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Today's Features

  • A blossoming business

    Looking to stop and smell the flowers, Arika Zittlosen left the hubbub of Hollywood for the mountains of Colorado.

    A year ago, Zittlosen and her husband moved to Idaho Springs and this month opened Arika’s Mountain Flowers at 1535 Miner St., Unit 1.

    Surrounded by tulips, daisies and carnations, Zittlosen, a Colorado native, said operating a flower shop meets her artistic needs but at a slower pace. Previously, she worked at Warner Bros. Studio.

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  • Migrating nighthawks fill the evening air

    There is a small order of birds known as goatsuckers. The scientific name is the Caprimulgiformes, which comes from the Latin Caprimulgus, a milker of goats and forma or form.

    This name comes from the old belief that these birds, which are often seen in low sweeping flight over meadows, were sucking the milk out of goats. There are not as many species in this order as there are in some other orders such as finches and warblers.

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  • 100-year celebration planned for Underhill Museum

    The Underhill Museum in Idaho Springs is gearing up to celebrate the historic building’s 100th anniversary on Aug. 25.

    The fund-raising celebration for the century-old building will include a martini bar, hors d’oeuvres from local restaurant Mangia, and live music by Gary Jorgensen and Claudia Cupp in the museum’s iconic garden.

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  • He has pull: County’s designated weed whacker stalks noxious non-native stalks

    From beneath the wide brim of his cowboy hat, Ted Brown seeks out his quarry on the hillsides.

    His discriminating eye spots a plant that could be an oxeye daisy — not an unattractive plant, but one that is a threat to native species in the high country.

    On a recent afternoon in the fields behind Clear Creek High School, Brown is seeking the eradication of a specific weed: the common mullein, or Verbascum thapsus.

    Brown’s employees spray the mullein, whose brown stalks stick up from hillsides like Roman spears.

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  • Currents

    Aug. 20
    Georgetown Garden Club field trip: Aug. 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. to the Alpine Earth Center and Solar Gardens in Silverthorne with lunch in Frisco. For more information e-mail thegardenclub.ccc@aol.com.

    Aug. 20
    School begins for students in the Clear Creek School District.

    Sept. 3
    Pancake breakfast at the Historic Alice School House at 271 Silver Creek Road from 8 a.m. to noon. Admission is $2 kids, $4 adults and $10 family. Donations benefit the Alice Historical Society.

    Sept. 22

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  • Twin Tunnels key to county’s growth — past and present


    The Twin Tunnels appear key to the future of growth in the Interstate 70 corridor today, just as they were more than 60 years ago.

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  • Barn swallows are another visitor to the area

    Two weeks ago, I wrote about the tree and violet-green swallows that nest in this area. They are the swallows that have dark blue-black backs and white under parts as they flash by.
    There are other swallows that nest regularly in the area and that are also present in the big flocks of swallows that gather on utility lines before they depart for the South. There are four other swallows that are in this group that everyone can easily see in mixed flocks. The bank and rough-winged swallows are easily seen as different for they have brown backs and white under parts.

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  • Authors mine Silver Plume’s past

    With its Victorian charm and mining heritage, Silver Plume became the perfect setting for two books — one historical fiction and the other a ghost story — from different writers. The authors are visiting the county to promote their books and do readings over the next couple of weeks.

    A historical tale
    Veteran author Marianne Mitchell of Arizona decided to set her most recent book, “A Promise Made,” in Silver Plume after trying to unravel her own family mystery.

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  • Currents

     Aug. 11

    Georgetown to Idaho Springs Half Marathon celebrates its 34rd anniversary this summer. The race begins at 8 a.m. Aug. 11 at Georgetown Lake. The race benefits the Clear Creek Booster Club, which provides scholarships and support for sports and extracurricular activities for Clear Creek Middle and High Schools. For more details, or to register for the race online, visit www.gtishalf.org.

     

    Aug. 11

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  • Search carefully to find violet-green swallows

     As summer wanes, more and more young birds are at the feeders. It is great to see so many of the regular species apparently doing well. There is one whose presence I miss in the yard. For some unknown reason, the violet-green swallows did not return this spring.

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