CANADA GOOSE OPENING OUTLETS IN COLORADO

Canada Goose, the Toronto-based firm known for its luxury down outerwear clothing including parkas, lightweight down jackets, vests and snow pants as well as knitwear, gloves, hats, hood trims and more, announced it will open a retail store at Denver’s Cherry Creek Shopping Center in December. It will also open a pop-up outlet on E. Hyman St. in Aspen. Canada Goose opened two flagship stores in Toronto in 2016 and New York City, and has U.S. retail stores in Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, Minnesota and California.

MAKE SURE TO VOTE TODAY

Today is election day and Coloradans can still register to vote online at GoVoteColorado.gov and then vote in person until 7 p.m. tonight. In-person voting is available from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. As of early Monday morning, only 35 percent of eligible Colorado voters had voted. Around 1.34 million ballots had been returned. There are over 3.81 million registered voters in the state. At this point in 2020, nearly 2.54 million ballots had been returned. That was a presidential election which normally produces higher voter numbers, but in the 2018 midterm over 1.61 million ballots had been returned with one day to go before the election.

SUBTROPICAL STORM NICOLE WILL LIKELY BECOME A HURRICANE, HEADING FOR FLORIDA

The National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch for subtropical storm Nicole that formed early Monday over the Atlantic Ocean. Nicole is projected to reach hurricane strength before coming ashore somewhere along the eastern coast of Florida later this week. The hurricane watch means hurricane conditions are possible within about 48 hours and the watch covers a 200-mile stretch of Florida from Hallandale Beach to the border of Volusia and Brevard counties. Nicole’s center was about 435 miles east of the Bahamas Monday afternoon and was expected to strengthen in the warm water near the islands.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS LOOKING AT BANNING COMPOSTABLE MATERIALS AT LANDFILL

Glenwood Springs public works and landfill officials appeared before city council last week to address the issue of restricting some materials at the South Canyon Landfill. The primary focus would be to ban or restrict items such as yard waste, metal, cardboard and food waste, which could be easily composted or recycled. Yard waste accounts for 8.7 percent of the total waste going into the landfill, about 3,350 tons worth, instead of being composted. Another 16 percent of waste going to the landfill is food waste, according to Liz Mauro, the landfill manager.

PHASED APPROACH FOR DURANGO DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT

Last year, Durango city officials were estimating the cost of the engineering design of the Next Step pedestrian improvement project was $400,000. The city sent out requests for proposals in August and the lowest of the proposals returned was three times that amount, $1.2 million. As a result, the Durango City Council decided to move forward with a phased approach to the Next Step program. With the new phased approach, the city will continue its traffic study from Fifth Street to 14th Street, including side streets, in addition to an inventory and survey of utilities across that same area and would begin the engineering design for "a few" blocks as part of the initial phase.

ROUTT COUNTY SEEKS INPUT ON PRIORITIES FOR WILDFIRE PROTECTION

Officials in Routt County are updating the Community Wildfire Protection Plan and have set forth a plan to gather community input on what assets residents consider as priorities for protection. The county’s Office of Emergency Management and the nonprofit Routt County Wildfire Mitigation Council are hosting four public meetings and in addition to these meetings, the county has an online survey available at RouttWildfire.org. The public meetings will be held Nov. 14-17 from 6 to 8 p.m.: Nov. 14 at the Hayden Center; Nov. 15 at the North Routt Fire Station No. 2 near Steamboat Lake State Park visitor center; Nov. 16 at Stagecoach Fire Station; and Nov. 17 at the Routt County commissioners meeting room in Steamboat Springs.

WITH NEW SNOW, BRECKENRIDGE RESORT WILL OPEN 2 DAYS EARLY

Breckenridge Ski Resort received more than a foot of new snow over the weekend, and Monday announced the ski resort will open two days early, on Wednesday, Nov. 9. Officials at the resort said the new snow as well as ideal snowmaking conditions allow the early opening. The only other time over the past 10 years that Breckenridge opened early was 2018. Breckenridge will have approximately 54 acres of terrain on Peak 8 available on Wednesday, accessed from the Colorado SuperChair and 5-Chair. The new high-speed quad, Rip’s Ride chairlift will not debut this season until Friday, Nov. 11.

BEST PLACES TO TRAVEL FOR THANKSGIVING

WalletHub compared the 100 largest U.S. cities based on 20 key metrics. The data set ranges from the cost of Thanksgiving dinner and share of delayed flights to volunteer opportunities per capita and forecasted precipitation:

1. Atlanta, GA
2. Orlando, FL
3. Las Vegas, NV
4. Raleigh, NC
5. Gilbert, AZ
6. Tampa, FL
7. Plano, TX
8. Durham, NC
9. Irving, TX
10. Miami, FL