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After a disappointing turnout last year, the Conifer Area Chamber of Commerce’s Conifer Mountain Music Festival committee has decided to drop ticket prices for the third annual festival — but won’t skimp on the entertainment value.

“The event was well-received (last year),” said Randy Fowler, a member of the committee. “But the attendance was down. This year we wanted to reach to and try to bring the event to the community in a cost-effective way but still put on a quality show.”

Is the dog in your house telling you he’s ready to go on a three-hour hike in the mountains, but you don’t have the time or an outdoorsy nature?

Before he chews up the couch and coffee table, you could send him to Dog Care Providers of Kittredge, a small business devoted to exercising the tar out of your rambunctious canine.

One of the two owners is an experienced dog groomer and trainer who can pamper your pet and teach him some manners, too.

Another 24 acres have been targeted for inclusion in Jefferson County’s substantial open space holdings in the area around Colorow Road and the Lookout Mountain Nature Center and Preserve, which has 110 acres.

At a regular meeting of the Jeffco Open Space Advisory Committee on April 2, board members voted 8-0 to recommend that the county commissioners approve purchasing the McLeod property for $485,000.

The Open Space Advisory Commission is a volunteer board that makes recommendations, but the county commissioners make the final decision.

Consideration of a 19-home addition to the Homestead subdivision by the Jefferson County commissioners has been postponed until April 14.

The hearing was originally scheduled for March 31, but the developer has requested more time to work out an agreement to pave more road than zoning regulations require.

The proposal, submitted by Norm Lewis of Buffalo Park Development Co., seeks to subdivide 48 acres off U.S. 285 and South Homesteader Drive into lots for single-family houses.