Today's News

Clear Creek County Commissioner Harry Dale plans to step down from his seat sometime after the Aug. 10 primary.

Dale, who has served on the board for eight years, said in a letter to the Courant that the extensive time commitment and travel involved in a new job led to his decision to resign.Dale’s term would normally be up in January 2011.

One of the most common birds at Evergreen Lake and the most asked about is the double-crested cormorant. For many years, cormorants were largely seacoast birds, found along the rocky cliffs on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

There were only four records of cormorants in Colorado prior to 1912, and these were considered to be “rare winter visitors” in western Colorado.

In 1931, the first breeding record was reported by Bailey and Neidrach, with a total of eight pairs nesting at Barr Lake. By 1939, that colony had 30 pairs, and by 1995 it had 248 pairs.

The once-blossoming medical marijuana industry may be on the verge of a serious drought as dispensary owners make hard choices in light of recent, tougher state laws and a looming Aug. 1 deadline.

Clear Creek County dispensaries are taking drastic action to stay in business.

The new rules are in recently passed House Bill 1284 and Senate Bill 109. They require existing dispensaries to comply with several state-mandated timelines.

• By July 1, dispensaries were to have obtained a local license to operate.

The end of construction for Alvarado Road may be just around the corner.

Paving for the road is tentatively set for July 26 and 27, Clear Creek County administrator Tom Breslin said.

 “The project is well underway,” Breslin said. “... If you take a drive out there, you can see they’re working on culverts and ditches and grating, and right now ... all the land acquisitions have been made, all the right-of-ways secured and whatever easements were needed have been acquired.”