Here's your local news at a glance for Thursday, the 11th of September.
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🏘️ Community
Today, Colorado communities hold memorial events to honor the victims and first responders of 9/11—featuring a stair climb at Red Rocks in Morrison starting at 9 a.m. and a headstone cleaning at Fort Logan in Denver, while other events continue in Broomfield, Fort Collins, and Black Hawk. These ceremonies mark the 24th anniversary of the attack and give local residents a chance to remember those affected.
💼 Business
RK Industries plans to move its headquarters from Denver to Aurora and build a 154,488-square-foot facility that will consolidate four business divisions—creating 1,786 new jobs over the next eight years, officials said.
📰 Economy
New job data shows that Colorado added 51,000 fewer jobs than first counted during the 12-month period ending in March—this is the biggest drop for the state and part of a national revision that cut job growth by 911,000.
The numbers are still preliminary and will be updated as more accurate data is collected.
🎓 Education
The Colorado Center for the Blind and CSU Extension’s Colorado Master Gardener program teach blind adults to garden using touch and smell to grow vegetables and gain everyday independence.
The program gives students practical skills—like planting and harvesting—that build confidence and self-sufficiency.
🏈 Sports
The Denver Broncos announced plans to build a new stadium at Burnham Yard while the current Empower Field site will be demolished for redevelopment in the 2030s—Mayor Mike Johnston said the new stadium with a retractable roof and mixed-use development could boost the team’s economic impact to $1 billion a year.
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