High Summer in Golden
Photo by Jen Rutter
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Tuesday, Aug. 11th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Golden History Tours
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden Sports
- 9-11AM - DeLong Park Habitat Helpers
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time - Registration Required
- 10:15-10:45AM - Preschool Time - Registration Required
- 4:30-5:30PM - Teen Advisory Board - Golden Library
- 5PM - City Council Study Session and Business Meeting @ City Hall
- 5:30-7:30PM - Exploring the Elements of Art
- 6-8:30PM - Wine on Washington: A Wine & Food Pairing Event
- 6PM - Life Stages Theater (Staged Reading)
- 6:30PM - Trivia Night @ Bivy Beer Bar
- 6:30-8:30PM - Team Trivia Tuesday @ Buffalo Rose
- 6:30-8PM - Waterwise Yard Seminar (Virtual)
- 6:30-8:30PM - Bar Bingo Night @ VFW
- 7PM - Pub Trivia @ Atomic Cowboy
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
9-11AM DeLong Park Habitat Helpers @ DeLong Park
This photo shows the DeLong property before it became a City park - Photo by Edward Nunez
Golden Parks and Recreation is using DeLong Park as a pilot project for the City’s first organic park location. This means that they will be using only natural, organic products for all plants and grasses. No synthetic chemicals will be used in our maintenance practices.
The DeLong Park Weed Busters are always happy to bring in new members, and training on weed identification is provided! More information
Location:
DeLong Park
395 23rd Street (Map)
5PM City Council Study Session and Business Meeting @ City Hall
- Meeting Agenda
- Watch the meeting streaming live starting at 6:30PM
- Attend the meeting @ City Hall Council Chambers - 911 10th Street - (map)
- Send comments on any of the following topics to PublicComment@cityofgolden.net BEFORE 3PM
- Provide in-person comment (limited to 3 minutes) during the business meeting, at 6:30.
Executive Session
The meeting will begin with an Executive Session--no cameras, no audience--to discuss the City Manager's performance. At the conclusion of this off-screen discussion, Council will discuss the topic and "possible action."
Public Comment
The City Manager discussion will be followed by public comment. If you want to address Council, you will have three minutes to speak. Any public comments received by email before 3PM will be posted in the meeting packet after 3 (so check back then!).
Consent Matters
Items on the Consent Agenda are considered non-controversial, not needing discussion. Everything in this section will be approved at once, with one vote.
Any councilor wishing to discuss one of the issues can request that it be removed from the consent agenda and discussed and voted on separately.
These are the items on the Consent Agenda:
- An Intergovernmental Agreement (“IGA”) Amendment between the City of Golden and the Federal Highway Administration. This $3.2 million agreement covers construction on part of the Lena Gulch project. Learn more.
- "Upfitting" three new Ford Police Interceptors with equipment to turn them into police cars (sirens, lights, radios, prisoner containment for the backseat). The cost will be $105,035. Learn more.
Location:
City Hall Council Chambers
911 10th Street (Map)
6PM Life Stage Theater @ Miners Alley Performing Arts Center
In our Life Stages Theatre program, younger and older adults come together to create theatre and break down generational barriers!
Guided by experienced teaching artists, high school and older adult participants work in partnership. Participants learn basic playwriting skills, interview one another, then write and develop plays inspired by their partners’ personal stories.
Each session ends with a performance of short plays written by the participants, read by professional actors, for a public audience. Our Summer 2026 program has brought together young artists from the JeffCo School District with older adult residents of the Golden community. Please join us for these short play readings!
This is a free event. More information
Tomorrow (Weds) Night
Golden businesses are launching something new: a Golden Hour Mashup, designed to celebrate the Golden community--both residents and businesses.
Many businesses are partnering to offer fun activities. Save tomorrow night from 6-9PM to enjoy crafts, music, cocktails, appetizers, spa treatments, discounts, and more. See the VisitGolden website for the full rundown of possibilities!
Flock Cameras
Once a week, the City posts the comments sent to councilcomments@cityofgolden.net. Yesterday's post including some interesting observations about Flock cameras. These cameras are used to collect license plate numbers. The photographic evidence may be used to issue traffic citations.
The Golden Word - 08/11/26
Golden History: In Self Defense and Without Felonious Intent
Excerpt from the 1899 Willits Farm Map showing the murder site
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We are much gratified to welcome Will Stebbins and his charming young wife back to Golden as permanent residents. He has accepted a position with the enterprising lumber firm of Jobes & Snyder.
Colorado Transcript – March 10, 1886
Mr. and Mrs. Will Stebbins are gloriously full of joy over the arrival of a bright new daughter yesterday. Grandpap Snyder is full also–of joy at this evidence of advancing years.
Colorado Transcript – July 21, 1886
Mr. Will P. Stebbins, one of our old-time Golden boys…is now manager of the Farm Department of the Maxwell Land Grant Company, with headquarters at Maxwell City, New Mexico, a very important position.
Colorado Transcript – November 29, 1893
Wilbur P. Stebbins was arrested last Monday on a charge of threatening to commit bodily harm on his wife in this city.
Colorado Transcript – March 17, 1904
122 Years Ago
Wilbur F. Stebbins was shot and instantly killed by his wife, Ida M. Stebbins, at about seven o’clock Tuesday evening. The killing took place at the home of W.G. Lewis, about three miles east of Golden, where Mrs. Stebbins and her four children have been picking berries for several weeks.
