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  • A simpler but entertaining era

    In updating Alan Jay Lerner’s classic musical “Brigadoon,” a story about an early 19th-century Scottish village that appears to the rest of the world every 100 years, director Chris Willard sprinkled in a few modern lines, such as references to global positioning systems and Twitter.

    Though modernizing a play about a 200-year-old village might seem unusual, the effect is arguably in synch with Lerner’s intentions — luring a perpetually distracted audience with the charms of a simpler time.

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  • Authorities cite driver whose bus hit 3 teens

    The driver of the Jeffco school bus that struck and injured three Summit Ridge Middle School students Feb. 21 in a South Jeffco crosswalk has been cited by police.

     

    The students, all 14-year-old girls, sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to St. Anthony Central Hospital in Lakewood at 3:09 p.m., a State Patrol spokesman said. The accident occurred last Tuesday afternoon at South Simms Street and Brandt Avenue.

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  • Sheriff's Calls

    Card game

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  • District’s deal with unions pushes cuts to 2013-14 school year

    A deal reached between Jeffco Public Schools and its employee unions Feb. 11 would postpone tens of millions in budget cuts for at least a year and temporarily keep the district from cutting teaching positions.

    The agreement, which will require the Board of Education’s approval, delays 574 job cuts the district would have to make in the 2013-14 school year if voters do not approve a property-tax increase that is likely to be placed on the November ballot.

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  • Sheriff's Calls

    Saab story

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  • Columbine High students attacked with hammer

    Two Columbine High School students received medical attention Monday after a freshman allegedly attacked them with a hammer in a girls’ bathroom.

    Police arrested a 14-year-old female student, who the Sheriff’s Office said will likely be charged with first-degree assault.

    The injured students, both sophomores, a male, 16, and a female, 15, were sent to the Swedish Southwest emergency room. Though they sustained serious injuries, both are expected to fully recover.

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  • Littleton council weighs parking-sign rules

    A lack of consistency in parking signage on private property and a “predatory” towing culture in Littleton have the City Council considering a measure to standardize private-parking signs.

    In several recent instances, cars have been towed from one parking lot with a “no parking” sign positioned about 12 feet high, a notice council members seemed to agree was inadequate.

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  • Jeffco libraries keeping a few best-sellers available on the shelves

    Author Robert Crais’ latest Elvis Cole suspense mystery novel, “Taken,” amassed 165 Jefferson County Library reservations, with patrons claiming their spots online for one of 45 copies.

    For Jonathan Safran Foer’s best-seller “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” which was recently made into a film, 154 people parked in the online queue for any of 33 circulating copies, potentially waiting weeks for the book.

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  • Penalties considered for violations by pot dispensaries

    The Littleton City Council is considering penalties that the city’s four medical marijuana dispensaries could face if found to be in violation of city or state code.

    Under the proposal, penalties would be substantially stiffer for dispensaries than for similar violations at liquor stores, which are also regulated by the city’s licensing authority. In many cases, violations ranging from selling to an underage customer or a patient consuming marijuana on the premises would result in a license revocation.

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  • Book sorters telling a problematic tale

    Automated book sorters that cost the Jeffco Public Library $2.6 million and came with innumerable service headaches recently offered another surprise — the Swiss manufacturer Bibliotheca apparently used the library system as a beta test for one of the company’s complex machines.

    The book sorters — a computerized assembly of belts and rollers that scan and sort materials via radio-frequency chips implanted in them — were acquired to increase efficiency and reduce the number of staff required to sort books and return them to shelves.

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