Holiday Lights at Dawn
Photo by Richard Luckin
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Tuesday, Jan. 13th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Golden History Tours
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden Sports
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time - Registration Required
- 10:15-10:45AM - Preschool Time - Registration Required
- 10:30AM - Front Porch Friends Meeting @ The Community Center
- 4:30-5:30PM - Teen Advisory Board - Golden Library
- 5PM - City Council Reception for Incoming and Outgoing Councilors and Business Meeting @ City Hall
- 5-7PM - VIBE@Five
- 5:30-7:30PM - Exploring the Elements of Art
- 5:45-7PM - Golden High School PTA Meeting
- 6:30-8:30PM - Team Trivia Tuesday
- 6:30-8:30PM - Bar Bingo Night
- 7PM - Pub Trivia
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
5-7PM VIBE@Five
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.
hank you to this month's host, Gnarly's! Light food will be provided, and your first drink will generously be covered by Mesa Meadows.
Become a member | Register for this event
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.
Location:
Gnarly’s
1224 Washington Avenue (Map)
5PM City Council Reception for Incoming and Outgoing Councilors and Business Meeting @ City Hall
Photo by Joyce Davell
This is a unique Council meeting that happens once every two years. It's the "peaceful transfer of power" as three councilors leave the board and three new ones join it. The agenda is available online, and you can attend in person or watch online, beginning at 5PM.
- Public comment for the old council (3 minute limit)
- The consent agenda for the old council: approving a pay raise for the municipal court judge
- Gifts for the outgoing councilors and comments by those councilors
- Swearing-in the new councilors
- Mayor appoints Councilor Vitry as Mayor Pro Tem and other councilors to various boards and commissions
- Public comment for the new council (3 minute limit)
- Consent agenda for new council: approve a $1.56 million contract to build a sound wall
- Consent agenda for new council: change to the land lease for Canyon Gate Senior Apartments to allow several upgrades
- Consent agenda for new council: designate the City websit and the bulleting board inside Cit Hall as the official places to post public meetings
- Proclamation: National Radon Action Month
Visit Guiding Golden Council Comments for ideas, thoughts and information from council members pertinent to current and upcoming issues facing the community, as well as contact information.
Location:
City Hall Council Chambers
911 10th Street (Map)
When:
5PM on Tuesday, Jan. 13th
The Golden Word - 01/13/26
Golden History: Early Golden Playgrounds
Children at Golden’s South School, circa 1910 – Golden History Museum Collection
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Several years ago, I heard a radio interview with the author of Once Upon A Playground, which was a history of playgrounds and playground equipment. As a child, Brenda Biondo had spent many happy hours playing in public parks. Thirty years later, when she had her own child, she noticed that the styles of playground equipment had changed in the interim years. Gone were the molten-hot metal slides and the whiplash-inducing (but fun!) merry-go-rounds of old. They had been replaced by safer plastic equipment.
This inspired Ms. Biondo to travel around, searching out old playgrounds with old equipment, which she began to photograph. That sounded like exactly the kind of project I would undertake, and I was so intrigued that I bought the book. I learned that playgrounds were developed as part of the Progressive movement in the early 20th century. They were a new idea, designed to keep kids busy, healthy, and out of trouble. They soon began to appear in towns across the country.
Now here’s the Golden connection:
116 Years Ago
The January 13, 1910 Colorado Transcript announced that the graduating class of 1910 planned to purchase playground equipment as their class gift to the school.
The playground movement has assumed large proportions all over the country, and many kinds of apparatus have been devised by which children can get exercise and fun at the same time. These include teeter boards, merry-go-rounds, chute-the-chutes, flying rings, swings, etc.
The students were in rehearsal for their senior play, and planned to donate the ticket proceeds to the playground fund. When they learned of this plan, the Golden Improvement Club–a precursor to the Golden Chamber of Commerce–pledged to contribute to the project.
The following June, at commencement, the class presented the Golden schools with two sets of playground equipment–one for the North School and one for the South School.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear. Low around 42, with temperatures rising to around 44 overnight. West wind around 12 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny. High near 60, with temperatures falling to around 55 in the afternoon. West northwest wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy. Low around 37, with temperatures rising to around 40 overnight. West northwest wind 5 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Tuesday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 37°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny, 55°F
Wednesday Night: Mostly Clear, 41°F
Thursday: Sunny, 59°F
Thursday Night: Mostly Clear, 32°F
Friday: Mostly Sunny, 50°F
Friday Night: Partly Cloudy, 29°F
Saturday: Sunny, 52°F
Saturday Night: Mostly Clear, 35°F
Sunday: Sunny, 57°F
Sunday Night: Mostly Clear, 34°F
M.L. King Jr. Day: Sunny, 56°F
News About Golden - January 13, 2026
Lindsey Heaps to join Denver Summit FC, bringing star power home to Colorado
By Bobbi Sheldon
9News
...Heaps was born and raised in Golden, Colorado. She returns to her home state after a decorated professional career that has spanned the NWSL, UEFA Women’s Champions League, and international football’s biggest stages... Read more...
City of Golden Police Blotter
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Mines swimming celebrates 11 seniors during RMAC duals meet
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
After two days of cloudy and snowy weather, the Jan. 10 sunbeams fell like a spotlight on 11 senior Orediggers and their teammates for their final home meet... Read more...
January storm brings Golden’s first snowfall of 2026
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
Over Jan. 8-9, Golden saw its first snowfall of 2026... Read more...
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Buffalo Rose, Buglet Solar, Foothills Art Center, 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, Clothilde Elingbow, Michael Mason, Goosetown Station, and Earth Sweet Boutique
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, 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, Robert Thresher, Tonie Mattox, Centennial State Wealth Advisors, and Steve & M.L. Richardson
Members:
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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, 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, and Marge Frueh
Followers:
($5-9.99/month)
Golden Community Garden, Lora Haimes, Mariane Erickson, J.J. Fraser, Mel Perkins, 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
