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Jefferson County on Feb. 27 is relocating its elections division offices to the Laramie Building from its current location in the County Courts and Administration Building.

The move will consolidate the offices with the county’s ballot-counting center, which is already in the Laramie Building.

The office will be closed Feb. 24 in order to allow the move. The office will reopen the following Monday at the new address, 3500 Illinois St., Suite 1100, in Golden.

For more information about the elections division, visit www.votejeffco.com.

House District 26 Rep. Andy Kerr brought his Democratic state Senate campaign to South Jeffco for the first time Feb. 16, meeting with local residents in the recently redrawn district that is up for grabs in November.

Though four candidates are registered in the race, including incumbent Tim Neville and House District 28 Rep. Jim Kerr, both Republicans, only Andy Kerr and Republican House District 22 Rep. Ken Summers live within the district’s new boundaries.

In updating Alan Jay Lerner’s classic musical “Brigadoon,” a story about an early 19th-century Scottish village that appears to the rest of the world every 100 years, director Chris Willard sprinkled in a few modern lines, such as references to global positioning systems and Twitter.

Though modernizing a play about a 200-year-old village might seem unusual, the effect is arguably in synch with Lerner’s intentions — luring a perpetually distracted audience with the charms of a simpler time.

You never know when you’re going to have a life changing experience.
    Stories about both the untimely death of former CU and CSU track coach Jerry Quiller at the age of 69 and his funeral in the last couple of weeks reminded me of the impact Quiller had on my development in a way that I’m sure he never even realized.