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Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 29--The adjustment to digital cameras wasn't as bad as Charles "Oz" Collins thought it would be.

Tickets go on sale from 8 a.m-2 p.m. on Saturday. To learn more, call 356-7787, go to www.greeleystampede.org or to go any Colorado King Soopers store.

Tree trimming: Bring your holiday cheer and favorite tape or CD to our old-fashioned tree trimming at 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Are you the Art Griswald on your block during the holidays? Does your house shine like a beacon that can be seen from the International Space Station? The city of Greeley encourages holiday lighting buffs to enter the annual Greeley Lights the Nights residential and business lighting contest.

Federal regulators are taking action against two more banks in northern Colorado.

Over the past several years, most of the large industries moving into Weld County have bypassed Greeley for other area municipalities.

It appears that a Greeley man who confessed to stealing guns and even loose change from cars picked just the wrong vehicles.

For information on Fern Tree Farm, call 352-4478 or go to www.fernhillfarm-christmastrees.com. For information on Christmas Tree Acres, call 284-6061. For information on Windsors' Christmas Trees, call 686-5253 or go to www.windsorstrees.com. Two area cut-your-own Christmas tree farms will open Friday.

A Greeley man who confessed to breaking into the Weld Sheriff's unmarked police car and stealing his gun has apparently confessed to other property crimes in which two other sheriff employees became victims.

The city of Greeley is currently accepting applications for volunteer positions on several boards and commissions.

"Native!" begins three weeks of previews on Friday and officially opens on Dec. 10 at the Nonesuch Theater, 216 Pine St.

John Sandoval is led into Weld District Court on Tuesday morning in Greeley. Sandoval is charged in the 1995 murder of his wife Tina Tournai-Sandoval. A Greeley police detective said he believed John Sandoval killed his estranged wife, and was trying to hide his responsibility.

The former office manager of a medical clinic in Greeley has been charged with embezzling more than $350,000 from the clinic over the past five years.

A master plan for Greeley's public art projects was finalized in late September, and since then, city staff have worked to try to knock out some of the goals on the list.

Ruth Amanda Swanson can still vividly recall World War II. "Swede was called into service and he left me here with three little ones," she recalled.

With a major craftshow going on in her own backyard at the Budweiser Event Center in Loveland, Paula Bjorlie still made the decision to drive into Windsor instead.

FESTIVAL OF TREES: Celebrate the holidays in a winter wonderland of beautifully decorated trees and wreaths as the Union Colony Civic Center, 701 10th Ave., plays host to the 23rd annual Festival of Trees scheduled for Saturday through Dec.

Online: Go to www.nocoemptystocking.org and click on the "donate now" button. By phone: Call 2-1-1 or 407-7066 and use your credit card.

Police say it's a case of kidnapping, ransom demands, robbery, assault and arrests.

Greeley Mayor Tom Norton, center, is sworn in Monday evening by Municipal Judge Robert Frick as former Mayor Ed Clark, right, watches at the City of Greeley Council Chambers.

A man was in critical condition and his girl friend in serious condition following an early Monday morning fire and explosion about four miles south of Galeton, or about 12 miles northeast of Greeley.

U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff will visit Greeley on Saturday. Romanoff will hold a meet-and-greet at 5:30 p.m. in the Spruce Room at the University of Northern Colorado's University Center, 20th Street and 10th Avenue.

Several City of Greeley offices will be closed for Thursday and Friday because of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Friday, November 20, 2009 at 6:21 a.m. Read more: State , Crime , Greeley , Kersey , Weld County , Kidnapping , Ransom KERSEY, Colo.

Greeley's Kia dealership will soon be back in business. Owners of the six-year-old Peak Kia in Littleton have leased the site that now houses First Choice Motors at 3803 10th St., and plan to open Peak Kia of Greeley in mid-December. General manager Brian Jacoby will run the dealership, which was his former gig at Champion Kia at the Iron Mountain ...

Mark Strodtman looks back at family and friends as he is led away in handcuffs by Weld County Sheriff's Deputy Brian Bartnik Wednesday afternoon after being found guilty on 22 counts of theft and forgery and one count of racketeering.

The number of motor vehicle thefts, sexual assaults and burglaries in Greeley has plummeted this year, according to figures released today.

A Weld District Court jury found former Greeley homebuilder Mark Strodtman guilty on all counts involving a mortgage scheme that spanned two years.

Nancy E. Harris, The Voice Builder, is providing a public introductory workshop on basic vocal production, projection and protection on Saturday at Unitarian Universalist Church, 985 15th St.

The Greeley Historic Preservation Commission has designated the Ernst/Reece/Noffsinger House at 1524 11th Ave.

If you were at the Greeley-Weld Airport when temperatures dipped to -6 degrees about dawn Monday, you were in the coldest spot in the nation.

This year, the man in the big red suit will have a sidekick to help him kick off the holiday season.

Two people are hospitalized after their Weld County farmhouse exploded and burned.

Doug Kershaw, a newly elected member of the Greeley-Evans School 6 Board of Education, left, sits next to re-elected board member Linda Trimberger on Monday night at the Greeley-Evans District 6 school building.

Sandi Elder, an at-large representative and one of four council members elected Nov.

Two people were seriously injured early Monday in a fire after an explosion at a farmhouse in Weld County.

