Good morning on this gloomy June Tuesday!
In a world increasingly dominated by national chains and once-independent brands that have been absorbed into giant corporations, local businesses are more important than ever. And when those great local shops also source their products from local suppliers, everyone benefits (as you’ll see in today’s lead story).
To help highlight these businesses, voting is now open in The Sun’s readers’ choice contest, Colorado’s Best! Just click here to choose your home region and vote for your favorite businesses to crown them Colorado’s Best.
Once you’re finished casting your vote, we’ve got a full shelf of news to peruse, so let’s grab that basket and start shopping, shall we?
Eric Lubbers
CTO & Newsletter Wrangler
THE NEWS
AGRICULTURE
Beloved grocery store serving secluded Colorado town of 500 people looks for ways to buy local
Walsh Community Grocery Store was busy June 14 in southeastern Colorado. (Jeremy Sparig, Special to The Colorado Sun)“It’s just real comforting to know that something like this worked, and that it keeps so many people at home. … We have everything we need here.”
— Rick Mills, an original board member of Walsh Community Grocery Store
Walsh Community Grocery Store is far from the typical place you stock up on meat and produce. It’s a co-op owned by local residents in a remote part of southeastern Colorado, and they are determined to make their store even more local by sourcing fresh food from Colorado farmers and ranchers. Parker Yamasaki has all the details on the underdog grocery store-turned-community staple.
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OUTDOORS
Peak Ski Co. shutters amid allegations of mismanagement, lack of payment at Montana ski-maker
The Peak Ski Co. headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, has been closed for weeks as the company founders. (Stella Campanale, Special to The Colorado Sun)“It’s kind of hard to imagine how they could treat us this way. It’s kind of heartless. I don’t feel they were good at business. They certainly have not been up front, fair or communicative.”
— Michelle Parker, freeskiing athlete and head of product design for Peak Ski Co.
Montana-based Peak Ski Co., renowned for its “keyhole” design that makes a ski more flexible and turnable, has closed its doors after less than five years in business. Big-name skiers who joined Peak have drafted a lawsuit after the company, racked by financial turmoil, stopped paying them. Jason Blevins has more.
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BUSINESS
Safeway workers in more parts of Colorado hit the picket lines amid union’s strike
A shopper heads into a Safeway store, which is part of the Albertson’s grocery chain, on Dec. 10 in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)A strike among Colorado grocery store workers is growing, with Safeway employees at seven locations picketing amid an impasse between the labor union and Albertsons, which owns the grocery chain. Workers say they are fed up with understaffing, proposed cuts to employee health care benefits and a change to pension benefits for retirees, Tamara Chuang reports.
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MORE NEWS
Jury finds MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell defamed former executive at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems. In his lawsuit, Eric Coomer accused Lindell of damaging his reputation and destroying his life by spreading false allegations that Coomer helped rig the 2020 election. After Minnesota shooting, Colorado and other states are more tightly guarding officials’ personal information. In Colorado, at least 31 elected officials have filed requests to remove their personal contact information from a public-facing state campaign finance database called TRACER, which was briefly taken down Saturday so those requests could be fulfilled.Section by Erica Breunlin | Education Reporter
THE COLORADO REPORT
Where are all of the miller moths? Moth-haters are celebrating a lean year of the house-invading pests. But birds are missing out on an important source of sustenance.— 5280 Summit County is nearing when its snowpack measuring sites hit 0. How’s the melt off this year as a heat wave nears? The mountains in Summit County are still holding on to scraps of snowpack, but warmer weather is taking a toll. — Summitdaily.com Denver law firm sues Google to get one-star review removed. Galperin & Associates wants a judge to step in to protect its reputation after a former employee left a biting review. — BusinessDen Colorado only wins one James Beard award — but it’s a big one. One of the foundation’s top honors went to Frasca Food and Wine, sparing Colorado from a shutout in the annual awards.— The Denver Post Korean rescue team helps local crews deal with fatality on I-76. A Korean water rescue team visiting Colorado for a training exercise ended up assisting with a true emergency after a fatal crash.— Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel How do you turn $6B of ideas into $800M of projects? Denver’s bond fight is heating up. Everyone wants a piece of the Vibrant Denver Bond pie.— Denverite? = source has article meter or paywall
Section by Lance Benzel | Team Editor
THE OPINION PAGE
COMMUNITY
Congress must follow Colorado’s lead to protect veterans against “claim sharks.” New Colorado law protects those who served against deceptive practices. Now, Washington, D.C., elected officials must make it a nationwide priority.— State Sen. Matt Ball, D-DenverThe Colorado Sun is a nonpartisan news organization, and the opinions of columnists and editorial writers do not reflect the opinions of the newsroom. Read our ethics policy for more on The Sun’s opinion policy and submit columns, suggest writers or provide feedback at [email protected].
SunLit
REVIEW
“Sonata in Wax” plays haunting piano backdrop to protagonist’s struggles
A man captivated by a century-old recording drives this debut novel by Edward Hamlin, which explores dual narrative timelines and a theme that hinges on a lie of omission and the consequences of confession. Hamlin, an accomplished musician and composer himself, melded his passion for music with strains of family history to produce this Colorado Book Award finalist for Novel. Remember Chase and Sanborn coffee? Hamlin is the last living descendant from the Sanborn side, Boston social elites who figure into the portion of the story that’s historical fiction.
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Interview with the author. Hamlin explains how much he enjoyed writing this particular excerpt, which conjures the “ecstatic experience of hearing breathtaking music just when you needed it.” Listen to a Daily Sun-Up podcast with Edward Hamlin.Section by Kevin Simpson | Writer
Just in case you decided to read the news before you cast your vote, here’s your reminder to head over to the Colorado’s Best homepage to give kudos to your favorite shops. Have a great day and we’ll see you back here tomorrow!
— Eric & the whole staff of The Sun
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