• Larimer County officially joined the U.S. 34 coalition, a regional government group aiming to look at congestion and transportation needs along U.S. 34 from the west end of Loveland to Kersey. “We have the opportunity now to determine what the roadway will be like before some of that development begins,” the county’s transportation manager said.
• With an ideological split on the Thompson School Board, often along very heated lines, eight people had turned in petitions for four seats in the November 2015 election. They were incumbents Pam Howard and Denise Montagu along with Vince Hansen, Jeff Swanty, Aimee Randall, Tomi Grundvig, David Levy and Bruce Finger. Two incumbents, Donna Rice and Bob Kerrigan were not seeking reelection.
• A district court judge began hearing testimony in a l