Megan Mitchell

Brighton names new chief of police as Blackhurst readies for retirement

July 6, 2016 at 2:56 p.m.

Brighton has a new chief of police after the City Council voted Tuesday聽night to appoint Paul Southard to head of the department after聽the retirement of its former chief. 鈥淪outhard brings...

Construction crews work to demolish the existing buildings at Regatta Plaza Shopping Center in Aurora, Colorado on June 28, 2016. The multi-phased redevelopment of Regatta Plaza will include more than 500 units of residential, 100,000 square feet of retail space and up to 250,000 square feet of commercial space. Photo by Seth McConnell, YourHub

Regatta Plaza’s old buildings go down as redevelopment plans go up

November 11, 2016 at 3:41 p.m.

The aged strip-mall buildings that made up the shopping center at Regatta Plaza in south Aurora have been gouged into crumbling bricks and beams or completely flattened by bulldozers. In...

NORTHGLENN, CO - JUNE 22: Erin Shaw picks weeds at Stonehocker Farmhouse garden in Northglenn, Colorado on June 22, 2016. The Adams County Garden Co-op was started 11 years ago by a resident who has expanded the county's community garden listings to more than 20 all over Adams. The surplus veggies and fruits are donated to the food bank and local charities. Each city is looking for resident volunteers to work the soil. (Photo by Seth McConnell/The Denver Post)

Community gardeners grow food for low-income families

June 29, 2016 at 10:16 a.m.

Scattered around churchyards, pocketed on school grounds and sewn around neighborhoods throughout Adams County are more than 20 community gardens that are all part of a co-op where the majority...

Madeline Raab, 12, serves cookies to a client during the Summer Lunch Program at Aurora Warms the Night in Aurora, Colorado on June 23, 2016. Aurora Warms the Night's summer program provides 100 lunches Per day to clients while friends of Saint Andrew's closes for inventory. Friends provides daily lunches and they help meet the community need by filling in the gap at this time. Photo by Seth McConnell, YourHub

Aurora Warms the Night four-week lunch program in full swing

September 10, 2016 at 6:06 p.m.

Since 2010, Aurora Warms the Night off Colfax Avenue and Elmira Street has run a volunteer lunch program and provides supplies like clothes, blankets and toiletries.

Widening of Tower Road, new recreation center to be finished in two years

June 21, 2016 at 4:47 p.m.

A new recreation center and a larger Tower Road corridor are the two most anticipated and costly improvement projects in the works in Commerce City. After years of planning and...

Aurora funds 21 neighborhood improvement, beautification grants for work this summer

June 21, 2016 at 2:22 p.m.

Dozens of neighborhood and school groups will carry out community projects ranging from landscaping and lighting improvements to neighborhood clean-up initiatives and recycling bin installation that each group or homeowners...

DENVER, CO - JUNE 8: A pile of glass bottles sits outside waiting to be sorted at Clear Intentions in Denver, Colorado on June 8, 2016. Clear Intentions collects and hand sorts glass from area bars and drop off locations, ensuring that the glass is recycled and reused. (Photo by Seth McConnell/The Denver Post)

Adams County glass processing plant aims to raise Colorado’s low rate of recycling

June 22, 2016 at 3:23 p.m.

Clear Intentions startup in Adams County is expanding its market of reusable glass products to help lower landfill rates.

Adams County Crime Blotter: Woman stabs boyfriend in the kitchen

March 16, 2017 at 5:40 p.m.

Arguing in the kitchen. Northglenn police responded to the 10900 block of Grant Street because a woman apparently stabbed her boyfriend while the two were fighting May 23. She was...

D'Andre Spaulding, 19, rides up the side of a washing machine June 8 while skateboarding at Wheel Park in Aurora.

Aurora to renovate aging inline hockey rink at Wheel Park

February 21, 2017 at 10:20 a.m.

Aurora to renovate aging inline hockey rink at Wheel Park

Aurora Crime Blotter: Serial dumper

March 27, 2017 at 10:37 p.m.

Serial dumper. The owner of Cherry Knolls Consignment, 4231 S. Buckley Road, was trying to catch a man who he saw聽leaving a bunch of trash in the Dumpster behind the...

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Brighton names new chief of police as Blackhurst readies for retirement

Regatta Plaza’s old buildings go down as redevelopment plans go up

Community gardeners grow food for low-income families

Aurora Warms the Night four-week lunch program in full swing

Widening of Tower Road, new recreation center to be finished in two years

Aurora funds 21 neighborhood improvement, beautification grants for work this summer

Adams County glass processing plant aims to raise Colorado’s low rate of recycling

Adams County Crime Blotter: Woman stabs boyfriend in the kitchen

Aurora to renovate aging inline hockey rink at Wheel Park

Aurora Crime Blotter: Serial dumper