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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.ย 

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

Paul Schlagelโ€™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 50thย crop.

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