Scotty Sims knew there was something different about her second pregnancy. She told her OB/GYN her baby was “getting in these weird positions and locked, and I was in a lot of pain and discomfort.”
Coach: It didn’t come fast and it didn’t come easy—Northfield Wins Soccer Title

Before the big game, the boys showed their unity by bleaching their hair blonde. “Some were very reluctant, even refusing to do it, but we were all at a teammate’s house and one person did it, then another, and eventually everyone gave in; I actually think it’s a greater sign of unity that everyone did it even though they didn’t want to,” says Team Captain Max Garfield.
11,493 ViewsNew Ethnic Food Court on Colfax

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.
11,221 ViewsWhy isn’t Stapleton more diverse?

Why don’t more people of color move to the neighborhood? Why has rental and affordable for-sale housing lagged? Community members talk about diversity (or lack of it) in Stapleton.
10,809 Views139 Affordable Apartments: Quality Inn Becomes Fusion Studios

Being home (whether or not in time for the holidays) will soon have a profound new meaning for over a hundred Denver residents—the Quality Inn on Quebec is being transformed into 139 affordable microhousing units.
10,273 ViewsPark Hill’s Historic Struggle for Integration

The ’60s and 70’s were a fascinating and historically important time in Park Hill as it fought to be one of the first integrated neighborhoods in the U.S. But, how integrated is the neighborhood today?
10,153 ViewsWho was Ben Stapleton?

Activists have recently inundated community meetings urging the removal of the name Stapleton from the neighborhood due to Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton’s Klan ties during the 1920s.
10,012 ViewsIndividual Rights vs. the Common Good in the Age of COVID-19

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s March 23 “Stay at Home” order underscored the half-hearted response to social isolation. The weekend before this order, Denver parks and playgrounds were crowded again after a thaw in the late March snow. Buy-in for social isolation is understandably challenging for many in a society that cherishes individual freedoms and individualism over the collective.
9,191 ViewsStanley Shares their Site Plan and Announces Five More Businesses: Biscuits, Ice Cream, Bagels/Deli, Mexican, Fried Chicken

Demolition has been completed, launching full-on construction in early September. Read about the most recent businesses to be announced.
8,885 ViewsClara Brown: Angel of the Rockies

“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.”
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