Golden in the Morning
Photo by Keith Yoder
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Sunday, Jun. 1st
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Golden History Tours
- All day - Goldengrass Bluegrass Weekend 2025
- All day - Church Services
- 9AM-5PM - Dinosaur Express Train
- 9:30-11:30AM - Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
- 10AM-3PM - Opening Day for the Country Market
- 10AM-3PM - Brunch at the Rose
- 10AM-12PM - Color Our World - Summer Reading Challenge Begins
- 11AM-3PM - 11AM-3PM Spring Whale of a Used Book Sale
- 1PM - Sandra Dallas Book Signing
- 1-3:30PM - Let's Get Glazey!
- 2PM - Ring of Fire
- 3-4:30PM - Golden Death Cafe
- 5-9PM - Board Game Night
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
9AM-5PM Dinosaur Express Train @ Colorado Railroad Museum
The Colorado Railroad Museum’s annual Dinosaur Express Train steam-up returns to make “tracks through pre-history in 2025!” Grounds open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with activities taking place between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., including train rides.
An authentic, coal burning Colorado steam locomotive will pull trains for this event. Hands-on demonstrations and even the Museum’s own mascot, Spike the Railroad Dog will be part of the event! Regular admission and train ride pricing apply. Capacity is limited, so advance ticket purchase is recommended.
Location:
Colorado Railroad Museum
17155 W. 44th Avenue (Map)
When:
9AM-5PM on Sunday, Jun. 1st
10AM-12PM Color Our World - Summer Reading Challenge Begins @ Golden Library
Discover our colorful world with Jefferson County Public Library's Summer Challenge, where learning is for everyone! Explore the beauty all around you to earn points and win prizes during the Library Summer Challenge.
Register starting May 1 to discover your inner artist, brighten up your community, write colorful stories and embrace a vibrant life!
Location:
Golden Library
1019 10th Street (Map)
When:
10AM-12PM on Sunday, Jun. 1st
10AM-3PM Opening Day for the Country Market @ Golden Hayride Outpost
Join us for another season of the weekly Country Market at Golden Outpost on Sundays, June through October!
The weekly Country Market features locally grown produce, cottage law food products, and local craft artisans. They have a full bar with indoor and outdoor seating, so you can enjoy a meal and relax with a beverage while shopping the amazing vendors and delicious produce at the Country Market.
More information
Location:
Golden Hayride Outpost
17695 South Golden Road (Map)
When:
10AM-3PM on Sunday, Jun. 1st
11AM-3PM Spring Whale of a Used Book Sale @ Jefferson County Fairgrounds
Colorado's biggest used book sale is back at the Jeffco Fairgrounds. Adult hardbacks & paperbacks, children's books, DVDs, CDs, movies, fiction, nonfiction, and special antique books at super low prices
Today is Bag Day– a bag of books starting at $10 all day! Excludes Berts Weathered and Treasured and gift baskets.
For more information call 303-403-5076, email friends@jeffcolibrary.org, or visit us on the web. Proceeds benefit children and teen literacy programs.
Spring 2025 Book and Media Prices
Location:
Jefferson County Fairgrounds
15200 West Sixth Avenue (Map)
When:
11AM-3PM on Sunday, Jun. 1st
1PM Sandra Dallas Book Signing @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
Join us for another book signing with Sandra Dallas. She has a new book out that you will love!
Tough Love is an homage to True Grit. A young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold-mining father.
More information
Location:
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
200 Violet Street (Map)
When:
1PM on Sunday, Jun. 1st
A New Form of Outreach
5 Years Ago
By June of 2020, people were getting used to the COVID shutdown. Many people were working from home and Zoom meetings, lectures, family gatherings, and cocktail parties had become a way of life.
Most of the Golden churches had figured out how to stream their Sunday morning services. The Methodists decided to try something different: they did a drive-in church service!
Live Music for Sunday, Jun. 1st
- 4:30-7:30PM Chuck Sitero @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
- More Live Music
2:30-4:30 Sunday Afternoon in the Saddle @ Windy Saddle
3-7PM Trip Wire Band @ Wrigley’s
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Murder Most Foul
Colorado Transcript - June 1, 1922
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103 Years Ago
MURDERESS SENT UP FROM GOLDEN IS GIVEN PAROLE
The June 1, 1922 Colorado Transcript article announced that Angelina Garramone, who committed a grisly murder on South Table Mountain in 1911, had been released from the penitentiary.
114 Years Ago
On August 4th, 1911, J. M. Johnson had discovered “a skull, a few bones and a few tattered remnants of clothing” on his South Table Mountain ranch. The remains (shoes, clothing, and gray hair) were identified as Mrs. Maria LaGuardia, who had been missing from her home in Denver since the previous August.
Several suspects were arrested, brought to the Jefferson County jail, and questioned by Sheriff Dennis. Two women (Mrs. Forgione and her 19-year-old daughter) had witnessed the murder and were able to identify the killer. They described the murder and showed the Sheriff where it had happened. They said they had not come forth earlier because they were afraid that the murderer would put a curse on them.
On August 12, 1910, Mrs. LaGuardia had accompanied her goddaughter, Angelina Garramone, and the two Forgione women to Golden on “the electric cars” (the trolley). Garramone had enticed her godmother to accompany her by saying she was taking her to Mr. LaGuardia.
The four women walked around South Table Mountain for a while, then spent the night at the depot in Golden, and returned to the mountain the next day. Mrs. Garramone persuaded Mrs. LaGuardia to remove the scarf around her neck, then slit her throat with a butcher knife, stole the $700 she had on her person, and rolled the body into a gulch.
