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Because you don’t want this to happen to you: This week’s Pikes Pub story talks about some of the best beer festivals of the summer months in our region. Here are some good tips to go along with your beer fest fun. Beer festival survival guide• Have a plan. Rare beers and those that aren’t [...]

Wanna see a brothel? Well, heck. Who doesn’t? It’s in Victor. Or was. The old Fortune Club has been transfor med into a diner and soda fountain. It’s among the highlights of a backroad trip to Cr ipple Creek and its casinos. In the 1890s, the lower level of the Fortune Club was a gentlemen’s [...]

In honor of a $30,000 grant from FedEx to the Coalition for the Upper South Platte (CUSP), a non-profit group helping with wildfire recovery here, FedEx workers and CUSP volunteers will be working together in the Waldo Canyon burn scar this Friday on flood mitigation projects. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday some [...]

  Paradox Brewing Co. of Woodland Park posted to their Facebook page a shot of their label for a special batch of pale ale for Wolfstock, a Memorial Day fundraiser for the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center. Like all their beers, it was aged in oak casks, in this case wine barrels. It’s only 6 [...]

Incoming Tiger freshman Gustav Olofsson was named to the United States Hockey League’s all-rookie team for this past season. Here is the writeup for the Broomfield resident, who is projected as a second or third-round NHL draft pick on June 30. Gustav Olofsson (D), Green Bay Gamblers A native of Sweden, the defenseman played all [...]