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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…
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Lamb Spring site is portal to last Ice Age
Charles Lamb wanted to expand a natural spring on his land to create a stock pond for his animals. In 1960, when he started digging in northwestern Douglas County, his efforts were stalled by a discovery 13,000 years in the making: mammoth bones. Lamb knew the discovery was out of his league, so he quickly…
New 2theXtreme exhibit at Wings Over The Rockies museum explores math
The Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum launched its brand-new 2theXtreme exhibit on June 1, offering an exciting new learning experience for kids and families seeking fun and educational activities this summer. This innovative exhibit, developed by Evergreen Exhibits, highlights the vital role math plays in our everyday lives, providing an interactive experience…
Colorado Renaissance Festival returns for its 48th season
Step beyond the castle gates and into a world of kings and queens, knights and jousts, jesters, witches and wandering minstrels as the Colorado Renaissance Festival returns to Larkspur for its 48th season. The festival opened on June 14 and will remain open until Aug. 3. Nestled within towering castle walls, this beloved summer tradition…
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…
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 including a preschool, Mounashram Inc., a faith-based non-profit, bought the property last February…
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Mary Lou Egan: Remnants of the Globeville School
Globeville is like an archaeological site. Almost every structure has layers of history buried underneath it, and Sam’s Vintage Ford…
Mary Lou Egan: Vestigios de la Escuela de Globeville
Globeville es como si fuera un sitio arqueológico. Casi cada estructura tiene capas de historia enterradas bajo ella, y Sam’s…
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…
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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
Clarke Reader: Art Through the Distortions of History
The creative process is ever-changing and often requires taking a look back to locate the way forward. The Arvada Center’s three summer exhibitions celebrate this fact by using the past as a guide to finding a way to and through modern times. “I hope people come away from the galleries with a new understanding of…
Clarke Reader: A Collection of Summer Artistic Activities
Summer is officially here, which means Colorado truly shows itself as a place with cultural options for every interest and activity. The days are lovely and long, so you’ll want to take advantage of all there is on offer. I’ve gathered a range of activities to celebrate the start of the season — find something…
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
Ice hockey: New rule in place for pucks, crossbars and goal frames
Three new rules will be in play when the 2025-2026 ice hockey season begins in Colorado. The puck is unplayable if it comes to rest on top of the goal between the crossbar and the goal frame. According to the National Federation of High Schools’ web page, the rule also clarifies the rules for pucks…
Patriotism waning? Try these 5 sports movies this Fourth of July
In the, shall we say, “cloudy” environment that is the United States political landscape in 2025, it can be difficult to ride for America as hard and as consistently as you might for the Broncos or Avalanche. As the Fourth of July closes in, those warm, patriotic feelings may not come as easily as they…
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