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Denver Post News

• Chatwood excels for Rockies on mound in easy win over Giants May 19, 2013
  As major-league pitchers go, Tyler Chatwood is not very big. The Rockies' media guide generously lists him as 6-feet, 185 pounds. But what Chatwood lacks in stature he makes up for with tenacity and firepower.
• Aurora Public Schools open first community garden May 18, 2013
  Students and neighborhood residents joined together Saturday to dig in Aurora Public Schools' first community garden. Located at North Middle School,the garden is part of a new curriculum for the school's health sciences and science courses.
• Staunton State Park opens, a wilderness oasis near Denver May 18, 2013
  Colorado is opening its first new state park near metro Denver in 35 years Saturday, a protected patch of nature 36 miles southwest of the city.
• Ana Holland of Regis speeds to 5A 100-meter dash title in nation-best time May 18, 2013
  Ana Holland of Regis Jesuit High School won the 5A state 100-meter dash title Saturday at Jeffco Stadium in 11.33 seconds which, entering the weekend, would be the top time in the country.
• Loveland's Collin Klein still believes he can get an NFL shot May 18, 2013
  In his final two seasons as a do-it-all option in Kansas State's offense, quarterback Collin Klein carried the ball 524 times. After not getting drafted, consider the NFL's conventional wisdom a shot to the sternum every bit as hard as any he took in college. Klein isn't giving up his NFL dream yet, though.
• Forest Service's Ken Kowynia reflects on 32 years in Colorado skiing May 18, 2013
  Ken Kowynia stops midslope to admire a roped-off copse of spruce trees. Young tree tips barely poke through the snow in the shadow of giant old-growth spruce.