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WEEK OF JANUARY 19, 2023
The mountain area’s newspaper since 1958
VOLUME 64 ISSUE 11
NOW SERVING EVERGREEN, CONIFER, BAILEY AND PINE
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Inter-Canyon looking at two sites for communications equipment
Our in-depth look at the housing crisis
Controversial Hilldale Pines site less likely BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Trickling up: How housing is becoming less affordable for more Coloradans BY TAYLER SHAW AND LUKE ZARZECKI COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
A home means everything to Shelley Gilson, a 50-year-old single mother of three girls who works as a guest service agent at an airline. “It’s one word: priceless,” she
said. The rising cost of housing in the Denver area has made it difficult for her to afford a home. She spent years bounding around working for low pay, including to several affordable housing communities across the state.
Eventually, more than a decade ago, she found a home at Orchard Crossing Apartments in Westminster. It is an affordable housing community that includes Section 8 housing, the federal government program that provides vouchers to low-income families, the disabled and elderly. SEE TRICKLING UP, P10
Two existing towers are the InterCanyon Fire Protection District’s top choices for adding equipment to improve communication among first responders. These two alternatives mean the proposal to erect an 80-foot tower at Station 5 in Hilldale Pines is now the third alternative, Fire Chief Skip Shirlaw said at the Jan. 11 fire board meeting. Several audience members sighed in relief when they heard that news. They are neighbors of Station 5 who spent nearly six hours at Jefferson County Planning Commission meetings last year explaining that the tower would be detrimental to their lives in many ways. However, the fire board still needs to vote on where the communication equipment will be placed. Board members asked for details on the locations and costs at their Feb. 8 SEE TOWER, P9
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Swearing in Sheriff’s Calls
2 News briefs 19 Sports
4 Ice Melt Barrel 20 Dry January
6 Opinion 23 Happenings
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