Today's News

DENVER — It’s easy to get lost at an event the size of the Mullen Runners Roost.

The Cougars did their best to stand out.

Come summer, when Marshdale Elementary School’s fifth-grade class graduates to another stage of life, they’ll be joined by three of the elementary school’s most-beloved teachers.

Between them, Joan Shilling, Susan Courtney and Sally Brant will bid a fond adieu to 77 years of book reports, Elmer’s glue and shiny gold stars, and say hello to some well-earned rest and recreation.

The Littleton City Council voted by a narrow margin to raise fees 20 percent, or $30 a year, for sewer treatment plant users outside the city and zero percent for ones inside the city limits.

The decision will affect homeowners in areas of unincorporated South Jeffco despite the fact that they have no representation on the Littleton council.

The council also voted to raise tap fees for builders inside the city from $2,500 to $5,000 and outside the city from $2,828 to $5,656, except for projects that have site plans approved by Oct. 15.

Jeffco teachers have called for a “timeout” on new programs for one school year in a resolution adopted April 4 by 155 members of the Representative Council of the Jefferson County Education Association.

“Teachers are overloaded with well-meaning but counterproductive district mandates that are getting in the way of our efforts to effectively plan and teach,” JCEA President Nancy Henderson says in a statement.

The resolution asks the school district to “focus its resources” on completing the curriculum alignment project.