Welcome to the Year in Photos
Today, walk through the past year with our staff photographers, who have shared the best of their work capturing the events of the Boulder and St. Vrain valleys — foothills to plains
As you turn the pages of this annual edition, relive the spectacles, the milestones, the uplifting and the mournful, as seen through their eyes.
— John Vahlenkamp, editor
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ABOVE: The hot air balloon “Hopscotch” is inflated during Frederick in Flight at Centennial Park on June 20.
ON THE COVER: From left, Boulder County Fair and Rodeo Lady-in-Waiting Rhiannon McDermid, Queen Libby Wagner and Attendant Anna Fott stand for the national anthem during the Truck and Tractor Pull at the Boulder County Fair on Aug. 8.
MATTHEW JONAS — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Co-owner Heidi Quince laughs with a customer as she rings up the person’s bulk items at Simply Bulk Market in Longmont on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. The market was the winner of the Longmont Sustainability Awards’ sustainable business of the year
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Guinea pig election candidates Sneffels, left, and Belford, right, hang out in a cardboard box decorated to resemble Air Force One in fourth grade teacher Amanda Demler’s class at Boulder Country Day School on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.
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Amanda Popp, wife of USAF Tech Sgt. Adam Popp, pauses for a moment while speaking during a ceremony for the Popp’s new home from Homes For Our Troops in Lafayette on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. Tech Sgt. Popp was severely injured by an IED in Afghanistan requiring a leg amputation A home built to accommodate his injury was given to him and his family in Lafayette.
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Colorado’s Jade Masogayo, right, shoots over Northern Colorado’s Aniah Hall, left, at the CU Events Center in Boulder on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024.
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Lifelong fan of the University of Colorado Peggy Coppom blows out candles on her birthday cake to celebrate her 100th birthday during the game against Utah State at the CU Events Center in Boulder on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024.
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Members of the Wind River Reservation perform traditional dance during the Utah and Colorado football game on Nov. 16, 2024. The Wind River Reservation is shared by two Native American tribes, the Eastern Shoshone and the Northern Arapaho
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Amber Hackney feeds her baby, Mae, during a Thanksgiving meal provided by volunteers at the OUR Center in Longmont on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024.
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Math teacher Christine Ferguson, center, gives instructions to seniors as JWill Pink Village Inc founder Jennifer Willard, left, looks on at Centaurus High School in Lafayette on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. JWill distributed more than 8000pillows to people that have survived breast cancer or have been recently diagnosed since 2017.
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Colorado’s Travis Hunter flies in to score a touchdown during the Utah and Colorado football game at Folsom Field in Boulder on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024.
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Physical therapist Courtney Wheeler works with Cricket at Walking Paws Rehab in Boulder on Nov. 22, 2024.
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From left, Fairview High School freshman Eugene Ivanenko warms up with founder and head coach Carrie Barry at the Corner Boxing Club in Boulder on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024.
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A bald eagle sits in a snow-covered tree overlooking McIntosh Lake in Longmont on Friday, Nov 8, 2024.
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From left, University of Colorado Boulder Athletic Director Rick George talks with football players Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders during a men’s basketball game at CU Events Center in Boulder on Dec. 21, 2024. Hunter, Sanders, and Hunter’s Heisman Trophy were special guests at the basketball game
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Colorado’s Andrej Jakimovski, right, tries to wrestle the ball away from Pacific’s Elijah Fisher, left, at CU Events Center on Monday, Dec 2, 2024.
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Colorado’s Trevor Baskin celebrates his dunk against Iowa State at the CU Events Center in Boulder on Dec. 30, 2024.
Karen Ell Garcia pets Winston, a 242pound, 5-year-old Great Dane, at their home in Boulder on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. The Garcias have two Great Danes and were fostering Winston.
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Nora Beglin holds her light-up globe during the annual Longmont Lights Parade on Dec 14, 2024
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United States Army Reserve Lt. Col. Brandon Ward, center, is hugged by his wife Amy and his four children after arriving at Hygiene Elementary School. Lt. Col. Ward was reunited with his family in a surprise visit at Hygiene
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Fairview High School’s Toray Davis celebrates after making the basket and being fouled against Boulder High.
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Sam Malcolm juggles fire during the Hanukkah celebration at Village at the Peaks in Longmont on Dec. 26, 2024.
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Chloe Cashdollar, left, along with her sister Silvie and mother Haley, celebrate the New Year early with dancing, books, crafts and a countdown to noon at the Louisville Public Library on Dec. 31, 2024
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From right, Silver Creek seniors Jardin Rose and Ibrahim Kabore and Longmont Mayor Joan Peck sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during the “30Years: Dream Makers, Mile Markers and Milestones” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Silver Creek High School in Longmont on Jan. 20.
