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Colorado county approval of pot-farm proposal stands

BOULDER — Boulder County commissioners declined Tuesday to second-guess their Land Use Department’s Aug. 5 approval of a potential medical-marijuana growing operation north of Longmont.

Proposed pot farm angers residents

LONGMONT - The investor saw potential in the scrubby 67 acres tucked away amid multimillion dollar homes: He would turn the land into a vast pot farm and capitalize on the booming medical marijuana industry.

Ag Notebook for Sept. 5

»Butter exports ... Cooperatives Working Together has accepted two requests from members for assistance in selling butter to customers in Europe and North Africa. The products will be delivered through October.

Eat Local Week sprouts

Alison Dance used to wait in line at 7:45 a.m. at the Durango Farmers Market like everybody else. Ten years later, the owner of Cyprus Cafe lets the vendors come to her and save her the trunk space.

New DVDs

Caine plays the title character, a retired military man living in a bleak housing project in England, where gangs of teenage hooligans terrorize neighbors, deal drugs in the pubs and turn abandoned flats into pot farms and weapons depots. [...] Caine's sense of nuance is lost on director Daniel Barber, who labors mightily to create a world of rampant wickedness and failed institutions, so that ...