Clear Creek readers, help choose the Courant’s look

BY DEBORAH SWEARINGEN SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

It’s been a long road for Clear Creek High School’s graduating seniors.

e group began its high school career just months before the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything they knew. e students went from communal Friday night football celebrations to months of isolation, in which they were forced to take classes behind computer screens.

“So many of us changed in a short period of time,” salutatorian Millie Gothman said in a speech during the June 3 graduation ceremony in the high school gymnasium.

But the hardships made the group stronger and solidi ed the bond among the students in the already tight-knit mountain community.

And the opportunities created by

Valued readers of the Clear Creek Courant, I want you to know that you’ve been heard. After we changed our nameplates, or “ ags” as they’re often called in newspaper circles, many of you were concerned that we had abandoned the historical feel of the Courant and had become just another cog in a corporate machine. But know, readers, that couldn’t have been further from the truth. While many from other papers we publish were happy with the change, we’ve heard your displeasure. My goal, always, is to be re ective and responsive to the needs of our communities, so now, I’m putting your voice up front.

We’re looking for readers to decide our new look. Included with this story are four designs that we feel re ect the values that we heard when we met with some residents last month: A nod to