Municipal and industrial water users may have another source of water next year when a regional water pool program proposed by the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District comes online.

Longtime Greeley philanthropist Bob Tointon never planned to make his next cause reforming the Colorado Constitution.

Primary: Third Place, Shantae Moreno Lays Bad of Jackson Elementary; Second Place, Tony Cerda of Jackson Elementary First place, Roberto Rodriguez-Velasquez of Jackson Elementary Intermediate: Third Place, Rory Simmons of McAuliffe Elementary Second Place, Dafnee Flores of Dos Rios Elementary First Place, Spencer Snyder of Heiman Elementary Middle ...

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The latest apartment vacancy rate figures are available at http:// dola.colorado.gov/cdh. Apartments have filled in Greeley during the third quarter of 2009, but the vacancy rate is still about 2 percentage points above where it was at this time a year ago.

As winter crept back into Greeley on Friday, employees at a long-standing Greeley printing company huddled beneath clouds of cigarette smoke and the bright light beaming out to their once-thriving loading dock.

Greeley has certainly become a microcosm for what's happening nationally with our economy.

Norm Fisher has a problem and it's an issue he's been trying to solve for most of the summer.

An index released Wednesday ranks the Greeley area the 20th best-performing metropolitan area in the nation.

Staff for U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., will be in Greeley Thursday to hear from constituents in Northern Colorado and help those needing assistance with a federal agency.

Mountain View third-grader Elijah Ball, 8, looks over his new dictionary as Colorado State Representative BJ Nikkel talks with students about the importance of eduction on Friday.

Last week our commander in chief, President Barack Obama, did something in the middle of the night which hadn't been done for years by a sitting president.

Some Greeley firefighters have joined a global movement that is bringing much needed attention to cancers that affect men.

Layoffs or program cuts may be on the table next year for Greeley-Evans School District 6, a district official warned Monday night.

November 9, 2009 -- GREELEY - State Farm Insurance Co. in Greeley donated $100,000 to the Monfort College of Business at the University of Northern Colorado.

For more information on the Weld County Veterans Memorial, go to www.weldvetsmemorial.com. OTHER EVENTS Other Veterans Day activities planned: Veterans who have served in wars from World War II to the War on Terror will take part in a panel discussion at Aims Community College from 12-1:15 p.m. Wednesday in Ed Beaty Hall Theater.

Sandi Elder won't have to watch those Greeley City Council meetings on TV any longer.

Ed Clark talks about his relationship with The Tribune at last Tuesday's city council meeting.

Norm Fisher holds one of his white carrots Thursday at his home in Greeley. He isn't sure why only some of the carrots he planted came up white while the rest are the usual shade of orange.

Donna Sapienza always enjoyed teaching government to her students in the Douglas County School District.

The Weld County Courthouse in Greeley has been rumored to be home to ghosts and strange occurrences throughout its 92-year existence.

A group of N. Colorado GIS professionals regularly meet up at Loveland City Hall for what's become known as the Northern Colorado [GIS] User Group - see also Twitter hashtag #NCUG. Organized by the Loveland GIS crew and ESRI, Broomfield, Colorado, the group convenes regularly to share and discuss the latest hot topics in GIS and Geospatial ...

A woman selling meat for her family business was attacked on Thursday as she tried to enter a customer's home.

'Ghost Towns and Boom Towns' Public reception WHEN: 3-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14 WHERE: Greeley History Museum, 714 8th St., Greeley COST: Free MORE INFO: Regular hours are 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.

The Greeley/Weld Small Business Development Center is merging with the Fort Morgan SBDC, a move that will extend the SBDC's reach into 12 counties in northeastern Colorado.

With only a small portion of the ballots yet to be counted, the only Greeley City Council race that is probably safe to call is John Gates winning Ward III.

"Tom Norton for Mayor" signs far outnumbered those for Ed Phillipsen around town this fall.

A Greeley man was arrested early this morning as a suspect in the stabbing death of an East African woman living in Fort Morgan.

In a race that was essentially a rematch, Mike Finn was elected to the Greeley City Council by a slim margin over Bill Sterling.

A 27-year-old Greeley man was sentenced to 62 years to life in prison today for holding an high school student captive and raping her in her apartment in January.

October was a busy month for the Greeley West FFA Chapter of Greeley Colo. The month kicked off with over 50 students enrolled in Agriscience 1, presenting a five paragraph memorized speech, given by every FFA member, titled the FFA Creed By E.M. Tiffany, in front of family and friends at the chapter's annual Greenhand night.

In Harmony Wellness is in the Westgate Center near the intersection of Interstate 25 and Colo.

GREELEY The attorney for a former University of Northern Colorado professor accused of secretly videotaping guests at his home's bathroom says his client may reach a plea agreement.

About 26,000 ballots have been received so far for Tuesday's mail-in election, Weld County Clerk and Recorder Steve Moreno said Monday morning.

The Greeley History Museum will remain open on Veterans Day. The museum, 714 8th St.

The 11th annual charity calf sale to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Weld County will be Saturday at Greeley Producers, 711 O St., just east of U.S. 85 in north Greeley.

Snow covers much of their work here, in this garden of stone. It's a history written in granite or marble or bronze; a family history, a country's history.

Inventory on "residential detached" units for sale in Greeley was down 18.8 percent from the previous year.