Discount grocer to open on Front Range: SmartCo Foods outlets plans five new stores, including one in Longmont

A California-based warehouse grocer plans to open a new chain of discount stores along the Front Range.
Smart & Final Stores has acquired five vacant Albertsons sites and will open SmartCo Foods outlets this summer, including one in Longmont.

Seeds of success: Niwot couple’s seed business flowering despite economy

Botanical Interests, which the couple started in their garage, saw a 20 percent jump in business last year to sales of more than 6 million seed packets and expects a similar increase this year.

City, county offer help for foreclosure

In April of 2009, the local mortgage lender — a titan in the financial services industry — informed the Longmont family they were covered under a program that would help them. But that turned out to be false.

‘What customers want’: Longmont eateries spending green to go green

For some Longmont restaurants, embracing eco-friendly practices has cut into the bottom line in some places, and added savings in others.

Dennis Coombs, co-owner of the Pumphouse Brewery and Restaurant, said it costs the restaurant on Main Street $15,000 more each year to use compostable take-home boxes than it did to use the Styrofoam containers the restaurant used to provide its customers.

Lyons paper seeking buyers, to publish final edition Thursday

A group of Lyons residents is considering buying the local weekly newspaper and turning it into a nonprofit business, Editor Sharlynn Wamsley said.

The Lyons Recorder is for sale and could print its last edition Feb. 25 if no buyer comes forward, she said.

Lyons paper for sale, will publish last edition Feb. 25

A group of Lyons residents is considering buying the local weekly newspaper and turning it into a nonprofit business, Editor Sharlynn Warmsley said.
The Lyons Recorder is for sale and could print its last edition Feb. 25 if no buyer comes forward, she said.
The newsroom could move to the Odd Fellows Hall on Fourth Avenue on [...]

Door-to-door dairy: Family-owned Diamond D does it all, from milking to delivery

Thousands of gallons of fresh milk produced daily and a drinkable yogurt called Yoforia are among the goods generated at the family-run Diamond D Dairy northeast of Longmont.

Jim and Kristie Docheff own and operate the 77-acre farm at 4513 County Road 32. They also live there, which is unusual for dairy farmers in Colorado.
“We’re the only ones in the state who live on the farm with the cows,” Jim Docheff, 50, says. “But I enjoy living with them and I like the farm life. It’s good for the kids, too. The downside is you’re around it 24/7, but I’ve done it all my life so I’m used to it.”

Because the work begins well before dawn, it’s not a life for people who like to sleep late.

InPhase building up for lease

ONGMONT — InPhase Technologies’ building is “for lease” and the company’s Longmont’s offices were temporarily seized by state tax agents, but a longtime investor in the holographic storage company says he is close to finalizing a buyout and restructuring of the firm.
Two weeks ago, InPhase laid off its 60-person work force and closed its office [...]

Times-Call lays off nine in cost-cutting move

The Longmont Times-Call recently laid off nine people, including four newsroom employees, in a cost-cutting move, Editor and President Dean Lehman said.
Seven people, including two in the newsroom, lost their jobs at the Loveland Reporter-Herald, a sister newspaper to the Times-Call that is also owned by Lehman Communication Corp.
The layoffs occurred in the first week [...]

Longmont sales still down in December: City ends year well below projections for sales tax revenue

Sales and use tax revenues were down 2.4 percent in December 2009, compared to December 2008, leaving total sales for 2009 down 7.4 percent compared to 2008.

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