Primary ballots on the way to 215,000 Jeffco voters
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.
OPED: Preserve our Federal Center open space
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 [...]
City Council limits RV parking on Lakewood streets
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.
Police consider charges in child’s hot tub death
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 [...]
OPED: Charter changes could prove too costly
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 [...]
POLICE BEAT: Driver makes poor choice of words
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 [...]
POLICE BEAT: Arrests yield uncommon number of condoms, ID tangle
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 [...]
Woman indicted in local ID thefts jailed in Chicago
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 [...]
Seniors’ Center to break ground for respite/day-care site
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 [...]
OPED: Chatfield dog park plan misses the mark
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 [...]








