North Weld towns hungry for tax dollars

The small towns dotting the plains of north Weld County are the new, last best places in Northern Colorado drawing jaded residents from elsewhere with their quiet streets, small-town lifestyles and dollar-stretching home prices.

And like their counterparts in southern Weld County — Johnstown, Milliken, Evans — these tiny municipalities are reaching for new sources of sales-tax revenue to help preserve the good life people who move there are seeking.

But simply growing rooftop numbers in Eaton, Ault, Pierce and even tiny Nunn won’t pay the bills, say local officials, because large numbers of the newcomers commute to work in southern Wyoming…