In the meantime, Garramone’s former partner had been found murdered in Globeville with a slit throat. Officials thought she may have been killed to keep her from telling police about Garramone’s crimes.
By the time Mrs. LaGuardia’s body was discovered, Garramone was in the penitentiary in Canyon City for the crime of forgery. They brought her to Golden for the trial. In December of 1911, she was found guilty and sentenced to life in the penitentiary. She was paroled in 1922.
Weather
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Low around 55, with temperatures rising to around 57 overnight. Southwest wind around 6 mph.
Sunday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny. High near 85, with temperatures falling to around 82 in the afternoon. Southeast wind 2 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy. Low around 59, with temperatures rising to around 61 overnight. West southwest wind around 8 mph.
Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 59°F
Monday: Mostly Cloudy then Showers And Thunderstorms, 83°F
Monday Night: Showers And Thunderstorms, 49°F
Tuesday: Rain Showers, 58°F
Tuesday Night: Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 49°F
Wednesday: Showers And Thunderstorms, 65°F
Wednesday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 49°F
Thursday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 72°F
Thursday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 52°F
Friday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 77°F
Friday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 55°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 79°F
News About Golden - June 1, 2025
"Ring of Fire" Johnny Cash musical coming to Miner's Alley
By Dan Duru
Fox 31
CW2's Dan Duru reports live from Miner's Alley Performing Arts Center in Golden as it prepares for "Ring of Fire," the Johnny Cash musical... Watch video...
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Deputies rescue 18 caged rabbits dumped near Golden warehouses
By Max Levy
Denver Post
Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies are asking for help tracking down the owner of 18 caged rabbits that were abandoned next to a Golden warehouse dumpster this month... Read more...
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Sponsors:
($100/month and up)
Buffalo Rose, Buglet Solar, Foothills Art Center, Golden City Brewery, Golden Cultural Alliance, Miners Alley Performing Arts Center, The Golden Mill, Golden Chamber of Commerce, Golden History Tours, Miners Saloon, Golden Hayride Outpost, Unite Fitness, Joy Brandt, Tom Reiley, Michael Mason, and the Colorado Railroad Museum, Goosetown Station
Friends:
($50-99.99/month or $550/yr)
Tall Pines Painting, Baby Doe’s Clothing, Goozell Yogurt & Coffee Paul Haseman, Donna Anderson, Carol & Doug Harwood, Beth Bidwell, Stephanie Painter, Greg Poulos, Ann Norton & Jonathan Storer, Mary & Don Parker, Saré Merrigan, The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, and Vic DeMaria
Supporters:
($25-49.99/month or $250/yr)
Laura King and Scott Wilson, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Forrest Jones, Barry & Liz Bettis, Cheryl & Tom Schweich, Marjorie Sloan, Chris and Joyce Davell, Rick Flint, Forrest Jones, Cynthia Merrill Tamny, Stephen Pero, Meg Van Ness & Steve Kalasz, Steve & Karla Schaefer, Bud Rockhill, Steve Enger, Kristie Brice & Mike Schwartz, The Golden Hotel, Kurt & Janet Siegfried, Ella Lyons & Jeanne Fritch, and Robert Thresher.
Members:
($10-24.99/month or $110/yr)
Brad Miller & Julie Bartos, Holly Thomas, Jim and LouAnne Dale, Ann Pattison, Thomas Hoffman, Carol Abel, Brian Quarnstrom, Sandra Curran, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Kathy Smith, Karen Smith, Carlos & Nancy Bernal, Robert Storrs, Michele Sannes, Elaine Marolla, Dixie Termin & Ron Miller, E Tom Hughes, Crystal M Culbert, Patrick A. Madison, Alice Madison & Jim Kalivas, Deb Goeldner, Christopher Ball, 6th Chair Home Services, Dot & Eric Brownson, Rosemary Coffman, Emeline Paulson, Sandy Schneider, Mark and Cathy Pattridge, Cheryl G Leidich, Jen Rutter, Frani R Bickart, Jennings and Litz, Bill Sedgeley, Nancy Hughes, Justin L Wade, Kathi Eggers, Traci Case, Donna Owen, Leslie D Lutz, Karen Oxman, Catherine Skokan, Ross Fraser & KC Gilliland, Lynne Haigh, Elizabeth Hilliard, Frank Young & Terre Deegan-Young, Kathy Hirons & Jack Markin, Jess & Anthony Monasterio, Heather Duncan, Lee Ann & Pete Horneck, Carol Cameron, Cheryl Williamson, San Daugherty, Jim Garner, John and Carol McEncroe, the Golden Welcome Center, the Golden Transcript, Koshare Eagle, Ken and Colleen Krantz, Traci Neuman Lacey, Jo Barber, Jamie Cookinham, Kermit Shields, Meridee Cecil, Vicki Olson, Colleen & Michael Ramey, Nancy & Pete Torpey, Jax Baker, Simon Maybury, Rose McLaughlin, Cameron Chambers, Joyce Gravina, Patrick Klein, Barb Robie, and Mary Rains, Richard Caldwell, Janice Waring, Sam & Marilyn Baron, Carmen Johnson, and Cherryln Parker
Followers:
($5-9.99/month)
Golden Community Garden, Lora Haimes, Mariane Erickson, J.J. Fraser, Mel Perkins, Bob Hamilton, Kim Linton, Steve Stevens
