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PLATTEVILLE — An anonymous letter, signed by someone calling themselves Richard Marks, appeared in mailboxes in December throughout the Bebee Draw Farms neighborhood in Weld County, telling neighbors they were swindled in a secretive land deal approved by an elected board that oversees the 186-home subdivision.That board, known as the BeBee Draw Farms Authority, sold approximately 400 acres of open space owned by the community for $10 to REI LLC, the company that built the subdivision and had plans to add a second phase. The problem, the letter said, was that one of REI’s co-owners was the development’s general manager…

In his first job after college, Archie Colgan sold printers and copiers, but grew tired of being a facsimile of himself.He got along well with his boss, walked into his office and quit to pursue a career as a cage fighter.“I was nervous. That first hour after I did it, I was like, ‘Oh (shoot!). What am I doing? What am I thinking?’^” Colgan said. “I remember sitting in my Volkswagen I used to have and wondering if I made a huge mistake.”Colgan decided to follow his heart in 2019 after his first amateur fight. He had no idea if…

The campfire-sparked Interlaken wildfire continues to grow in Lake County, reaching a total burn area of 591 acres with minimal containment, fire officials said Saturday.Flames — which have been burning on U.S. Forest Service land for five days — will continue to creep outward for more than a week, according to forest service reports. Currently the fire is only 15% contained, and fire officials don’t expect the blaze to reach full containment until  June 23.And containment isn’t the end of the wildfire’s burn.Wildfire containment isn’t the same as a fire being put out — it’s the status of a control line…

This year’s Juneteenth Parade marched through Denver’s Five Points neighborhood to kick off the two-day Juneteenth Music Festival in celebration of the day that African Americans in Texas learned of their freedom, two years after the 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, as seen on Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Denver, Colorado. source

The Rockies stole home for the first time in nearly 13 years. But that was just a subplot to their 16-4 shellacking of the Pirates Saturday night at Coors Field.In front of a lively crowd of 40,033, backup catcher Hunter Goodman rocked LoDo with a supercharged performance. Also, Michael Toglia provided a fireworks grand finale with a grand slam in the eighth, the first of his career.Colorado’s 16 runs were a season-high and its most since scoring 16 vs. St. Louis on Aug. 9, 2022.Goodman, 24, was making just his second start behind the plate as a big leaguer. For…

The roof of an auto body repair shop in Littleton collapsed Saturday morning, fire rescue officials said.South Metro Fire Rescue crews and Littleton police responded to reports of a roof collapse at Bradford Auto Body about 8:45 a.m. Saturday, the fire department said in a statement on social media.No one was in the building — at 2659 Main St. in downtown Littleton — when the roof collapsed, and no injuries have been reported, according to South Metro.The fire department said a 900-square-foot section of the roof collapsed, but the cause remains under investigation.Firefighter, technical rescue, hazmat and heavy rescue crews…

For a major league player, landing a spot in the All-Star Game is about talent, statistics, popularity, reputation, name recognition and the team you play on. And not necessarily in that order.For the Rockies, who are on pace to lose more than 100 games for the second consecutive season, only the first two aforementioned criteria (talent and statistics) will come into play this season. Truth be told, the Rockies will likely have just one required representative at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, on July 15.ESPN senior baseball writer David Schoenfield predicts that third baseman Ryan McMahon will be Colorado’s…

Colorado’s latest congressional campaign fundraising snapshot — the final one before the June 25 primary — showed new and intriguing dynamics emerging to stir things up in a high-profile presidential election year.But some things have stayed the same — including in U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s current district, long after she announced she would run in a different part of the state.Adam Frisch, the sole Democratic contender in the Boebert-represented 3rd Congressional District, once again hauled in the largest take of any Colorado congressional candidate from April 1 to June 5, with just over $1 million collected. That continues a trend…

Trust a team with Dick Monfort in charge and a dinosaur for a mascot to get accused of being stuck in the Stone Age.Full disclosure: The kids upstairs in the Grading The Week cubicles are a heck of a lot better at Strat-O-Matic than they ever were at hitting a curveball. A few of them were reading Bill James in middle school, even. We were nerds, OK? N-E-R-D-S. All caps. Sue us.Although a funny thing happened in baseball at the start of the 21st century: Those same nerds started to rule America’s pastime.Yeah, sure, the largest payrolls usually win out,…

Clear Creek Whitewater Park was closed to tubers and swimmers this week due to high water and raging currents flowing over its man-made rapids, but there was plenty of activity at the popular recreation destination in Golden.Spectators paused on the adjacent bike path to watch fire department water rescue specialists conduct training exercises in the seven-block-long park just west of downtown, practicing life-saving techniques in the frigid snowmelt torrent which has yet to reach 60 degrees.Golden’s whitewater park was constructed as a place for kayakers to practice their whitewater skills, but it also attracts hordes of tubers every summer. While…