“It’s a good time of year to go outside. Sit in your yard, listen. You’ll start to learn their songs and calls,” says Megan Miller, master birder and volunteer with Denver Field Ornithologists. She’s happy […]
2 in 5 Coloradans 60 and older provide day-to-day support to a loved one. They spend an average of 9-12 hours per week in duties ranging from transportation and meals to personal hygiene or help […]
A narrow commercial kitchen efficiently lined with tables and shelves opens into a fork in the road. To its left, three more small kitchens feed into an open area containing a row of cooking surfaces. […]
The Denver North Star recently visited with a handful of writers who call North Denver home. We set out to explore how the neighborhood influences them and their writing. If it’s true that artists reflect […]
Denver City Council’s public comment session opened March 1 with a mother sharing about her high schooler’s addiction to e-cigarettes. The teen vaped for the first time with friends at school in September 2017. By […]
Clorinda Trujillo visited the beauty shop to have her hair set on days of the dances at VFW Post 501. Later, she’d don one of her special dresses, slip into a pair of dancing shoes, […]
Denver’s Northside welcomed new neighbors recently: two vibrantly painted public refrigerators. You can meet them filled most days with an assortment of fruits, vegetables, maybe a gallon of milk. The fridges, organized by Denver Community […]
As lawmakers in the state legislature begin their work for 2021, Colorado Senior Lobby President Robert Brocker has a reminder for them: the contributions and value of older Coloradans is significant. $20.1 billion dollars annually […]
As local hospitals found themselves consumed in responding to COVID-19 last spring, elective surgeries were suspended, and administrators scrambled to adapt budgets to their new day-to-day reality. The ripple-out effect was felt in North Denver […]
A series that started with traditional senior housing at Gardens at St. Elizabeth, then home sharing, and went on to explore cohousing and ADU’s, concludes here with a look at two more living arrangements North […]
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