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Robert Husak, 19, died May 26 at St. Anthony Central Hospital, less than a week after a large truck hit him as he sat on a park bench near the Whisper Creek apartment complex.

A helicopter took Husak to the hospital following the accident. The 19-year-old was trapped beneath the truck, which careened into a playground after hitting Husak and 20-year-old Matthew Maccord. Maccord was taken by ambulance to Swedish Medical Center.

Charges have not been filed against the driver of the truck, Sebastian Kowzan, 28.

Chatfield High School sophomore Cole Mickey spent his Eagle Scout project digging holes and cementing 13-foot posts in Clement Park last month, in the hope that birds of prey will be attracted to the area’s prairie dog colony.

The project, which Mickey undertook at the suggestion of the Foothills Park & Recreation District, is designed to reduce the prairie dog population by making the small creatures easier targets for natural predators.

Dakota Ridge alum Breeauna Shaver watched her group of kindergarten tots graduate to elementary school last week, and the symbolism wasn’t lost on her.

The crowd of youngsters, with whom she’s played and helped teach in an after-school program, attended a very informal fete, a celebration of their diminutive transition from crayons to pencils.

But for Breeauna and hundreds of other former Dakota Ridge students, the May 26 high school graduation represented a much larger step.

An Arizona man ticketed last month for flipping off a state trooper in Jefferson County was denied his First Amendment rights, the American Civil Liberties Union says.

Shane Boor, 35, was driving near C-470 and West Bowles Avenue on his way to work April 19 when he gave the finger to a trooper who had pulled over another driver. A different state trooper tracked him to his work site, where Boor received a summons for making the obscene gesture.

The criminal harassment charge against Boor carries a maximum potential sentence of six months in jail.