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The Loveland Urban Renewal Authority board voted 7-5 to greenlight a $249,000 audit of the 20-year-old plan that financed the original Centerra development.

The long-awaited entry of Bass Pro Shops into the Loveland area has become a reality, with ground broken this week for the 130,000-foot megastore.

The long-awaited entry of Bass Pro Shops into the crowded outdoor-oriented retail market along Interstate 25 near Loveland has become a reality, with ground broken this week for the 130,000-foot megastore.

The Loveland City Council on Tuesday will consider a pair of hot-button, quarter-million-dollar questions: approving a forensic audit of the 20-year-old plan that financed the original Centerra development, and whether to hold a special election to recall of council member Troy Krenning or save the money by accepting his announced May resignation.

After this weekend, Colorado will be down to its last Runza. The Longmont location of the Lincoln, Nebraska-based chain of restaurants, which feature Midwestern-style sandwiches, will close after business hours on Sunday.

First Christian Church, 2000 N. Lincoln Ave., has been identified as the potential site of a new homeless shelter. Courtesy First Christian Church.

The Loveland City Council unanimously approved scheduling a special election on March 4 on whether to recall council member Troy Krenning but rejected his conditional resignation on a 4-4 tie vote.

A state appeals court in Denver will consider whether to uphold or overturn a Larimer District Court’s October dismissal of a lawsuit filed earlier this year by five former Loveland City Council members and three other Loveland residents against the current council and its actions surrounding the proposed Centerra South mixed-use development.

Discount retail chain Big Lots Inc. will begin “Going-Out-of-Business” sales at all its remaining stores, but it remains unclear when or whether all those stores — including one in Brighton — will close.

The Ptarmigan Country Club clubhouse and outdoor pool. Source: Ptarmigan Country Club