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Today's News

  • Frederick awards scholarships to two FHS seniors

    FREDERICK — This year, the town trustees adjusted the criteria for the town’s $1,000 scholarship to include Frederick residents who might not attend Frederick High School.
        The recommendations from the scholarship committe reflected the expanded criteria with seniors from two high schools selected for the scholarship: Emily Echelberger from FHS and J.P. Henry from Skyline. The town board of trustees voted unanimously April 23 to approve the selection.

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  • Dacono awards four scholarships

    DACONO — Council selected four students May 13 to receive the city’s annual scholarship.
        The 2013 City of Dacono Scholarship recipients are Nathan Harrison and Stephanie Garcia, both students at Frederick High School, Karley Lorenz, from Boulder High School and Dalton Linkus, from Erie High School.

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  • Youth tennis registration ends May 25

        Registration for the Carbon Valley Recreation Center’s Colorado Association of Recreational Athletics youth tennis team ends May 25. The program lasts four weeks, and the fee is $35 for residents and $42 for nonresidents. Call 303-833-3660.

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  • State track recap -- Day 2

    LAKEWOOD -- Frederick's Joe Wise had an up-and-down day Friday at the state 4A track meet.

    He qualified fourth in the finals in the 300-meter hurdles in a time of 38.88. He didn't qualify for the finals in the state high jump, though. He missed his three tries at the opening height of 5 feet 11 inches.

    The finals of the 300-meters is at 2:20 p.m. Saturday.

    Frederick's other state qualifier, Makenzie Urban, finished 12th in the 800-meter run. She posted a time of 2:18.53, which was a personal best.

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  • State track recap -- Day 1

    LAKEWOOD -- Frederick's Makenzie Urban placed 15th in the class 4A 400-meter dash Thursday at the state track-and-field meet at Jeffco Stadium.

    She turned in a time of 59.589.

    Urban was the only Warriors' athlete to compete on the first day. She'l be back in action Friday at 12:40 p.m. in the finals of the girls 800-meter run.

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  • ‘Great Gatsby’ remake parties itself out in 3D

    Director Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” was originally slated to premiere last year in the heart of awards season.
        It has since opened this month where it belongs: Alongside the rest of the glut of summer popcorn flicks that end up having more style than substance.

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  • Gravitational pull of greed makes some factories prone to disaster

    Jim Hightower

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  • Reflections on a year of sharing my opinions with you

    This week’s column is a major milestone.
        Perhaps there have been some bigger, but to me, this one is quite big. This week’s issue marks one year that I have been writing a column for the Commerce City Sentinel Express as well as the other MetroWest newspapers.
        To say that writing a column for the local paper is an ego boost would be like saying Custer had Indian problems.

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  • Lessons learned, and lessons left to teach, in the 2013 Kia Sportage

     

     

     

    Aaron Cole
    Auto Columnist

    It’s hard to focus too long on the 2013 Kia Sportage.
         The car before us is currently one of the best-selling compact crossovers in the U.S. right now, a four-door sales behemoth that produces only 176 horsepower in base trim. I mean, it’s not as if the Sportage speeds away like an Internet conspiracy theory with power numbers like that. Something else is afoot here.

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  • Parents are the key to safe teen drivers

    Car crashes are considered to be the No. 1 killer of teens, claiming more than 3,000 young lives every year. That’s 11 teen deaths each day that can be prevented.
        As a parent, you should know that the main cause of teen crashes is driver inexperience. All new drivers — even straight-A students and “good kids” — are more likely than experienced drivers to be involved in a fatal crash. It’s a fact.

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