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2000 Stories by Julie Jargon

• Cutting Class

  published December 14, 2000

  All teachers dream of having smaller classes so that they can give more attention to their students, and in Denver, at least, average class sizes... More >>

• Wild Goose Chase

  published December 7, 2000

  Friday, May 5, started out cloudless and hot. By 8:30 a.m., Ron Ruhr's girlfriend had left for work and her ten-year-old daughter had gone to... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published December 7, 2000

  The hair-netted men and women who prepare and serve lunch every day in school cafeterias across Denver are fed up. They have been for years. Until... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published November 16, 2000

  Denver District Juvenile Court Judge Dana Wakefield surprised everyone and baffled some last week when he ruled on the 21-month-old Ponciano... More >>

• Telling Tales Out of School

  published October 19, 2000

  Penelope Jones was born with spastic cerebral palsy and is unable to control the right side of her body; she is also deaf in one ear and mentally... More >>

• Graded on a Curve

  published September 21, 2000

  The small neighborhood where David Rapier lives used to be a quiet place. The ranch homes in this agricultural area west of Old Wadsworth... More >>

• Baby Formula

  published September 7, 2000

  Ponciano Lazaro-Avina is a shy 26-year-old with a soft smile and an even softer voice. He works six days a week mowing grass, trimming hedges and... More >>

• P.S. I Hate You

  published August 10, 2000

  Mendel and Mindle Glouberman were born and raised in the tiny Polish town of Stolin. There was never any question that after they married they... More >>

• Language Barrier

  published August 10, 2000

  Anyone who knows Rita Montero and Joseph C'de Baca knows they're persistent. Some might describe them in less diplomatic terms: arrogant,... More >>

• An Expensive Education

  published July 6, 2000

  A week after the University of Northern Colorado Laboratory School let out, Kristen Anderson's mind was on the summer activities that would keep... More >>

• Welcome Home

  published June 8, 2000

  Five months after Jay Schlaks was sentenced to prison for conning more than 200 people out of $3.2 million in a land-investment scam, his wife and... More >>

• Reading, Writing and Recall

  published June 8, 2000

  In the weeks following the January 27 decision by the Boulder Valley Board of Education to consolidate five elementary schools, it was hard to... More >>

• Pay at the Pump

  published June 1, 2000

  Marilyn Forrest managed the Bradley Petroleum filling station at 8875 Washington Street in Thornton for almost three years. She only made $6.50 an... More >>

• One More Time Around

  published May 18, 2000

  The driver of a black Ford Bronco heads west toward a traffic circle on 15th and Pine Streets in Boulder. Visibly confused, he fails to slow down... More >>

• The First Step

  published May 4, 2000

  Tuesday, September 7, 1999. It's the beginning of a new school year, and it's going to be a big one for P.S.1, Denver's oldest charter... More >>

• Insurrection Rejection

  published April 20, 2000

  When five slow-growth advocates decided to take on town hall in Erie's April 4 election, they had grand plans for establishing a new order in this... More >>

• Honor Rolled

  published April 6, 2000

  On December 13, 1999, Scott LeRoy's seven-year-olddaughter came home from Majestic Heights Elementary with a letter explaining that her school... More >>

• Class Wars

  published April 6, 2000

  Parents in northeast Denver have had enough. They're sick of learning every year that their schools are failing, they're tired of hearing that... More >>

• City Parked

  published March 16, 2000

  One frigid night in December, hundreds of people stood shivering in what seemed to be an endless line outside the Denver Zoo. The people driving... More >>

• A Royal Pain

  published March 16, 2000

  The strange fate of one of Colorado's most treasured historic inns is uncertain once again. The Redstone Castle, a century-old bed-and-breakfast... More >>

• Pest of the West

  published March 9, 2000

  People either love them or hate them. And according to the lovers, the haters have spent the last year and a half getting rid of as many Colorado... More >>

• Breaking Away

  published February 17, 2000

  On nights when the Idalia Wolves challenge the Liberty Knights in basketball, farmers and ranchers get in their pickups and head to town. They... More >>

• The Erie Insurgency

  published February 17, 2000

  The tiny of town of Erie rests at the end of a long stretch of farmland west of I-25. Signs of expansion in this old coal-mining town are... More >>

• Organized Chaos

  published February 10, 2000

  Nurses at two of Denver's biggest hospitals, Saint Joseph Hospital and Denver Health Medical Center, are following the lead of nurses at Swedish... More >>

• Take the Money and Run

  published February 3, 2000

  The three-story Victorian house in the Humboldt Street Historic District looks like something out of a fairy tale: Balconies jut out from its... More >>