By Celeste Benzschawel What started out as a small group of friends meeting for coffee to chat about neighborhood history soon turned into a nonprofit capable of saving historic buildings from demolition. That group, officially […]
The Denver North Star staff The Skyline Festival is a free annual community event held in Zuni Park for the people of Chaffee Park and their neighbors. According to organizers, the day-long festival features live […]
By Ernest Gurulé There may never be a spring like the one experienced in 2020. Denver and the country got a real-time education on how a pandemic begins. Every news report, every newspaper headline, was […]
By Eric Heinz Before a corner unit of the Holiday Theater is leased, it will continue to house an exhibit showcasing Northside Denver artists. The exhibition, titled “Northside Pride,” was installed in April and is […]
By Charmaine Lindsay, DPS District 5 board member Recently, I had the honor of being chosen to represent District 5 as a Board of Education member for Denver Public Schools. To be chosen over the […]
By Eric Heinz John Parvensky started at Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) way back in 1984. In that time, he’s seen the changes afflicting the unhoused community and how that population has exploded. Parvensky, […]
By Rebecca Hunt Hello there, I am Rebecca Hunt, a resident of Highlands since 1993. A native of Casper, Wyoming, my family and I arrived in Denver in 1985 after a number of years working […]
By Eric Heinz Denver North High School principal Scott Wolf is passing the torch—or perhaps the Viking bugel—to Germán Echevarria. Echevarria was assistant principal at North for four years before spending the last three as […]
By Ernest Gurulé It will soon be two months since Denver City Council voted to ban the carrying of concealed weapons in the city’s parks. While there may be residual anger from gun rights advocates, […]
By Kathryn White “Well,” Helen Yeager said, “I think it was Thomas Merton who wrote, ‘You were not created for pleasure, you were created for joy.’” From there, the centenarian reaches back to the earliest […]
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