Weekly Register-Call/ Gilpin County News

January 14, 1938 – January 24, 2009

Sue Ann Miller was born on January 14, 1938 in Denver, CO, she died January 24, 2009.  She is survived by …read the rest of this story »

Community tells School Board

Straight from the students’ mouths, Gilpin School’s problem with low student achievement is caused, at least in part, by “student apathy.” Five Gilpin students, including three Student Council members, attended the community meeting held with Board of Education members, administrators, teachers and parents on Monday evening, January 26^th. The school scored only 55 on the new …read the rest of this story »

Bags still free

Gilpin County Commissioners Forrest Whitman, Jeanne Nicholson and Buddy Schmalz resumed their regular weekly meetings on January 27^th, following a one week break due to the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. They began with a thank-you to former Commissioner Ron Slinger, now Mayor of Central City, that included a gift of glass wine goblets etched with the names of …read the rest of this story »

CBI investigating scene

Creekside Bed & Breakfast in Black Hawk went up in flames last Sunday afternoon. The cause of the fire is unknown and being investigated by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for …read the rest of this story »

Rocky Mountain Raptor Program

When a tornado ripped through Windsor, Colorado on May 22^nd of last year, eighty peoples’ homes were leveled. With downed trees and scattered rubble everywhere, some of the area’s wildlife also found themselves homeless. A local farmer was cleaning out a drainage ditch filled with debris when he discovered a shredded nest and young Red-tailed Hawk. Surviving the storm, his mother and siblings were …read the rest of this story »

Worst year ever

Black Hawk and Central City casinos’ revenue for 2008 was the worst since gambling came to the County in 1991. A slumping final quarter continued the year-long downward trend. Colorado Division of Gaming figures, released last week, show combined casino revenue for December of …read the rest of this story »

How the district spends

It’s almost budget time again at Gilpin School. Superintendent Ken Ladouceur will shortly begin preparing the budget for the 2009-2010 school year. In mid-spring that budget will be presented to the Board of Education, then to the District Accountability Committee. Practice has been for the Board to then approve the budget in June with the only public hearing on the budget during the …read the rest of this story »

Seeing how it feels to mush!

In 1925 diphtheria had just claimed the lives of two Inuit children in Nome, Alaska. Dr. Curtis Welch feared an epidemic as even a strain of Spanish influenza had wiped out entire native villages throughout the state in 1918 and 1919. Nome had already lost half of its Native peoples during that outbreak. With the nearest antitoxin 900 miles away in Anchorage, the doctor surmised …read the rest of this story »

Council business

January 20, 2009– The City of Central held its regular City Council meeting Tuesday. Mayor Pro Tem Bob Spain called the meeting to order in the absence of Mayor Ron Slinger. Council members …read the rest of this story »

City Council business

Black Hawk Mayor David Spellman called the first City Council meeting of 2009 to order at 3:00 p.m. on January 14^th. Aldermen Paul Bennett, Diane Cales, Kathy Doles, Greg Moates and Tom Kerr were …read the rest of this story »