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Saying goodbye to ‘a school that is cherished’

By Christy Steadman

Dan Willard, 75, remembers the day he entered the fourth grade. The year was 1951. And Pleasant View Elementary was opening its doors for the first time…  Read more…

Goodbyes & Butterflies at Pleasant View Elementary Closing Ceremony

Pleasant View Elementary hosts a closing ceremony after serving its students, families and community for nearly 70 years…  Read more…

Digging Golden

The Museum of Nature and Science will be doing an archaeological dig in Golden this summer.  The site of the dig, which is known as Magic Mountain, is near the Apex Trailhead.  This site has remains dating back 7000 years and has been excavated before, but they are initiating a new effort June 7-25th.

One goal of this project is to get people excited about the archaeology in their backyard.  The project team will be offering many tours and an opportunity for anyone to try their hand at digging. They also hope to encourage community members to keep a watchful eye on the area, so this incredible site remains preserved for generations to come.

Learn more about the dig and check the schedule for planned site tours….


Pleasant View Elementary’s closing ceremony was postponed last week because of the snow.  They’re going to try again today at 5, so I hope you can stop by and take one last look at the building.  The pupils will be going to Shelton and Welchester next fall.  There will be a Closing Ceremony at 5, to mark the event.  Student ambassadors will provide building tours.  An interactive art activity will allow families to mark the event, sponsored by The Denver Art Museum.  Light refreshments will be served.  All are welcome to attend.  15920 W. 10th Avenue, Golden, CO (map).

New schools, new faces, new friends

By Christy Steadman

Fourth-grader Brooklyn Guerra really likes art.

So on Visit Day, Guerra had fun decorating a puzzle piece with her current classmates…  Read more…

Farewell to Pleasant View

The Citizen’s Budget Advisory Committee (CBAC) meets this morning at 7:30 in City Council Chambers.  They will discuss Affordable Housing.


Senior Housing in Golden Colorado

The Planning Commission meets tonight at 6:30 in City Council Chambers.  They will consider a request for a site plan change on the senior housing development going in at Highway 93 and Golden Gate Canyon Road.  The developer wants to expand the project from 110 apartments to 120.  This change request was also discussed at last month’s meeting, but a problem with the mailing that went out to nearby residents caused the commission to delay the hearing until a new mailing could be sent.

After that, the Planning Commission will hold a study session to consider Open Space requirements, both big and small.  The “big” open space discussion would look at whether Golden could or should acquire some land to serve as a buffer zone, so adjacent communities can’t build right up to our boundaries.  The “small” open space concerns the requirements for multi-family project developers to include some open space.  The code is currently a bit vague as to whether that open space needs to be available to the public, or just to the residents of the development.  Learn more….


Wild Wednesday:  A naturalist from the Lookout Mountain Nature Center will be at the library this afternoon from 4-5PM to tell 6 to 10-year olds about “Fabulous Flight.”


Pleasant View Elementary is closing at the end of this school year.  Tomorrow afternoon (Thursday 5/18) at 5PM, there will be a Closing Ceremony to mark the event.  Student ambassadors will provide building tours.  An interactive art activity will allow families to mark the event, sponsored by The Denver Art Museum.  Light refreshments will be served.  All are welcome to attend.  15920 W. 10th Avenue, Golden, CO (map)

Sadness, excitement color Pleasant View’s last days

By Christy Steadman

On the day after the Jeffco school board decided to close Pleasant View Elementary School in Golden, Shelton Elementary Principal Karen Brown made her way to all the classrooms at her school to talk to her students…  Read more…

New boundaries set for Golden elementary schools

By Shanna Fortier

New boundaries for elementary schools in Golden have been approved for the 2017-18 school year.

Because of the closure of Pleasant View Elementary School — which the Jefferson County Board of Education approved on Feb. 9 — new school boundary changes were needed for Shelton and Welchester elementary schools…  Read more…

‘We have become a place that offers hope’

By Christy Steadman

The mornings are perhaps the most important time of day in Faye Doverspike’s classroom.

That’s when the sixth-grade reading and writing teacher at Pleasant View Elementary School gets to know her 30 students simply as kids…  Read more…

Preparing for closure, Pleasant View Elementary in Jeffco looks ahead

By Josie Klemaier

Pleasant View Elementary has a new motto ringing through its halls: “Friends we haven’t met.”

The school will close at the end of the year after the Jefferson County Public Schools board of education selected it from the five schools on the closure list at its Feb. 9 meeting…  Read more…

Pleasant View Elementary will close; other four saved

Jeffco Board of Education will move forward with closing Pleasant View Elementary School in Golden next school year.

Peck Elementary in Arvada, Pennington Elementary in Wheat Ridge, Stober Elementary in Lakewood, and Swanson Elementary in Arvada will all stay open…  Read more…