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'I stand for duty, honor, God and country'

Jeffrey Sahli noticed the faded, fraying American flag outside Evergreen Middle School soon after he started eighth grade last year.

Local News

'I stand for duty, honor, God and country'

Jeffrey Sahli noticed the faded, fraying American flag outside Evergreen Middle School soon after he started eighth grade last year.

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Education

CSU seeing off its largest-ever graduating class

This weekend, Colorado State University will send the largest graduating class in its 138-year history out into a world.

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Columns & Blogs

JOHNSON: 'New' Manual High School is taking 'new' seriously

It looked like any other high school around town, except for the small groups of kids you see at most schools, slouching a few hundred yards up the street, smoking cigarettes, ditching third period.

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Father Malachy McBride, a Capuchin friar and parochial vicar at Queen of Peace Catholic Parish in Aurora, died at the San Antonio friary in northwest Denver on May 1 after a 12-year struggle with prostate cancer. He was 71.

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Traffic

Arvada clears beltway hurdle

The Arvada city clerk has ruled that citizens cannot petition to stop the city from joining the parkway authority formed with Broomfield and Jefferson County to try to complete the toll road portion of the metro beltway.

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Season to Share

Ronald McDonald opening new home to aid families of sick kids

Ronald McDonald is getting an impressive new house. In late February, Ronald McDonald House Charities will open a building at 932 Potomac Circle in Aurora, enabling the foundation to better serve the new Children's Hospital and other facilities at the Anschutz Medical Campus.

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Stock Show

Oh! Winning bareback ride ends with a thump

Cleve Schmidt is allergic to horses, which is not such an unusual thing. Unless you consider that he makes a living hanging on to horses for as long as he can.

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