Final year for Elati St. couple’s holiday display

Thank you Dick and Alice for your labor of love! We will miss your beautiful decorations. This is the final season Dick and Alice Kloewer will decorate their home at 4990 S. Elati St. for the holidays. The Kloewers and their children made the announcement at the Nov. 21 Englewood City Council meeting. Their oldest son Ken talked about how the decoration started modestly 29 years ago and grew larger each year until the display attracted local and even national attention. At the conclusion of his remarks, he presented a cake to the council with decorations including a photo of the Kloewers’ home decorated for the holidays. Dick and Alice...

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Englewood Library adds eBook readers, offers book download checkout system

Exciting news for the Englewood Library! (Autumn Murray, left, listens as Englewood Public Library director Dorothy Hargrove explains how to use the NOOK eBook reader. The library added 10 of the electronic readers, each loaded with 20 to 25 books. The devices can be checked out for up to three weeks at a time. Photo by Tom Munds) While thousands of paper and ink books are still available, the Englewood Public Library also has technology available to electronically download books and other items to computers or other devices plus customers can check out a small, pad-sized reader called a NOOK eBook reader that contains 20 or more novels....

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High winds have Colorado forest officials warning Christmas-tree cutters

If you or anyone you know plans to cut down a Christmas tree this year, please pass this on! The iconic holiday tradition of families trekking through the Colorado forests in search of the perfect Christmas tree this year comes with an extra safety warning: beware of falling trees. Winds upward of 100 mph toppled an uncalculated number of healthy, mature trees in the Arapaho and Roosevelt national forests and Rocky Mountain National Park on Monday, closing roads, damaging property and causing the U.S. Forest Service to warn that more could come down in windy weather. Forest managers will keep a close eye on the wind and the weather, and...

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Holiday Craft Fair at Englewood High School on Nov. 19

Do some of your holiday shopping this year at Englewood High School! Organizers expect as many as 80 vendors will have a wide variety of goods on sale at the Holiday Craft Fair being held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 19 at Englewood High School. The fair offers a chance to perhaps find a gift for that hard-to-buy-for person on the list plus the event will raise money to help purchase items or pay fees for EHS students who need a little assistance. There is no charge for admission to the event that will be set up in the high school commons area and cafeteria at Englewood High School, 3800 S. Logan St.. Lila Downing and Connie Wagner, both...

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Developers present two views of future for Denver Union Station

Which proposal do you like better? The teams bidding on the redevelopment of Denver Union Station unveiled their proposals for the historic building, with one envisioning a $48 million boutique hotel and the other a $21.1 million revamp that includes a market, restaurant, bar and office space. Both developers, who presented their plans to the Regional Transportation District and a crowd of more than 200 people Thursday evening at the Colorado Convention Center, say they would have their projects completed by the time the transit portion of the development opens in the spring of 2014. Both would use $17 million RTD has earmarked for the renovation,...

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