COVID Updates
Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment: All Coloradans 12 and older are eligible to receive the Pfizer vaccine, and all Coloradans 18 and older are eligible to receive the Moderna or Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) vaccine.
Jefferson County Case Summary:
Cases in Jeffco – Fri: 47,530 | Mon: 47,684 (+154)
Deaths in Jeffco – Fri: 828 | Mon: 831 (+3)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Fri: 47 | Mon: 45 (-2)
Recovered – Fri: 45,789 | Mon: 46,156 (+367)
Known Cases in Golden – Thurs: 1978 | Mon: 1981 (+3)
Appointments to Get the COVID Vaccine
State of Colorado: Find Out Where You Can Get Vaccinated
Jefferson County Public Health: Vaccine Call Center: 303-239-7000
State Hotline to answer questions, including location of vaccine providers: 1-877-268-2926.
Golden Testing Sites
Mines COVID Testing | Jeffco Fairgrounds COVID Testing
More Public Health References
Sign up for exposure notifications | CDC | Colorado | Jefferson County | City of Golden
JEFFERSON COUNTY RESCINDS THE MASK ORDER – VACCINATED PEOPLE NO LONGER REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK, UNLESS A BUSINESS REQUIRES IT. Read the full order….
Virtual Events
8:40-9:35AM Silver Sneakers Classic
9-11AM Accelerate Your Career – Interviewing for Success
10:15AM Toddler Time with the Library
1:30PM Triad – Senior Safety
4-5PM Recursos Digitales
5PM Neighborhood Meeting – Golden Hills Mobile Home Park (located at 215 Cheyenne St. – map)
The City of Golden is initiating a rezoning of the Golden Hills Mobile Home Park, with the cooperation of the property owner, seeking approval to rezone the property from the current R2 multifamily residential use to PUD zoning. The proposed new zoning designation would establish mobile homes as the principal residential use on the property in order to better ensure the long term preservation of the mobile home park. Learn more and REGISTER BEFORE 5PM.
6:30PM City Council Regular Business Meeting
Tonight, Council is expected to award a $1,368,529.20 contract for 2021 street improvements to Martin Marietta. The will read Proclamations for Memorial Day, USMC Memorial Day Ceremony, and National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
They will hold two public hearings: one to designate 904 Arapahoe Street as a contributing structure to the 8th and 9th Street Historic Distract, and one to modify our regulations concerning public rights of way. This second change is designed to allow the city to lay fiber whenever one of our utilities is installing conduit. This will allow the City to expand its broadband network without the cost of digging up streets and installing our own conduit. It will also give the city more oversight of companies who receive temporary permits to use our rights of way.
They will vote on a new fee structure for use of rights of way. The new fees are intended to pay for one new full-time public works person and one part-time IT person to oversee the right of way permits.
The Sustainability Manager will brief them about a plan to “evaluate and solicit community input about potential new energy building codes to achieve the City’s sustainability goals.”
They will discuss improvements to the streetlights. The City recently purchased the streetlights from Xcel Energy and we now have the opportunity the upgrade the lights and the poles.
After the business meeting, they will adjourn to Executive Session (no public, no cameras) to discuss possible locations for a “solar garden” (bunch of solar panels) near Golden. To learn more about any of these topics, see tonight’s meeting packet.
Real World Events
8-9AM Golden Chamber’s Coffee Connections – Hear Officer Page share information on the new Crimewatch program for Golden. Details and RSVP HERE Location: Golden Hotel (map)
4PM-closing Tuesdays at the Buffalo Rose:
Prime rib dinner for $25 (while supply lasts).
Dogs are welcome to sit on the patio on Tuesday nights.
79 cent Coors Banquet or Coors Light for Golden locals, students, and service industry workers
5:30PM LIVE MUSIC Celebrating Bob Dylan’s 80th Birthday – Todd Sheaffer w/Chris Thompson at Coda Brewing
7PM Golden Anti-Racism Collective General Meeting
The Collective will be showing a screening of the movie: Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops. Location: Tributary Food Hall (map)
Celestial Events
The moon will be full tonight/tomorrow (officially 5:13 tomorrow morning). It will rise at 7:41 this evening and set at 5:43 tomorrow morning.
Here’s the interesting part: There will be a lunar eclipse beginning at 2:47AM, reaching its maximum at 5:18AM and ending at 5:47AM. Watch the moon set behind the mountains tomorrow morning!
Golden History Moment
Last week’s story about a double murder was so popular that I thought I’d present another grisly story.
151 Years Ago
The May 25, 1870 Colorado Transcript included the article, “Another Man Found Hanging.” That titles implies that it was an unremarkable event…as does the fact that it appeared on page 2, second column, several inches down from the top of the page.
A railroad surveyor came into Golden to report finding “the remains of a man hanging to a tree…about two miles up Clear Creek Canyon.” The Justice rounded up a jury and they headed up the canyon to view the deceased. He appeared to have been there for two or three years, as he was reduced to bones. According to the Coroner’s report, he had been about 23. The head and three vertebrae were still hanging from the noose. The rest of the body was about ten feet downhill. They found $4 in his coat pocket, a silver watch, a Colt Navy Revolver, and a memorandum book containing the following words: “My name is George W. Hanchett. I live in Beloit, Wisconsin.”
Two men testified to having known the deceased. On said he believed Mr. Hanchett had been in possession of about four thousand dollars but lost it. He speculated that he didn’t want “his folks” to know what happened to him, and so chose a remote place to hang himself. The inquest concluded that Hanchett’s death was a suicide.
The Denver News had a different opinion. In an article immediately below the aforementioned, an item reprinted from the Denver News said Hanchett had been “a freighter, a man of good character and well known by many of our citizens” The article said that Hanchett had last been seen two years ago. He had between $900 and $1100 in his possession and was intoxicated. He was seen with an unknown man and “there can be no doubt that this unknown man got Hanchett drunk, murdered and robbed him, and then hung him to a tree.”
Other than a June 1st report that his uncle had claimed the body, there were no more articles about the unfortunate Mr. Hanchett. I guess we are left to choose the News version or the Transcript version of his ending.
The Golden Transcript (originally called the Colorado Transcript) has been publishing since 1866. The Golden History Museum has been working on digitizing the historic issues. You’ll find old Transcripts online at coloradohistoricnewspapers.org. 8AM Coffee Connections9-11AM Accelerate Your Career – Interviewing for Succes
