🌱Edgewater Inn Reborn + New COVID-19 Variants +Fracking Bad For Ozone

Morning, neighbors! It's me, Brad K. Evans, your host of the Lakewood Daily. Here are all the things you need to know about what's happening in town today, including:

• Edgewater Inn has new owners and are cooking up tasty food.
• New COVID-19 variants have arrived in Colorado and are expected to spread fast.
• Colorado's air quality from fracking is worse than we were told.

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Friday's weather: Mostly cloudy. High: 44 Low: 26.

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Here are the top stories in Lakewood today:

1. Edgewater Inn has new owners. The new owners have taken over the beloved pizza place, and have already reopened and from what we're told, will "keep the grit." (Edgewater Echo)
2. A new batch of COVID-19 variants have already arrived in Colorado. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said that two COVID-19 variants are rapidly growing in strength and expected to take over soon. (Westword)
3. Fracking is making the front range's air quality worse than believed. A new study shows that production of fossil fuels in Colorado is contributing more ozone pollution in the Front Range region than all auto emissions combined. (CPR)
4. University of Colorado scientists are helping keep space clean. Scientists and engineers at the University of Colorado are working on ways to mitigate risks of damage to space craft that are circling the earth and developing technologies that can track and remove space debris. (9News)

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Today in Lakewood:

• Opening Reception: "Once Upon A Time in the West" group art show. (6 p.m.)
• Opening Reception at NEXT Gallery: Missing, Murdered, Remembered by R. Matthew Bollinger. (5-10 p.m.)

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From my notebook:

• Lakewood residents invited to open house for planning arts, parks and recreation needs. The City of Lakewood's arts, parks and recreation planning effort, Imagine Tomorrow!, is in the final stages of determining the priorities for the next 10 years. Lakewood residents are invited to attend a public open house on Wednesday, Jan. 18 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Clements Community Center, 1580 Yarrow St. (Lakewood)

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That's it for today. See you all tomorrow morning for another update! — Brad K. Evans

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