If you were near a window around lunchtime Thursday and briefly wondered whether the world was ending, you were not alone. Three jets came over Littleton loud enough that half the neighborhood ran outside, and one Facebook thread filled up with people who genuinely thought a plane was going down. Turns out it was the Air Force Thunderbirds, on their way back from the flyover at the Air Force Academy graduation down in Colorado Springs. The class of 2026 got their wings, and the rest of us got a free airshow nobody asked for.

Fitting noise for the week summer actually started. Jeffco's last bell rang Thursday too, the pools open this weekend, and the calendar from here is packed.

Paul Brinker started Paulison Electric out of his TrailMark home in 2015 and has been the master electrician on the truck ever since, doing residential and small commercial work. Licensed, insured, and a five-minute drive from most of you reading this.

If your ceiling fan hums, your panel trips every time the dryer kicks on, you need an EV charger installed, or your kitchen remodel needs a real electrician on the permit, Paul's the call. Text or phone 303-503-8089, or email [email protected].

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Lucile's Creole Cafe is done. After 15 years on West Bowles, the Littleton location has closed for good. The restaurant had missed the window to renew its lease by a few months, and when it tried to extend, landlord DISH Network doubled the rent, then tripled it. Partner Brian Heilman told Westword the company "refused to work with us." DISH says it'll fold the space into its Santa Fe campus operations. I've covered the wind-down the last two weeks, so I'll leave it there. If you loved the jambalaya, that run is over.

Your sewer bill is about to become a topic. The city's rate study is back before council June 16, and the numbers behind it are not small: Littleton has flagged $72.4 million in stormwater work and $261.5 million in sewer and wastewater work over the next decade. That's the math driving the increases floated earlier this year, which ran 25% on sewer and 60% on stormwater for 2027 and 2028. The good part is they're asking before they decide. There's a virtual webinar Thursday July 16 (5:30 to 7:30 PM) and an in-person open house Wednesday August 26 (4 to 6 PM at the Littleton Center). If a 60% line item is headed for your bill in 2027, the cheap move is showing up to ask why now, not after. Any approved changes take effect January 2027.

One civic footnote, while we're here. The Shea Homes rezoning hearing in TrailMark still hasn't been rescheduled. June 2 came off the calendar, July 21 is the tentative target, and nothing's confirmed. No action needed yet.

Divine Bovine. Saturday June 6, 10 AM to 3 PM, Littleton Museum. Free, all ages. Butter churning, milk paint, and an oxen-style obstacle course, which is a sentence I enjoyed writing.

TrailMark and Ken Caryl community garage sales. Friday and Saturday, June 5 and 6. Two neighborhood-wide sales the same weekend. Save your singles, plan a route.

Summer Concert Series. Wednesdays at 6:30 PM on the Littleton Museum lawn. June 3 kicks off with the Michael Friedman Band. Bring a blanket, seating's first come.

Meet, Greet & Eat. Wednesday June 10, 4 to 6 PM, Harlow Park. Free pizza and frozen custard while city staff take questions. The sewer-rate team will be there if you want to corner them.

Downtown Littleton Block Party. Saturday June 13, evening on Main Street. Circus theme, food, music, fireworks. That same morning, the 40th annual Mile High Hook & Ladder Fire Muster runs a parade of antique fire trucks down Littleton Boulevard at 9 AM, then gathers at Arapahoe Community College until 1. Downtown's busy all day.

First-Sunday game night. Sunday June 7, 6 PM, Locavore Beer Works. A reader hosts a monthly meetup for couples in their 20s to 40s. New faces welcome.

Bookmark two more: the Downtown Farmers Market runs Saturdays, 8 AM to 1 PM (no market June 13), and Illuminate Littleton, the city's new America's-250th night with a drone show on Main Street, lands Friday July 24.

Tonic Zero Proof Bar opened on South Rapp Street, and it's the kind of thing I didn't realize we were missing. It's a full bar with no alcohol: kava, mocktails, coffee and cold brew, built as a place to meet friends, work, or have a date without a drink in your hand. Co-owners Brett Young and Manny Sampedro met at another kava bar and decided to build their own third spot. Open 8 AM to 10 PM. They're on Instagram at @toniczeroproofbar.

Littleton Family Eyecare on West Littleton Boulevard is under new ownership, now run by Dr. Paul McHenry out of a historic building near downtown. 303-848-2848 if you're overdue for an exam.

It's rattlesnake season, and the warm rock along the Dakota Hogback and through South Valley Park is exactly where they'll be stretched out in the sun. Keep dogs leashed, watch where you put your hands on the rock scrambles, and give anything that buzzes the wide berth it's asking for. The wildflowers at South Valley are worth the trip right now. With afternoon storms building most days this week, the smart play is an early start. Be on the trail in the morning and heading back before the clouds stack up. Stage 1 fire restrictions are still in effect across unincorporated Jeffco, so no open flames out there.

Tree help. The city's Forestry Subsidy Program is open again, covering up to $500 toward emerald ash borer treatment or hazardous tree removal. If you've got an ash you've been eyeing nervously, the application's at LittletonCO.gov/Forestry while funds last.

City closures. Littleton offices and facilities are closed Friday June 19 for Juneteenth and Friday July 3 for Independence Day.

Hail watch. We're into the stretch of daily afternoon storms, which around here means hail. Keep something handy to throw over the garden, and maybe don't leave the good car out under an open sky when the clouds turn serious.

Seventeen homes sold in 80127 over the past week, and the median landed right around $630,000. The fun one this week was a pair of next-door neighbors on West Hinsdale Avenue who closed within $8,000 of each other, $942,850 and $935,000, both five-bedroom houses. The spread ran wide otherwise, from a $325,000 condo on West Victoria Place up to a $1.71 million, six-bedroom place in Ken Caryl Valley.

What stood out was the bottom of the market moving. A healthy stack of condos and townhomes traded in the $325K to $455K band, the entry-level activity that's been thin around here lately. Things are changing hands at every tier.

A genuinely nice weekend, though summer's afternoon-storm habit is settling in for the season. Friday hits 82, Saturday eases to 76, Sunday's back to 80, all carrying a 20 to 30% chance of afternoon storms that probably won't wreck your plans. Tuesday is the soggy one, showers likely with a high near 83. The pattern all week is the same. Warm and bright in the morning, clouds and a rumble by mid-afternoon.

A neighbor posted in one of the Littleton groups this week looking for a gymnastics program for her 8-year-old, since Foothills is booked solid until fall. Good timing. Little Legends Athletics just opened in the Riverside Downs center on West Belleview, doing gymnastics and "ninja warrior" training for kids from six months to 12 years. It was founded by an Olympian and an NCAA champion, which is a deeper bench than most rec leagues run. Classes, ages, and their grand-opening details are at littlelegendsathletics.com. If you've got a kid bouncing off the walls this summer, there's a place to point that energy.

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