I was watching CNN this morning and saw a reporter standing in front of my town's court house.
Oh, right. The school shooting earlier this week took place in Highlands Ranch, which is part of Douglas County, of which my town is the county seat. Of course, many national news reporters are referring to the incident as a "Denver school shooting", since Denver is obviously the most well known city and county in the area, as well as being a mere dozen miles away. In actuality, there's yet another county in between Denver and Douglas. That's Arapahoe, which includes Littleton, and immediately to the west of Littleton is the famed Columbine High School, which is technically a part of Jefferson County.
The media has naturally made a lot of this week's school shooting being less than 10 miles from the famed Columbine, but each is in a completely different county.
Anyway, I live a good ten miles from my town's center and the interstate, so haven't seen the likely traffic created by the mass media. I do know it's the second time in a couple of months that the national media has been out -- they were hanging around here in March when this area got hit with the "bomb cyclone" blizzard.
The city of Highlands Ranch is the only wholly urban town in Douglas County. All the others, including Castle Rock, are semi-rural or thoroughly rural. Highlands Ranch is far and away the youngest town, being built less than fifty years ago on massive property that was once the locally famed Phipps Cattle Ranch.
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