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Tiny Riverbank Burrowers Get a New Home As the weather warms in the spring, wildflowers start to bloom, and prairie rattlesnakes emerge from their dens. With their dry, buzzy rattle, these snakes are as much a part of Western film lore as dusty trails and red rock...

At Old Mill Park Volunteers Bring Longmont’s Early History to Life Through Pioneer DaysPhotography John Robson Haley Gould still treasures childhood memories of coming to Old Mill Park during Pioneer Days as a third grader in 2003. She considers herself lucky because...

Longmont’s Crossing Guards Are There to Keep Students Safe, But Many Families Know Them for Something More PersonalOn a sunny afternoon in March at Central Elementary School, Bernadette Morrissey prepares for her crossing guard shift on Gay Street near Fourth Avenue....

A Fresh Look for Jefe’s Tacos & Tequila—a 10-Year Main Street MainstayAfter a decade of dishing out some of Boulder County’s tastiest tacos and margs (they’ve won innumerable best-taco awards and readers’ choice contests), Jefe’s Tacos & Tequila brought a full...

Cottontail Farm is blooming at the Longmont Farmers MarketWhen Ginny Jones and her fiancé, George Carter, purchased a 3-acre property in west Longmont in 2020, they envisioned the expansive grassy field as the ideal spot for their dogs to run and play, and perhaps for...

Wildlands Restoration Volunteers Has Built a Community of People Who Care for Coloradoʼs Wild PlacesWalk onto a Wildlands Restoration Volunteers project site and the mix of people is immediately obvious. On any given project across the state, high schoolers might work...

Same Address, Same Scratch Kitchen, Same Screaming Value on Green-Chile-Drenched Breakfast Burritos Photography by Jennifer Bridge There’s a handwritten sign near the register at Santiago’s on Main Street that shares the day’s breakfast-burrito flavor (it rotates...

A Small Monument with a Big Message in Roosevelt ParkTucked along Coffman Street beside the St. Vrain Memorial Building in Roosevelt Park is a heartening smaller-scale replica of the Statue of Liberty. Longmont’s “little sister” was installed in 1950 and is a...

How Longmont Seniors and Northern Arapaho Elders of Wind River Built a Friendship—and the Documentary That Captured ItLast spring, 14 Northern Arapaho elders and their families arrived in Longmont from Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation. Their first stop was the...

Longmont is one of the coolest communities to cruise on two wheels—and we set out to prove it. From a bike taxi to a beer-pouring cycle shop, we tracked down some wheely good stuff for our unofficial guide to most things bikes.Illustrations by Amanda Maldonado The...

Two Openings, a Production Facility and a Café, Mark the Bakery’s Arrival in LongmontIn the decade plus since Moxie Bread Co. opened its first location, the heirloom-grain bakery has grown into a handful of shops across Boulder County: a flagship in Louisville, a...

A Century After Japanese Farming Families Started the Longmont Buddhist Temple, the Evolving Congregation still Offers a Space for Thought and CompassionPhotography by John Robson At the corner of south Longmont stands a temple grounded in the city’s past that is...

Hotel Longmont is Designed to Belong Downtown—from the View to the Bricks to the Art on Its WallsPhotography by Heather Burns Spend enough nights in new hotels and they can begin to blur together: the same vaguely tasteful lobby, the same anonymous guest rooms, the...

Tiny Riverbank Burrowers Get a New Home Along the St. Vrain Greenway at Roger’s Grove Nature Area lives a colony of Bank Swallows. The smallest of North America’s eight swallow species, these charming aerialists are part of our community’s summer rhythm, skimming low...