Happy Tuesday, Goldenites! If any of you are on Spring Break today, I hope you’re enjoying yourselves and getting some much-needed R&R! 🌷

I know I’ve had basketball on the brain for the past week, but it’s definitely spring now. As such, we’ve got some great coverage of Golden High School baseball in today’s Tintype, along with a look at Mines’ Engineers Without Borders student group before its spring fundraiser, and several news items about Jeffco Public Schools.

And read ‘til the end for a fun Spring Break-themed “Blast from the Past” section! ⛷

But first, the return of High-Low-Buffalo! (My week’s high point, low point and a random thing that happened)

🦬 This week’s High-Low-Buffalo

High: I was actually off most of last week, enjoying a Spring Break stay-cation with family visiting from out of state. We did some stuff in Denver, but I also got to show off plenty of Golden attractions, parks, restaurants, etc. as well! 🌄

Low: The downside of being on vacation: Now I have to catch up on all the meetings and whatnot I missed last week! 🙃

Buffalo: Speaking of buffalo … we saw the Genesee bison herd and Buffalo Bill’s gravesite back-to-back on Friday. How apt! 🦬

Like a great book that is always worth a second read, the story of Golden baseball’s journey to the Class 4A state championship in 2025 will always be a memorable moment to look back on.

However, the Demons have already begun writing a new tale with the spring 2026 baseball season underway. As of March 23, they were 3-1 with their next game on March 25 in Alabama.

“People may think we have a lot of pressure to go back-to-back, but that really isn’t what we are focused on,” Golden junior Dylan Paulson said. “We are really focused on game-to-game and how we can get better to be playing our best baseball at the end of the season.”

The question of repeating is something Golden coach Jackie McBroom has fielded a few times since capturing the state title back on May 31, 2025, at Erdle Field at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

“I’ve got that question a hundred million times. Repeat? Repeat? Repeat? Honestly, we don’t even think about that,” Coach McBroom said of Golden having the chance to win back-to-back state titles. “We are focused on game-to-game. We lost the other day to Eaton, and then we focused on (Summit) today because we knew they had a good pitcher.”

Some students at the Colorado School of Mines are getting lessons in humanitarian engineering.

They are members of Mines Without Borders, a student chapter of Engineers Without Borders. The students volunteer to take on engineering projects both in the United States and abroad in an effort to improve other people’s lives.

The chapter is matched with projects through the national organization, meets with constituents in the town, designs the project, in many cases builds and implements the project, and follows up to make sure it is working properly. 

Julia Berglind, a senior geophysics major, said she joined the chapter two years ago and enjoys taking what she learns in the classroom and applying it to real-world projects.

“A really cool aspect of this club is that for most projects — the Bolivia project, for example — we go from application to implementation,” Berglind said.

The Lakewood man charged in the Sept. 11 chase from the El Rancho Walmart down Interstate 70 has pleaded not guilty.

Tyler Young, who was 33 when he was arrested, is now scheduled for a pretrial conference at 8:30 a.m. March 30 at the Jefferson County Courthouse.

He appeared virtually from the Jefferson County jail at his March 16 arraignment, where his attorney entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.

However, she told Judge Jason Carrithers that she and the prosecutor had been hoping to reach a plea agreement before the March 16 arraignment, but the parties ran out of time for her to raise a mental condition defense. She said she wanted to do so at the March 30 pretrial conference.

The prosecution didn’t object, and Carrithers said the parties would discuss a mental condition defense on March 30.

💲 Jeffco Public Schools is running out of money to fix its buildings. The district says its repair fund will be depleted after next fiscal year, with no replacement funding in sight. Read more here.

⚖ Pierre Morris, the suspected driver in the Aug. 2 road-rage shooting and chase through southwestern Golden, is set to enter a plea April 13. He’s currently being held at the Jeffco jail on a $500,000 cash only bond. Read the full story here.

🚨 Authorities are asking for the public’s help in finding the vehicle responsible for striking and killing a pedestrian March 14 in Evergreen. The accident reportedly took place between 7:30-7:45 p.m. that night on Highway 74 near the intersection with Kerr Gulch Road. Read more about the incident here. The Evergreen community is mourning the victim, identified as Kerr Gulch resident Michael Longfellow. Read more about the community’s reaction here.

📝 Evergreen High School students, teachers and parents are asking lawmakers to pass HB26-1255, legislation that would require social media platforms to respond to law enforcement search warrants within 24 hours and establish a duty to report threatening content to police. A House Judiciary Committee voted 7-4 to advance the bill to the full House. Read more here.

🏫 The U.S. Department of Education has ordered Jeffco Public Schools to reverse its transgender student policy or risk losing millions in federal funding. For the roughly 74,000 students in Jeffco schools, nothing changes immediately, but Jeffco had until March 23 to decide whether to comply or set up a legal fight that could shape how Colorado schools handle transgender students for years. Read the full story here.

This week’s keyword search: “spring break”

The results: For Spring Break 1990, then-GHS student and “Demon Data” writer Tammy Harney went skiing for the first time as research for a spring break column. ⛷ Read the entire column here.

All archive clippings are available through The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection

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