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What's Happening in Golden - Saturday, Oct. 31st, 2026

News and events in Golden, Colorado. Saturday, Oct. 31st, 2026

,   and  Barb Warden
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Date Night

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What's happening in Golden today?

Events for Saturday, Oct. 31st

Golden History Tours
Good Night, Oscar
Giant Annual Halloween Party

For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar

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Daylight Saving Time Ends Tonight

Photo by Richard Luckin

Remember to set your clocks back tonight and get ready for earlier darkness. The sun will set at 5:58PM tonight. Tomorrow it sets at 4:57PM.

9:30AM-12PM Walk With a Geologist @ Dinosaur Ridge

Ready to really nerd out with a deep dive into the geology and paleontology at Dino Ridge? Our Walk With a Geologist tour is a 2.5-hour (1.5 mile) guided walk across Dinosaur Ridge led by a professional or highly knowledgeable amateur geologist. In addition to the interpretation of the dinosaur track and fossil sites, the tour includes an in-depth discussion of the geology and changes to the Denver area through time. Designed for participants ages 16 and older. Register

Location:

Dinosaur Ridge
16831 West Alameda Parkway   (Map)

2-4PM Golden's Little Monster Mash

Calling all little ghouls, goblins, superheroes, princesses, and pirates! Put on your costumes and join the Golden Library, Golden History Museum & Park, and Foothills Art Center for a drop-in Halloween party. Young visitors will trick-or-treat between the three locations, enjoying not-so-scary stories and a variety of crafts and activities along the way. Maps highlighting the trick-or-treat path will be available at each location.

Locations:

The Library (map) - The History Museum (map) - The Astor House (map)

4-7PM Trunk or Treat @ the Golden Gate Grange

The Annual Halloween Party, "Trunk or Treat", will be held at the Grange on Halloween. Trunkers will have decorated trucks or trunks and will pass out candies to the children.  The Fire Department will have a truck at the event. Food will be available for purchase. 

Location:

Golden Gate Grange
25201 Golden Gate Canyon Road (map)

11AM-1PM Halloween Trick or Treat @ American Legion Post 21

This is a quick walk-through trick-or-treat stop, not an all-day party! Come anytime between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., grab some candy, maybe enjoy a chili dog, and fly off to your next Halloween adventure! More information

Location:

American Legion Post 21
500 9th Street   (Map)

The Golden Word - 10/31/26

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Live Music for Saturday, Oct. 31st

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7PM Halloween Extravaganza @ The Buffalo Rose

  • More Live Music
    4-8PM     Live Music @ Wrigley’s
    5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
    5:30-9:30PM Riverspell @ Goosetown Station
    6-9PM Foggy Mountain Spaceship @ New Terrain Brewing
    9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern

For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar

Golden History: The Sexton in 1978

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48 Years Ago
The November 13, 1978 Golden Transcript featured an interview with Arthur Meinecke, who had been serving as sexton (caretaker) of the Golden Cemetery for 26 years. He was responsible for selling plots, digging and refilling graves, setting up for funerals, maintaining the landscaping in summer and plowing the roads in winter.

That summer, he had experienced a cement shortage. At one point he had 12 headstones to set and no concrete to set them in. Shortly after he solved the cement problem, vandals struck the cemetery. Two local kids tipped over 14 headstones. Mr. Meinecke had just set up chairs for a funeral and the youths threw the chairs into the open grave. Fortunately, a visitor to the cemetery spotted the vandals and alerted the sexton. He called the police, who arrived quickly and caught them in the act. In November, they were still making restitution payments.

As of 46 years ago, there were about 5,000 people buried in the cemetery and there was room for about 11,300 more. There were four sections in the cemetery. The county owned a “pauper section,” where destitute people were buried without charge. There was also a veterans section, an Oddfellows section, and a section that had originally belonged to the Masons but which had been turned over to the city.

The city had purchased a backhoe for digging graves in 1957. Prior to that, Meinecke had dug them by hand. When the ground was frozen or the clay soil was particularly hard, he had sometimes used as many as a dozen sticks of dynamite to loosen the soil prior to digging.

The costs in 1978 were as follows:

Grave space: $275
Perpetual care: $75
Grave opening and closing: $100

The costs in 2024 were:

Grave space:
$1980 (resident)
$2640 (non-resident)
Perpetual care:
$595 (resident)
$800 (non-resident)
Adult grave opening and closing:
$1780 (resident)
$1780 (non-resident)

Residents no longer get a price break. Today’s costs (according to the City's cemetery page) are:

Grave space: $3185 (no price difference for residents)
Perpetual care: $965
Adult grave opening and closing: $1870 (resident)

Weather

Overnight's Weather

Overnight: Patchy fog. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. West wind around 1 mph.

Saturday's Weather

Saturday: Patchy fog before 10am. Partly sunny. High near 59, with temperatures falling to around 57 in the afternoon. North northeast wind 1 to 5 mph.

Saturday Night's Weather

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. West northwest wind 0 to 5 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 45°F

Sunday: Mostly Cloudy, 60°F

Sunday Night: Chance Rain Showers, 47°F

Monday: Chance Rain Showers, 56°F

Monday Night: Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy, 40°F

Tuesday: Sunny, 59°F

Tuesday Night: Mostly Clear, 39°F

Wednesday: Chance Rain Showers, 58°F

Wednesday Night: Chance Rain And Snow Showers, 38°F

Thursday: Sunny, 56°F

Thursday Night: Partly Cloudy, 38°F

Friday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Rain Showers, 56°F

News About Golden - October 31, 2026

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Affordable For-Sale Homes Coming to Golden

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The Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA) has announced the closing of a $10 million construction loan to Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver to support The Prosper at Golden, a planned affordable condominium development in Golden... Read more...

Golden inaugurates 2 murals for 250-150 anniversary

By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript

This summer, Golden received two new bridges – but not the typical kind over a road or body of water.

Instead, these are bridges over time, connecting past and future generations of Coloradans... Read more...

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Sponsors:
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Buffalo Rose, Buglet Battery, Foothills Art Center, Golden Cultural Alliance, Miners Alley Performing Arts Center, The Golden Mill, Golden Chamber of Commerce, Golden History Tours, Miners Saloon, Clothilde Elingbow, Michael Mason, Earth Sweet Boutique, and Colorado Railroad Museum

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Tall Pines Painting, Baby Doe’s Clothing, Paul Haseman, Donna Anderson, Carol & Doug Harwood, Stephanie Painter, Greg Poulos, Ann Norton & Jonathan Storer, Mary & Don Parker, The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Vic DeMaria, Unite Fitness, and Joy Brandt

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