From Our Publisher:
As we publish the May edition of 50 Plus, we do so with gratitude for 35 years of serving our residents and family members in the Front Range. From focus groups started in May 1991 to assess the need for an area senior based publication to this edition, we’ve enjoyed sharing news, features and columns with our readers.
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With input from those groups, we were asked, or we asked, if communities needed such a focused publication. After receiving affirmative responses, we secured advertisers to support this endeavor. Senior centers and city information offices provided community based news items. Columnist soon added their unique features.
What began in Boulder as the first location soon found us expanding Seniors Market Place News (now known as 50 Plus MarketPlace News) to Larimer and Weld counties, from Wyoming to Castle Rock with communities in between. For four years, we distributed the publication throughout Wyoming. Our Front Range editions covered seven Denver area counties including Jefferson, Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties.
Readers may have wondered about that name change from Seniors to 50 Plus. We learned, seniors don’t like to be called seniors, hence the rewording! With expansions, reductions eventually occurred. Such was the case with 50 Plus. Our commitment to providing community news and features supported by local advertisers remained the same. We stopped distributing in Wyoming, consolidated Denver-based information into one edition, Denver-Metro, all the while maintaining the Boulder, Larimer, Weld publications.
By 2014, we added video features though our Media Solutions. Throughout COVID, we continued our printed editions of 50 Plus thus maintaining our commitment to local communities. As the landscape changed for newspaper publications, we shifted to all online edition in April 2025. Throughout this year of publishing 50 Plus Front Range online editions, we’ve kept our focus. Denver-Metro, Boulder, Larimer and Weld each have pages devoted to those counties.
Due to health reasons, I am in the process of selling the newspaper or possibly retiring it. We don’t anticipate knowing much about a potential sale until later this month. We’re hopeful such an individual will see the value, as have we over these 35 years, in serving this demographic. We know our seniors, agers, or those over 50 whatever they choose to be called, remain vital, involved members of our communities. When you look for power and influence, you’ll find them.
I extend my deepest thanks to all of our loyal advertisers, columnists, and staff for their excellent support throughout these 35 years. I am also most grateful for our many readers who have shared these years with us. Your feedback and support has been most gratifying.
Robert A. Trembly, Publisher