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What's Happening in Golden - Tuesday, Feb. 10th, 2026

News and events in Golden, Colorado. Tuesday, Feb. 10th, 2026

,   and  Barb Warden
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Blue Skies and Castle Rock

Photo by Andi Pearson
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What's happening in Golden today?

Events for Tuesday, Feb. 10th

Golden History Tours
Baby Time - Registration Required
Preschool Time - Registration Required
Team Trivia Tuesday

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

10-11:30AM Community Marketing Board Special Meeting @ City Hall Council Chambers

Note: The equipment in Council chambers has been broken, so you may not be able to watch the meeting live. They generally post the recording the next day.

This "special meeting" is an extension of the January 27th meeting. On that day, they heard from three consulting groups that hope to produce the Marketing Strategic Plan. They will vote to select a consultant.

They will review the Goldens in Golden event.

Visit Golden provides $2K/month to support the Golden Welcome Center. The group will discuss the scope of work associated with this contract.

They will also discuss "Partnership Opportunities," where Golden would be marketed at other events around the state, including

  • Yoga on the Rocks ($10K or $17.5K)
  • Colorado Rockies ($55K, $65K, or $75K)
  • Ball Arena (cost TBD)
  • Red Rocks (cost TBD)
  • Sundance Film Festival (cost TBD)
  • Outside Days Festival (pending)
  • FC Summit (pending)

Location:

City Hall Council Chambers
911 10th Street   (Map)

10AM-3:30PM Quilting with Paper @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum

Jane Mathews teaches her unique technique of quilting paper using junk mail, catalogs, maps, letters, photographs and more. Students will learn the basics of sewing on paper, creating a small paper quilt during class time. This is a one day class, with a short break for a bag lunch. Cost:  $75. Register

Location:

Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
200 Violet Street   (Map)

12-2PM Volunteer Fair @ Front Porch

Volunteering keeps your mind fit and help older adults feel connected to their community, as well are serving an important community role. If you are looking for your place as a volunteer, please join us for our first Volunteer Fair. Local museums, non-profits, gardening groups, libraries, landmark associations, community services, educational services and cultural services who utilize volunteers will be onsite. Each organization will have information about their mission and how to be involved. It will be a chance to ask them questions to see if it’s a good fit for your interests. Lunch provided for the first fifty attendees.

Register | Active Older Adults aged 50+

Location:

Golden Community Center
1470 10th Street   (Map)

5-7PM VIBE@Five @ Baby Doe's

VIBE@FIVE is Golden's Happy Hour! Come join other members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce for this "Very Important Business Event" - VIBE!

This event is for members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce and their guests as well as for members of the Golden Young Professionals.

Stop in for a quick hello and a refreshment right after work and a chance to get to know fellow members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce and Golden Young Professionals. This is a great networking and socializing event. Learn More.

Location:

Baby Does
1116 Washington Avenue   (Map)

6-8PM Herbal Broths for Immunity @ Earth Sweet Boutique

This class will explore the basics of making different herbal broths, and the health benefits of the different herbs used as well as mushrooms & minerals

We'll discuss different pungent veggies, mushrooms, herbs and culinary spices to understand how they impact the body. 

We will sip on hot, vegan broth all the while! Throw on your apron, and join clinical herbalist and nutritionist Liz Faermark for this  demonstrations style class on kitchen herbalism for immune health. $45 - Register 

Location:

Earth Sweet Boutique
1224 Arapahoe Street   (Map)

5PM City Council Study Session @ City Hall

Tonight's Study Session begins at 5PM. Public comment is not allowed during the study session, though you can send written public comment ahead of time. In-person public comment must wait until the Business Meeting at 6:30PM.

Note: The equipment in Council chambers has been broken, so you may not be able to watch the meeting live. They generally post the recording the same night, after the meeting.

Tonight's Study Session Topics:

Victim Compensation Fund
The City's Municipal Judge has suggested that we establish a Victim Compensation Fund for situations where defendants are unable to pay court-ordered restitution to victims.

