Lake City Silver World Newspaper
THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE TOWN OF LAKE CITY AND HINSDALE COUNTY COLORADO
Grant Houston
2021
December 11 – Lake City Fourteeners, Creede Miners game which was the first public home game for high school basketball in Lake City Community School’s new gymnasium, end score 49 Creede, 12 Lake City.
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2021
Holiday festivities proliferated Saturday, December 4, with DIRT and Lake City Chamber of Commerce’s annual “Christmas in Lake City” celebration. Holiday snapshots include crafts for kids, fire pits and tasty treats, reindeer games, festive floats, and other fun times throughout the day.
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2021
Lake City Community School’s first day of classes for the 2021-22 school year on Tuesday, August 31. Total enrollment grades Preschool through 12th Grade was 72, compared to 63 this time last year.
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2021
Preliminary figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau for the 2020 Census indicate that for the first time since 1960 — over 60 years ago — Hinsdale County actually declined in population. Statistics released from last year’s Federal Census which was delayed by the COVID-19 Pandemic credit Hinsdale County with a seven percent decrease…
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First place men’s winners, brothers Todd Wells and Troy Wells from Durango
2021
Two Olympie-Class brothers from Durango, Colorado, 37-year-old Troy Wells and Todd Wells, 45, were tops among over 100 bicyclists taking part in the Alpine 50 Bike Race on Saturday, August 28. The younger Wells brother, Troy, crossed the town park finish line a mere second ahead of his brother after furious pedaling from Lake City…
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Lineup of first-time runners at 6 a.m. last Friday, August 13
2021
Cheering spectators during last weekend’s third annual High Five run were uniformly impressed with the endurance and physical stamina of this year’s runners in the 100-mile event, a frequent exclamation from bystanders at the check point aid station being “that’s impressive… they’re looking great!” Those sentiments were repeated at the town park finish line as the…
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Bishop Lucas is pictured at Sunday morning’s outdoor, socially-distanced Communion with Rev. Nettleton
John Smith
2021
Colorado Bishop Kym Lucas conducted an outdoor Celebration Communion at Lake City’s historic St. James Chapel on Sunday morning, August 1. Bishop Lucas, who was accompanied on her overnight Lake City visit by her husband, Mark Retherford, attended the final performance of the Lake City String Academy on Saturday evening, July 31, and the following…
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July 24, a CDOT pilot car leading backed up traffic through one-lane section of Highway 149 north of Lake City
2021
Lake City area’s near-annual rain deluge resulted in two almost simultaneous road emergencies as torrents of mud, rock and water stranded recreationists on the Shelf Road near Burrows Park and, in a separate instance, stranded motorists and closed State Highway 149 north of Lake City throughout the night on Friday, July 23. Bench in Lake…
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A fundraiser chili dinner and dance featuring local musicians benefitting Lake City’s annual mission trip to Managua, Nicaragua, will be held at the Armory in Lake City on Sunday evening, November 6. Funds raised during the benefit dinner and dance will defray travel costs as a 13-member mission trip, a majority of whom are from…
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