AUGUST 30, 2018
BIG CLIMBERS Thousands of hikers are taking on fourteeners in the state P16
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OLD SCHOOL, NEW SCHOOL Free Horizon starts a new year in old Pleasant View building P7
TIGERS WIN
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Lakewood notched a W in the football season opener against Bear Creek P22
With recordsetting enrollment School of Mines begins a new year P5
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County planners asking “what do you want to see built?” P6
THE BOTTOM LINE
“This isn’t an either/or proposition. We need all those things.” PERIODICAL
Jeffco ed boardmember Brad Rupert on three planned school funding ballot issues | P4 INSIDE
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