Everyone wins: Special-needs softball a big hit with participants

The Lions batter steps up to the plate, settles into position and waits for the pitch. Behind the pitcher the Stingrays rim the infield in an arc stretching from third base to first base. No one is on the grass. Everyone is on the dirt. The pitcher throws the ball toward the plate, the batter [...]

City of Longmont’s May tax receipts show 17.5 percent gain

The sales tax rose 2.1 percent in May over the same month a year ago, but the use tax increased 147.5 percent due to a large payment from building permits.

At Utah sanctuary, ‘bad times are over’

The mission at Best Friends Animal Society in southern Utah is simple: No more homeless pets. And its philosophy is just as straightforward: A better world through kindness to animals. “Our promise to the animals is the bad times are over. We make a lifetime commitment to them,” said Barbara Williamson, Best Friends’ media relations [...]

June real estate numbers for Longmont: sales down, prices up

Ninety-nine single-family houses sold last month, a decrease of 9 percent from the 109 bought in May, according to figures provided by the Boulder Area Realtor Association.

Heading north: Longmont teacher chosen for Arctic expedition

Bill Schmoker, an earth science teacher about to start his 18th year at Centennial Middle School in Boulder, will join a PolarTREC expedition to the Arctic Ocean to help researchers gather geologic and oceanographic data from the continental shelf north of the United States and Canada. He plans to leave July 30 and return Sept. 7.

He expects to board the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy on Aug. 1 at Dutch Harbor in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. The ship, a 420-foot research icebreaker equipped with laboratories and room for 35 scientists, will depart the next day and he’ll stay with it until it drops him off Sept. 6 at Barrow, the northernmost point in Alaska.

7 West Pizzeria on Main Street gets new ‘topping’

The deck and bar on the building at 526 Main St. can seat 86 people at umbrella-shaded tables on about 1,400 square feet. It is the first rooftop deck built on a restaurant in the city.

Lyons woman studies how radio waves affect trees

A Lyons area woman with no academic pedigree has published a scientific paper in the International Journal of Forestry Research about the adverse effects of radio waves on aspen seedlings. Katie Haggerty, who lives north of Steamboat Mountain, found in a preliminary experiment done near her house that aspens shielded from the waves were healthier [...]

Fairgrounds Marketplace shopping center still on hold

A representative of his company, National Real Estate Services Inc., is expected to discuss the project and ask for an extension of the annexation ordinance for another six months at Tuesday’s City Council meeting, said Joni Marsh, the city’s development services manager.

Home sales, average prices up in May

In May, 109 houses in Longmont sold at an average sales price of $244,102, up 7 percent from $227,991 the previous month, according to figures from the Boulder Area Realtor Association.

Longmont home sales up, prices down

The average sales price fell 14 percent to $227,991 from $265,662 in March while the number of houses sold last month rose 30 percent to 100 from 77 in the previous month

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