Your weekly roundup of the best stories from The Denver Post’s local and neighborhood section, .
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Seth McConnell, The Denver Post
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Two trailer parks in Denver’s Westwood neighborhood will be sold and replaced with 185 apartment units .
“Bowls of sliced mango, crispy green beans, silky hummus and other fiber-rich foods floated around one of the instruction rooms in the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center. About 20 Aurora-area residents sniffed and nibbled the snacks that were picked to replace things like cookies, chips and soda in their diets.” .
Thornton is , between 88th Avenue and Thornton Parkway. The plan is opportune with the imminent remodel of the North Suburban Medical Center emergency room at 9191 Grant St.
Elk Creek Fire Fire Rescue in Conifer is in the form of an Explorer post a month after its neighbor, Inter-Canyon Fire Protection District, discontinued a similar program.
The senior-care facility the Gardens at Columbine – 5130 W. Ken Caryl Ave. – is .
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Anya Semenoff, YourHub
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After a second-place finish on “America’s Got Talent,” Arvada’s Silhouettes youth dance troupe . .
A woman called police to report that she was being harassed by a man whom she contacted to buy a gumball machine for sale on Craigslist. The man, enraged, began yelling at her because “someone put the ad up as a joke” and proceeded to call and text her repeatedly. When contacted by police, the man admitted to being upset, but it was because the woman called her at 2 a.m. Which brings up the biggest question of them all: Who the heck calls about a gumball machine at 2 a.m.? Chew on this and other items in our .
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Seth McConnell, The Denver Post
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“Our specific category is bean-to-bar fine chocolate, meaning we make chocolate from the raw cocoa bean and process it into finished chocolate. There is no other chocolate factory in the country (or the world) that makes chocolate like us. We work with five cocoa farms in Madagascar, Peru, Costa Rica, Belize and Ecuador. Each of these farms produces quality that we consider to be in the 99 percentile of all cocoa farms.” –
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Anya Semenoff, The Denver Post
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“Easy Peasy Crafting & Cocktails is a one-of-a-kind business where we focus on making home décor crafts versus just painting … We also have woodshop crafts that empower women to learn how to use power tools and a large diverse selection of classes with and without professional instructors. We are the only crafting business that has a full bar and food, and we offer more then just wine and beer.” –
