Features

    Under the pen name Lukas Holmes, a local writer has penned and published his first book. A book that takes readers from late Victorian London to the vast firmament of space.
    “This World Or The Next” is the first in a series of four adventure novels about the “perilous journeys of Wilona Bumbridge.”
     “Victorian era kids in space. Ha, that would sell me,” Holmes said. “But no. More than that, it’s a story of children without hope, on Earth and the beyond. In our hearts we can relate to that, no matter our age.”

      “I have more fun with these guys completely sober than I’ve had with so many drunk people,” says T Shirts 4 Tomorrow bassist Joe Fox. “I think one of the other things that makes this so much better is we hang out so much outside the band. My girlfriend texts Brandon (T Shirts drummer Brandon Preece) more than she texts me. It’s really kind of disturbing.”
     Now as the band eagerly awaits the release of their three-track EP, “The Outside Looking In,” and a Jan. 7 EP release show at Moe’s Original BBQ in Denver, they sit down around a poker table in the basement of lead singer and Brighton High School graduate Ethan’s Gilbert’s parents’ home to chat on how their sound has changed and what’s ahead for the band.

    It is the season of giving, and angels from across the county are delivering.
    Big gift-givers in the community include the Harmony Angels Foundation and their volunteers.
    During this time of the year, members of the foundation begin to work on their Angel Tree project.

    Like a lot of 2-year olds, Wyatt Dudley just loves his puppy, Gus.
    Unlike most, Wyatt’s dog may mean the difference between life and death for the toddler.
    Wyatt, diagnosed with epilepsy shortly after his second birthday, is prone to life threatening Gran Mal seizures. Mom, Samantha Dudley, found out about Wyatt’s condition one afternoon when Wyatt suddenly collapsed near his father, Rod.

    BRIGHTON -  It wasn’t a normal birthday request.
    Even if Tracie Morris was pondering a way to commemorate the big 5-0, her birthday wish still wasn’t one that would be expected.
    But friends Ann Taddeo and Scarlett Morris (no relation) knew Tracie well enough to know that she wasn’t kidding.
    “My first thought was, ‘Absolutely. If that’s what Tracie wants, that’s what we’ll do,’” Taddeo said.

    Carly Nowak can rotate her tires, change her oil and is the only chick in her welding class at Prairie View High School.
    Her mom says she seems to have a 40-year-plan for her life already, and she’s only 17.
    Nowak was chosen as Brighton Noon Rotary Club’s students of the month in September. Why did they pick her? Probably because she’s ambitious, eloquent and going places.

    Tim and Claudia Ferrell are the owners of Berry Patch Farms, a USDA organic business they’ve owned and operated for more than a decade. The life of a farmer wasn’t one they had in mind, but it seems to have grown on them.
    Claudia met Tim in 1994. She was a physician living in Park Hill in Denver, and he was a former pastor working on a commercial farm. She was looking into small-scale farming and, as luck would have it, he had some land she could use.

    DENVER – Take a little bit of Shakespeare, some wonderful costumes from the mid-17th century, a little ribald language, some wonderful rhyming pentameter, speed it up to 2 hours and 20 minutes of elapsed time, and the result is the Denver Center Theatre Co.’s “The Liar,” on stage through Oct. 16 in the Space Theater.

Joshua Trinidad - maybe you’ve heard of him.