Author: By CAROL McKINLEY special to The Denver Gazette
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Arvada gunman left message of hate, ballistics report coming Thursday
The gunman who died in a Monday afternoon shootout along with Arvada Police Officer Gordon Beesley and a “Samaritan” left behind a four-page note, explaining his hatred for police and his intent to harm Arvada cops in particular. Arvada Police spokesman David Snelling confirmed the document’s existence to The Denver Gazette, but the department hasn’t…
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Arvada officer who died in shooting hailed as ‘hugely respected’
The Arvada police officer killed by a gunman Monday afternoon was a 19-year veteran who served as the school resource officer for Oberon Middle School and was Arvada’s 2014 Employee of the Year. Officer Gordon Beesley was responding to a man who was behaving suspiciously at the Arvada Army and Navy Surplus Shop at West…
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Colorado officer who died in shooting hailed as ‘hugely respected’
The Arvada police officer killed by a gunman Monday afternoon was a 19-year veteran who served as the school resource officer for Oberon Middle School and was Arvada’s 2014 Employee of the Year. Officer Gordon Beesley was responding to a man who was behaving suspiciously at the Arvada Army and Navy Surplus Shop at West…
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Colorado Interstate 70 project keeps driving forward despite opposition from neighborhood
The Central 70 Project, a $1.2 billion undertaking that has left the north Denver neighborhoods of Globeville/Elyria-Swansea in a state of constant noise and construction for four years, has been contentious from its beginning. In 2008, the Interstate 70 viaduct was declared structurally deficient and functionally obsolete; but it was nearly three decades earlier when…
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The promise of an interstate highway through Denver in the 1960s tore apart community
On Sept. 12, 1964, hundreds crowded across freshly-painted highway stripes to watch the dedication of a new $12.5 million, 2.6-mile stretch of Interstate 70 designed to ease traffic congestion on what had been a four-lane street. City and state officials joined highway engineers as an enormous ribbon was cut and onlookers applauded the first ever…