Tag: New Mexico
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Colorado businessman, filmmakers work to garner interest in proposed Southern Colorado TV series
The West wasn’t always won by a bunch of gunslingers. In Trinidad, it was a 22-year-old nun named Sister Blandina Segale who helped bring peace to the mining town after arriving in 1872. And now father and son filmmakers and Phil Long Enterprise CEO Jay Cimino want to tell her story in “Trinidad,” a multiseason…
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With 300 vendors, shopping remains popular at National Western Stock Show
After the first weekend’s success at the National Western Stock Show, vendors are looking forward to a hopeful rise in sales over the coming days of the event. There have been 300 retail vendors every year for about the last two decades, according to Stock Show President and CEO Paul Andrews. That is the maximum…
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Community meets Aurora police chief finalists
When Lea Steed thinks about what she wants in Aurora police officers, she envisions more training in how to carry out arrests, the skill to recognize a person in crisis, and accountability for officers accused of killing or harming someone. It’s important for her hometown, she said. “There are a lot of issues in Aurora…
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Colorado’s unemployment drops again, recovers all pandemic job losses
Colorado’s unemployment rate continues its slow but steady decline. June’s household survey found that the state’s unemployment level edged down a tenth of a percentage point to 3.4%, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported Friday. It has been 12 consecutive months of flat or dropping unemployment levels, according to the department. Colorado’s unemployment…
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Sierra Space teams with New Mexico’s Spaceport America
Louisville-based Sierra Space might soon be landing its winged spacecraft at New Mexico’s Spaceport America, according to a news release. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding outlining their “mutual pursuit to increase Spaceport America’s capabilities and demand for Dream Chaser reentry at the spaceport.” The next step would be to pursue a “Part…
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Denver cold case closed: Man who killed girlfriend in 1990s sentenced to prison
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A 58-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend nearly 24 years ago. Crespin Nene-Perez pled guilty to one count of second-degree murder in the death of Bonny Baker, 47, earlier this year, according to the Denver District Attorney’s Office. “Violent crime cold cases are among the…
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Colorado drought conditions improve again slightly
With recent rain and snow across the state, Colorado’s drought conditions continue to improve slightly, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center, though the area remains in a long-term drought. Two weeks of precipitation have finally pushed a small part of the state, in the northern Rockies, back into “normal” conditions. “Rain and mountain snow…
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Metro Moves: Legacy Banks to become InBank after merger
Welcome to The Denver Gazette’s Metro Moves. You’ll get the latest metro Denver openings, closings, hiring and promotion briefs here. To submit your company’s news, drop an email to [email protected]. Completed mergers Legacy Banks, with mostly southern Colorado branches, will soon be known as InBank after Denver-based InBankshares Corp. bought out the bank in a…
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Metro Moves: Colorado Livestock Association names new CEO
Welcome to The Denver Gazette’s Metro Moves. You’ll get the latest metro Denver openings, closings, hiring and promotion briefs here. To submit your company’s news, drop an email to [email protected]. New hire Zachary Riley, former senior director of public policy and federal affairs at Colorado Farm Bureau, will be chief executive of the Colorado Livestock…
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Seattle-based apartment investor breaks into metro Denver market
After five years of trying, Seattle-based real estate investment firm Thayer Manca finally broke into the metro Denver market with the purchase of the 319-unit Highland Point Apartments, 16894 E. Arkansas Ave., Aurora. “We’ve been a bridesmaid, but never a bride until now. The pricing has just gone nuts,” said Principal Joe Manca in an…