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OAKES: Regis Jesuit to honor Missy Franklin at Aug. 27 assembly Courtney Oakes

OAKES: Regis Jesuit to honor Missy Franklin at Aug. 27 assembly

Missy Franklin has been honored in a lot of places since her incredible performance at the Summer Olympics. The swimming phenom's Aurora high school, Regis Jesuit, will do so officially with an assembly at the school on Aug. 27.

OAKES: Grandview ranked No. 4 in Class 5A in the Denver Post preseason poll Courtney Oakes

OAKES: Grandview ranked No. 4 in Class 5A in the Denver Post preseason poll

Grandview is the only one Aurora team ranked in the top 10 in the initial Class 5A football poll of the 2012 season. Coming off …

Colorado Food Blog: When John met Julia he laughed at her Colorado Table

Colorado Food Blog: When John met Julia he laughed at her

  (Julia Child would have celebrated her 100th birthday this week. The fallowing appeared in a Nibbles column originally published in Yellow Scene magazine in 2009) It was …

PERRY: Duck, Aurora. City un-fires police officer Chris Falco Columnists

PERRY: Duck, Aurora. City un-fires police officer Chris Falco

So if you get the boot as a cop in Aurora, you have serious problems. Clearly, Falco has serious problems.

OAKES: Curtis Cotton Jr. Memorial Tournament starts strong Courtney Oakes

OAKES: Curtis Cotton Jr. Memorial Tournament starts strong

Curtis Cotton Jr. filled up the baskets at Rangeview High School for four years. Eight youth teams and eight high school/young adult teams took their …

OAKES: Local water polo team sees big surge from Olympic spotlight Courtney Oakes

OAKES: Local water polo team sees big surge from Olympic spotlight

Water polo at the Summer Olympics is having a ripple effect, all the way to Aurora. The popularity of many sports surges in conjunction with …

Aaron Cole

COLE: Dear Obama and Romney, I’m not listening anymore

Dear Presidential Candidates, As an officially unaffiliated voter in Arapahoe County, Colo. with a household income that’s slightly on the wrong side of average for …

Courtney Oakes

OAKES: Rangeview’s 24 Hours of Tennis to help shooting victims

Rangeview High School students and others will take to the courts for 24 Hour of Tennis to raise money for victims of the July 20 …

This coconut cream pie would balance well with a wheat beer or an IPA. (AP photo) Blogs

Colorado Food Blog: Pie-A-Palooza celebrates state’s beer & pie fame

Beer and pie. Both include some of the same basic ingredients, many homebrewers are also pie lovers, and Colorado has played a significant role in …

PERRY: Obama and Romney both lie like sunken turds in a pool Dave Perry

PERRY: Obama and Romney both lie like sunken turds in a pool

But the anti-Romney claim is just as stupid a lie because everyone knows that the insurance companies that Obama got into bed with in creating Obamacare are the ones that would never allow some ranting Republican to roll back their trillion-dollar industry and profits to a time when people paid for health-care with chickens and cash.