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Today's News

  • His spirit still soars

      Air Force pilot Jim Walters was flying from Montgomery, Ala., to Panama City, Fla., when all four radios on his plane short-circuited. The rain was pouring, and a dense fog obscured the land below.

    “There we were with 40 minutes of fuel left about 20 miles from an airport that’s fogged in,” he said. “That was probably as close as I ever came to jumping out of (an airplane) and having to explain to the colonel why I just crashed a multimillion-dollar jet for being an idiot and flying in the rain.”

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  • Ken Caryl Middle School teacher profile: Rachel Barbe

      Editor’s note: The Jeffco Schools Facilities Usage Committee has recommended closing Ken Caryl Middle School to close a budget gap. The Courier will be profiling faculty members in the next several editions.  

    Language arts teacher Rachel Barbe wears many hats.

    A wall in Barbe’s classroom at Ken Caryl Middle School is filled with an array of unique head coverings, including a purple cowgirl hat and hippo ears, an artifact from her stint as a theater teacher.

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  • Motorists can make I-70 safer with wildlife website

    A new website, www.I-70WildlifeWatch.org, has been launched by Colorado Wildlife on the Move, a coalition of businesses, state agencies, and nonprofit organizations working to decrease the incidence of wildlife-vehicle collisions on Colorado’s roads. The lets motorists report wildlife they see along Interstate 70 between Golden and Glenwood Springs.

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  • Schell named permanent county administrator

    Former Jeffco Open Space director Ralph Schell was appointed Tuesday as the new county administrator in a permanent, full-time capacity.

    Schell was earlier appointed acting county administrator Dec. 10, the day after Commissioners Kevin McCasky, Faye Griffin and Kathy Hartman unanimously voted to terminate former administrator Jim Moore’s contract.

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  • Foothills switches to district representation on board

      The Foothills Park & Recreation District board has divided the district into separate “director districts” or wards, a move designed to ensure equal representation for all areas.

    Five wards have been created, and one board members will be elected from each. The district hopes establishing wards will give residents more opportunity to provide input and prevent special interests from any one geographic area from holding a majority of representation.

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  • Jeffco Action Center receives bogus $40,000 donation

      The Jeffco Action Center received a cruel holiday gift Dec. 16 when a bogus $40,000 check was delivered via a UPS overnight letter.

    When the check arrived, Mag Strittmatter, the center’s executive director, looked at the check and immediately realized something was amiss. Several things appeared fake, including the wording for $40,000 was misspelled, it was a larger-than-normal check, and a signature was Xeroxed.

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  • Moore fired as county administrator

     

    County Administrator Jim Moore was fired last week on a unanimous vote by the county commissioners.

    Commissioners Kathy Hartman, Kevin McCasky and Faye Griffin voted to terminate Moore's employment with the county effective immediately. It was not revealed what, if any, severance package he would receive.

    Neither the board nor County Attorney Ellen Wakeman answered questions about the terms of Moore’s firing.

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  • Jeffco stands to receive $300,000 to combat meth

    Jefferson County is likely to see $300,000 in new funding to combat methamphetamine abuse and trafficking.

    An omnibus appropriations bill sponsored by U.S. Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet directs the money to law enforcement agencies and the Colorado Department of Human Services. The bill was approved last week by the Senate, where the funding provision was added, and is now awaiting President Obama’s signature.

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  • Jeffco’s 2010 budget approved

    The final version of Jefferson County’s $506 million budget for 2010 was approved on Tuesday by the county commissioners.

    The budget will reduce library funding by 0.2 mills and increase social services funding by the corresponding amount — essentially shifting $1.4 million from the libraries to social services.

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  • 7 Dakota Ridge students involved in two-vehicle accident

    Two people were seriously injured Dec.16 in a high-speed crash involving seven Dakota Ridge High School students.

     

    The two-car collision occurred about 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of West Bowles Avenue and South Alkire Street.

    A red 2000 Ford Mustang carrying six Dakota Ridge students was traveling south on Alkire through the intersection when it struck a 1998 Ford Escort traveling the opposite direction and carrying another Dakota Ridge student and two passengers, said Trooper Ryan Sullivan, a spokesman for the Colorado State Patrol.

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