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From left, Grace Marten gives her brother Cameron a push down the hill in Boulder on Jan. 18.
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Linda Simmons raises her arms while singing during a memorial for former University of Colorado Boulder Head Football Coach Bill McCartney at the CU Events Center on Jan. 22.
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On Feb. 4, CU students are reflected in a mirror that is part of the artwork at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Norlin Library.
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Around 20people hold signs and Mexican flags during a demonstration in support of Mexican immigrants outside of the Carniceria El Cerrito on Main Street in Longmont on Feb. 3
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Proprietress Kim Brain poses for a portrait at Pelo’s Deli and Provisions in Longmont on Feb. 7. The deli and bodega was expected to open on Feb 20
A large group of friends and family are seen in the reflection of Judy Brocato’s sunglasses as she speaks about Megan Trussell during a memorial ceremony near Mile Marker 40in Boulder Canyon on Feb. 17. Two days earlier, Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks rangers had found a body believed to be that of the missing University of Colorado Boulder student.
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CU’s Bangot Dak dunks against Kansas in the first half of the game at the CU Events Center on Feb. 24.
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Calvin Miyasaki, 4, studies the Lego display at the Longmont Public Library on Feb. 4
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From left, Colorado’s Frida Formann and Sara-Rose Smith talk on the bench during the game against Arizona State at the CU Events Center in Boulder on Feb. 26.
Renee Hudson looks out during the state wrestling tournament parade of champions on Feb. 15at Ball Arena in Denver.
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Legacy High School tuba players warm up during marching band rehearsal March 6in Broomfield. The band performed in Dublin, Ireland, on St. Patrick’s Day.
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Joe Barmada, left, stands in the nearly finished front area at Winchell’s Donut House in Longmont on March 13. The bakery/restaurant, closed since 2021, reopened in November.
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Maura Rieman and Sue George, not pictured, pull their kayaks in from McIntosh Lake after the wind picked up in Longmont on Feb. 28.
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Prospect Ridge Academy’s Ezekiel Bote, center, shoots between Fort Lupton’s Guillaume Nkiadiambu, left, and Donte Lenox, right, in a Class 4A great eight game March 12at the Denver Coliseum.
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Actress Jane Lynch poses for a photo outside the Boulder Theater on March 15. Lynch was presented with the Boulder International Film Festival’s Entertainer of the Year Award
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Dorothy, right, laughs as she tries to get a kiss from an 18-year-old miniature horse named Little Bit from the Sunny Horse Foundation outside the Highland Trails senior living building in Broomfield on March 17.
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The Paddy O’Furniture Drill Team performs March 25during the self proclaimed “World’s Shortest St Patrick’s Day Parade” between 16th Street and 15th Street on Pearl Street in Boulder
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Ralph Stewart helps to launch a kite for his granddaughters as the wind gusts at North Boulder Park on March 17. Winds were gusting as high as 44mph, in dry conditions.
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Louisville Middle School student and Team Peak Cookers member Piper Vidulich works on a Jerk Chicken recipe during the Iron Chef student cooking competition at Boulder Valley School District’s Culinary Center in Boulder on March 19.
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Mountain View Fire-Rescue firefighters salute from the bridge on Colo 52on March 21as a funeral procession for Frederick-Firestone Fire Protection District community risk reduction specialist Kristen Hayes passes on Interstate 25.
David DeBenedet sails across
in Longmont on April 8as the snow-covered peaks of Longs and Meeker
From left, Former Skyline High School baseball coaches Bill Stephens and his son Greg Stephens walk out between the current team and coaches before the start of the March 25game against Pueblo South in Longmont. Bill Stephens had been recently inducted into the Colorado Dugout Club Coaches Association Hall of Fame for his tenure as Skyline’s head baseball coach from 1982to 2006.
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McIntosh Lake
loom in the background.
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Ayla Hughes, 2, climbs on playground equipment during the warm temperatures March 25at North Boulder Park.
CLIFF GRASSMICK — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Emma holds up her message from a reclined position during the Nationwide Hands Off Rally in Boulder on April 5. More than 3,000people lined Broadway during the rally
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Dozens of people listen to Charlene Hoffman, center, during the Sundance Film Festival relocation announcement at the Boulder Theater on March 27. The film festival will move from Park City, Utah, to Boulder in 2027
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University of Colorado Boulder’s Shedeur Sanders, left, puts on his shoes before members of the team and NFL media during the We Ain’t Hard 2Find Showcase on April 4
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“Lemon Drop” the fairy brings out her bubbles during the Colorado Tartan Day Festival at the Boulder County Fairgrounds on April 13.
