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🌱 $25 Tickets To Breckenridge + Lakewood Police Searching For Victims

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Hello all. It's me, Brad K. Evans, your host of the Daily. Here's all the local news you need to know right now. In today's issue, you'll find:

  • CDOT's Snowstang bus service providing $25 round trip tickets to Breckenridge.
  • Lakewood police searching for additional assault victims on RTD's light rail.
  • The entire list of rejected vanity plates in Colorado in 2022 is linked below.

Thursday's weather: Partly sunny. High: 43 Low: 29.


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Here are the top stories today in Lakewood:

  1. Snowstang Bus service provides round trip tickets to Breckenridge for $25. Colorado Department of Transportation is now offering roundtrip bus rides between the Federal Center in Lakewood to Breckenridge Ski Resort for $25. The Snowstang bus program is part of the CDOT's goal of reducing traffic and auto emissions. (Summit Daily)
  2. Lakewood police searching for additional victims in RTD light rail assaults. Lakewood Police believe that there are more individuals that were victimized as part of a series of assaults, between late August and early November, on the W Line of the RTD light rail train in 2022. (CBS4)
  3. Migrant tide slowing in Denver. The City of Denver is only allowing migrants to stay in city run shelters for 14 days, as the flood of migrants who have been pouring into coming into Colorado begins to slow. (KDVR)
  4. Here's the entire list of the 24,637 requests for vanity plates that were denied in 2022. Colorado's DMV rejected over 24,000 vanity plates last year. FOX31 made a request for the entire list of rejected plates and received 525 pages of rejected plate requests. (FOX31

Today in Lakewood:

  • Baby Time: Belmar Library (9:15 a.m.)
  • Gentle Yoga: Lakewood Library (11 a.m.)
  • WestFax Trivia Night: WestFax brewery. (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

  • Reduce your home heating and electric bills: This FREE interactive workshop will provide information about DIY home energy improvements that will help lower your energy bills. Bring the whole family because there will be kid-friendly energy activities. Thursday, Jan. 12 from 5-7 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, 1455 Newland Street. (Lakewood)
  • Mark your calendar. Registration for City of Lakewood's summer camps will open on Feb. 7 for residents and Feb. 9 for non-residents. Lakewood resident that are in need of financial assistance, can apply now to have funds ready to use for camp registration. (LCC)

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Thanks for following along and staying informed! I'll see you on Friday morning with another edition of the Lakewood Daily. — Brad K. Evans

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