5 Years Ago
By November of 2019, the Buffalo Rose had reopened. They started hosting Swing Night Supper Club once a month, with big band music.
Lookout Mountain Nature Center was hosting a monthly “Coffee with a Ranger” session.
Golden High School performed Into the Woods. Mines Little Theater presented the comedy The Norse Mythology Ragnasplosion Miners Alley Playhouse reimagined A Christmas Carol.
Downtown got a new restaurant–Bella Colibri.
The City demolished the house on the DeLong Property and held a planning meeting to see what kind of park the public wanted.
The Historic Preservation Board was approached with a plan to replace the one story insurance office at 21st and Ford with a two story office building and five townhouses.
Stephanie Gilmore hosted a Train Talk about the Collections and Archives at the Railroad Museum.
There was a City Council election, and the winners were Laura Weinberg, JJ Trout, and Casey Brown.
City Council discussed the future of the newly-purchased Coors office building. Staff reported that to make the building habitable would cost $6 to 6.5 million. Remodeling it to include the Police Department, City Council Chambers, and the History Museum would cost over $40 million. Turning it into affordable housing would cost $30 million.
The School of Mines held a community meeting to share their new Master Plan.
Seniors protested budget cuts to the Front Porch.
Golden library hosted “Craft-a-Palooza” during the Thanksgiving break.
The City held an open house to discuss how to accommodate parking and traffic from the Eddy and the new apartments on 8th Street.
Meyer Hardware celebrated Small Business Saturday by offering a one day only coupon for 20% off anything in the store.