East Zone Amenity Plan
In addition to the new City Hall, the City plans some significant redesign of the parks along the Creek. Tonight's discussion concerns proposed changes to Parfet and Vanover Parks. Vanover is to be expanded to include both sides of Tucker Gulch (which will make it adjacent to the new City Hall). Tucker Gulch will be integrated into the park landscape. For more information, see the East Zone Amenity Plan.

Golden Wildfire Resiliency Code and Wildfire Map Adoption
Golden will adopt the Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code. Staff is also recommending some Golden-specific additions. In addition to new building codes, the City has prepared new maps, showing the relative vulnerability of various parts of town (pp. 112-113).

Location:

City Hall Council Chambers
911 10th Street   (Map)

6:30PM City Council Business Meeting @ City Hall

Note: The equipment in Council chambers has been broken, so you may not be able to watch the meeting live. They generally post the recordings of City Council meetings that same night.

Public Comment

The meeting begins with 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!).

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:

Housing Needs and Strategies Assessment
This is an update of the Housing Study that Council approved in 2022. The Study was cause for a lot of public conversation at the time, because it concluded that we needed 3,100 additional housing units in the next ten years. Of those, 2,300 (or 76%) should be affordable housing units and 19% should be senior housing.

According to the Housing Study, 95% of all workers in Golden commute in. One of the drivers for that goal of 3,100 new homes was the assumption that everyone who works in Golden should move to Golden.

Since that initial housing study, the State has added new requirements, saying that about 6.4 percent of the total housing stock should be handicap accessible. The City's consultants concluded that 420-700 of Golden's housing units should be accessible.

The report states that Golden had 8,721 housing units in 2024.

The report estimates that Golden has 72 homeless residents. The State also requires that we provide "Supportive Housing" for homeless individuals. Staff estimates that we have 72 homeless residents and need to provide 55 homes for them.

The report states that households with the following characteristics may be at risk of being displaced: "Households making at or below 30%, 50%, and 80% AMI, renter occupied households, housing cost-burdened occupied housing units with annual income less than $75,000, persons age 25+ with no high school diploma, persons age 5+ who speak English “less than well”, single-parent households with children under 18, housing stock built before 1970, race and ethnicity, overcrowded, and civilian non institutionalized population with a disability" and people living in mobile home parks.

Editorial Comment:
The City has built and acquired some affordable housing in the four years since the 2022 plan was released, but this addendum does not say where we stand with regard to the 3,100-household goal. The addendum also states that employment growth and household growth have both slowed since the 2022 study was produced, but it does not provide a new goal. Are we still aiming to add 3,100 households, or is there a new target?

It appears that we still have a tremendous appetite for more affordable housing. Is there any plan to spread it out into the newer/PUD neighborhoods, or will we continue to concentrate it in the Central Neighborhoods (and apparently the adjacent Industrial School land)?

I am surprised to see this Resolution come through on the Consent Agenda. I don't recall this ever being discussed at a Planning Commission meeting, nor at a City Council Study Session. If I, a casual reader, had significant questions about the document, I would guess that those august bodies would have had more.

Grampsas Parking Lot Improvements
Council will approve a $1,388,536.61 contract to re-do the parking lot at Tony Grampsas Park.

Streamgage
Staff is asking Council to approve a $16,000 expense, recurring annually, for a gage on Clear Creek that collects hydrologic data.

Cost Estimating Services for the Lena Gulch Project
Council will approve a $174K contract with a consultant who will provide independent cost estimating services for the Lena Gulch project.

Presentation of National Community Survey Results

The City does a survey every two years, polling a small, statistically valid sample of the population to see now the City is doing. Staff will present the results tonight.

Adopting the City's 2026 Strategic Plan

The Deputy City Manager will present this year's Strategic Plan.

The Golden Word - 02/10/26

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Golden History: Golden's Embarrassingly Un-Grand Depots

Locations of Golden’s 3 passenger depots – excerpt from the 1878 Willits Map of Golden – redrawn by Dan Abbott
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The train station is (or should be) a source of civic pride to any 19th century American city. As the first and last thing that visitors see, it should be a thing of beauty, symbolizing the solidity, affluence, and modernity of the city it represents. As the headquarters of the Colorado Central Railroad and the gateway to mining towns, Golden fully expected to have a depot equal to its status. Somehow, it just never worked out that way.

