30 years ago – October 21, 1983
The proposed increase in the mill levy for students of the Boulder Valley School District passed by an overwhelming margin in the election Tuesday, but the voter turnout was poor. District-wide, 11, 736 voters said “yes” to an increase of 5.5 mills in their tax bills. “No” votes were cast by 4, 564 voters. Sybil Downing, a spokesman for Boulder Valley School District, said only 24.2 percent of the registered voters participated in the election. In Nederland, only 20 percent of the registered voters turned out to cast their votes: 204 residents voted in favor of the tax increase, 133 were against it.
The windswept peak of Dakota Hill, above Apex, is the ideal location to put a repeater for Gilpin County’s radio channels, but it wasn’t until transistors replaced tubes that the project became feasible. Gilpin now has two repeaters placed securely on the mountaintop. Originally, John Starkey, who has been in charge of the operations and designed the new repeater system, had planned to have UREA (Union Rural Electric Association) string power lines to the site. After giving some thought to problems with high winds and ice loading, he decided to have the 3,200 feet of power line buried. If UREA should fail, there is a complete battery backup for the system which will supply power for about two days.
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