Tag: Stapleton International Airport
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Remembering Colorado’s Flight 629
Half-a-century before 9/11 and decades prior to the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, there was United Airlines Flight 629. The sabotage of The Denver Mainliner was America’s first confirmed targeting of a civilian aircraft and it happened over a southwestern Weld County sugar beet field. The six square miles of farmland…
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Iconic truck stop changes hands near old Stapleton Airport site
Long after Stapleton International Airport was bulldozed, two of the last remaining landmarks of the era are giant signs standing a half mile north of the freeway, beckoning truck drivers to stop for food and fuel. Now one of those sites, TA Travel Center’s 19,000-square-foot operation with gas and diesel pumps, three cafes, restrooms, showers,…
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Coloradans remember Bob Briggs, ‘the epitome of a statesman’
Former Rep. Bob Briggs, a Westminster Republican who served one term in the Colorado House, on Dec. 2 died of a heart attack. He was 83 years old and just three weeks shy of his 84th birthday. He is survived by his wife, two children, Christy (Briggs) Meiers of Erie and Robert “Chip” Briggs of Rocky…
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Weather: ‘New normals’ are in, but they can be a little deceiving, officials say
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save We’ve all been adjusting to “new normals” for over a year, but now weather professionals are adjusting to the climate’s new definition of normal. Earlier this week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its new climatological report for the United States that covers a…