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Colorado’s Youth Mental Health Services: “The System Needs To Be Completely Rebuilt”

December 1, 2021 / Mary Jo Brooks / Community Issues, Health & Wellness, Kids / No Comments

“She’s a ticking time bomb.” The desperation in the mother’s voice is palpable as she talks about how her middle school student spent many months self-harming and has even threatened to kill herself.

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Pandemic Impacts on Mental Health: Uncertainty & Isolation Are Tough on Kids

November 1, 2021 / Mary Jo Brooks / Community Issues, Families, Health & Wellness, Kids / No Comments

Jenna Glover doesn’t mince words. She says the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a full-blown mental health crisis in children and teens, especially with issues of depression and anxiety.

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…NE News Updates

October 1, 2021 / Announcements, Community Issues, Development, News Updates, Schools/Education / No Comments

This month: 1) William (Bill) Roberts ECE-8 School Selected as a National Blue Ribbon School; 2) 301 Apartments To Be Built near Central Park Rail Station; 3) 9/11 Memorial Dedicated at DIA; and 4) Crime Stats.

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Ballot Will Determine Fate of Park Hill Golf Course

September 1, 2021 / Tracy Wolfer-Osborne / Community Issues, Community Organization, Denver News, Development, Parks/Open Space / 5 Comments

This November, two similarly-worded ballot initiatives with opposite intentions will decide the fate of the Park Hill Golf Course, a currently unused 155-acre open space that sits at the corner of Colorado Blvd. and E. 35th Ave.

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Tween Drug Use & Support: “I thought I was doing Percocet. It was fentanyl.”

September 1, 2021 / Martina Will, PhD / Community Issues, Community Organization, Families / No Comments

“If you start doing drugs you’ll probably like them. That’s the problem,” says Ben Stincer.

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August 26 Meeting – Resolution to Increase Park Creek Metropolitan District Board Members

August 1, 2021 / Central Park, Community Issues / No Comments

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 32-1-902.5(1), C.R.S., to all interested persons that the Board of Directors of the Park Creek Metropolitan District shall consider the adoption of a Resolution increasing the current five (5) member Board of Directors to seven (7) members at a public meeting to be conducted virtually on Thursday, August 26, 2021, at 9:00 a.m., at MCA – The Cube, 8371 Northfield Boulevard, Denver, Colorado, and virtually via Zoom.

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Safe Outdoor Space

August 1, 2021 / Mary Jo Brooks / Community Issues, Community Organization, Health & Wellness / No Comments

One month after the first residents began occupying the tents at the Safe Outdoor Space (SOS) encampment at the Park Hill United Methodist Church, Pastor Nathan Adams says he’s been pleased at how neighbors have responded, volunteering to bring two meals a day and other necessities for the residents.

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Principals Optimistic about 2021-22

July 1, 2021 / Tracy Wolfer-Osborne / Community Issues, Schools/Education / No Comments

If you call 2020 “a lost academic year,” Susan Miller-Curley, the incoming principal at Montclair School of Academics and Enrichment, will be quick to point out the positive.

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Suncor Permit Renewal Worries Neighbors

June 1, 2021 / Tracy Wolfer-Osborne / Community Issues, Health & Wellness, Public Safety / No Comments

In recent weeks, environmental advocacy groups and concerned neighbors have called on the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and their subsidiary the Air Pollution Control Division (APCD) to deny one of Suncor Energy’s operating permits.

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Stopping Youth Gun Violence

May 1, 2021 / Mary Jo Brooks / Community Issues, Community Organization, National Issues, Politics, Public Safety, State Issues / No Comments

Just three weeks after a mass shooting at a Boulder King Soopers store left 10 people dead, Governor Jared Polis signed two bills into law designed to reduce gun violence: one mandates the safe storage of weapons, the other requires owners to report lost or stolen guns.

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