Cast is working hard to bring musical to life
By David Josselyn
Amid the COVID restrictions, the Belvidere Players, under the direction of Patrice LeBlanc and Ed Schoenradt of L&M Productions, are carefully rehearsing their lines and songs to bring the musical ‘Prohibition’ to performance ready standards. ‘Prohibition,’ written and directed by Patrice and Ed, is a story about a small local town struggling with the seemingly (more…)
Health Insurance and Identity Theft Insurance Upgrades for City Staff
By Randy Beaudette
The Lake Gulch Road improvement and maintenance IGA, a Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) Grant agreement, a street renaming Resolution, and several Resolutions concerning various (more…)
Commissioners deal with sport shooting, mental health, and gaming impact prioritization
By Randy Beaudette
Speeding traffic on Highway 119, a Mental Health Proclamation for the month of May, and a discussion concerning dispersed shooting within the County were just examples of the many agenda items that the Gilpin (more…)
Council approves paint cost-sharing program for historic residences
By David Josselyn
Work Session
Council and Staff met with the Business Improvement District for a work session prior to the regular meeting on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (more…)
Age of Drones
By Don Ireland
Without the proverbial crystal ball, no one can predict what kind of summer wildfire season lies ahead for Colorado. Factors, including ongoing drought and below- (more…)
One of the best times to enjoy the outdoors in Gilpin
By Esmee Halsted
It’s the time of the year where the snow melts and combines with the warm earth, in order to create the mud and puddles we all love! Mud season is a tourist free, (more…)
Gilpin County School Board April 20th Meeting
By Curt Halsted
Praise Shared for Meet and Confer Process
At the April 20th meeting of the Gilpin County School Board, board members honored Board Secretary, Joni Schmidt. Among other things, Joni takes the board minutes and updates the policies that can be found on the school website. Many staff (more…)
Gilpin Historical Society
by David Forsyth, PhD
For many years, Colorado’s license plates bore the slogan “Colorful Colorado” in reference to the state’s natural beauty. But, just as colorful is the history of the license plates themselves. Colorado first required owners to register their vehicles with county clerks in 1910, but provided no specifics for (more…)
Water and you: Final of a five-part series
By Don Ireland
“If your water system fails, life in paradise is over.” – Gilpin County Guide (2016)
At face value, water and gambling might not appear to have much in common – except in Colorado, where there is a growing connection between the two. (more…)
2021 State Watercolor Exhibition
By David Josselyn
The pandemic may bring many negative thoughts to mind, but for some, it has been a boon. Such is the case for the Gilpin County Arts Association and their enchanting exhibit space in historic Washington Hall of Central City. Numerous art exhibitions and shows have been cancelled in the last year due to lack of socially safe space to exhibit. (more…)
Black Hawk working to bring more business, visitors, and jobs to community
By Randy Beaudette
Black Hawk City Council held an online Regular Meeting on March 24, 2021. Highlights of that meeting included an (more…)
Prisoners to get new shower facilities
By Randy Beaudette
An ordinance on parking regulations, radon mitigation in the exhibit building, and a request to repair the jail showers were agenda items that the Gilpin County Board (more…)
Water and you: Part 4 of 5
By Don Ireland
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” – W.H. Auden, poet (1957)
Most fifth graders know that about 71 percent of the Earth is covered by water and up to 60 percent of the human body also is water. What many people don’t realize if that only about 2.5 percent of the planet’s water is freshwater, suitable for drinking. The rest is ocean-based, mostly saltwater. (more…)
While Colorado’s COVID-19 dial was retired on April 16th
By Randy Beaudette
The Gilpin Board of County Commissioners held a Special meeting on April 15, 2021 to discuss Gilpin County Public Health response to the new Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment COVID-19 Dial 3.0. (more…)
Water and you: Part 3
By Don Ireland
“Here is a land where life is written in water.” – inscribed in the Colorado state capital
It’d be a safe bet to presume thousands of Denver and the Front Range residents don’t realize that a Gilpin County engineering marvel is the reason they have water for their homes, schools and businesses. (more…)
Gilpin Historical Society
By David Forsyth, PhD
Getting to and from Black Hawk and Central City today is relatively easy with wide, oftentimes well-lit paved roads brining drivers in the heart of Gilpin County, but the earliest miners arriving in Gilpin County had to follow a route that Joseph Casto, one member of John Gregory’s group in 1859, called “almost impracticable.” Miners could (more…)