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ANOTHER ROW OVER PLUTONIUM

A SPARKLING STANDLEY LAKE--AND A BOATLOAD OF PROTESTORS--GREET OLYMPIC FESTIVAL ATHLETES.

By Richard Fleming
Jul 19, 1995

It's impossible to tell which will last longer: the plutonium released from Rocky Flats, which remains radioactive for 24,000 years, or the argument over plutonium in nearby Standley Lake. Now the dispute has reached Olympian heights. Three U.S. Olympic Festival boating competitions are scheduled this week and next on the...
KID GLOVES

TEENAGE BOXER SHANE SWARTZ REACHES FOR THE OLYMPIC RING--AND HIS FATHER'S DREAM.THE CHAMP BLUE-COLLAR BRAWLER SHANE SWARTZ FIGHTS FOR GOD, FAMILY AND THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD.

By Richard Fleming
Jul 12, 1995

At 5 a.m., the green foothills near Fort Collins look spongy in the early light. Along a wide residential street of Laporte, a farming town turned suburb, a yellow windbreaker bobs in the distance. Shane Swartz, the national amateur middleweight boxing champion, has six 200-yard sprints to do. His back...
THE EPA GOES RADWHAT BETTER PLACE FOR A NEW GOVERNMENT LAB THAN A RADIOACTIVE SITE?

By Richard Fleming
Jun 21, 1995

The government laboratory that does environmental testing for the Environmental Protection Agency's regional headquarters will be relocating to a Jefferson County research park that is being evaluated as a possible Superfund site. John Yeagley of EPA's Region Eight Central Laboratory says the agency is aware that tons of radioactive mine...
HOT PROPERTY

WITH DEVELOPERS RUSHING IN, ROCKY FLATS ISN'T GROUND ZERO ANYMORE.

By Richard Fleming
Jun 14, 1995

Marj Rust enjoys the view from her home on a ridge west of Rocky Flats. She can take in a rolling expanse of rangeland running east from the hogback to Standley Lake, a vista interrupted only by the jumble of buildings at the U.S. Department of Energy facility. But these...
COVER UP IN THE LOCKER ROOMLOOK! UP IN THE NORTH BOULDER REC CENTER CEILING! IT'S A JANITOR!

By Richard Fleming
May 31, 1995

Rumors about a Peeping Tom had circulated among staff members at the North Boulder Recreation Center for years, and when a janitor was caught in the rafters above the locker rooms, employees thought the matter had finally come to a close. But no charges were filed, and the janitor returned...

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