Week of April 7, 2022
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO
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VOLUME 156 | ISSUE 16
Mountain-top solar farm not favored by city Golden to weigh in with county board of adjustments BY DEBORAH GRIGSBY DGRIGSBY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Freshmen Austin Beil, left, and Jeb Stickel, right, show off a growing collection of neon batons. The colorful party favors were part of Golden High School’s neon-themed Sadie’s Dance, held April 2 in the school gymnasium.
Night of Neon puts old tradition in new light BY DEBORAH GRIGSBY DGRIGSBY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
This year, Golden High School students put a new twist on the traditional Sadie Hawkins Dance. A neon twist. The dance, sponsored by GHS Student Council, was postponed from February to wait out COVID-19 social distancing restrictions. Known simply as Sadie’s Dance, GHS students came energized and donned their most glowing fashion items. Dresses, tuxedo tops, platform sneakers and eyeglasses helped transform the gymnasium into a fun and colorful evening for SEE NEON, P4
Golden High School sophomores Berlin Sandberg, left, and Sydney Drabek, right, pose for a selfie April 2, as the annual Sadie’s Dance got underway in the Golden High School gymnasium. The dance follows the traditions of the Sadie Hawkins Dance, an informal PHOTOS BY DEBORAH GRIGSBY school dance where girls invite boys.
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While the City of Golden has long been an ardent supporter of sustainable and renewable energy, a proposal by a developer to place a 10-acre solar array on top of South Table Mountain has been met with a large helping of pushback. In fact, there’s so much pushback that Golden City Council plans to pen a letter to Jefferson County to express its concern and position before an April 6 County Board of Adjustments hearing on the proposal. The recent request from Bear Creek Development Corporation has stirred the memory — and the ire — of locals who have fought to protect the pristine open space area enjoyed by many. Edee Gail has lived on Golden for close to 26 years and remembers when Oregon-based footwear giant Nike once proposed to place a 5,000-employee campus atop the same location. Gail was among the first residents to organize and form Save the Mesas, a local group that advocates keeping the mesa areas as open space. “Save the Mesas opposes any development on South Table Mountain,” said Gail in a statement provided to The Golden Transcript. “The proposal by Mr. Jeffry Bradley and his family Bear Creek SEE SOLAR, P6
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