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Today's News

  • Dakota Ridge's Spillar captures state title in 3,200 meters

    LAKEWOOD — Dakota Ridge junior McKenna Spillar, in her first trip to the 5A state track and field championships, won the girls' 3,200-meter state championship May 17 at Jefferson County Stadium by the narrowest of margins.

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  • Home at last

    For Army Sgt. Eric Bishop, last week’s homecoming from South Korea — his third overseas deployment — meant seeing his 10-month-old son, Sebastian, for the first time.

     

    For his wife, Charlotte, who spent the last year wrangling a 2-year-old and changing and feeding their new baby, the event held simpler significance.

    "I am hoping to get more sleep," she said.

    Sebastian was born last June 28, and during the past 10 months he saw his father only in photos and on a computer screen. 

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  • Church on a mission to build new worship space

    Parishioners at Light of the World Roman Catholic Church do not sit in pews or kneel on kneelers. Instead, they have folding chairs and garden-style sponge kneepads.

    When the church was built in 1984 at Bowles and Kipling, the idea was to save money by having one large multipurpose space rather than a church and a community center.

    The "crying room," where parents with babies can be seated behind glass, is situated behind a bank of French doors, making it so hard to see the altar that the occupants watch Mass on a monitor.

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  • Festival to benefit Dakota Ridge sports teams

    The first Taste of Tipsy's festival and beer-tasting event will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Tipsy's Liquor World at C-470 and West Bowles Avenue.

    The Taste is the first in a series of potential events planned to benefit the Dakota Ridge Athletic Foundation, which is raising money to support the school’s sports teams. The group is not formally connected to the school.

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  • Apartments proposed for Ken Caryl Business Center

     About 25 people turned out at the Ken Caryl Ranch House on May 8 to view the latest proposal for development on 14 acres at Shaffer Parkway and West Ken Caryl Avenue, south of the Homewood Suites in the Ken Caryl Business Center.

    The land is currently zoned commercial/office/retail plus multifamily for a combination of retail, restaurant, office and residential development, on 10 acres east of Shaffer Parkway and 4 acres west of it.

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  • Incumbent Maulik re-elected to Foothills board

    Incumbent Terri Maulik was decisively re-elected to a second four-year term May 8 on the Foothills Park & Recreation District board of directors.

    In the only contested seat, in Ward 5, Maulik soundly defeated challenger Clarence Kissler, 806 votes to 443.

    "I feel like the first four (years) were about learning and emptying out the closets and the clutter," Maulik had said before the election. "The main focus needs to be on capital improvements and repairs and bringing in more revenue.”

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  • Ken Caryl Metro District elects three

    Jeff Esbenshade, Ryan Rhinehart and Lauri Lehan-Milan were elected to four-year terms on the Ken Caryl Metro District board of directors in the May 8 election.

    A total of 1,240 ballots were cast out of 6,349 ballots issued to voters, according to the judges' certificate of election returns. The results:

    Jeff Esbenshade, 597

    Ryan Rhinehart, 592

    Lauri Lehan-Milano, 561

    Brooke McGuire, 533

    Ruth Sundberg, 475

    Earl Bohlen, 455

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  • Voters elect 3 to West Metro Fire board

    Residents of the West Metro Fire District elected three new members to four-year terms on the board of directors in the election May 8.
    Pamela Feely won in District 4 with 515 votes. Feely ran uncontested.
    Kristin Moeder won in District 6 with 454 votes. Her opponent, J.B. Robert Espinoza, had 81 votes.
    Wendy Ann Volmer won in District 7 with 465 votes, compared to 69 votes for Gary Philpott.

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  • Sign-up under way for library’s Summer Reading Club

     Sign-up is under way for the Jeffco Public Library’s Summer Reading Club, which is held from June 1 through July 31. The club offers a chance for kids and teens who complete eight hours of reading to win a Kindle Fire, and for adults to win an iPad3.

    Details of the kids' Summer Reading Club, "Dream Big: Read," are available at www.jeffcolibrary.org/summerreading. Many of the programs will require tickets.

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  • Increase in crime-lab construction costs irks commissioners

    A construction company hired to produce detailed cost estimates for a Jeffco crime lab and community corrections facility says the price tag is $13 million higher than the $46.4 million originally budgeted.

    The Jeffco Board of County Commissioners took a dim view of the news, saying that cuts would have to be made because there is no more money in the budget.

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