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An assault charge against Foothills Park & Recreation District golf director Tom Woodard was dropped earlier this month, though the former PGA player pleaded guilty Jan. 5 to a misdemeanor charge of violating a protection order.

The recreation district is not planning disciplinary action against Woodard, who was arrested twice last June in connection with an alleged assault against his wife and the violation of a protection order.

Robberies in Jefferson County more than doubled in 2010, an increase the Sheriff’s Office attributes in part to crime rampages led by small groups of bandits.

There were 29 robberies last year, including everything from purse snatching to holdups at gunpoint. Only 14 robberies were reported in 2009.

But overall, crime in Jeffco fell 4 percent last year, the Sheriff’s Office reported. There were 8,228 reported crimes in 2010, compared to 8,563 in 2009.

South Jeffco resident Bob English spent half of his 71 years piloting commercial airliners before hanging up his captain’s pin more than a decade ago.

But the folksy Louisiana native has not abandoned his affinity for aviation — English continues to pilot airplanes, though now with a remote control and with his feet firmly planted on terra firma.

Jefferson County’s Transparent Jeffco website, a list of county expenditures aimed at informing the public about government spending, was up to six months out of date until the Courier informed the county of the lack of current information.

Early last week, the most current procurement card expenditures, which include items ranging from Colorado Bureau of Investigation background checks to movie rentals for the jail’s inmates, were listed as July 6, 2010, from when the information was updated in late October.