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When shes chaperoned dances at Catholic schools, Cynthia Storers been told to make sure the kids "leave room for Jesus" — but at Bishop Machebeuf High Schools prom last month, room apparently was not left for Jesus or social distancing. Because now Storers son has the virus, and the schools on Colorados COVID-19 outbreak list. Four COVID cases have been confirmed at the private Catholic high school in Denver, which was added to the states list of outbreak sites on May 5. Storers son, junior P...

Amazon wants to build a distribution center in Arvada — but the location may be less than prime. The tech company is working with Indianapolis-based developers Scannell Properties to finalize a site plan for an Amazon facility near Indiana Street and 66th Place, adjacent to Maple Valley Park, a city-owned open space property on the Ralston Creek Trail. The Amazon project, which has a target opening of August or September of 2022, would include an approximately 112,000-square-foot distributio...

If activists had anything to say about it, the Boulder City Council would have withdrawn from the Rocky Mountain Greenway Project during its April 13 meeting. But activists didnt get a say in the matter, at least not then. The latest decision on the project was presented as an update, not a discussion item, because as Carl Castillo, the citys chief policy advisor, explained, "The one thing we dont want...is for this to become a public hearing item." That quote comes from an email that the Rock...

Ivory Circles Connie Hong is introducing herself to Denvers music scene all over again — and this time, shes taking even more risks than she did the first time. In late March, the singer-songwriter of the established Denver indie band launched a new project, releasing her first album as solo artist Fair Elle. The album, Im Sorry You Feel That Way, includes ten tracks exploring the process of putting your heart on the line, getting it broken and picking up the pieces. After numerous successes...

With the signing of Senate Bill 181 in April 2019, Colorados local governments were given a power theyd never enjoyed before: the ability to restrict oil and gas operations within their borders, rather than be held to state guidelines. Two years later, the City and County of Broomfield is preparing to pass a set of holistic regulations for the industry — and theyre shaping up to be "the most stringent regulations in Colorado," says Broomfield Mayor Patrick Quinn. Those regulations are just ...

State senator Paul Lundeen isnt just mailing it in this legislative session. Even though state Republican leaders agree that the November 2020 elections in Colorado — home base of Dominion Voting Systems, the focus of voter-fraud rumors around the country over the past few months — came off without a hitch, five pieces of legislation have already been introduced to change the states voting procedures, including Lundeens controversial proposal regarding Colorados vote-by-mail system. Last w...

For nineteen years running, the Fly Fishing Show has lured more than 12,000 fly-fishing fanatics to the Denver Mart, bringing business to hundreds of exhibitors and generating upwards of $1 million for the local economy, estimates Ben Furimsky, the shows president. But after the Denver Mart announced that it will close at the end of March, Furimsky and other event organizers were left without a venue for their 2021 shows. Under current COVID-19 restrictions, those shows would have been able to...

“I don’t think it’s coincidence that you have Jeffco, Dougco, Cherry Creek and Denver all looking for superintendents at the same time,” Tom Boasberg muses from his office in Singapore, where he moved after resigning as superintendent of Denver Public Schools in 2018. “It points to the challenges inherent in the role and structure,” he says. “You get beat up a lot in the role. You’re not going to do the role and not be punched in the face. It’s a role that people have very str...

The Byers Branch Library, now a Denver landmark, opened in 1918 at 675 Santa Fe Drive; it was named for William Byers, whod founded the Rocky Mountain News sixty years earlier. Also coming under scrutiny was the Ross-Barnum Branch Library, at 3550 West First Avenue, which gets half of its name from the so-called “Greatest Showman,” P.T. Barnum, who in 1878 bought the land where the library now sits for a subdivision. The Ross-Barnum Library opened in 1954. But today, DPL sees a need for c...

On the second weekend in January, in the dead of winter, Zach Snavely and Corinne Hancock fought their first wildfire. The Littleton couple watched flames rising about twenty feet into the air, eating up snow-covered piles of fuel and radiating heat, as they and their teammates dug a preventative fireline into the dirt on the grounds near Salida’s Colorado Firecamp. Just days before, Snavely, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard and has been working as an international military consultant, and ...