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Saylor Carkhaff moves around the international flags flying between Macky Auditorium and Hellems Arts and Sciences during the Conference on World Affairs on April 9.
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Amalia Holt, playing the role of the Card of the Queen of Hearts, performs April 10during an Iluminar Aerial Dance Company rehearsal for an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland at the Apollo Center in Broomfield.
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Executive and Artistic Director Sandra Parks teaches ballet students at the Colorado Conservatory of Dance in Broomfield on April 28.
Luca Bohn paddles through the slalom gates during flat water conditioning in Lyons on April 16.
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Protesters
A large crowd lined the street chanting, holding signs and showing support for democratic principles. The Longmont Public Safety Department estimated the crowd size at around 1,300to 1,500people
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Chata Perez inhales smoke during the 22nd annual Cinco de Mayo celebration in Longmont on May 3
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gather on the 500block of Main Street in Longmont on April 19
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An Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter drops water from Ralph Price Reservoir during a fire training exercise at Button Rock Preserve on April 17.
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Thousands of people lined Broadway to Baseline Road in Boulder during the Nationwide Hands Off Rally on April 5
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Nora Smith, 3, catches rain in her mouth while visiting the University of Colorado Boulder campus on May 6.
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Timber waits to greet customers at Composition Shop bookstore in Longmont on May 2
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Bandito, the Chihuahua, is seen during the 22nd annual Cinco de Mayo celebration in Longmont.
From left: Taylor McDonald and Jaden Lehman dance to Glenn Miller music at the end of the 2025University of Colorado Boulder commencement at Folsom Field on May 8
Volunteer
after receiving a new hammer to replace a missing one during the grand opening celebration of the Veterans Community Project in
on June 12.
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Silver Creek graduate Rosalinda Cervantes smiles as she goes to receive her diploma May 24.
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Nathan Leevan and Sarah Leevan, center, join their classmates throwing their caps in the air during the Fairview High School graduation on May 18.
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Jerry Crisafulli laughs
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Claire Tannehill, center, celebrates her win in the 4A girls 100meter dash during the 2025 Track and Field State Championships at Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood on May 17.
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A prayer vigil is held June 3outside the Boulder County Courthouse on the Pearl Street Mall for the people injured in a molotov cocktail attack on the group Run for Their Lives
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From left: Ed Victor, a member of the group Run For Their Lives and a survivor of the June 1attack on Pearl Street Mall, talks with Edward Simkavitz, a security guard who assisted victims during the attack, after a June 4event outside the Boulder County Courthouse on the Pearl Street Mall
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Pilot John Bell fires the burner to inflate his heart-shaped balloon during Frederick in Flight at Centennial Park on June 20
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Trainer Lindsay Wooditch stands with Taco in a pen at Colorado Horse Rescue in Boulder County on July 3.
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A cycling contestant gets horizontal at the Summer Vibes Fest on June 21. The new summer festival replaced the Burning Can Fest in Lyons
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From left: Dylan Creme, Paul Creme and Maya Creme arrive at a Bike to Work Day station at the Longmont Civic Center on June 25.
Kaia Liebert, 6, uses a tube blowing air to keep the a piece of foil suspended during the CU Boulder science and engineering’s “Voices for Science Camps” on July 9
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Artist Artie Sandstone works on a new piece June 30at his studio on Pearl Street in Boulder.
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Cindy Marvell juggles clubs July 3while practicing for the Boulder Juggling Festival
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Cannons fire as the Longmont Symphony Orchestra plays during the Fourth of July celebration.
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From left, Director of Wellness Edgar Ortiz, President and CEO Christie Hinrichs and Hinrichs’ husband Matthew Hinrichs, who donated the boat kit to the woodworkers, float through the lap pool in the “S.S. Good Ship Frasier” at the nonprofit Frasier senior living community in Boulder on July 23. The woodworkers who built the boat are Curt Eshelman, Dave Temple, Warren Underwood, Margaret Huntting, Michael Covey, Alan Richards, Max Krimmel, Jim Marquardt and Ken Fernalld. The boat will eventually be auctioned off with proceeds going back to the wood shop for Frasier residents
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CLIFF GRASSMICK — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Liz Patton, of Berthoud, plays while lying in the grass on July 24during RockyGrass Academy in Lyons
A black bear rests on a cottonwood tree branch in the back yard of a house near Roger’s Grove in Longmont on July 10.