Colorado Transcript – August 11, 1904
Mrs. Stebbins and her children had been living in a tent near the railroad tracks as they supported themselves with agricultural jobs. They hadn’t seen Wilbur since his arrest, five months earlier. When he arrived at the farm, one of the little girls spotted him and ran screaming to her mother. The mother pushed the children into the farm house, locking them in the bathroom. She then returned to the front door, where her husband was shouting and demanding that she let him in. When he drew a gun and kicked in the front door, his wife rushed to join the children in the bathroom. One of the children handed her a gun, and when her husband forced the bathroom door open, she shot him twice–once in the forehead and once in the chest. The Sheriff and the Coroner went to the scene and allowed Mrs. Stebbins to go to her father’s house.
The article commented that both Mr. and Mrs. Stebbins had grown up in Golden and that “he was, until whiskey got the better of him, a good husband and father….”
It concluded that “Mrs. Stebbins has the respect and sympathy of all, and no doubt exists in the mind of anyone but what she killed her husband while protecting her own and her children’s lives. It is the opinion of several that Stebbins had been on a protracted spree and meant to kill his wife and children and perhaps himself.”
The Coroner held an inquest, which concluded that “the shooting was done wholly in self defense and without felonious intent.”
Weather
Overnight: Patchy smoke. Mostly clear. Low around 69, with temperatures rising to around 73 overnight. West wind around 9 mph.
Tuesday: Patchy smoke before noon, then patchy smoke and a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between noon and 3pm, then patchy smoke and a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny. High near 89, with temperatures falling to around 86 in the afternoon. Northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Tuesday Night: Patchy smoke and a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy. Low around 69, with temperatures rising to around 74 overnight. West wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tuesday Night: Patchy Smoke, 69°F
Wednesday: Patchy Smoke, 87°F
Wednesday Night: Patchy Smoke then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 63°F
Thursday: Showers And Thunderstorms, 77°F
Thursday Night: Showers And Thunderstorms, 59°F
Friday: Showers And Thunderstorms, 78°F
Friday Night: Showers And Thunderstorms, 58°F
Saturday: Partly Sunny then Showers And Thunderstorms, 81°F
Saturday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 58°F
Sunday: Partly Sunny then Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 82°F
Sunday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 58°F
Monday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 84°F
News About Golden - August 11, 2026
Police department celebrates hospital release of Colorado officer injured in shooting
By Christa Swanson
CBS News
The police department in Golden, Colorado, cheered on one of its own as an injured officer was released from the hospital following a shooting over the weekend... Read more...
Historic Golden Community Trades After Nearly 30 Years
Mile High CRE
Fox Hill Apartments, a 153-unit garden-style community in Golden, has sold to Sierra Parkway Communities for $32 million, reflecting sustained investor demand in west Denver corridor... Read more...
Teen finds success running her own equestrian school
By Corey Neumeier
Golden Transcript
In the shadow of Lookout Mountain, down a twisting gravel road, 18-year-old Abigail Lohmann teaches horseback riding, something she’s done here for four years.
Her family’s stables and arena along Lookout Mountain Road are home to Mountain View Equestrian, which Lohmann founded in 2022 at age 14. In the intervening years, she’s built upward, now working with more than 50 clients... Read more...
Mines athletes moving to simplified 5-year eligibility model
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
Starting this fall, all Colorado School of Mines student-athletes are eligible to play for five years — no redshirting required... Read more...
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Sponsors:
($100/month or $1,175/year)
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
Friends:
($50-99.99/month or $575/yr)
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, Saré Merrigan, The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Vic DeMaria, Unite Fitness, and Joy Brandt
Supporters:
($25-49.99/month or $285/yr)
Laura King and Scott Wilson, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Forrest Jones, Barry & Liz Bettis, Cheryl & Tom Schweich, in memory of 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, Robert Thresher, Tonie Mattox, Centennial State Wealth Advisors, Steve & M.L. Richardson, Jeremy & Stephanie Keller, AC Development, Golden PT & Pilates, Frank Young & Terre Deegan-Young, and Esther Kettering
Members:
($10-24.99/month or $115/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, 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, Colleen & Michael Ramey, Nancy & Pete Torpey, Jax Baker, Simon Maybury, Rose McLaughlin, Cameron Chambers, Joyce Gravina, Patrick Klein, Barb Robie, Richard Caldwell, Janice Waring, Sam & Marilyn Baron, Carmen Johnson, Mary Eiberger, Kevin Nichols, Ed & Carol Freza, Laura and Curtis Moore, Ruth Hund, Shelley & Jerry Devitt, Eileen Masterson, Kate Olivier, Amy Korengut, Pam Logan, Clare Shier, Wendy Weiman, Marge Frueh. Nannette Johnson, Edgar Walker, Bivy Beer Bar, Nancy Cooper, Jane & Mike Templeton, Vicki Greivel, Kim McDonough, Carie Chimbel, Peggy Brochtrup, Cindy & Matt Finley, and Kelly Fry
Followers:
($5-9.99/month or $55/year)
Golden Community Garden, Lora Haimes, Mariane Erickson, J.J. Fraser, Bob Hamilton, Steve Stevens, Vicki Olson, Emily Kurzinski, Nanette Johnson, Peyton Gibson, Sally Berger, Kristen Morgan, Joyce Sutton, Mary Rains, Craig Champlin, Stan Swisher, Bill Way, Chris Toney, Alicia Zimmerman, Tamara Feucht, GoldenBrokers, Elizabeth Coil, Diane Tiberi, and Cathy Larocca
