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By Charley Able • July 21st, 2010

Jeffco Clerk & Recorder’s Office offers link to on-line customized ballot website that compiles the ballot by precinct, according to the user’s address. Ballots must be returned by 7 p.m. Aug. 10.

Open Space at DFC Belongs to Taxpayers

 SUBMITTED BY: C. Jones
Tax-paying citizens are the rightful owners of the 62-acre open space located on the southeast corner of the Denver Federal Center (DFC). The United States General Services Administration (GSA) and The City of Lakewood do not own the land. GSA and The City of Lakewood need [...]

Speakers drawn from national conservative leadership target November elections, warn of consequences of budget-busting programs.

Ex-assistant pastor Jason Smoker will spend a week in jail and a year on probation for dumping trash on a developmentally disabled man who was cleaning a church bus.

RV owners can park for only 48 hours at a stretch to load, unload, maintain and make their vehicles road-ready under ordinance passed to bar long-term storage of RVs on the street.

 By Ryan Parker
A baby sitter could face charges after a 3-year-old girl was died after climbing into a hot tub at an apartment complex last week.
The baby sitter was watching three other children while their mother was away when the incident occurred at 3:22 p.m., Friday at the Telluride West Apartments, 322 Wright St.
The incident [...]

 SUBMITTED BY: Cathy Kentner
The Lakewood City Council is currently taking public comment on two proposed charter changes that would affect referendum and initiative petitions. One of these changes would require referenda and initiative elections to coincide with either a regular municipal election or a county special election, thus eliminating stand-alone special elections.
Stand-alone elections are the [...]

Home-schooled athlete from Oklahoma turns to Colorado Christian University’s mix of compassionate education after injury causes larger schools to back away from recruiting her.

By Ryan Parker
Compiled from Lakewood Police Department reports
 Precise words
4:30 p.m., June 30, 2010, 6700 block of West Colfax Avenue:
Police saw a woman believed to be a prostitute get into a man’s car. When police stopped the car and asked the man what he was doing, he said he picked up the woman because she was [...]

Fireworks finale and food, beverages, and a midway for the younger set highlight Lakewood on Parade’s annual celebration of the community and it’s Independence Day Weekend observance.

By RYAN PARKER
Reports compiled by the Lakewood Police Department.
 Stocked up
9:42 p.m., June 23, 2010, area of West Colfax Avenue and Jay Street.
Police were doing undercover investigation for possible prostitution on Colfax when they saw a woman they thought may be working. An undercover officer offered the woman money in exchange for relations, which she agreed [...]

Neighborhood spokeswoman says the community will continue the battle against a nebulous plan for the commercial and retail redevelopment of the site at the intersection of West Alameda Avenue and Kipling street.

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A woman indicted by a Jeffco Grand Jury earlier this year is in custody in Chicago pending extraction to Colorado, the District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.
Andrea Harris-Frazier, 54, was indicted on 43 counts of theft, forgery and attempted theft. The indictment named 28 people investigators believe were victimized by Harris-Frazier between November [...]

Wheat Ridge man, on probation for selling liquor to a minor later involved in a 2007 fatal car crash, admits he sold beer to a teen-ager during a Lakewood Police operation.

SUBMITTED BY: Brandon Edelman. Coordinator, Public Relations & Marketing, Seniors’ Resource Center 
WHEAT RIDGE – Seniors’ Resource Center (SRC) is excited to announce that it will conduct a groundbreaking ceremony on a brand-new, state-of-the-art Adult Day & Respite Services facility at 11 a.m. Monday, July 12 at the agency’s Wheat Ridge location, 3227 Chase St..
Congressman Ed [...]

Submitted By: Melissa Morris
 State Park Officials: Are You Listening?
Off-leash users are not opposed to change at Chatfield State Park’s off-leash dog area, but we are opposed to change that does not benefit all users equally creating a win-win for all parties.
Sport Dog Trainers need and deserve a great state of the art facility for both [...]

Man who admitted guilt in 15-year old cold case draws a 14-year prison term. The conviction is Jimmy Gerald Ruybal’s fifth felony conviction.

Bill Inman graduated from Colorado Christian University last month, marking a milestone in his recovery from a 1981 traffic accident that left him injured, but determined to earn his degree.