Karen Sandstead, playing Ruth Correll, rehearses the First United Methodist Church s creation of Attention Homes in 1960 during a play rehearsal Thursday.

Luke Francis "Frank" Finn turned an abandoned gold-mining saloon, the Gold Hill Inn, into a mecca of good food, bottomless drinks, irreverent laughter and warm memories high in the mountains west of Boulder.

Jesters Dinner Theatre presents 'Cell Block Terror,' a haunted house open 7:30 to 11 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in October at the theater, 224 Main St.

Luke Francis Finn of Gold Hill and Longmont, Colorado, and Key West, Florida, died on Saturday, September 26, surrounded by his family in the tranquil comfort and care of Boulder County Hospice at Balfour in Louisville, Colorado, after a brief illness.

In the recent decision regarding paving 1.5 miles in Sunshine, the commissioners' rhapsodic speeches around rural character and mountain roads do not make sense.

Colorado singer-songwriter Danny Shafer unveils his new album, "One Morning," with a CD release party tonight at Steve's Guitars in Carbondale.

Emergency crews and firefighters on Tuesday responded to structure fire at 13536 Gold Hill Road, in unincorporated Boulder County.

Barbara Lawlor WARD In the spring of 2000, Pete Lawrence, Ward marshal and assistant fire chief, responded to the scene of a motor vehicle accident.

Since 1985, the traffic on the dirt section of Sunshine Canyon Drive has more than doubled, and with it, so has the dust cloud left hanging in the cars' wake.

Guy Stevenson, of Boulder, prepares for a motorcycle ride Tuesday afternoon after a brief stop at the Gold Hill General Store, which opened in the 1880s to serve area miners.

Dirk Arnold, of Gold Hill, grabs up a a oeLeave My Home Alonea T-shirt before the start of a City Council meeting on house-size regulations at the Boulder Municipal Building on Tuesday.

To say Jane Gould has been a witness to history is an understatement. Born in 1906, she's lived through two World Wars, and was in Hawaii on Aug.

James Sharpe, service manager at Trek Store of Boulder, bikes down Moorhead Avenue on his way home to Broomfield on Friday.

The outside of the Gold Hill Inn. GOLD HILL IN Where: 401 Main St., Gold Hill, Boulde; 303-443-6475, www.goldhillinn.com . What: Rustic gourmet, varied bistro fare for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The details of the exercise, which begins at 8 a.m. with a briefing for staff members and those playing the victims in the mock disaster, are secret so as to best re-create the conditions of an actual emergency.