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WEEK OF JUNE 9,24, 2022 TUESDAY ,N OVEMBER 2020

New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit indoor dining, personal gatherings

Commerce City Memorial Parade returns after two-year break

Some Congress candidates don’t live in districts

At least three hopefuls in Colorado primaries reside in other places BY SANDRA FISH AND JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

The Broomfield Detachment 1441 Marine Corps Iwo Jima float, which is on the highest point of Iwo Jima, Mount Suribachi, Japan. PHOTO BY BELEN WARD

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Commerce City Memorial Day Parade returned May 30 after a

two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is one of the largest parades in Colorado to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for America.

The celebration began with the Presentation of Colors by Adams City High School Junior ROTC. SEE PARADE, P4

By Ellis Arnold

Thornton man sentenced for death threats

A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent weeks due to high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test positivity rate threat in a voice Department. message to was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, accordingdeath to Tri-County Health Littleton Public SuperintenBrighton and Commerce City’s test positivity rates wereSchools both higher than dent Brian Ewert. 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton Clayton and 29 inappeared Commerce City have in Littleton died from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread Municipal Court Juneof 2, COVID-19, where he pleadedthat guilty to a harassment at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions prohibits indoor and charge. Clayton will be released personal gatherings.

Byron Clayton gets 10 days in jail and more than $300 in fees and court costs BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Byron Clayton, a 48-year-old Thornton man, will serve 10 days in jail beginning June 29 for leaving a

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from an Arapahoe County jail July 8 at 9 a.m. He also must pay $240 in probation fees and $65 in court costs. A protection order been Ward isPhoto byhad Belen sued against Clayton during his first court appearance Feb. 23 that

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As Denver metro counties continue to

inch closer him to local stay-at-home orders restrains from being in contact with as well as any and all underEwert Colorado’s system of coronavirusLPS staff. It also prevents him from related restrictions, the state announced being on LPS property. a new level of rules thatby prohibits indoor Clayton was cited Littleton dining and personal gatherings — a police officers Jan. 26 after he called change applies to the majority of the and leftthat a voice message for Ewert saying he had “a syringe full of Denver metro area and many counties in anthrax to inject into you” and that other regions. Ewert liked to “inject children with The state’s dial,ofwhich garbage andCOVID-19 poison type stuffhas

been in effect since September, is the set of different levels of restrictions that each SEE THREATS, P8

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At least three candidates running in Colorado’s congressional primaries this year live outside the districts they’re seeking to represent, a rare but legal move that leaves them vulnerable to political scrutiny. Several other congressional candidates in the state are relative newcomers to their political parties. The Colorado Sun analyzed voter registration and voting history records for 25 congressional and statewide candidates running this year in competitive primaries to learn where they live and more their relationship county is about required to follow based on the with of their political In an severity a county’s localparties. virus spread. election year shaped by redistrictTheing, dialcandidates grew out of the state’s safer-athave been jumphome — theraces policyand thatchanging came after ingorder between thetheir statewide stay-at-home order affiliations to find thethis race that’s — or maybe types most of opspring andright allowed numerous portune — for them. businesses to reopen. Federal law doesn’t require conThe state recently switched color gressional candidates toto live in identifiers — levels blue, yellow and their districts. They just have to orange — to live rather in thethan statenumbered in whichlevels they’re seeking offi ce. avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red The three candidates running meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level to represent districts they don’t live redin—are: “severe risk” — is the secondSEE CANDIDATES, P3

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