four years and I think everybody involved with this did a fantastic job,” Laura Hess, executive director of special education for the St. Vrain Valley School District, said. “It’s amazing.”

Hosted by the Longmont Museum’s curator of history, Erik Mason, tours will hit historic stops along Main Street and Third Avenue. 

Saturday’s Longmont Main Street Chalk Festival was a part of a revamped Longmont ArtWalk Summer on the Streets series put on by the Firehouse Art Center. Instead of a giant event that shuts down vehicle traffic in the heart of downtown, smaller celebrations were scheduled on the sidewalks this year.

A daily crime report in Longmont.

Traffic deaths rose by just 1% over the first six months of 2020, from 256 last year to 259 this year, according to preliminary data from CDOT. But the fatality rate per vehicle mile traveled jumped by 20%, to just over one death per 100 million miles. 

Environmental engineer Kyle Bibby is coordinating a nationwide research network sponsored by the National Science Foundation that aims to help scientists pool their work in this area. Here he explains the sewage-virus connection and how researchers hope to eventually translate raw measurements into useful public health information.