Education and County Government Reporter

Will Costello

Bret Heller, the Thompson School District's new superintendent, poses for a photo at the administration building in Loveland on Wednesday. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

New Superintendent Bret Heller considers future of Thompson School District

July 20, 2025 at 11:20 a.m.

Bret Heller, newly hired superintendent, began work the first of this month, and is in the midst of familiarizing himself with the district before students arrive for their first classes...

Lauren Boebert appeared at a campaign event with Donald Trump Jr. Thursday (Will Costello / Loveland Reporter Herald).

Boebert, Trump Jr. appear together at Loveland campaign event

April 26, 2024 at 8:39 a.m.

Lauren Boebert, a devotee of the Make America Great Again movement and a strong supporter of Donald Trump, shared a campaign stage with Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. in Loveland...

Kyle Meis, a resident north of Highway 34, next to a large trash pile that has been in his neighborhood for the past several weeks.

Trash pile in Loveland causes neighborhood headaches

April 8, 2023 at 11:39 a.m.

The trash pile, which includes ruined mattresses, bundles of scrap wood, brush and tree limbs, piping, derelict appliances and an abandoned shopping cart, is causing nearby residents to worry for...

LOVELAND, CO – MARCH 29, 2023: The Loveland High School parking lot is nearly empty on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, after classes were canceled for the day after tip was filed with the State of Colorado’s Safe2Tell service, suggesting that there was a safety threat at the LHS campus. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland High School principal reinstated, listening session slated

April 7, 2023 at 8:29 a.m.

Loveland High School's principal will return to work Monday, and the Thompson School District is holding a listening session at the school Thursday.

LOVELAND, CO – APRIL 3, 2023: Students cheer as they listen to their classmate, Alyson Pike, far right, a Loveland High senior, talk during a protest Monday, April 3, 2023, outside the school. A group of about 60 students walked out to protest the way the district handled a threat at the school last week and to support their teachers and principal, Michael James, who was put on administrative leave. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland High School students walk out of school in protest of district’s handling of shooting threat

April 3, 2023 at 12:15 p.m.

Loveland High School students staged a walkout Monday morning in protest of the Thompson School District’s handling of a threat that Loveland police deemed noncredible last week, and to support...

The Loveland High School parking lot is nearly empty on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, after classes were canceled for the day after tip was filed with the State of Colorado's Safe2Tell service, suggesting that there was a safety threat at the LHS campus. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland High School cancels school after tip about possible threat

March 29, 2023 at 1:42 p.m.

Loveland High School canceled classes Wednesday after a tip from Colorado’s Safe2Tell service indicated a possible threat.

LOVELAND, CO – JANUARY 20, 2022: Meghan Albañez, new chair of the Winter Holiday Council, poses for a photo Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, near some of the decorations at Dwayne Webster Veterans Park in Loveland. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland’s Winter Holiday Council struggles to keep the lights on amid vandalism, thefts

January 22, 2022 at 6:00 a.m.

Meghan Albañez, the new chair of the Winter Holiday Council, warns that without help from the public or the city of Loveland, many of the lights and decorations maintained by...

Owner Sandy Noonan organizes orders of ...

Larimer County to require masks indoors due to ‘overburdened’ hospitals

October 15, 2021 at 4:24 p.m.

Larimer County public health officials issued a public order Friday requiring masks in any indoor public spaces effective Wednesday at noon.

LOVELAND, CO – AUGUST 18, 2021: People gather outside the Thompson School District boardroom during a rally against masks in schools Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, in Loveland. From left are Matt Miller, PJ Carmichael and Krista Falnigan. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Thompson School Board approves mask mandate

August 19, 2021 at 7:09 a.m.

Protesters and counterprotesters descended on the Thompson School District administration building Wednesday night as the board of education weighed a new mask mandate for students in the district.

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