The Colorado Central was completed from Denver to Golden in September of 1870. A fine brick freight depot was ready, and the City anticipated the passenger depot that must soon follow. In the meantime, passengers made do by sharing the space in the freight depot. The Colorado Transcript was irked by this compromise and wrote many editorials over the years, ranging from hopeful to nagging to disgruntled.

7/24/1872
Work upon the car-shops and machine shops will commence shortly, employing a large number of men, and a handsome union passenger depot will be the next necessity….

In 1878, the railroad relocated a small building from a point east of North Table Mountain to approximately 7th and Ford. This would serve as the long-awaited passenger depot. The Transcript was underwhelmed, but at least the new depot was a bit closer to downtown than the freight depot.

4/17/1878
…it will be utilized for the general passenger depot at this place until a more commodious and substantial building can be erected.

The town continued its wait for the railroad to build a depot more suitable to our stature.

6/8/1881
It seems to us that we have waited about long enough to see a disposition on the part of the Union Pacific and Colorado Central Railroad companies to give us a good passenger depot in place of the wooden abortion that silly economy erected a few years since.

On January 8, 1883, a runaway train derailed and smashed through the modest depot.

1/10/1883
The baggage room, the waiting room and the east half of the lunch room were complete wrecks, while not enough of the platform or cars was left to make a respectable tooth-pick.

Golden-ites went back to catching the train at the freight depot. To complete the ignominy, the splintered remains of the station burned on August 13, 1889.

The Colorado Central Freight Depot – Golden History Museum Collection – click to enlarge

The Transcript hadn’t given up its hopes for a decent depot. An 1887 article detailed “What Golden Wants.” The wants included better aldermen, a democratic postmaster, a higher bridge on Washington Avenue, a creamery, a nice hotel, and a hydro-electric power plant. More than anything else, though, Golden…

3/23/1887
…wants a new passenger depot badly, located near Washington Avenue. This being compelled to hoof it half a mile to the old freight depot to take the trains is an imposition, and ought to be remedied.

The Union Pacific had assumed control of the Colorado Central by this time, so the newspaper appealed to the new owners, first with hope…

4/6/1887
Will the U.P. company heed the demands of its patrons and give us a passenger depot somewhere near the business portion of the town? It is a great bore for their patrons to be compelled to perambulate through the dust, over tracks and any amount of roughness to the old freight depot.

then with despair….

10/5/1887
The U. P. management don’t seem to care a cent for our oft-repeated suggestions about affording our people better depot privileges. If they cannot give us a depot somwhere within easy reach they might at least give us a plank walk from ford street to their present apology for a passenger depot.

A surge of joy and optimism arrived in 1893, when the railroad bought property for a depot at Washington and 8th Street. Plans for a fine new depot were enumerated in the Transcript.

2/1/1893
With everybody in Golden we rejoice with exceeding great joy that the Union Pacific people have come to the conclusion to give us a passenger depot that will be a credit to the road and the city as well.

The article went on to detail the dimensions (29’x65′ with a 140 foot platform), the material (brick), the style (an observatory tower on the roof and an 8′ overhang to keep passengers out of the weather), “ladies’ and gentlemen’s waiting rooms, telegraph office, ticket office, baggage and toilet rooms.” There would be grass, trees, fountains, and flowers on the grounds. “It will be an ornament to the city and can be pointed to with pride by railroad officials.”

By the time construction began in 1896, those glorious plans had been whittled down, and we were left with a small wooden structure. It’s hard not to detect some sarcasm in the Transcript’s article:

1/8/1896
We are happy to note that the much-talked of Gulf passenger depot on Washington avenue is nearing completion. Work was commenced on it last Friday, and would have been completed the same day but for the wind. Its formal opening should be the occasion of at least three days carnival festivities, with flags waving, addresses by the governor and officials of the road, music, banquets, etc. Who’ll be the first to subscribe to the fund for celebrating the “Golden Gulf Palace.”

Golden made do with this depot until passenger service into the mountains was discontinued. According to the late railroad aficionado Bill Robie, the depot building was removed in 1938.

