VOLUME 36 • NUMBER 45 • SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
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The famous Haunted House Mansion in downtown Littleton will open Sept. 28 with a 50-year history from Reinke Brothers. The mansion is located at 5663 S. Prince St. in the heart of the Littleton downtown business district. Greg Reinke tells how he and his brother Chris started exploring the haunted house world 50 years ago setting up a haunted house in the family basement using their father’s toolbox as a coffin. He said they had 26 customers that paid a penny to tour the haunted house in the basement starting their career. Today the store spans half a city block with a large parking lot. The store holds more than 10,000 costumes for sale or rent and thousands of haunting memorabilia, souvenirs and just spooky inventory. The Haunted House Mansion will open Sept. 28 and Reinke expects thousands of visitors to the mansion during October. More photos on page 8.
You never know what may be lurking behind every corner (or skeleton) at Reinke Brother’s Haunted House, including Greg Reinke!
Englewood’s Barrentine is ready to put the recall behind her Recall elections in a city like Englewood are unusual, and it was never entirely clear what motivated the organizers to recall Laurett Barrentine in the first place. She did, however, survived the recall by four percentage points.
Behind the recall were former Englewood mayors Randy Penn (2011-2015) and Jim Woodward (2007-2011) and pointed to what they saw as personality traits of Barrentine that made it difficult for others to work with her. In contrast, she believed that they were trying to keep her
from digging into the relationship between the city and two related entities, the Englewood Environmental Foundation (EEF) and the Englewood McLellan Reservoir Foundation (EMRF). The EEF is a nonprofit Colorado corporation created in 1997 to own the Englewood Civic Center, which houses city
government. A fact sheet from 2014 on Englewood’s website says, “In 1999, Englewood City Council established the Englewood McLellan Reservoir Foundation (EMRF) to oversee the development of the property, to enhance and diversify the city’s longterm revenues, and to protect
the water supply in and around McLellan Reservoir.” Committed to transparency, Englewood’s city council maintains a portal on its website that allows anyone to watch city council meetings and study sessions live and on video anytime. Continued on page 3