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The Chatfield Chargers scored a 6-3 victory over the Arvada West Wildcats at home on April 26. The win was an even sweeter victory for Chatfield because just two days before Arvada West defeated Chargers’ rival Columbine 6-5.
“In this league if you don’t respect every team you’re gonna get beat,” Chatfield Senior head coach Mike Yansak said. “So we had respect for (Arvada West) coming in. But when they knocked off the only undefeated team in league it gave us a little more respect.”

LAKEWOOD — There’s a comfort level when it comes to the Columbine Lady Rebels’ girls soccer team. That’s quite possibly because most of the team played with each other a season ago.
But for nine seniors — Katelyn Phillips, Allison Durden, Celina Roy, Ashley Morris, Jill Wigle, Amanda Giddens, Abbey Roelfson, Paige Myer and Ember Albertson — something clicked this offseason that wasn’t there in 2011.

I always make it a practice to ask my Metro State journalism students to explain what a mill levy is, because few things are more central to covering governments than understanding how taxing entities get money from the public.
Usually, the students look at me as if I’m speaking in an obscure Klingon dialect: A mill? A levy? What are those, and what do they have to do with government funding? These are typically intelligent, well-informed students, and they have not the slightest idea what I’m going on about.

After four years of wrestling with the budget, refining strategy and searching for savings, Terri Maulik thinks that plenty remains to be accomplished in the next four years at the Foothills Park & Recreation District.

"I feel like the first four were about learning and emptying out the closets and the clutter," said Maulik, who is running for a second term as a member of the Foothills board from Ward 5.