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This Month in The Connection

For holiday dessert, use your NOGgin

By CPC | Dec 1, 2024

This is it. December: the big show for people like me who love to go into the kitchen and really make a mess. One of my favorite traditions is making…

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First-ever flag football team wins third in state

By CPC | Dec 1, 2024

Competitive, successful, challenging and blessed. These are just a few words from Valor Christian High School coaches and players to describe the girls first-ever flag football season. The team placed…

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Spices and scents of the season

By CPC | Dec 1, 2024

The holiday season conjures up remembrances of gatherings with friends and family and often the aromatic scents of the season. Our sense of smell is strongly linked with memory and…

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December Crossword

By CPC | Dec 1, 2024

Crossword brought to you by Allstate Insurance — Tammy Lopez  (720) 733-1331 Across 1. Links rental 5. Mother-of-pearl 10. Vatican vestment 13. Birthplace of 7 U.S. presidents 14. Arm of…

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The perfect landing

By CPC | Dec 1, 2024

American Academy (AA) – Castle Pines celebrated incredible heroes throughout Douglas County with a warm welcome, thank you and a breakfast on October 28, National First Responders Day. The Douglas…

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Kindergarten registration opens soon

By CPC | Dec 1, 2024

Kindergarten registration for the Douglas County School District’s 2025-2026 school year will begin the week of December 2. Incoming students must turn 5 on or before October 1, 2025, to…

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The blessing of a bench

By CPC | Dec 1, 2024

Toni Fortson Merfeld visits Buffalo Ridge Elementary (BRE) once a year, at the end of September. She has visited the school for more than two decades as a way to…

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Student podcast earns national recognition

By CPC | Dec 1, 2024

The Rocky Heights Middle School (RHMS) speech class has risen to new heights. The student podcast Drastic Plastic received an honorable mention in the middle school category of National Public…

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Do’nut’ eat it…it is soap

By CPC | Dec 1, 2024

Beginning in first grade, Jackson Renberg wanted to be an entrepreneur; he even made a fake business nametag and decided Zing was a good company name. Fast forward a few…

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Dedicated to her students

By CPC | Dec 1, 2024

Teachers play an invaluable role in the lives of children: what they teach, their relationships with students and by creating a safe space for learning. For 18 years, first-grade teacher…

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