Keenesburg News

This weekend marks the second annual Captain Shane Stewart Memorial Poker Run. The two-day event kicks off at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Full Moon Saloon, 206 Main St.

Gerald Graybill walks through his hay field near Keenesburg on Friday, after the area was hit the night before with hard rain again.

The National Weather Service in Denver has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for south central Weld County and north central Adams county until 5 p.m. today.

Two school bus accidents last week involving two different drivers for a rural Weld County district appear to be just part of a string of bad luck, according to a preliminary investigation by state and district officials.

Things just keep getting more complicated for the Keenesburg-Hudson school district, in southeastern Weld County, as the driver of a school bus involved in a crash Wednesday likely will be ticketed for driving the bus away from a stop sign and into the path of a car, according to the Colorado State Patrol.

Four children are among six people injured in a collision between a school bus and a car in Weld County.

Four children are among six people injured in a collision between a school bus and a car in Weld County.

Authorities suspect a school bus hit a horse and failed to stop, leading to a second crash that pinned a man's legs beneath his vehicle.

Phil Pietrowski/Special To The Times No serious injuries This pileup pictured above stopped Saturdaya s econos main event at I-76 Speedway, but track manager Butch Speicher was happy to report there were no serious injuries.

In 1882, the Burlington-Missouri Railroad created a station called Keene on a sidetrack used primarily for loading and shipping livestock.

A former Weld County high school cheerleading captain who was left a quadriplegic after a rollover accident was awarded $18 million in damages by a U.S. District Court jury in Denver.

On average, Denver residents generate about 50 pounds of garbage every week. Most of it ends up in a landfill.

A landscaping crew from Prairie Snow Enterprises out of Keenesburg places mulch around a garden bed at an Aurora home that federal funds helped to refurbish.

Braden Daniel Schellenberg, a boy, weighing 7 lbs. 6 oz., was born April 2 to Jason and Shelly Schellenberg of Roggen at Colorado Plains Medical Center.

While the wind continues to whip snow across area roads, the state Department of Transportation has closed several roads across the state, including two in Weld County: * westbound Interstate 76 has been closed at Keenesburg due to an accident.

Snow and strong winds hit northern Colorado this morning, resulting in hazardous driving conditions and the declaration that Weld County is on accident alert.

Several Weld County and region school districts remain closed today due to the weather conditions.

Hoops and humor will come together Friday to help a charity fund that in recent years has been depleted.

The independent, family-owned Colorado bank will shutter two other locations in May: one in Dacono and one in Keenesburg.

The Heart of the Plains Cemetery in southeastern Weld County now has an American flag flying over its eight graves.