Alisha Brown, senior vice president at the Foundation for Sustainable Urban Communities (formerly called the Stapleton Foundation), has been named one of Colorado’s “Most Influential Young Professionals.”
In the Feb. 1 article, “Local Schools Leading the Way in Integration,” we were satisfied to read about new efforts in the Greater Park Hill and Stapleton communities to push for more integrated schools. As educators, we’re encouraged that our colleagues understand the moral imperative of serving students from all backgrounds.
The Stapleton Sustainable Neighborhoods Program team will be hosting its first project planning meeting on March 14 from 6:30– 8:30pm.
All that glitters isn’t gold—it might be a bug or a fish. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS) celebrates all living things that blink, glow, flash and flicker at its Creatures of Light exhibition, through June 10.
NE DENVER/NW AURORA EVENTS 2/1 Thursday—Opening Reception – Mask(ed) –Invitational Curated...
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Mineral rights under Stapleton land were nearly made available for auction last month, which would have allowed oil and gas operators to bid for the right to drill. By a 4-0 vote, influenced by public comment, the State Land Board rejected the idea, but what is going on?
“Urban Farm was my life since I was 5. Without that, I don’t know what I’d be doing now,” says Monica Marrs, a 19-year-old student at Oklahoma State University majoring in animal science production. “Urban Farm helped me find my passion.”
“People like Clara Brown are rare. She saw her role in the world not as ‘I’ or ‘me’ against ‘them,’ but as ‘us’ and ‘we,’” says Dr. George Junne, professor of Africana Studies at the University of Northern Colorado. “It was the way that she lived her life that garnered her the amount of respect that she received.”
The second session of the 71st Colorado General Assembly convened Jan. 10. As always, the key numbers are: 65 representatives, 35 senators and one governor in a maximum 120-day long gathering to determine the state’s future.
The Park Hill Golf Course to Close in 2019. The big question is whether that closure will be permanent.
The start of construction to widen the Central Park Blvd. bridge over the A Line rail corridor has been delayed to early spring.
