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WOODLAND PARK ‘Small home’ project draws neighbors’ ire Woodland Park residents are protesting developers’ plan to profit off the tiny-house trend by building a community of slightly larger homes, saying the proposal should have never passed muster with city officials.    Sally Riley, planning director for the Teller County community, ignored those residents’ concerns and…

STATEWIDE Study finds more edible pot use among Colorado teens Some teenagers in Colorado, where marijuana is legal for adults, are shifting away from smoking in favor of edible cannabis products, a new study shows. About 78% of the Colorado high school students who reported consuming marijuana in 2017 said they usually smoked it, down…

STATEWIDE Water content of Colorado’s snowpack raises flood concerns Forecasters are anywhere from concerned to alarmed about the potential for flooding in Colorado’s high country as the water content of the state’s snowpack reaches very high levels, from 324% of normal in the South Platte drainage basin above Denver to 728% of normal in the…

FLORENCE Federal inmate with longest solitary confinement dies An inmate at the “Supermax” prison who had been held in solitary confinement longer than any other federal prisoner has died at the age of 67. Thomas Silverstein, who was held in solitary confinement for 35 years, was admitted to a suburban Denver hospital in February to…

BRECKENRIDGE Giant wooden troll has a new home A huge wooden troll has found a new home: Behind an ice arena in the south end of Breckenridge. The troll’s creator, Danish artist Thomas Dambo, visited the location recently to affix a heart-shaped stone to the troll’s wooden body. It was originally assembled beside a trail…