Today's News

The Clear Creek Ranger District wants to increase public awareness efforts in response to illegal shooting of firearms in the Arapaho National Forest.

Ranger district officials are concerned about the number of trees damaged by gunfire; by appliances used as targets and left behind; and by a lack of safe backstops for stray rounds. Officials are concerned stray bullets could endanger visitors and district workers. 

By Stephen Knapp

For the Courant

Most days, the laundry room beneath the historic Queen Hotel in downtown Idaho Springs is all business — laundry comes in, laundry goes out, and not so much as a fritter, dally or dawdle between. But one morning every six weeks, tumbling linens give way to talk and laughter as Mt. Evans Home Health and Hospice holds its popular foot care clinic at the Project Support Senior Center on Miner Street.

More than 400 people who came to the first Boogie at the Barn at the Alderfer Ranch last fall can look forward to kicking up their heels again this Saturday, May 4.

“Boogie is back for 2013 as a series of three great barn dances,” said Pandora Reagan, who is helping to organize the event with musician and partner John Erlandson.

“In the tradition of the old barn dances and in celebration of spring, this first Boogie at the Barn of 2013 will be a Sadie Hawkins dance: ‘Gals ask guys,’ ” Reagan says.

An event benefiting the Colorado Avalanche Information Center turned deadly on Saturday when a massive snow slide along U.S. 6 near the summit of Loveland Pass killed four experienced backcountry snowboarders and a skier. One man survived.
The victims were ski veterans, guides and industry professionals, and the event’s organizer, Joseph Timlin, was among the dead.
The victims are Ryan Novack, 33, of Boulder; Christopher Peters, 32, of Lakewood; Rick Gaukel, 33, of Estes Park; Ian Lamphere, 36, of Crested Butte; and Timlin, 32, of Gypsum.