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Locals among riot cases pardoned by Trump Government reverses course on prosecutions for Jan. 6 insurrection BY ELLIS ARNOLD AND JANE REUTER EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
An artisan design on a product of Rebel Bread, which has been using Colorado-grown grains since at least last year.
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Bakeries, breweries, Broncos: Denver is getting creative with local grains Colorado-grown, milled flours come to forefront of food scene BY MERYL PHAIR SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
Devin Jamroz knows there is something special about the white wheat variety known as India Jammu that is grown in Colorado. The CEO of the company Dry Storage in Boulder said the grain made its way to the front range after being pulled from a seed vault in 2020 and passed into the hands of local baker Andy Clark at Moxie Bread Co. in Louisville. Clark milled some but got so excited over the bread it produced that he handed it off to the MASA Seed Foundation in
Boulder where it wound up with several local farmers and eventually to Dry Storage as they were putting together their inventory of local grains. “We launched it (Indian Jammu) a month ago and we’re getting it into more chefs and baker’s hands to play with,” Jamoz said. “It could potentially change the game and change the narrative around the usability of single-varietal, stone-milled flours because it is just so easy to use.” While Colorado is known to grow highprotein winter wheat due to the temperature fluctuation and a relatively short growing season, Jamroz said more than 80% of the wheat grown in the state is shipped elsewhere. Local grains can be expensive compared to commodity flour and more challenging to work with due to their
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Within hours after his second inauguration, President Donald Trump moved to pardon or drop the cases of people charged in relation to the riot at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and Jefferson County and Douglas County men are among them. Patrick Montgomery, 52, of the Roxborough area, had been sentenced to prison after he pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement during the breach of the Capitol, a news release from the federal Department of Justice said. A Kittredge man, Jeffrey Sabol, had been sentenced to prison on three felonies for offenses tied to the Capitol breach. Matthew Melsen had been arrested for allegedly assaulting law enforcement and other charges amid the breach of the Capitol, a news release from the federal Department of Justice said. Melsen is described as a Wheat Ridge resident in the release. The riot disrupted a joint session of Congress that convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Trump’s action, dated Jan. 20 this year, marked a broad reversal in the government’s approach to the Capitol riot. In all, Trump pardoned, commuted the prison sentences of or vowed to dismiss the cases of a vast number of people charged with crimes in the Capitol riot, including people convicted of assaulting police officers, the Associated Press reported. In the years since the incident, more than 1,500 people had been charged in nearly all 50 states related to the breach of the Capitol, an October 2024 Justice Department news release said. Here’s a look at the cases with local ties.
unique characteristics, but the appeal of local sourcing along with heightened nutrition and taste has been bringing regional flour back to Denver’s food scene. Launched with a mission of bringing local grains back into the supply chain, James Beard Award-nominated chef Kelly Whitaker and Id Est Hospitality founded Dry Storage in 2019 to create a product they were struggling to find in the local market. Following a successful trial with six local farms in the San Luis Valley, Dry Storage has partnered with local farms using regenerative and organic practices, milling their wheat and distributing the four to a growing number of regional partners, along with operating a cafe, grain mill and bakery based in Boulder.
According to court documents, on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, Montgomery and two others met at the Yours Truly
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Douglas County man
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