• This weekend's events: concerts at Clement Park, Town Hall Arts Center shows, Final Fridays downtown, Western Welcome Week in August, and everything worth leaving the house for

• Restaurant and business openings: Portillo's coming to Mineral, Ziggi's Coffee, Nanu's Kitchen, Ken Caryl Kabob, and what opens next

• Development updates: the Costco at Mineral Place, the Shea rezone at TrailMark, sewer and stormwater rates. All tracked so you don't have to dig through council minutes

• Trail and outdoor reports: conditions at Deer Creek Canyon, South Valley Park, Chatfield, and Waterton Canyon, plus fire bans and drought stage

• The stuff neighbors talk about: the Simms and Ken Caryl sewer dig, HOA letters over brown lawns, Littleton's new police chief, school news from Chatfield and Columbine

• Local business spotlights and deals: the small businesses behind our favorite strip malls and Main Street shops

Who writes this thing?

Hey, I'm Joey. Software engineer, 80127 resident, and the guy who reads the meeting agendas so this newsletter has something in it besides the weather.

I started the Hogback Post because I was tired of piecing together local news from Nextdoor arguments, random Facebook groups, and the occasional Patch article. Our corner of the metro (Ken Caryl, Columbine, the foothills) is changing fast. Costco and Portillo's are coming to Mineral. The Shea rezone at TrailMark just got pushed to December. And most of us heard about these things months after the decisions were already made.

The Hogback Post is named after the Dakota Hogback, that 70-million-year-old tilted rock ridge you can see from pretty much every neighborhood in Ken Caryl. It's been here longer than anything. It's not going anywhere. Neither is this newsletter.

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