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911 Emergency Dispatch leaving Clear Creek County, switching to Jeffcom911
The Jefferson County Communications Center Authority Board of Directors recently agreed to provide emergency communications services for neighboring Clear Creek County. Clear Creek County...
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Hundreds visit Georgetown for 63rd Christmas Market
The blowing snow froze on smiling faces, but it didn’t deter the holiday spirit at the Georgetown Christmas Market on Dec. 2. “Everybody is so happy to get on the carriage and ride,” said Shane...
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NBC’s ‘Today’ show features Georgetown as one of the ‘Merriest Main Streets’...
For those willing to wake up before dawn and brave the cold, the cast and crew of NBC’s “Today” show were in Georgetown Dec. 8 for a national broadcast celebrating the spirit of the holidays in what...
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Clear Creek Library District celebrates season with hot chocolate and games
At least a dozen kids and their parents showed up at the Idaho Springs Public Library Dec. 15 to play “Hedbanz” and candy-covered bingo for prizes. “Am I an animal, thing or person?” The person...
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Library check it out: Discover more at your Clear Creek County Library in...
The Clear Creek County Library District empowers our community through literacy, human connection, and equal access to resources. Library programs are always free. SPECIAL EVENTS FROZEN SING-ALONG...
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Clear Creek County grants writer brings millions of dollars to county
Clear Creek County invested when hiring Rebecca Abrahamson in 2022. Since then, she’s written grant requests to federal, state and local agencies that, behind the scenes, have funded some of the...
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Check this out at the library: snowshoe lessons
Checking out books, reference information and reading in a quiet setting is typically what you would expect from a library, but the Clear Creek Library District does things a little differently. That...
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Monthly emergency siren testing to start in March in Georgetown
Xcel Energy has installed four early warning sirens to notify people in Georgetown of potential flooding due to the unlikely event of a dam failure at Xcel Energy’s Cabin Creek hydroelectric plant,...
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Clear Creek Fire Authority works to update county-wide fire protection with...
The Clear Creek Fire Authority has combined limited resources from small mountain towns in Clear Creek County to create an umbrella of fire protection since 1998. The collaboration means a larger...
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Fabyanic: A privileged life
From climbing trees to heights to hitchhiking, risk-taking was part of my growing years. By the standards of my immigrant grandparents though, my derring-dos were hardly perilous. Nevertheless, I...
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Colorado Pond Hockey Tournament draws thousands to Georgetown Lake
The annual Colorado Pond Hockey Tournament was held on the ice of Georgetown Lake for the first time, but it wasn’t supposed to be there. It was originally scheduled to take place on Dillon...
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Clear Creek Fire Authority asking for community input on latest Wildfire...
The Clear Creek Community Wildfire Protection Plan will be updated this year for the first time in 16 years. “We want to focus our efforts in the area of highest need and highest rate of return. We...
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OLDS: This week in the Clear Creek Courant…
Evergreen nurse helps hungry children – March 13, 2013 While serving as a member of the Clear Creek Health Advisory Committee, Evergreen nurse Mary Pat DeWalds started a food collecting and...
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Two Georgetown law enforcement officers charged in connection with death of...
Georgetown Police Judge Lynette Kelsy accepted resignations in February from two officers who were charged in connection with the June 2022 shooting death of Christian Glass. Although the written...
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All aboard the Georgetown Loop Railroad for the first trip of the season
It was precisely 11:12 a.m. on March 23 when the conductor shouted “all aboard” on the Georgetown Loop Train for the first time this season. “Everybody got tickets? All right, I need to see ‘em,” said...
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Clear Creek Library District offers window into the past
Unraveling the rich and diverse history of Clear Creek County is what Christine Bradley calls her passion. Often working in the basement of libraries across the county, the Georgetown resident...
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