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Five of the seven candidates in the Town of Morrison’s municipal election agree that the property for the pending Red Rocks Ranch residential development should be annexed into Jefferson County.

Another candidate says Morrison should keep control of the property and therefore the development, while the last candidate said she didn’t have enough information to have an opinion.

Dean and Desiree Hirschfield have been music lovers for as long as they can remember. Now after teaching music for years, the Colorado natives have branched out and decided it was time to build a business of their own.

“We had a lot of big ideas of things we wanted to be able to do and working for another company, you’re kind of limited for what you’re allowed to do,” said Dean, a Chatfield Senior High School graduate.

As a cavalcade of sheriff’s vehicles pulled up to Dakota Ridge High School, a handful of students walking to class curiously watched the procession and listened to the chorus of barking from the vehicles.

With a crowd of students from a legal systems class assembled outside, one-by-one, the dogs were brought out to demonstrate their skill sets — obedience, drug detection, bite work, muzzle and apprehension.

The Jeffco Board of County Commissioners selected Peggy Catlin to serve as Regional Transportation Director for District N.
She will replace Tina Francone, who resigned the position after she was appointed to replace Commissioner Don Rosier in late January.
Catlin, who was officially appointed at Tuesday’s board hearing, will serve until January, when the winner of the November election is sworn in.