Two teens charged in March 16 shooting New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit indoor dining, personal gatherings

to start.

Nebraska is in talks to option or buy up land around Julesburg and to the west for canal construction, Rein said. Grassed-over scars of Nebraska’s un nished attempt at a Perkins Canal in the late 1800s are visible across northeastern Colorado.

County is on the Nebraska side of the border, though the canal may or may not actually run through it.)

Two teens are facing charges of attempted murder and illegal possession of a handgun in the March 16 shooting near Brighton High school.

e District Attorney’s O ce announced ling charges against the two juvenile, ages 16 and 17, that left one person injured and closed forced Brighton schools into lockdown.

e shooting occurred at about 12:30 p.m. March 16 at South Ninth Avenue and Bush Street, across the street from Brighton’s Innovations and Options School and near Brighton High School.

In a statement to the press that afternoon, Brighton Police Chief Matt Domenico said police received reports of gun re there, nding the intersection littered with bullet casings when they arrived but no victims on the scene. e victim had been taken to an area urgent care clinic.

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 was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health Department. Brighton and Commerce City’s test positivity rates were both higher than 13 percent. Forty- ve people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have died from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread of COVID-19, at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions that prohibits indoor and personal gatherings.

Other failings of the study, Rein adds, include relying on lower section ows of irrigation water returning to the river that Nebraska doesn’t have a right to; not accounting for diversion rights at Julesburg Reservoir; and ignoring that the canal would be iced over and unable to deliver water across the border during some of the time Nebraska has a right to take it, from October to April.

Nevertheless, Nebraska is itching

Colorado takes pains in its o cial response to say it has always honored a 1923 compact with Nebraska on how the South Platte operates, and always will. e letter, with extensive input from the Colorado Attorney General’s O ce, is not meant to be a hard “no,” Rein said. e engineering formulas and legalese are meant to say, “ ere may be things that you didn’t consider, that will reduce the amount of water you’ll be able to yield,” Rein said.

Nebraska surprised Colorado and Western water watchers in early 2022 with a revival of the ancient Perkins County Canal plan. (Perkins

Nebraska’s governor warned Colorado had plans to use up all available South Platte River water before it left the state just northeast of Julesburg, and that the only way for Nebraska to secure its rights was a $500 million canal allowed in the compact.

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Nebraska needs the water for its agriculture-based economy and for recreation, state o cials said. e state’s legislature quickly agreed, and voted to launch engineering studies and start setting aside money for eventual construction.

A year ago, Rein and the o ce of Gov. Jared Polis said they hadn’t heard many details of the canal plan directly from Nebraska engineers.

As Denver metro counties continue to inch closer to local stay-at-home orders under Colorado’s system of coronavirusrelated restrictions, the state announced a new level of rules that prohibits indoor dining and personal gatherings — a change that applies to the majority of the Denver metro area and many counties in other regions.

e Nebraska consultants’ report was delivered to the state legislature e state’s COVID-19 dial, which has been in e ect since September, is the set of di erent levels of restrictions that each county is required to follow based on the severity of a county’s local virus spread. e dial grew out of the state’s safer-athome order — the policy that came a er the statewide stay-at-home order this spring and allowed numerous types of businesses to reopen. e state recently switched to color identi ers — 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-

Police began looking for vehicle and tweeted that potential suspects were sighted near East 120th Avenue and Salem Street. Police closed both Brighton and Prairie View High Schools and placed the cities other schools on secure status and lockout. Domenico announced that police had arrested two suspects and the all clear was issued shortly before 3 p.m.

According to the District Attorney’s o ce, the two suspects are facing ve counts of First-Degree Attempted Murder, a second degree felony, and possession of a handgun by a juveniles. at is a second degree misdemeanor.

Both suspects are due in court May 4 at Adams County District Court in Brighton.

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