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New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit dining, personal gatherings Too much defense, tooindoor many Opting for

turnovers end Warriors’ season

balance in Commerce City wards

BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

DENVER – Eagle Ridge Academy’s boys basketball team ran into a buzzsaw in the semifinals of the state 4A boys basketball tournament March 9. Holy Family used pressure defense, which forced turnovers and caused the Warriors to get out of rhythm early in the contest at the Denver Coliseum. The Tigers, the No. 17 seed in the tournament, won the game 65-41 and moved to the finals against No. 2 seed Resurrection Christian Saturday, March 9. Eric Quintana led the Tigers with 16 points. Jaxon Grable tossed in 15, Rocco Bridges had 13, and Gabe Tafoya chipped in with 11. Peyton Torres led the Warriors with 11 points. James “Kyren” Allen scored nine, and Cameron Seifert contributed eight. ERA committed 15 turnovers in the first half. Though the number came down in the second half, the Tigers were well in command by that point. “We just had too many turnovers,” Allen said. “We didn’t have enough Eagle Ridge’s James “Kyren” Allen finds teammate Christian Seifert during the class 4A SEE DEFENSE, P12

Council approves new Ward map for municipal election, second reading April 6 BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

state semifinal basketball game at the Denver Coliseum March 9. Holy Family’s defender PHOTO BY STEVE SMITH is Grayden Harkness.

Batteries a big win for Brighton Lithium-ion cell manufacturer plans 775,000 square-foot facility

companyrapid and Colorado Governor A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s testing site at Jared Polis March 6. The company’s Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent say the new plant should begin opweeks due to high demand. Adams County’s test positivity rate eration14-day in 2025. “We need more batteries to power was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health Department. the future, now wehigher will be than manBrighton and Commerce City’s test positivity ratesand were both ufacturing more of them right here 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton 29 in Commerce City to have BY SCOTT TAYLOR inand Colorado. We are excited weldied from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread of COVID-19, STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM come Amprius to Colorado, bringing over 300 new jobs,and and at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions thatgood-paying prohibits indoor A national manufacturer of the joining Colorado’s innovative and personal gatherings. lithium-ion batteries used to power collaborative business community,” electric vehicles and wearable batPolis said in a written statement. tery packs will locate its gigawattAmprius, based in Fremont, Caliscale manufacturing plant in Brighfornia, began making Photo by silicon Belenanodes Ward ton, at 18875 E. Bromley Lane. for high-density lithium-ion batThe plans for the 775,000-squareteries in 2008. The company holds foot facility were announced by the more than 75 patents for the batter-

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ies, their parts and the manufacturColorado Community Media ing process. Those batteries are used for elecDenver metro counties continue to tricAs cars, trucks and electric drones, inch closer to local stay-at-home high-altitude gliders used fororders mapping “pseudo-satellites” and undercalled Colorado’s system of coronaviruselectric air transportation vehicles. related restrictions, the state announced Customers included the U.S. Army, a new level rulesSystems. that prohibits indoor Airbus andofBAE dining and personal gatherings —a The plant will replace the Sears/ change that applies to the majority the KMart Distribution facility just of north of the Adams County building. Th Denver metro area and many countiesat in facility closed in 2021. It’s just west other regions. of U.S. 76 Brighton exit. Theestate’s COVID-19 dial, which “Th selection of Colorado for has our been in effect since September, is the set gigawatt factory marks an important of different levels of restrictions that each SEE BATTERIES, P2

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Commerce City councilors had a choice to make about the future of their wards and voting districts: should the redrawn wards balance the city’s population as evenly as possible or should they try to follow metro district boundaries within the city? Councilors opted to balance the population as evenly as possible, even though it splits one metro district down the middle between the new wards 3 and 4, using the Second Creek Open Space as a boundary. “I actually think east of Second Creek is the flow line,” Councilor Susan Noble said. The council is scheduled to vote on the new ward district configuration again at their April 3 meeting. City Clerk Dylan Gibson said is that once to it’sfollow approved, it’llthe be county required based on used of fora the city’slocal municipal elecseverity county’s virus spread. tion this November. The dial grew out of the community state’s safer-at“We’ll work with home order — policyeducation that came after relations onthe public and thesocial statewide stay-at-home this media and workorder to identify those affected between theof spring and allowed numerous types wards we have now and the wards businesses to reopen. councilors will adopt tonight so The state recentlytheir switched to have color they are aware wards identifiers — levels blue, yellow and changed before the November orange than numbered levels — to 2023rather election,” Gibson said. avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red Roughly equal meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level Councilors last reviewed the redwork — “severe risk” — the secondat their Feb. 6ismeeting, with Gibson explaining that Commerce Please see RESTRICTIONS, Page 2 SEE BALANCE, P3