Author: By Kyla Pearce The Denver Gazette
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Commissioners urged to reject well pad for fracking near Aurora Reservoir
More than 400 people filled and overflowed a venue overlooking the plains of Arapahoe County on Thursday to urge the Energy and Carbon Management Commission to reject a well pad for the Lowry Ranch fracking plan. The ECMC voted in August 2024 to green light the fracking plan, which includes 32,000 acres of proposed subsurface…
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2023 National Western Stock Show sets daily attendance records
Denver’s National Western Stock Show has set four record-attendance days this year since its Jan. 7 opening day. The 16-day show heads into its final weekend Saturday. The show’s first nine days, through Sunday, saw 402,814 attendees — setting the record for Stock Show attendance to date, according to a news release. The prior record,…
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North America’s oldest titi monkey, Cinnamon, dies at Colorado zoo
The Denver Zoo said goodbye to Cinnamon, a coppery titi monkey, this week. Cinnamon, 31 years old when she died, was the oldest monkey of her kind in North America and was one of only three coppery titi monkeys in North American zoos, the Denver Zoo said. “She loved grooming her companions and was fast…