Welcome to fall, my nature-loving friends. Ken Hall, aka “Bird Nut,” here. This month, I’m going to explain a phenomenon that occurs in many species of birds in late summer and fall. It’s the annual or semiannual rotation of feathers, known as molting. Think of it as nature’s process of allowing birds to put on
My name is Peter Newman and I am an annual visitor to your fine city of Wheat Ridge and being from another fine city, Montreal, Canada. It is most unusual of me to complain, especially being a foreign guest and a Northern neighbour, with whom I wish to remain an old friend. However as reluctant
I sat on Kipling for what seemed like a lifetime. I could tell the guy ahead was in the wrong lane and desperately trying to get back in. He put on his signal, and almost instantly, everyone seemed to tighten up the space between their cars. Traffic started moving again, but I held my foot
This summer, Benny Paiz saw fish salvages at reservoirs across the state. He observed Green Mountain Reservoir looking more like a stream than a body of water. He noticed when they drained Lake Ontario. He also experienced the worst drought of his 26-year career. The Wheat Ridge Parks, Forestry and Open Space Manager has been
Virginia Avery and Wilma Knies enjoy attending Zumba classes, thrifting, mountain getaways, hiking and making art. The friends of 12 years first met through the Wheat Ridge Art League. Both were attending their grandsons’ bike race in Granby when they realized they had more in common than both being artists. From then, their friendship grew
Wheat Ridge and Arvada are two Front Range municipalities who collect a sales tax on grocery food, while many of their neighbors do not impose such taxes. Lakewood is somewhat unique, as it once collected sales tax revenue from grocery food but rescinded the tax 17 years ago. Mountain View, Golden, Edgewater, Littleton and Denver
