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Homeless are ‘dumpster diving’ and rural police chief wants trespassing law to stop it
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Homeless are ‘dumpster diving’ and rural police chief wants trespassing law to stop it

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice A new measure could be added to Fort Morgan's criminal code in response to a homeless man who may nearly have been killed as a result of living inside a dumpster on trash pickup day. "Fortunately, the guy was able to get out and jumped out of the truck and ran off the hood," Police Chief Loren Sharp said. "He literally would have been crushed, had he not gotten out of there." Sharp is asking members of City Council to consider a trespassing ordinance which would include the interior of a dumpster, making it illegal to be within the confines of a dumpster. "We don't have any [trespassing law] that talks about dumpsters and receptacles," he said. The concern and frustration of residents toward homeless in Fort Morgan has grown throughout ...
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‘We have reached the end of our rope’: Business owners call on city leaders to solve vagrancy in rural town
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‘We have reached the end of our rope’: Business owners call on city leaders to solve vagrancy in rural town

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice FORT MORGAN -- Vagrants are trespassing in residential and business property, doing drugs in public, urinating and defecating in the library and other public places, and in general becoming an out-of-control public nuisance. It would be just another day in Denver, but this isn't Denver. It is Fort Morgan on the Eastern Plains of Colorado, where neighbors have known each other for decades in the town of about 12,000 and residents rarely unite to air their grievances in the happy-go-lucky community. Until now. Residents are telling city leadership they have had enough. "We have reached the end of our rope," said Malori Rudnik, owner of Double R Embroidery at Main Street and Beaver Avenue adjacent to Glenn Miller Park. "We have found needles ...
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Scott Aviation CEO Kyle Scott dies in ag airplane crash
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Scott Aviation CEO Kyle Scott dies in ag airplane crash

By AgAir Update The founder and CEO of Scott Aviation and later CO Fire Aviation, Kyle Scott, lost his life during an aerial application flight Thursday, Sept. 5, while flying his AT-602 in Colorado. Scott, who founded and operated Scott Aviation, which operates several ag aircraft, also began aerial firefighting operations with a new start-up in 2019 with CO Fire Aviation, a successful aerial firefighting company providing SEAT aircraft on contracts in Oregon, Washington, and Colorado over the last several years in addition to his ag operation and FBO based at Fort Morgan Airport in Colorado. READ THE FULL STORY AT AGAIR
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Gaines: Why on Earth was Colorado’s AG at a groundbreaking for a Cargill Housing Development?
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Gaines: Why on Earth was Colorado’s AG at a groundbreaking for a Cargill Housing Development?

By Cory Gaines | Colorado Accountability Project I read the Fort Morgan Times article (follow link) after seeing our AG Phil Weiser tweet about how meaningful it was for him to be out for the groundbreaking of a new housing development sponsored by Cargill and meant to help provide affordable housing to their employees. The first question I had was why on earth Colorado's AG would be involved.  Local leaders?  Cargill big wigs?  Yeah.  Makes sense. My curiosity was piqued enough to email the AG's press secretary.  READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
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