Because the Golden passenger depot was never a point of pride or a thing of beauty, we don’t have fine, postcard-quality photographs of it, but Dan Abbott, the Wizard of All Things Colorado Central, provided this rare photo from his collection:

Golden Railroad Depot (right) and Express & Telegraphic building (left) – Dan Abbott collection – click to enlarge

In this view from the 1919 ICC Inventory we see Golden’s C.&S.
Railroad Depot on the right which had been removed by February 16, 1946. One source indicated that this original building was a part of the Moffat Railroad and was first located at the freight house in the local rail yards, and moved to this location in 1894. The Sanborn Insurance Map of October 1900 is the only reference to the platform between these two buildings, however, this photograph shows the platform. The building on the left – approximately 17′ x 20′ – was listed on all the Sanborn Maps as “Express & Telegraph”. It was built in January 1896 by the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf as a “temporary” structure,and here we see the rear and back side of this building which had been removed by September of 1947. — Dan Abbott

Thanks to both Bill Robie and Dan Abbott for their help with this article, and as always, thanks to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866.

Weather

Overnight's Weather

Overnight: Mostly cloudy. Low around 36, with temperatures rising to around 38 overnight. Southeast wind around 5 mph.

Tuesday's Weather

Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. High near 49, with temperatures falling to around 47 in the afternoon. East wind 3 to 8 mph.

Tuesday Night's Weather

Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. West northwest wind around 5 mph.

Tuesday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 34°F

Wednesday: Mostly Cloudy, 61°F

Wednesday Night: Chance Light Rain, 38°F

Thursday: Chance Light Rain, 57°F

Thursday Night: Chance Light Rain, 34°F

Friday: Chance Light Rain, 49°F

Friday Night: Chance Light Rain, 33°F

Saturday: Sunny, 55°F

Saturday Night: Partly Cloudy, 33°F

Sunday: Partly Sunny, 59°F

Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 35°F

Washington's Birthday: Partly Sunny then Chance Rain And Snow, 60°F

News About Golden - February 10, 2026

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Internet Archive and Partners Select Local Newsrooms from Across the US to Participate in the Today’s News for Tomorrow Program

By Anna Trammel
Internet Archive

Internet Archive, Poynter Institute, and Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) are pleased to announce the first cohort of newsrooms to join the Today’s News for Tomorrow program. With support from Press Forward, Today’s News for Tomorrow will bring together news organizations and memory institutions to address the urgent challenge of local news preservation and perpetual access. The project will create a national framework for digital preservation that serves newsrooms’ “immediate internal needs and communities’ future information needs,” according to Press Forward... Read more...

Colorado School of Mines Operations Noise Alert

Hello Neighbors,

Mines is conducting an outdoor rocket engine demonstration on Tuesday, February 10th between 2:30 and 3:00 PM in Lot Q on campus. (Please see the site map below for location details.) The rocket engine demonstration will emit a loud sound for approximately 5 - 10 seconds between 2:30 and 3:00 PM. The rocket engine will not leave the ground, nor will it be launched. This is a noise notification only.

Questions? Contact Traci Case (tcase@mines.edu)

Goldens in Golden draws thousands of people and pets

By Christopher Koeberl
Golden Transcript

It may have been the near-perfect weather or just Colorado’s love for Golden Retrievers, but downtown Golden was packed with people and puppies on Saturday, Feb. 7, for the seventh annual event, ‘Goldens in Golden.’Court

Organizers of this year’s event estimate at least 16,000 people and nearly as many canine companions attended on a sunny day with temperatures around 60 degrees... Read more...

By Alexander Kirk
9News

GOLDEN, Colo. — The 8th annual "Goldens in Golden" further cemented itself as the world’s largest unofficial gathering of golden retrievers... Read more...

Denver’s affordable-housing vacancy rate is at a 10-year high. Experts say the city still needs more units.

By Elliott Wenzler
Denver Post

Despite a decade-high vacancy rate in Denver’s affordable-housing market, local experts are warning that the city’s overall supply is on track to “fall off a cliff” in the next few years.

About 8.8% of the city’s affordable apartments — also known as subsidized or income-restricted units — were vacant as of January... Read more...

Golden goes pink to kick off annual Wish Week fundraiser

By Sara Hertwig
Golden Transcript

Golden High School was almost entirely devoted to Make-A-Wish Colorado kid Margaret last week... Read more...

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