WEEK OF AUGUST 3, 2023
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nance Facility or TMF — should be relocated to the track property south of the former middle school. The two — both Clear Creek High School graduates — say wholeheartedly that moving the TMF there is good for the district because it’s
Clear Creek County got to hold the first edition of this newspaper in their hands. “The CLEAR CREEK COURANT is presented for public patronage in the belief that there is a popular demand for a live[ly], FROM THE energetic weekly paper, one which EDITOR-INshall represent and CHIEF advance the material, moral and social interests of our town and county,” stated the Publishers’ Announcement on Page 1. Neither newspapers nor people used that kind of Michael De Yoanna old-timey language in the 1970s. Rather, it was just the publishers showing a bit of their humor, along with a tip of the hat, to the Georgetown Courier,
SEE BUS BARN, P4
SEE OLDS, P10
Paul Steele, the Clear Creek School District’s mechanic, works on a bus in the district’s current bus barn. The district wants to move PHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST the bus barn, now called the Transportation and Maintenance Facility, to the track below Building 103.
CCSD bus barn plan still causing concern BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories looking at the Clear Creek School District’s proposed Transportation and Maintenance Facility. This story looks at the timeline for the building’s cost.
For Brooke Buckley and Paul Steele, transporting Clear Creek County’s children to and from school is personal. Buckley, the director of transportation for the Clear Creek School District, and Steele, the mechanic, believe that the bus barn — known as the Transportation and Mainte-
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