Author: By DENNIS HUSPENI The Denver Gazette
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Opening weekend at National Western Stock Show sets attendance records
Crowds flocked to the 117th year of the National Western Stock Show, breaking attendance records for the opening weekend, according to a news release. Officials counted 109,978 Stock Show fans visiting Saturday and Sunday, breaking the previous opening weekend attendance record of 106,921 guests, set in 2020. Phenomenal fiddling kicks off first weekend at the…
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Casa Bonita employees improving skills, despite closed restaurant
The new owners of Lakewood’s famed Casa Bonita restaurant are not only investing millions into the iconic building on West Colfax, they’re investing in their employees too. Last week, 29 longtime Casa Bonita employees graduated from a free 26-week language class that taught Spanish speakers more English and the English speakers more Spanish. The employees…
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Vail Resorts asks judge to toss “emergency ordinance” that stopped affordable housing development
The Vail Corp., parent company of Vail Resorts, has asked a district court judge to nullify an emergency ordinance the town of Vail passed Aug. 2 to stop the company from developing affordable workforce housing on land it owns. The complaint, filed Aug. 30, alleges the Town Council acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” and that it…
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13 Colorado restaurants, chefs up for prestigious food award
Thirteen Colorado restaurants and chefs landed on the James Beard Awards 2022 Restaurant and Chef Awards semifinalists’ list Wednesday. The winners, including those for Leadership. Lifetime Achievement and Humanitarian of the Year, will be announced March 16 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The finalists will celebrate at a ceremony June 13 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.…
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Report says Colorado economy in “recovery mode”
Colorado’s employment will recover to pre-pandemic levels this year, with some industries already fully recovered, and the state’s inflation rate remained lower than the national average last year, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Quarterly Business & Economic Indicators report for the fourth quarter of 2021 released Thursday. “The state is in recovery mode,”…
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Arson claims Colorado haunted attraction days before Halloween
Fire investigators with the South Metro Fire Rescue are looking for two teenagers who were caught on videotape – and later seen watching the fire they allegedly started – as persons of interest in the early Monday arson fire that claimed much of Fright Acres in Parker, according to South Metro. Fright Entertainment LLC Owner…
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2 of 3 Mars missions currently have Colorado connections
Two of the three missions from Earth arriving at Mars this past week and in the next few days have Colorado connections. While the higher profile of the two is NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover, (hopefully) landing on Mars on Thursday with the help of Lockheed Martin engineers in Colorado, the United Arab Emirates’ satellite Hope…