If you thought you missed your favorite tea party in January at the Baugh House, fear not! The event has been moved to February, this year on Saturday , the 14th, from 10:00 to 2:00. The dining room at the Victorian farmhouse will transform into a mini-Harrods of London, famous for its High Tea celebrations.
For decades, Wadsworth Boulevard has been one of Wheat Ridge’s busiest and most important corridors, carrying more than 45,000 vehicles a day and serving as a front door to our community for residents, businesses, and visitors alike. It’s also been a source of frustration: congestion, safety concerns, aging infrastructure, and limited options for people walking,
It’s something we are all familiar with. It’s that feeling when the XCEL bill lands in your email inbox, or heaven forbid, in a text app on your phone. But there it is, the one thing we can rely on. Our monthly bill for the energy we use to heat and cool and illuminate our
As the city works to accommodate a growing demand for housing, a range of creative solutions is being explored and implemented. Sometimes these efforts yield positive results. Other times, not so much. The removal of occupancy limits, short-term rentals, home sharing, ADUs, and the rezoning of single-family properties into multi-unit housing has created a little
Happy February my nature loving friends. Ken Hall here, aka Bird Nut. Being asked to help out my friends at the Neighborhood Gazette by sharing short articles about my passion for nature can be tough when it comes to finding subject matter for one of my least favorite months of the year. I usually continue
John Mellencamp asked “Will you teach your children to tell the truth?”. Earlier this month (January 20), Jefferson County Board of Education President Michele Applegate wrote to the community stating, “Since 2010, our district has lost more than $930 million due to state underfunding.” What she left out of that message, however, is just as
Wheat Ridge police have declared a traffic camera program a success after eight months and plan to expand it in the new year. In April, solar-powered automated speed camera trailers were placed at West 32nd Avenue and Independence Court (Wheat Ridge High School) and West 44th Avenue and Field Street (Anderson Park). A series of
This artist almost gave up on ever being able to create ‘her way.’ Instead of painting images that moved her, she was employed as an illustrator where the images she created were dictated by her employer. This was not the ‘artist’ she had envisioned being. Renée Peterson was one of seven children. As a child
I recently reached out to Chris Elliott, principal at E5X and the developer behind the Lutheran Legacy Campus, to get an update on progress and next steps for the roughly 100-acre site where Lutheran Hospital once stood. According to Elliott, the project is currently deep in the engineering phase, including demolition planning. The first structure
