The Phidippus Audax, aka Bold Jumping Spider, is know for its audacious jumps. In fact, these vaulters can jump up to 50 times their own body length. They live all over Park Hill and are easily recognized by their green or blue iridescent fangs. Their large, forward-facing eyes provide them with very good stereoscopic vision, […]
Local Businesses Hit Hard By Coronavirus By Cara DeGette Editor, GPHN There was just one thing certain in a month of uncertainties: as Colorado announced strict emergency regulations designed to halt the spread of the coronavirus, local businesses suddenly – in many cases literally overnight – found themselves in a world of hurt. In mid-March, […]
How The Coronavirus Is Impacting Colorado’s High-Profile Senate Race By Penfield Tate III For the GPHN Coronavirus. It has changed our world and our country in a way most of us have never seen before. As of press time, nearly 500,000 people had been infected around the world. The only certainty is that the numbers […]
Story and photos by Reid Neureiter For the GPHN On Saturday, March 14, a group of elite and amateur cyclists took advantage of the moderate late winter weather to get in a 40-mile training ride on the plains just south of Denver International Airport, past the hamlet of Watkins. The FDR or “Frustrated Dads’ Ride” […]
Column and photo by Cara DeGette Editor, GPHN Overnight, the world has changed. Not surprisingly, Park Hillians have largely responded to life in the times of a novel coronavirus with immediacy, resilience, and at times, remarkably good cheer. Messages of encouragement and support have taken over the Park Hill Neighborhood Facebook page and other local […]
Hoatzin birds are also called skunk birds and stinkbirds, due to their foul odor, which is caused by the fermentation of food in their digestive systems. They also belch and bark in gutteral tones, and generally don’t act like other birds. Scientists have been trying to trace the origin of Hoatzins for years; the current […]
It’s Spring. There is Plenty To Do. The world as most of us know it has radically changed, practically overnight. Most of us are at home in self-isolation, doing our part to flatten the curve and stem the spread of the coronavirus. Many of us have also already gotten pink slips, with future paychecks unknown. […]
Still So Much To Do The year 1970 was notable in many ways. The Concorde made its first supersonic flight. The Beatles broke up. A cyclone in Bangladesh killed 500,000 people. And, we celebrated our first Earth Day. The annual April 22 event was started by Gaylord Nelson, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin, in collaboration […]
Hikers in Roxborough State Park in Douglas County southwest of Denver on March 21, the day after a new snowfall. Photo by Reid Neureiter
How Local Business Owners Are Coping During Uncertainty Compiled by Cara DeGette Editor, GPHN We reached out to local business owners to see what they are doing and how they are coping, during these times of coronavirus. The following are responses we got from several of them as of press time. If you are a […]