January 14, 2021
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO
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VOLUME 155 | ISSUE 6
Demon baseball team upping game with new indoor practice facility Golden will be second Jeffco school to have place for players to practice year-round
Discussion comes after local historian proposed creating new historic district honoring city’s past
BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
While the Golden baseball season is (typically) limited to March, April and May, the competition is always on for players looking to earn a college scholarship. Unfortunately, that reality is one that can leave Golden players at a disadvantage when it comes to competing against players from warmer climates. “I always tell my guys `you’re not competing for a scholarship with some kind in Lakewood,’” said head coach Jackie McBroom. “You’re competing with some kid in Austin, Texas that has the ability to go outside all the time.’” But while Golden’s players will never have that ability, they will soon have what McBroom
BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A rendering of the indoor baseball facility that will be constructed at Golden COURTESY OF JACKIE MCBROOM High School.
describes as the next best thing: a 110-feet-long by 28-feet-wide building where they can practice hitting, throwing and other skills year around.
McBroom said the facility will have two cages where players can practice batting but that you SEE BASEBALL, P11
Perlmutter recounts Capitol insurrection District 7 Congressman says experience a shock, but might have been anticipated BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
On Jan. 6, U.S. legislators debated the merits of completing a perfunctory certification of
City, preservation groups feeling territorial
the electoral college results in the 2020 presidential election. Shortly after the House and Senate were adjourned to their respective Perlmutter chambers to deliberate, pro-Trump protesters breached the Capitol. Congressman Ed Perlmutter (DArvada) of Colorado’s 7th district, having been sworn in three days earlier after his latest reelection, was in the Capitol at the time.
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“My experience has been one of shock,” Perlmutter said. “I knew that there would be protests. I didn’t expect it to become riots and to have people breach the Capitol.” He said he didn’t expect to see an event like this happen, although looking back on all of the rhetoric coming from the president and others, whipping everybody up, it might have been predictable. SEE PERLMUTTER, P3
An effort to better recognize and highlight the historic buildings remaining from Golden’s time as Colorado’s second capitol city is gaining momentum — although the leader of that effort says it likely will no longer involve the creation of a new formal historic district. Local historian Richard Gardner was the first to go to the Golden Landmarks Association, a local nonprofit dedicated to preserving and highlighting Golden history that he is a board member of, with the idea of creating a new historic district to highlight the buildings. Golden served as the Colorado territory’s capital from 1862 to 1867, and there are at least 29 buildings in the city remaining from that period (there is some dispute about when three other buildings were constructed and whether they also date back to the period). The GLA later brought the idea to the city’s Historic Preservation Board, which has the authority to initiate the creation of new historic districts. “This was an era of high status for Golden, when we were a leading city helping shape the state we now know,” wrote Gardner in an email to the Golden Transcript explaining his idea. “These remaining places represent what a territorial capital of Colorado was like, dispersed throughout the living city SEE CAPITAL, P5
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