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Longmont Power and Communications workers free a truck from power lines near South Bowen Street and Grand Avenue on July 21.
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A Tube to Work Day participant reacts to a whitewater section July 11during the 16th annual Tube to Work Day on Boulder Creek.
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Tibetan members of the Lhasa
and
perform traditional Tibetan opera, dances and songs on at the Boulder Public Library on July 27. The BoulderLhasa Sister City Project organized the exchange and cultural program
Song
Dance Troupe
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The flag team of the St Vrain Valley All-District Marching Band performs during the Boulder County Fair Parade on Main Street in Longmont on Aug. 2
Greene, who competed on the television show “American Ninja Warrior,” demonstrates her skill on Aug. 4at the Ark Ninja training facility in the Longmont
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Satele chases a ball at the Roosevelt Activity Pool in Longmont on Aug. 5
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Sarah East, right, and Caroline East, left, ride the “Himalaya” ride at the Boulder County Fair in Longmont on Aug. 7.
Devarey Edmiston, 11, brings her steer, Wilson, back after the Junior Livestock auction Aug. 9at the Boulder County Fair. The sale raises money for local 4-H and Future Farmers of America chapters
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Gordon Mesbergen drives “Ruffian” in the Light Limited Super Stock Class during the Truck and Tractor Pull on Aug. 8at the Boulder County Fair.
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Alannah Blocksom, wearing an inflatable pig costume, stands with her goats Midland, left, and Billy Jean, right, at the goat costume contest during the Boulder County Fair on Aug. 6
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Tom Luke drives a 1950Minneapolis-Moline ZA tractor pulling a trailer while setting up for the Yesteryear Farm Show on Aug. 18. The free show at the Dougherty Museum features antique farm tractors, machinery, engines and demonstrations of threshing and hay baling.
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Kilt Farm owner Michael Moss speaks during an Aug. 12rally in Niwot to protest increases to the minimum wage for unincorporated Boulder County
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HOPE Shelter Director Laura Denton, right, checks people in for the overnight shelter Aug 14at Journey Church in Longmont.
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Longmont Power and Communications crews work on a broken utility pole between Colorado Avenue and Delaware Avenue on South Ken Pratt Parkway in Longmont on Aug 20
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Colorado’s Hope Leyba hits the ball out of the Colorado goal area during the Aug. 14game against Michigan State at Prentup Field in Boulder
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Boulder City Council Member Taishya Adams poses for a portrait in front of a Penfield Tate II mural in Boulder on Aug. 19. Adams had renewed calls for the Boulder City Council to pull investments in companies that some see as culpable in Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank
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Victoria Kanas goes for the basket during a warm-up round of the Rocky Mountain Women’s Disc Golf Championships on Aug. 19in Superior
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A bald eagle is seen in a cottonwood tree next to the “Big Barn” on Schofield Farm Open Space on Aug 28.
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The Monarch football team runs onto the field before the start of the game against Poudre at Spangenberg Field in Lafayette on Aug 21
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University of Colorado Boulder Buffaloes running back Simeon Price tries to catch the pass in the game against Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Folsom Field in Boulder on Aug. 29.
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Colorado Buffaloes Carter Stoutmire, right, breaks up a pass for Delaware Blue Hens Elijah Sessoms, left, during the Sept. 6game at Folsom Field
New University of Colorado Boulder K-9Harlo is hugged by Gabby Riecker, foreground, as K-9Dax shakes hands with Sarah Barwacz, background, on Sept. 9
against Frederick on Sept 5.
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Three-year-old Carson Zeranski reacts to an encounter with “Mr. Bones,” a T-rex skeleton puppet, before the start of the annual Labor Day Parade on Main Street in Louisville
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MATTHEW JONAS — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Erie’s Sophee Horovitz pitches against Broomfield on Aug. 27.
Participants watch as Fairview High School senior Zana Prospero, center, speaks during a Students Demand Action and Team Enough gun violence protest Sept. 17at the University of Colorado Boulder
On Sept. 18, property owner Annette Nusser stands near a plane in her grass mix hay field near the 6900block of St. Vrain Road between North 75th and 65th Streets west of Vance Brand Municipal Airport
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Colorado Buffaloes Kaidon Salter stretches out for a touchdown against the Delaware Blue Hens during their Sept. 6game at Folsom Field in Boulder
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Fairview’s Toray Davis, left, shakes a tackle from Boulder’s Jack Neslage at Christian Recht Field on Sept. 12.
