Highlands

A Berkeley congregation has completed its real estate exodus. Highlands Lutheran Church sold its roughly 14,000-square-foot church at 3995 N. Irving St. last week for $1.48 million, or about $106 per square foot. It had been listed at $1.75 million. The buyer was Mounashram Inc., a faith-based nonprofit. Attempts to reach the organization were unsuccessful. Highlands Lutheran, which had been on Irving Street for the past century, moved last year to 7375 Samuel Drive, where it is renting a church from the Rocky Mountain…

‘Forty-five thousand years ago …” So begins this ambitious, confident feature debut from Scottish director Andrew Cumming. It’s a horror movie set in the stone age where a poor old early human is yomping about the Highlands in winter; no Gore-Tex or warm pub, just a tough bit of elk meat to chew on and the odd run-in with a hairy Neanderthal. What a god-awfully grim time to be alive – even before things go bump in the night.The premise is simple: this movie is “Alien in the stone age”. It begins with six intrepid early…

A Highland Song MSRP $18.00 “A Highland Song successfully brings the awe-inspiring freedom of Breath of the Wild to the Scottish Highlands.” Pros Painterly art style Freeform climbing Creative "run" structure Excellent music Cons Players can get stuck…

A Highlands Ranch doctor has been convicted of two federal felonies related to the theft of $242,000 in pandemic relief funds that he used on personal expenses. Jurors found Francis Joseph, 57, guilty of wire fraud and the theft of health care benefit program funds last Friday. The jury found him not guilty of theft of government property. Joseph faces up to 30 years in prison and a fine of $500,000 when he is sentenced April 6. He is not being jailed pending sentencing, according to court records. Federal prosecutors…

Scottish automotive startup Munro Vehicles today revealed its rugged all-electric 4x4. Cut from the same cloth as the Bollinger B1, the Munro Mark 1 is a bold, boxy off-roader specced to deliver decades of all-terrain productivity, exploration and just plain fun. Munro has stripped out the fancy electronics and computer logic, and taken things old school with a mechanical 4x4 with locking differentials. The solid-axled electric rig promises up to 280 kW of power and nearly 200 miles (322 km) of range per charge. Munro…

After opening its first location just over a month ago, a local smoothie joint is already adding a second space with plans for further expansion. Taylor Spradling and Zachary Van Cleave opened the first location of Natuur (Dutch for “nature”) at 3712 W. 32nd Ave. in the Highlands on May 26, serving up a small menu of smoothies and smoothie bowls. A location at 1525 Raleigh St. in Sloan’s Lake will open on Tuesday. Spradling and Van Cleave numbered their two stores CO-001 and CO-002. While a subtle detail, it is indicative…