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…)
Timberline reports one wild land fire, quickly contained
By Lynn Volkens
Gilpin County Sheriff Bruce Hartman issued directions to put the entire county on Stage 1 fire restrictions as of 1 p.m. June 12, 2013. This is not a complete fire “ban,” but does prohibit some activities and sets specific requirements for others. Sheriff Hartman and (more…)
Dory Hill water plant, casino celebrations, Bobtail liquor store
By Lynn Volkens
Black Hawk Mayor David Spellman and City Council members Linda Armbright, Paul Bennett, Diane Cales, Jim Johnson, Greg Moates and Benito Torres met the afternoon of June 12, 2013 for their regularly scheduled City Council meeting. They amended the 2013 (more…)
The End of Self-Sabotage
By Amy Hartman, MA, LPC, NCC, RPT
“Oscar Wilde said: ‘Each man kills the thing he loves.’ And it’s true. The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of an ordinary person with guilt. We look around us at those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what (more…)
30 Years Ago – June 17, 1983
The courthouse is overcrowded; the school has unused property in Central City, and grant money may be available. These three factors have encouraged the Gilpin County commissioners to offer to purchase Clark School, the gym, and the lot east of the school for (more…)
County Management
By Roger Baker
One of the main topics at Tuesday’s meeting of the Gilpin County Commissioners – and certainly the most expensive – was the preliminary approval of the County’s health insurance package. (more…)
At the Nederland Community Center
By Serene Karplus
As any cowboy poet, rap singer, or casual writer can assure us, the world of poetry ranges from simple nursery rhymes to long complex odes, from highly structured to free flowing. Most of us connect with poetry somewhere in between these extremes. With such (more…)
Selections from “Of Mines & Beer!”
By Dave Thomas
In a long and very detailed letter dated December 29, 1858, to the Editor of the Omaha Times, A. O. McGrew wrote about his wagon train trip from Omaha to Denver City as well as the sumptuous libations he and many of the notables of Denver (among them Lowry, (more…)
Colorado Parks and Wildlife
PRESS RELEASE – Colorado Parks and Wildlife is reminding the public about the dangers of approaching moose after recent activity in Grand Lake has heightened concerns with moose/human conflicts. (more…)
Life Coaching
By Dr. Mike Brooks
Okay, right off the bat, I’m telling you this article isn’t about going to a priest and confessing all of your faults and sins and your whole life story. This is about getting things right with someone you have offended or wounded. It might be a family member, a friend (more…)