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Colorado receiver Dre’Lon Miller, left, scores a touchdown as BYU cornerback Cannon DeVries, right, dives after him at Folsom Field in Boulder on Sept. 27.
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American Gold Star Mothers Pikes Peak Chapter’s Debbie Rowland, mother of U.S. Army Specialist Christopher Rowland, touches the gold star on the Northern Colorado Gold Star Families Memorial monument during a dedication Sept 20in Mead. Christopher Rowland died in 2009after serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Water
On Oct. 9, firefi
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ghters work to extinguish hot spots from a fire in a Caribou Village Shopping Center in Nederland
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A single engine plane takes off from Vance Brand Municipal Airport in Longmont on Sept. 11.
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droplets enhance the appearance of a fallen leaf along the Peak to Peak Highway in Boulder County on Sept. 19.
Students play four square during recess at Gold Hill Elementary School on Oct. 8. The students range in grade from kindergarten to fifth grade.
Mead’s Peyton Weichel plays the
with the marching band during halftime of the game against Holy Family on Oct. 3
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CU Buffaloes Sarah Morton serves during their Oct. 2game against the University of Central Florida Knights at the CU Events Center.
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The Fairview High School marching band performed its show, “The Photo Book,” for middle school students on Oct. 22. Fairview’s marching band was ranked third in the state for 5A going into the state championships
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Charles South airs over Union Reservoir on his wing foil board in Longmont on Oct. 20. The National Weather Service forecasters had issued a red flag alert for much of Northern Colorado that day
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Owner Ross Alper takes an order for two Nederland Firefighters at the Italian Deli in Nederland on Oct 21
A member of the University of Colorado Boulder dance team flies into the crowd of fans on the field after the Colorado Buffaloes beat the Iowa State Cyclones at Folsom Field on Oct. 11.
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Holy Family’s Aaliyah Hill, right, celebrates winning the 4A Girls Softball state championship with her teammates on
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The Broomfield High School softball team celebrates with the Class 5A State Softball Championship trophy after beating Legend High School. The Eagles defeated the Titans, 17-7.
Front Range Community College professor and paranormal investigator Catlyn Keenan uses a flashlight to point out locations at the Callahan House during the “Murder, Haunts and Intrigue: Nighttime Historic Walking Tour” in Longmont.
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Giustina Iannetta, playing the role of a nurse, poses for a portrait inside the haunted house at Boulder High School on Oct 23
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An impressive Halloween display on Third Avenue near Francis Street is seen in Longmont
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Colorado Buffaloes wide receiver Omarion Miller, right, makes a touchdown catch over Arizona Wildcats defensive back Jay’Vion Cole, left, at Folsom Field in Boulder
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University of Colorado Buffaloes Lexi Meyer, right, and Texas Tech University Red Raiders Sam Courtwright, left, battle for control of the ball at Prentup Field in Boulder on Oct. 23.
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Shanti Simon conducts the University of Colorado Boulder marching band during halftime of the Nov. 1football game against Arizona Simon is the new director of bands at CU.
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Colorado Buffaloes team celebrates Erianna Gooden, right, who got the basket and the foul against the New Mexico Lobos at the CU Events Center in Boulder on Nov. 6
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Malone, center, grabs
rebound between Montana State Bobcats Chris Hodges, left, and Patrick McMahon, right, at the CU Events Center on Nov 3.
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Drake laughs with
voter at a ballot drop
ff location outside the Boulder County St. Vrain Community Hub in Longmont on Nov. 4
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Sarah Lee builds a bouquet of flowers to symbolize remembrance and hope during the second annual World Day of Remembrance to honor road crash victims. The Nov 5event was held at the Longmont Museum.
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The aurora borealis, or northern lights, is seen from North 49th Street near the intersection of Oxford Road in Boulder County on Nov. 11.
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Mead High School’s Lily Guthrie, center, is framed by her bandmates during the 2025Veterans Day parade in Longmont
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Frederick’s Landon Olson tries to hang onto Bear Creek’s Riley Wilson during the first round of Class 4A state football playoffs on Nov. 7
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From left, University of Colorado Boulder soccer players Caley Swierenga and Reagan Kotschau wait for the seeding announcement during a team watch party for the NCAA Tournament selection show Nov. 14at the UCHealth Champions Center.
Colorado Buffaloes’ Andrew Crawford pump fakes Alabama State Hornets’ Jerquarius Stanback into the air during the men’s basketball game at CU Events Center in Boulder on Nov. 17.
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