Joe “Jose” Trujillo

At the televised Littleton City Council meeting on Tuesday, February 20, Bruce Stahlman was sworn in as District II’s Council Member. He was selected from the field of eight candidates who applied to fill the seat vacated by Pat Cronenberger. The only one of the seven unselected candidates who came to the meeting was Jose Trujillo. He welcomed Stahlman to council and walked over to shake his hand – that is class.

Kudos to…
Littleton’s Snow Clearing Crew!

by Jack Randall

I have been a Colorado resident all of my life. I don’t remember any other combination of early winter snow storms back-to-back and cold temperatures such as we have seen in the past 30 days.

The city crews fought the accumulation of snow by working 24 hours a day for 15 days. They worked in 12 hour shifts and even rented an additional motor grader to clear the roads.

So much snow fell that the crews ran out of places to move it. They couldn’t plow all the lanes clear without covering parked cars. They couldn’t plow the cars out without filling the driving lanes with piled snow.

Littleton is reputed to have 165 miles of streets. The major streets were opened and kept open and each residential street was plowed at least twice by a plow or a grader. Recently crews have focused on keeping public sidewalks cleared and responding to citizen requests to address problem areas.

It is impossible to plow all the streets clear to the pavement with the equipment and manpower available. Other metro cities had it far worse as their crews weren’t as capable as ours.

Perfect clearing would require heated streets and more money to keep them heated than we will ever have.

All-in-all they did a fine job. If you have a chance, thank them for their work.