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Douglas County nullifies SB 131, allowing those with concealed carry permit to do so in government buildings

The Douglas County board of commissioners voted Tuesday to opt out of a new state law prohibiting individuals from carrying firearms in sensitive places, such as government buildings, schools and polling locations.

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Investigation: South Adams County FD’s trips may be ‘violation of public trust’, says ethics expert

Top fire chiefs and administrators with the South Adams County Fire Department, along with some of their board members, have regularly taken their spouses along to winter conferences in Florida and fall conferences in Colorado’s high country, billing taxpayers for their spouses’ meals and other expenses, and extending their stays before and after conferences. 

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Longmont’s Schlagel family has farmed sugar beets for four generations under shadow of Rocky Mountains

Paul Schlagel’s family was one of the many Volga German families who came to Colorado more than a century ago and grew the crop they knew: sugar beets. Their first sugar beet crop in northern Colorado was harvested in 1911. His father purchased the farm from his mother and began farming on the current farm in 1963. Next year will be his 50th crop.

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