Workshop shows residents how to deal with pesky critters
By Patty Unruh
The CSU Extension Office conducted a workshop June 22 to help mountain gardeners learn to deal with pests that may be destroying their gardens. Irene Shonle, CEO director/agent, informed a small class of interested residents and answered their (more…)
Bees once pollinated many acres of Gilpin spuds
By Forrest Whitman
I chatted with a fellow high altitude gardener this week. She’s complaining that should she get any blossoms on her squash she’ll have to pollinate them with a cue tip. That’s because there are just darn few bees about these days to do any pollinating. She’s got a (more…)
Making Tails Wag Better
By Deb D’Andrea
There are several companies who encourage their employees to bring their pet to work, and several who comfortably provide for both dogs and cats in the work place. These companies are smart according to research published in spring 2012 by Virginia (more…)
Telecommunications feasibility study, Public Works truck loan
By Lynn Volkens
Gilpin County Commissioners Buddy Schmalz and Connie McLain met the morning of June 25, 2013. Commissioner Gail Watson and County Manager Roger Baker were absent. Commissioners approved the lease-purchase of a Public Works truck, set electronic waste (more…)
Central City Summer Events Set to Sizzle!
PRESS RELEASE – Central City is pulling out all the stops for its summer event schedule, with Colorado distillery and beer festivals, a bacon tasting and tour, chili cook off and an 80s festival, with live music Saturdays all summer. (more…)
A Little Central City Opera History
By Tyler Hypnarowski
With opening night of Central City Opera’s 2013 festival now just a few days away, let’s look back on July 16th, 1932, the opening night that started it all…
Although the Opera House was built in 1878, the Central City Opera House Association (more…)
Finding the Middle Ground
By Amy Hartman, MA, LPC, NCC, RPT
People who know me would say I’m a practical, down-to-earth counselor. I tend to talk about goals, steps to meet them, and how we’re going to get there. I always have a map in my head, guiding the sessions toward the desired outcome as defined by the client. On the (more…)
30 Years Ago – June 24, 1983
Several hundred people attended the grand re-opening last Sunday of the completely restored, historic Golden Rose Hotel in Central City. The building was originally constructed in 1874. John Feinberg and Harold Pyle, the Cornerstone Partners who (more…)
2012-2013 supplemental and June 2013-2014 budgets approved
By Patty Unruh
The Board of Education of Gilpin County School conducted its final meeting for the 2012-2013 school year on June 17. Board members present were Brook Ramsey, vice president, who conducted the meeting, Charlotte Taylor, Kersten Armstrong, and Rusty Hardy. (more…)
County Management
By Roger Baker
One of the changes to the Gilpin County zoning regulations that was approved at the last Commissioners’ meeting was to create a separate class of short-term temporary use permits that can be issued administratively, without having to come before the Commissioners. (more…)
Northern Colorado Front Range Management Partnership Forms
PRESS RELEASE – Recently Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin and Larimer counties formalized a partnership with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Service to develop a landscape-level, multi-jurisdictional strategy for Recreational Sport Shooting (RSS) across northern Colorado’s Front Range. (more…)
Pastor’s Pulpit
By Pastor Tom Davidson
We live in a culture of blame instead of personal responsibility. The Bible is different in that it very much supports personal responsibility for the choices and decisions we make. I like what Eleanor Roosevelt said, “One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words. It is (more…)
Life Coaching
By Dr. Mike Brooks
When is the last time you heard someone say “I will never forgive my ex-wife. She can rot in Hades for all I care.” Or, “If Joe wants me to forgive him he better crawl on his hands and knees begging for it.” How many of us have un-forgiveness in our hearts? We just can’t (more…)
39th annual bed races, beauties, and bunches of fun!
By Patty Unruh
Comedian George Burns once quipped, “Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
Sorry, George, Central City “housekeepers” in the 19th Century came up with that notion before you did, and on June 15 that historic town tipped its hat to one of its more enterprising historical figures, Madam Lou Bunch. (more…)
200 years of Colorado history behind one water decision
By Forrest Whitman
A couple of years ago Gilpin County and the Dory Lakes Homeowners Association were busily sparring over who did what with the water in Dory Lake. That dispute was covered in this paper. This was no idle discussion. Both sides spent a lot of money on lawyers and (more…)
Community Fun Event
By Cary Ihme
It was 19 years ago that Ed Saxton helped start the “fishing clinic” in Central City at the William C. Russell Park, where he would teach kids how to fish. The fishing clinic has since evolved into the Father’s Day Fishing Derby sponsored by the Gilpin County Rec Center, (more…)