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  • New officer joins Idaho Springs force

    The Idaho Springs Police Department welcomed new patrol officer David Hemingway to its ranks on Feb. 17.

    Hemingway, originally from Texas, has been a law-enforcement officer for the past 14 years. Before joining the Idaho Springs police force, Hemingway worked as an officer in Commerce City.

    “It’s really a nice difference,” Hemingway said of Idaho Springs. “I liked it over there — there was a lot of crime and it was real busy and all that, but this is just a nice quiet mountain town — it seems like a nice place.”

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  • Face-lift for Idaho Springs library harkens to the 1900s

    The year was 1904, and the steam-powered promise of industry and innovation rumbled across the land.

    It was the year engineers began work on the Panama Canal, and the first underground line of the New York subway opened for business.

    And while Idaho Springs didn’t get a subway or 50-mile shipping canal that year, two local brick masons, with financial help from captain of industry and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, built the Idaho Springs Library.

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  • Wendy Koch running unopposed for Empire mayor

    Longtime Empire resident Wendy Koch is running unopposed for Empire mayor in the regular municipal election on April 6.

    The election will also determine the town’s Board of Trustee members.

    Koch, currently serving on the board, is hoping as mayor to continue the projects the town already has in the works and to find new ways of bringing in more revenue.

    Current Mayor Rick Sprague is term-limited.

    Koch has served on the town board since 2006 and has lived in Empire for the past 38 years.

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  • The keepers of the inn: St. Clair family found their niche in the storied walls of Peck House

    In May 1980, Sally and Gary St. Clair came from Greeley to spend their honeymoon at the historic Peck House hotel in Empire. Nine months later, they bought the hotel and moved in with their three teenage children.

    This month they’ll start their 30th year as the owners of the oldest operating hotel in Colorado. Over those years, the two built a family, a partnership and a business that have withstood the test of time.

    The original occupants

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  • Currents

    We’d like to know about interesting events or activities. E-mail items of 125 words or less to couranteditor@evergreenco.com. Items will appear on a space-available basis.

    March 11

    A benefit dinner is planned for Kathie Nixon at the Buffalo Restaurant from 5 to 8 p.m. On the menu are pasta, salad and dinner rolls, all for $10 for adults and $5 for kids 12 and under. Please come and enjoy a tasty dinner while supporting a great cause.

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  • Called to help: Clear Creek native plans trip to Haiti to help quake victims

    At age 11, Cody Erickson was in a serious mountain bike accident. He hit the asphalt head-first, leaving him with a cracked skull from the chin to the back of his head, fracturing his sinus cavity and breaking two vertebrae.

    He was out of the hospital in five days.

    “There’s no way I could have made it through that bad of an accident without the help of God,” Erickson said.

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  • Clear Creek County providing prescription discount cards

    Clear Creek County Public and Environmental Health has announced distribution of a free prescription discount card.

    Discount cards are available to anyone residing in the county with no age, income or health restrictions and no personal information taken. The free cards provide at-the-register savings for consumers who have no prescription drug insurance or need certain medications that are not covered by their insurance. All commonly prescribed prescription medications, including pet medications, are eligible for a discount of about 20 to 23 percent of regular retail price.

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  • Volunteering a family tradition: Longtime resident Anderson is named G-town citizen of the year

    “Your life and mine should be valued not by what we take … but by what we give.”

    — Edgar Allen, founder of Easter Seals

    Coralue Anderson is a fourth-generation Georgetown resident, and volunteering has been a lifelong pursuit.

    It’s said that she has worked on, or volunteered for, everything there is to do in Georgetown with the exception of being on the fire department or running for mayor.

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  • Clear Creek Special Olympians bring home medals from Eldora

    The Clear Creek Special Olympics winter sports team competed at Eldora last month, and everyone brought home medals.

    Dakota Lester took home three golds in slalom and giant slalom, Andrew Broughton won two silvers in novice skiing, and Jeff Devlin picked up two goals in the novice category.

    In intermediate skiing, Beth Goymerac and Zach Williams won a gold and silver medal each, Amanda Murray scooped up a silver and bronze, while Nicolas Nemmers grabbed two bronze medals.

    In advanced skiing, Greg Stanley won a gold and bronze.

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  • Two lanes of I-70 reopen Thursday in Glenwood Canyon

    Two lanes of Interstate reopened in Glenwood Canyon on Thursday afternoon just a few days after a massive rockslide closed the highway.

    Monster boulders covered I-70 in in the canyon on Sunday, closing the highway and forcing detours.

     

     

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