Maile McManis says she founded her business, Sewing with Smiles, when she was 11 years old....
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Christie Gosch
Happy New Year!
It was a beautiful holiday season in our community. Cheers to 2025.
Green Simple Living: New Year’s Resolution…Stopping Food Waste
As we turn the calendar to 2025, it’s time to set a “green” New Year’s resolution. This year, I propose we work together to stop food waste.
Indie Prof: A Complete Unknown and Nosferatu
A founding principle of this column is that I review films you may not see reviewed in other...
Local Events: Jan. to Early Feb.
View/add events at FrontPorchNE.com/events. Submissions by the 17th will be considered for the upcoming month’s issue.
Bird Sightings: Killdeer
The killdeer is a shorebird that is not always associated with water. One finds the killdeer on lawns, golf courses, driveways, parking lots, gravel-covered roofs, natural pastures, fields, sandbars, and mudflats.
Liquor Store Owners Say Grocery Wine Sales Have a “Significant” Impact on Business
The sale of wine in grocery stores created a convenient way for some shoppers to pick up a favorite bottle. For local liquor store owners, the change created the need to look for new ways to bring people into their stores after a “significant” drop in revenue.
Election Results Bring Fear to Immigrant Communities
Fear. Confusion. Sadness. Nervousness. Those were just a few of the adjectives used to describe how immigrants—and people who work with them—are feeling after Donald Trump’s victory in November.
Local Events: Dec. 2024 – Early Jan. 2025
View/add events at FrontPorchNE.com/events. Submissions by the 17th will be considered for the upcoming month’s issue.
A Place Where Local Art Shines Every Day of the Year
Inside a former Safeway store in the Montclair neighborhood of Denver, hurried shoppers have been replaced by the concentration and collaboration of artists creating.
The Indie Prof: Thelma, Ghostlight, The Diplomat, and Lioness
Here are a few films that didn’t get the attention they deserved during the year. These are two smaller films that will both delight and move you—two things that we sorely need in our world right now. There is even a great deal of humor in them, something I don’t cover all that much in these pages. We need that now as well.
Bird Sightings: Canada Goose
I spotted a white goose among the Canada geese at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge this past May. The white goose is a snow goose with black wingtips visible in flight. It has pink feet and a pink bill that has a prominent black “grin patch.”
