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Income-restricted housing planned for Highlands church location
The former Highlands Lutheran Church is slated to become affordable housing for Berkeley’s seniors. Originally constructed in 1958, the roughly 14,000-square-foot building functioned as the Highlands Lutheran Church until the church decided to sell the building in 2024. After several failed developments…
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Firefighters, police, students gather at Cosmo’s Pizza for Last Fling Lunch
Police sirens blared, blue and red lights flashed and voices could be heard yelling loudly over a police radio — but it was a happy occasion outside Cosmo’s Pizza on a sunny afternoon in May. Students from Denver North High School, Skinner Middle School, Centennial Elementary School and Columbian Elementary School joined Cosmo’s staff, the…
Credit, crypto and cost of living: Colorado schools face big task teaching teens financial survival
Forget balancing a checkbook. Today’s teens need to know how to avoid identity theft, decode a credit score and figure out if that “buy now, pay later” plan is actually worth it. With a new state law requiring all Colorado high school students to complete a course in financial literacy beginning with students in the…
PRESS RELEASE: America 250 – Colorado 150 Commission Invites Coloradans to Unite as Countdown to 2026 Begins
DENVER, Colo. (July 1, 2025) — The America 250 – Colorado 150 Commission recognizes this Fourth of July as the start of the one-year countdown to the national commemoration of the…
Denver International Airport hikes parking costs
Denver International Airport – one of the world’s busiest airports that generates over $47.2 billion annually, according to the 2025 Colorado Economic Impact Study – will implement new parking rates at several of its parking facilities beginning on May 14. The update includes increased fees for most parking options, and a reduced daily rate for…
Denver-area churches share how they’ve changed since March 2020
In March 2020, Christian churches across the Denver area shut their doors during the initial COVID-19 shutdowns. Many hoped the doors would be reopened for Easter in April. But they weren’t. Instead, local Christians watched their churches’ Easter celebrations online while their pastors preached and their musicians played for empty churches. The Very Rev. Richard…
COMMUNITY COLUMNS
Rebecca A. Hunt: Shaping West Colfax’s future by learning from its past
One of the Northside neighborhoods that we have not yet explored is West Colfax. I am going to spend the…
Shaping the Future by Learning from Our Past: Latinos and the neighborhood schools
In 1947, Denver Mayor Quigg Newton commissioned a study to look at the status of Latino families in Denver. One…
Guest Column: Lean more about Earth Month community resilience gatherings
It’s that time of year when we pause to consider our relationship to the planet. We might pick up some…
Check it out: ‘I Leave it Up to You’ pens tale of overcoming struggles
Jack Jr. opens his eyes to a world that is louder and brighter than he remembers. A man is standing…
COMMUNITY VOICES
Check it out: Trials, tribulations abound in ‘God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer’
In a level-one trauma center in Philadelphia, Iraq War veteran and former Army medic Joe Thomas observes the lives around…
The Sway Test can help unlock healing
Despite out-of-pocket costs and long waits for appointments already being a statewide issue, the truth is the citizens of northwest…
Jewels of Highlands Home Tour raises $32,000 for North High
By Rebecca Caldwell, Special to Colorado Community Media The much-loved Jewels of Highlands Home Tour made a spectacular return on…
Arts & Culture, near and far
Northside local Cipriano Ortega releases debut album ‘Lo Lo House’
A few years ago, Cipriano Ortega began integrating a two-string bass guitar into his music, experimenting with stripping his sounds down to the basics. A minimalist at heart, the Denver local said that while researching blues, an African-American music genre dating back to the 1860s, he found that many players would start their music careers…
Clarke Reader: Take a Deep Dive in Jurassic Oceans with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
During the age of the dinosaurs, some of the most impressive animals the planet has ever seen walked the earth. But the oceans were equally full of breathtaking creatures, and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s newest exhibit brings them to vibrant life with Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep. “The exhibit starts in the Jurassic era…
¡ME MEO! Comedian Rebeca Trejo reflects on laughter as resistance
A year ago, Comedian Rebeca Trejo founded “¡ME MEO! Comedia en Español,” a grassroots comedy show created by and for Spanish-speaking immigrants in Denver.
Neighborhood organizations come together to host screening of award-winning documentary
On June 12, Denver residents can attend a free screening of the award-winning documentary “Join or Die” at the MCA’s Holiday Theater in Highland. The event is hosted by Denver Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation (INC), a nonprofit coalition of Denver’s registered neighborhood organizations (RNOs) in collaboration with more than 35 community organizations throughout Denver. “We are thrilled…
Local LIFE ACROSS THE REGION
Clarke Reader: Summer Theater Rocks at PACE Center
There are some musicals that are just made for the summer, and “Rock of Ages” certainly falls into that category. The show not only captures some of that wild freedom of the best summer days, but also is full of quintessential 80s songs. “The show is all about bigger and better. It embraces the big hair of…
Sports
High school basketball: New rules in play for 2025-26 season
We’re still a year away from Colorado adopting a shot clock for high school basketball. The rule kicks in for the 2026-27 season, with a 35-second timer for all classifications. However, some changes are coming ahead of the 2025-26 season also. The National Federation of High Schools adopted new rules and procedures for the coming…
Local Orediggers help Colorado School of Mines celebrate 150th anniversary
All week, Paige Becker had noticed an extra level of excitement and buzz around the Colorado School of Mines campus. Becker, a Mines alumna and faculty member from the Broomfield/Westminster area, said the students were more energetic than usual. At the same time, employees were busy getting the campus ready for an enormous influx of…
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