North Denver News

By Basha Cohen What I didn’t expect when we hosted a Sloan’s Lake photo competition with The Denver North Star is that I would end up bawling my eyes out—literally for days. As a lifelong resident of Sloan’s Lake, I was deeply touched by the community’s love and outpouring of support for the waters through mind-bogglingly beautiful imagery and heartfelt sentiments about “Why I Love Sloan’s Lake.” Nothing could be a more fitting... Read more...

By Eric Heinz Tomas Jimenez, 41, was trying to calm people down after a party got out of control in Sunnyside, but when he went outside to check on a disturbance he was shot and eventually died. His sister, Shalimar, told The Denver North Star that she wants justice for her brother because he was trying to be a peacemaker, not someone who was involved in the out-of-control party. Tomas, left, and his sister Salimar Jimenez. Photo... Read more...

By Eric Heinz The tenants of the Little Sisters of the Poor’s Mullen Home in West Highland will have to leave by Oct. 31, after the organization announced it is closing the facility. Father Mark Cregan, a representative for Little Sisters, told The Denver North Star that the elderly living facility is closing because the convent doesn’t have enough staff nationwide and it has been closing facilities throughout the last decade.... Read more...

By Kathryn White The Denver Planning Board voted Sept. 7 to move a rezoning application for the majority of West Highland on to Denver City Council, which would allow nearly 4,000 additional properties to build an accessory dwelling unit. The application to allow the construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) now goes before the council’s Land Use and Transportation committee, and a City Council public hearing is tentatively... Read more...

By Ernest Gurulé In a surprise that caught even confidants off guard, Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen announced he is retiring. After 28 years, the last four as the department’s top cop, he’s calling it a day. Pazen, only the city’s second Latino to serve as Denver Chief of Police, announced his retirement Aug. 30. Pazen led the city through one of its bumpiest four-year periods in Denver history. Paul Pazen His tenure was marked... Read more...

By Talia Traskos-Hart DPS Superintendent Alex Marrero has launched a new strategic roadmap for the district, with the vision of “Every Learner Thrives” as its intended goal. This roadmap seeks to improve experiences for students, adults, and in the system as a whole. The district’s last strategic plan expired in 2020, leaving leaders largely without direction in a time of crisis with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Marrero... Read more...

By Rebecca Hunt By the early 1800s, Euro-American trappers and traders came to Colorado from the north and east. They were trapping beavers to feed a fashion for fancy beaver felt hats. Rebecca Hunt By the late 1820s, trappers had killed most of the beavers just as the beaver hat fad ended. Then some of the trappers turned to dealing in bison robes. They established posts along the South Platte where they traded with the tribes who... Read more...

By Eric Heinz Construction is set to begin in November on an apartment complex that will replace three buildings on the 4300 block of Tennyson Street. Demolition was recently completed on three single-family homes, which also hosted art project for some time before they were scraped. Three single-family homes that temporarily housed space for art have been demolished to make way for a 34-unit mixed-use building with ground-floor... Read more...

By Eric Heinz Altitude Brewing & Supplies in Sunnyside is Denver’s sole homebrewing supply shop. Steve Wigginton, the owner, said he and his wife had been living in Mexico eight years ago and he needed to find a job, so they returned to Denver where he purchased the business. Altitude was located at 28th and Walnut Street in RiNo before moving to its Sunnyside location in November. “It was just such a great move for us,”... Read more...

By Allen Cowgill The amount of bikeways being installed in North Denver is increasing since we last took a tally on this in 2020. Two years ago Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) had planned to install 11 bike lanes in North Denver. Since then the list has grown to 18, and eight of those bike lanes have already been installed in the last couple of years since our last report on the subject. The list... Read more...