Today's News

In the summer of 1856, Capt. Samuel Comstock took 32 men from New Bedford, Mass., into the North Atlantic, beginning a three-year sojourn that would claim the life of one crewman and hundreds of sperm whales.

Etched neatly into a tattered and fading logbook are the details of that voyage, from a time when homes across the country glowed dimly from hurricane lanterns burning whale oil. The logbook, a 300-page nautical and financial record of the Governor Troup ship, sat virtually untouched for a century and a half.

Many love stories have withstood the test of time: Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella and Prince Charming, and even Bella and Edward.

Morrison has its own love story that is just squawking be told: Pedro and Juanita.

Pedro and Juanita are Chinese white geese who have lived together in Morrison with their owners, Marie and George McLaughlin. Pedro recently died, leaving Nita mourning for her constant companion.

So the McLaughlins are looking for a new friend for the lovelorn Juanita.

More than six months after the county commissioners unexpectedly dissolved Jeffco’s audit committee, the board last week began resurrecting a group tasked with reviewing the county’s financial audits.

A new, more structured audit committee will be more independent and transparent, county officials said at a Jan. 31 meeting, and members will also receive more training.

Who would have thought with the emphasis on our state’s new-energy economy that advances in ways to extract oil and natural gas would trigger economic opportunities in the energy industry in Colorado? And yet, that is what is happening as energy companies are preparing to utilize hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract energy around Colorado.