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🌱 Patch AM: What Littleton’s new SCHEELS means for taxes, jobs and family fun.

Coming up: Corn Maze at Chatfield Farms on the Littleton Patch calendar

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Hi Littleton! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • What Littleton's new SCHEELS means for taxes, jobs and family fun.
  • How Littleton survivors thanked the hospital teams who saved them
  • What's new at Chatfield Farms' corn maze opening Friday?

Also on today's calendar: Just Between Friends Douglas County and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: When geese fly, one side is longer than the other. do you know why that is ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: A heavy t-storm in the p.m., with a high of 81 and low of 57 degrees.
  • Friday: A shower and thunderstorm, temps: high: 83, low: 57.
  • Saturday: An afternoon thunderstorm, with a high of 79 and low of 52 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• SCHEELS is finally coming to the Denver-area, complete with a 60-foot Ferris wheel inside the store (kygo.com) — Littleton has officially landed a massive 300,000-square-foot SCHEELS flagship at the new Mineral Place development, complete with a 60-foot indoor Ferris wheel and hundreds of jobs. City council approved a 30-year tax incentive deal, expecting tens of millions in sales tax revenue while sharing the site with a new Costco along the C-470 corridor.
   

• Former patients reunite to celebrate a second chance at life (adventhealth.com) — AdventHealth Littleton is spotlighted as former critically ill patients, including Jenna Phillips, reunite with the doctors and nurses who helped save their lives. A recent survivor picnic for Littleton and Porter ECMO and Impella patients offered emotional support, celebration, and a reminder of the advanced critical care available close to home for Littleton-area families.
   

• Three of Colorado's biggest corn mazes open this week (kygo.com) — Littleton families can start fall early as the Corn Maze at Chatfield Farms opens this Friday, offering a seven-acre maze, mini-maze, barrel train rides and food vendors. Alongside big mazes in LaSalle and Thornton, this Littleton attraction runs through Nov. 1, giving locals plenty of chances to get lost in some nearby cornfield fun.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • A mountain lion was spotted in a tree on Eaton Street in Westminster, prompting police to close the road, but it was safely tranquilized and relocated by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
    10:23AM on Sep 15: Eaton St between 112th Ave and 113th Ave is closed due to a mountain lion in a tree, with CPW on scene. (Nextdoor )
  • Is anyone missing or looking for a Lynx Point Siamese [I believe] kitty around Kipling and Vandeventor [south of 470 on Kipling]?
    It's visited a few times and want to know if it just needs to get home, or if it needs to be trapped and scanned for a chip. Sorry, photos are taken… (Nextdoor Chatfield Bluffs South)
  • Domino's Pizza posted a job opening for Customer Service Rep/Expediter (06243) - 11757 W. Ken Caryl Avenue in Littleton. Apply here.
  • Littleton Public Schools posted a job opening for Custodian with Benefits- Heritage High School 4 hour-Evening in Littleton. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Littleton here.

🗞 Nearby News

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  • AI agents are going rogue. CIOs are racing to put guardrails around them (fortune.com)

Ok Littleton! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: because there are more geese on that side (Thank you jo L. for sending it in!)
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