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Today's News

  • Exchange student Estrada tackles hurdles, makes state

    LAKEWOOD — There were a lot of things that Javier Pena Estrada hadn’t done before the Spanish exchange student transferred into Clear Creek High School last year. Some of those included playing sports.

    Yet in the past nine months he’s kicked for the CCHS’ football team, played a key reserve role on the boys basketball squad and ran track. 

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  • Lucas toes the line in long jump

    LAKEWOOD — All Tevin Lucas was trying to do was put his best foot forward. After all, he was at the 3A state track and field championships, competing in the long jump. But the Clear Creek junior was a little too aggressive for his own good.

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  • Representative democracy is messy

     Governance is far easier in states such as Utah, Idaho or Texas, where the minority is effectively ignored since it has no potential for upsetting the ruling culture. The zeitgeist — prevailing popular opinion — in those states is decidedly right wing/conservative, so any chance for a liberal voice to be heard is equivalent to the biblical lamentation of a “voice crying out in the wilderness.”

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  • Administration scandals put liberty on ropes

    Associated Press records scandal. IRS scandal. ObamaCare scandal. Benghazi scandal. When it rains, it pours. Ask former Presidents Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon. Both presidents’ second terms were plagued with scandal. Mr. Clinton with a “little blue dress,” and Mr. Nixon with his famous line of “I am not a crook.”  

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  • Currents

    May 18

    The Clear Creek-Gilpin County Metal Mining Association presents the 72nd annual George A. Jackson Cornish Pasty and Sowbelly Dinner at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Idaho Springs Elks Club, 1600 Colorado Blvd. Cost is $25 per person in advance or $30 at the door. Entertainment includes music from Dave Ball and The Sowbelly Band and a formal presentation by the Legendary Ladies.

    May 27

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  • Spring’s arrival brings new growth to aspen, alder trees

     It is so nice to have some warm spring days, and now we are promised summer temperatures this week. Just to go out in my yard and see green fields and robins looking for worms, and hear green-tailed towhees and house wrens singing is a tonic for my winter-shriveled soul.

    Winter has been far too long this year, partly because it started early and because spring is a good two weeks late. The aspen trees at the bend in the road usually have their furry catkins by April 15, but this year, they did not shed their bud scales and bring out their furry catkins until May 2.

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  • Cougars lack poise in playoff setback

    MONUMENT — Blood, sweat and tears, Evergreen had a little bit of it all on May 10.

    First, the Lady Cougars had blood courtesy of the bitten tongue of freshman scoring machine Zoe Peterson in the first half. Then there’s the sweat. They are playing soccer after all. And, finally, the tears for a season that ended at Don Breese Stadium in the second round of the 4A state girls soccer playoffs.

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  • Lucas’ leap leads him to state

    EVERGREEN — It was 10 a.m. on May 11 as Tevin Lucas arrived at Clear Creek High School for the final round of the 3A Frontier League track & field championships. The only problem was the long-jump competition the CCHS junior was competing in had already started.

    Well, actually, it wasn’t a problem at all.

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  • Slide deaths offer us a cautionary tale

    The difference between a man and a boy, the old saw goes, is the price of his toys. On one level, that’s fine, one supposes, such as when comparing skateboarding to NASCAR, but at what point is it expected for a male to assume the full responsibilities of adulthood and the consequences that come with it?

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  • The winter of our political discontent

     Lucky for you, it’s mixed-bag time. Today, I feel like writing about myriad topics. I kind of like that word, “myriad,” as it means numberless, countless, infinite. It is a classical Greek word for the number 10,000. In modern English, the word refers to an unspecified large quantity. At least that’s what Wikipedia tells me. 

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