If you live in a neighborhood you love, and you worry about monster houses taking over, you should know what’s happening over on Park Street. [...]
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2008, after lions removed In one of Lost Fort Collins’ earliest posts, I talked about the Sigma house on Laurel. The boys lost their charter afterserving alcohol to young girls during a party. Gossip around town said they would paint those lions at the entry stairs red to signal when a brother had [...] Which old houses worth saving? And how far should we go to save them? Two Fort Collins’ bloggers are exploring these questions: One using research and one using very big trucks. [...] From the Fort Collins Museum archives. In the comments section of an earlier post, Barefoot Meg asks, “where was Rockwood School?” Funny you should ask. I made Norm drive me there last month because I wondered too. Rockwood-Place (later renamed Barton) was built in 1908 near the beet factory and attended by migrant [...] I live in Old Town. A lot of people think that the neighborhood’s charm is in its old buildings, big trees, and easy walking to parks and downtown. But you have no idea. [...] No matter what the calendar says, Winter isn’t over in Fort Collins until the vultures return to their pines at 920 W. Mountain. The first of them arrived today (Tuesday). Soon, 50 or more will follow. Welcome home, guys. Happy Spring everybody. [...] Every day we’re here, is one more example of how America is supposed to work. Beaver’s Market is the last neighborhood market in Fort Collins. Last year, Matt Campbell produced this story for 88.9 KRFC Community Radio about how the family-owned grocery competes, and thrives, in a world of interstate superstores. (Pictures by Lostfortcollins): [...] Imagine you build a house out of local and renewable materials. And you build it only 500 square feet for the whole family, in walking distance of your job. The yard is big enough for a significant garden, and you raise chickens and hang your own laundry on a clothes line. Nobody gives [...] Economies of scale aren’t just for factories and retail outlets. Here are a few others left behind by the big box explosion south of town. [...] Coloradoan says Republicans so far outnumber Democrats in early voting here in Larimer County. “Corridors leading to the early voting site at the county courthouse, 200 W. Oak St., were busy all day,” it reads. This calls for a visual metaphor: This 1947 photo shows elephants marching from the train on Mason Street [...] |
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