Protect Our Neighbor status – observing all state and local health orders
PRESS RELEASE – On Tuesday, September 8, 2020, Governor Jared Polis announced the approval of Gilpin County’s request to move into the Protect Your Neighbor stage as set forth by the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment. This allows the opening of table games at casinos in Gilpin County and will bring back to work hundreds of employees. (more…)
Central City Plein Air Festival from September 25 through September 27
By Erin Osovets
Central City Opera, in partnership with the City of Central and the Gilpin County Arts Association, announces the third annual (more…)
IGA updates for Lake Gulch Whiskey Resort Project
By Randy Beaudette
On September 8, 2020 Gilpin Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) held a regular online meeting that discussed topics such as the draft Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) relating to the Lake Gulch Whiskey Resort project and the hot button issue of Short-Term Rental Zoning Regulations. (more…)
Council changes sales tax collection method and clears up sanitation IGA
By Randy Beaudette
Highlights of the August 26, 2020 Black Hawk City Council Regular online meeting includes two ballot measures to be placed on the November Ballot and the Black Hawk-Central City Sanitation District Intergovernmental Agreement Restated. (more…)
School Board Meeting
By Esmee Halsted
On the September 1st board meeting, the board decided to make the hard decision: should Gilpin students go back to school? First, they spoke to celebration and (more…)
No Social Security Tax break for Gilpin County employees
By Randy Beaudette
On September 3, 2020, Gilpin Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) held a brief special online meeting that discussed topics such as ballot questions for the upcoming election and the withholding of the FICA tax from Gilpin Employees. (more…)
Gilpin Historical Society
By Dave Forsyth, PhD
After the Central City Opera House’s grand opening on March 3 and 4, 1878, the Pueblo Democrat wrote that while the Opera House was grand, it would be more impressed when Central City and Black Hawk built equally grand schools and churches. With town rivalries alive and well, Central City’s Evening Call responded with the following editorial on March 11, 1878: …is it possible that a gentleman of your (more…)
Voters could determine via a property mil levy tax increase
By Jaclyn Schrock
When Gilpin County Commissioners were advised that their $11.6 million annual September tax payment from the gaming industry would be only $6 million because (more…)
Uproot volunteers put in a little sweat equity to pick a hill of beans for the Food Bank
By Jaclyn Schrock
Last week the Weld County Food Bank received at least 2,000 pounds of fresh green beans. Only eight Uproot volunteers showed up in northeastern Colorado beyond Greeley, last Thursday. We gleaned a small portion of the 50 rows designated to be given to the Food Bank. The eight volunteers picking beans (more…)
President Trump suspends collection of Social Security payroll taxes through end of year
By Randy Beaudette
On September 1, 2020 Gilpin Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) held a special online meeting that discussed topics such as ballot questions for the upcoming election, and some very disappointing news concerning revenue losses experienced by the County recently. (more…)
Tuesday, September 1 – a few tense moments
By Aaron Storms
The month of September got off to an interesting start with an early morning lightning strike to a transformer on Main Street at Gregory Street in Black Hawk. When the Black Hawk Police Department dispatched the call-out to the Black Hawk Fire Department around 6:15 am, power was out for a larger part of the city, but primarily (more…)
Expanded gaming options to be decided by voters
By David Josselyn
Work Session
Council met with Staff for a work session prior to the regular meeting. The topics of discussion were the upcoming budget calendar and gaming device fees. The City reduced the 2020 Budget by 70 percent already so far. Gaming revenues have decreased by 41 percent this year. (more…)
To replace county funding lost due to the Coronavirus pandemic
By Michael Carlson
The Gilpin County Library District Board of Trustees unanimously voted on August 13 to place a funding measure on the November ballot. This is the Library’s first ballot request for additional funding in over 25 years. The proposed ballot measure is expected to be an (more…)
Gilpin Historical Society
By David Forsyth, PhD
As 1940 began, the great political question was whether or not President Franklin D. Roosevelt would seek a third term with a probable world war on the horizon. Lawyer and business executive Wendell Willkie was frequently mention as a possible successor if FDR retired, but unlike most people, Willkie, who was a registered Democrat, believed that the president would seek a third term. Willkie decided the only way (more…)
Film on the Rocks Drive-in presented by the Denver Film Festival
By Aaron Storms
A couple of our friends, Richard and Amy, invited us on a double-date to the Field of Dreams movie, so we went early and were (more…)
$7.7 million needed to run the Sheriff’s Office and Rec Center
By Randy Beaudette
On August 25, 2020 Gilpin Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) held a long and disorganized online regular meeting that discussed topics such as an update on the Comprehensive Land Use Plan, a discussion concerning the Sheriff’s Office and Parks and Recreation Capital Expenditures, and a discussion on possible November Ballot questions. (more…)