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Plenty to do all weekend long to celebrate Independence Day BY STAFF REPORT
Independence Day celebrations can’t be kept to one city or even one day in Adams County, with events scheduled all weekend and at parks and venues across the northern Denver metro area. Fort Lupton Fort Lupton is the first out of the gate, hosting its Independence Day celebration from 4-8 p.m. July 2 at the Community Center Park, located at the Fort Lupton Recreation Center, with music food and fun. Fort Lupton native Kimi Most, nominated for Female Vocalist and Songwriter of the Year at the 2016 Rocky Mountain Country Music Awards, will be the featured act. Now working out of Nashville, Most has released two singles, “Ride Together, Die Together” and “Happy Birthday to Me” and a 2020 EP “Lighting.” She’s opened for national touring artists, including Natasha Bedingfield, Casey Donahew, Courtyard Hounds, Deana Carter, and Patrick Droney. The city is also hosting an all-ages ropes course, a kids fun zone with bounce houses, carnival rides and the Fort Lupton Fire Department’s water slide. The event also boasts food trucks and a beer garden — with proceeds from sales ting Fort Lupton’s A long linebenefi of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at
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There will be plenty of fireworks shows across the area July 2 through July 4 for the Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent SEE CELEBRATION, P7 FILE PHOTO Independence Day weekend of celebrations. weeks due to high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test positivity rate As Denver metro counties continue to inch closer to local stay-at-home orders was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health Department. under Colorado’s system of coronavirusBrighton and Commerce City’s test positivity rates were both higher than related restrictions, the state announced 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have a new level of rules that prohibits indoor died from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread of COVID-19, dining and personal gatherings — a at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions that prohibits indoor and change that applies to the majority of the personal gatherings. Denver metro area and many counties in other regions. The state’s COVID-19 dial, which has Photo by Belen Ward been in effect since September, is the set of different levels of restrictions that each
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Mailers, TV ads and other campaign missives are flying in Colorado as the June 28 primary nears, eliciting a wave of campaign finance complaints and raising ethical questions about some of the political maneuvering. Democrats are behind some of the ads promoting more conservative Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, Colorado governor and the 8th Congressional District — believing those candidates will be easier to beat in the general election. But the strategy has been criticized by some Democrats, who warn that it could backfire by raising the profile of election deniers and potentially adding fuel to their movement. “Democracy is kind of hanging in the balance,” said Dan Grossman, a lawyer, registered Democrat and a former state lawmaker. “I don’t think attempts by Democrats to gain political partisan advantage by bolstering the campaigns of these folks who have no respect for the values county is required to follow based on the of democracy — it’slocal perilous.” severity of a county’s virus spread.
The dial grewSEEout of the state’s safer-atQUESTIONS, P8 home order — the policy that came after the statewide stay-at-home order this spring and allowed numerous types of businesses to reopen. The state recently switched to color identifiers — levels blue, yellow and orange rather than numbered levels — to avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level red — “severe risk” — is the second-
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