Hover Street News Today

Longmont police notes April 28

As Station No. 6 crews prepare to move into their new building, firefighters at Longmont Fire Station No. 2 settle into their new home and office on 17th Avenue which offers more space and better resources.

Longmont police are investigating a robbery in which the man and woman responsible made their getaway by striking a manager and ramming another car in the store parking lot.

Throughout Boulder County, spring bulbs are poking their heads out of the soil and the sounds of bird songs are pointing in the direction of a beautiful Colorado spring.

Throughout Boulder County, spring bulbs are poking their heads out of the soil and the sounds of bird songs are pointing in the direction of a beautiful Colorado spring.

Longmont police notes March 31

Baristas at the Longmont Starbucks location at 17th Avenue and Hover Street have filed petitions with the National Labor Relations Board to join the Starbucks Workers United union. Workers in Longmont were among employees at 21 Starbucks coffee shops to join a nationwide unionization push in February. “Across the country management is cutting hours, writing inconsistent and unreliable schedules, and placing more and more work on fewer and fewer partners,” the workers wrote in a letter to S...

Officers responded to the intersection of South Hover Street and Ken Pratt Boulevard for an injury collision involving two vehicles.

In what economic development leaders say is a win for Longmont’s burgeoning semiconductor industry, the city this week won designation for a CHIPS Zone, making qualifying companies in the sector eligible for special tax incentives.

Chris Fine, executive director of the Colorado Licensed Beverage Association, said his group estimates that one in every four — or maybe even one in every three — of Colorado’s approximately 1,600 independent liquor stores could close as a result of the legislation and ballot issue. That would mean 400 to 600 shuttered retailers.