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1997 Stories by Eric Dexheimer

• Karma Crash

  published December 18, 1997

  Betty Gibbs carefully aims her Isuzu Trooper down a steep dirt road carved out of the side of Fourmile Canyon. It is snowing, and the narrow path... More >>

• The Bust Was a Bust

  published December 11, 1997

  Last March a 35-million-year-old stingray fossil found in Wyoming became a television star and a symbol of all that is wrong with private fossil... More >>

• Staking Their Claim

  published December 11, 1997

  On a recent afternoon, eleven members of the Territorial Daughters of Colorado convene their final monthly meeting before the winter holiday... More >>

• The Love Bug

  published December 4, 1997

  It seems like an all-too-familiar tale of the electronic age: A woman goes online, stops by an Internet chat room and falls for a guy thousands of... More >>

• Dry Society

  published November 20, 1997

  At precisely 10:15 p.m., 75 fashionably late minutes from the start of her annual Halloween party, Dottie Grisby parts the orange and black... More >>

• Radio Free Paonia

  published November 6, 1997

  The beginnings of WCCR/88.3 FM ("grassroots radio at the bottom of your FM dial") probably can be traced back to Angel Babudro's childhood... More >>

• Field of Schemes

  published October 30, 1997

  Associated Press, September 27, 1997: A dime-sized finished diamond that tips the scales at more than 16 carats, found in a Colorado mine, may be... More >>

• Reservoir Digs

  published October 30, 1997

  To anyone who commutes along Sixth Avenue, the reservoir in front of the Oak Express furniture store is a familiar landmark. Several years ago... More >>

• The Males Get Delivered

  published October 16, 1997

  About five years ago, a couple of male postal clerks at the downtown post office at 20th and Curtis streets started coming up with nicknames for... More >>

• Captive Audience

  published October 16, 1997

  There aren't many patients rich or important enough for a hospital to consider building a brand-new wing just for them. But Denver Health Medical... More >>

• Fill'er Up

  published October 2, 1997

  For several years, Rudy Reveles, a young attorney with the state's public defenders' office, represented the indigent and the criminally accused... More >>

• Spaced Out

  published September 11, 1997

  In the mid-Eighties, investors from around the country began pouring money into a proposed real estate development just outside the town of... More >>

• Aurora's Stupidest Home Video

  published August 28, 1997

  Early on a Monday morning just before Thanksgiving break last year, somebody stepped onto the campus of the Community College of Aurora with a... More >>

• The Buzz Stops Here

  published August 21, 1997

  On June 29 the state commissioner of agriculture, Thomas Kourlis, traveled to Salida to address the Colorado Beekeepers Association. The... More >>

• In a Pickle

  published August 7, 1997

  At first glance, or even second, it would seem that Vickie Corder doesn't have a good feel for bingo. The thirty-year-old Arvada resident recently... More >>

• Grave Reservations

  published July 24, 1997

  On his deathbed in 1880, the great Ute chief Ouray instructed a protege named Buckskin Charlie to stay with the Utes and help lead the tribe... More >>

• Curses on Both Houses

  published July 10, 1997

  Nine months ago, Paul Cooper, a Denver attorney, wrote a letter to another local attorney, Jay Horowitz. The two lawyers represent different... More >>

• A Booming Field

  published July 3, 1997

  At first Ken Kosanke's research was underappreciated. "We were making these colored balls of fire, and so to see what they looked like,... More >>

• Skeletons in Their Closet

  published June 19, 1997

  "I call it the gargoyle," says Scott Stone, owner and sole proprietor of the Stone Fossil Co. of Frontier, Wyoming. "It's one of the most... More >>

• Company Loves Misery

  published May 29, 1997

  At the small Colorado Springs offices of Bereavement: A Magazine of Hope and Healing, the excitement started last year, when a writer for the... More >>

• Special Handling

  published May 29, 1997

  At age 37 but looking younger, Michael Garcia, a former schoolboy baseball and football player, keeps in shape by working out four days a week.... More >>

• An Unholy Union

  published May 15, 1997

  In February 1994, the United Food and Commercial Workers union, Local 7, got a second chance. The previous spring the state's largest labor... More >>

• The Poor Get Poorer

  published May 1, 1997

  Life has just gotten even more difficult for local residents who need non-emergency medical care and who have the bad fortune to be... More >>

• Wheels of Fortune

  published April 24, 1997

  Daytime-television viewers know Frank Azar as the fighting attorney who can retrieve the insurance settlement an automobile-accident victim... More >>

• Waiting for Goodman

  published April 24, 1997

  Stephen Goodman is a hapless victim of the U.S. Postal Service's Neanderthal personnel policies, another cog worn down and abused by an agency... More >>