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What's Happening in Golden - Sunday, Mar. 1st, 2026

News and events in Golden, Colorado. Sunday, Mar. 1st, 2026

,   and  Barb Warden
8 min read
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Our Agricultural Roots

Photo by Richard Luckin
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What's happening in Golden today?

Events for Sunday, Mar. 1st

Golden History Tours
The Mother and the Michigan/Ohio War
The Odd Couple (Female Version)

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

Spring Break Camps

Images courtesy of: Colorado Railroad Museum - Dinosaur Ridge - Golden History Museum - Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum - Foothills Art Center - Golden Community Center


Spring Break is fast approaching for Jefferson County Schools (March 23–27). If you're looking for activities for your kids, the Golden Community Center, Foothills Art Center, Colorado Railroad Museum, Dinosaur Ridge, Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, and Golden History Museum all have you covered!

See our Camps & Classes page for the details.

Comfort and Comedy Fest: 2 Plays and a Juggling Workshop

The Comfort and Comedy Fest continues, with the two comedies at Miners Alley Performing Arts Center:

2PM My Mother and the Michigan/Ohio War

7:30PM The Odd Couple (Female Version)

...and an opportunity to learn to juggle:

1PM Juggling Workshop @ Gnarly's

10AM-5PM DGMG Jewelry, Gem & Mineral Show @ Jefferson County Fairgrounds


This is the final day for the Jewelry, Gem, and Mineral Show at the Fairgrounds. Free parking and free admission - more information

Location:

Jefferson County Fairgrounds
15200 West Sixth Avenue   (Map)

The Golden Word - 03/01/26

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Live Music for Sunday, Mar. 1st

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For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar

Golden History: Rent Control

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75 Years Ago
The March 1, 1951 Colorado Transcript described a public meeting on the subject of rent control. The meeting had been attended by 42 people, “most of them owners of property and landlords.”

Rent control had been imposed in 1942, by the federal Office of Price Administration in areas that had large defense plants. In Golden’s case, that was the Remington Arms Factory at the Federal Center. As with other wartime privations, property owners accepted it as necessary to the war effort.

Eight years later, with the war long over, rent control was still in place but landlords were beginning to grumble. In 1950, the Transcript ran an editorial titled “Socialism and Your Home.” It stated that “your home is the first target of Socialism.”

Because of a housing shortage, created in some instances by rent control, there is a cry for subsidized political housing. Public housing is tax-exempt. This means that those who are home owners must carry a greater tax bill. It is estimated that within five years, there will be over a million subsidized houses in the country.
Colorado Transcript – July 20, 1950

That same year, the Feds decided to allow local governments to decide whether they would keep rent control. In February of 1951, City Council held a public meeting to gather public comment on the topic.

Mrs. Merle Smith of 101 Tenth street, presented the case for decontrol, citing facts and figures and illustrating her talk with photographs of rental units in Golden. She stated that the only reason for rent control is to curb the price of rents where rental units are scare. She then presented data to show that this is no longer the case in Golden.

Mrs. Smith used classified ads from the Transcript to show that during the first six weeks of the year, 23 rooms, 27 tourist cabins and rooms, 40 apartments, and 27 houses had been advertised. She added that 18 vacant houses had been listed in the 1950 Golden directory.

Mrs. Smith had contacted cities that had already dropped rent control (Englewood, Littleton, Ft. Collins, and Greeley). “…her findings showed that since de-control there were more units available in these communities and they were in better repair.”

The March 22, 1951 Colorado Transcript announced that Council had voted to end rent control in Golden.

Weather

Overnight's Weather

Overnight: Mostly cloudy. Low around 41, with temperatures rising to around 45 overnight. West northwest wind around 3 mph.

Sunday's Weather

Sunday: Partly sunny. High near 62, with temperatures falling to around 60 in the afternoon. East southeast wind 2 to 7 mph.

Sunday Night's Weather

Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43. West wind around 3 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 43°F

Monday: Mostly Sunny, 68°F

Monday Night: Rain Showers Likely, 40°F

Tuesday: Rain Showers, 52°F

Tuesday Night: Chance Rain Showers then Partly Cloudy, 36°F

Wednesday: Sunny, 63°F

Wednesday Night: Mostly Clear, 38°F

Thursday: Chance Light Rain, 62°F

Thursday Night: Chance Rain And Snow, 34°F

Friday: Chance Light Snow, 49°F

Friday Night: Chance Rain And Snow, 30°F

Saturday: Chance Light Snow, 52°F

News About Golden - March 1, 2026

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Colorado pitches 99-year ground lease model to bring affordable housing to Golden

By Jamie L:eary
CBS News

A roughly 41-acre parcel of land owned by the state in the city of Golden, Colorado, could be transformed into hundreds of new housing units under a proposed public-private partnership aimed at expanding affordable housing.

The project, known as Golden Range at Lookout Mountain, would develop one of the largest undeveloped tracts remaining in the city. The site sits between the Fossil Trace Golf Course and the state youth services facility... Read more...

Glimpses of Golden Opens at Golden History Museum

By Doug Skiba
Golden History Museum & Park

GOLDEN, Colo., February 27, 2026 – A new long-term exhibit, Glimpses of Golden, is now open at Golden History Museum, offering visitors a series of vivid snapshots into the people, places, and moments that shaped the community.

Rather than telling one continuous story, Glimpses of Golden invites guests to encounter compelling artifacts and narratives spanning more than 160 years of local history... Read more...

History museum’s newest exhibit offers ‘Glimpses of Golden’

By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript

Is it possible to condense a city’s 160-plus history into a single room?

Probably not the entire thing, but definitely glimpses of it.

That’s the premise behind the Golden History Museum’s newest exhibit, “Glimpses of Golden..." Read more...

Mines basketball celebrates seniors, prepares for postseason

By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript

Orediggers like to dance.

Usually it’s to songs like Sean Paul’s “Temperature,” as seniors Jenna Shandy and Quincey Baum described.

But now, they’re hoping to do a different kind of dancing this March... Read more...

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

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