Updates this month: 1) Sprouts Construction. 2) Upcoming Stapleton Development. 3) New Aurora Beer Garden. 4) Carjacking at King Soopers. 5) Stolen Vehicle Leads to Fatality. 6) A-Line Passenger Killed. 7) Bike Lane Coming to CPB. 8) Speedway on MLK and CPB. 9) Fred Thomas Park and Sand Creek Regional Greenway Improvements. 10) TIF and Special District Taxes. 11) Women’s Self-Defense Seminar. 12) It’s Now DSST: Montview.
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East High School AP Government and Politics students took first place at an annual national mock trial competition.
In May, as neighborhood teens prepared for final exams, prom, and high school graduation, three Stapleton students also received great news: each had received a National Merit Scholarship for $2,500.
“Take your pleasure seriously,” was the motto of Charles and Ray Eames, a husband-and-wife midcentury design team.
This month: 1) Host a Block Party Day in Stapleton during Denver Days, National Night Out. 2) Call for Community Engagement, Need for Space North of I-70.
Near life-size museum-quality reproductions of Michangelo’s ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel in Rome will be exhibited at Stanley Marketplace this summer.
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When Northfield High School opened its doors in 2015, no teams or clubs were in place for freshmen to join—they were the ones who would create them. A number of boundary families looked to East and George Washington instead, feeling a small new school could not offer the academic rigor or varsity sports they sought. Less than half of the school’s boundary students made it their first choice. Today, however, NHS has the longest waitlist of all DPS high schools.
Dr. PJ Parmar laughs as he looks around Mango House, located in a 56,000 square foot building at 10180 E. Colfax that used to be a JC Penney’s. Mango House, now the home of six food-court style restaurants, offers ethnic dining you won’t find under one roof anywhere else in metro Denver.
A mere mile and a half from Isabella Bird Community School, a school established with a mission to educate “newcomer” refugee and immigrant children, sits a monolith identified as “The GEO Group.” The ICE detention center in Aurora has shown little accountability to lawmakers, and living conditions are a concern for lawyers and advocates for asylum-seekers held there.
Are you a busy mom feeling alone dealing with your job commitments, community groups, kids’ needs, and household drudgery? Or are you a family of color or blended family wishing to connect with families like yours? NE Denver has two Facebook groups where you can connect with like-minded neighbors: Soulfully Stapleton and GEMS.
