The Denver Post: Westword editor and founder Patricia “Patty” Calhoun will step down from her stalwart alternative newsweekly in July, she announced Wednesday.

While Calhoun is retiring as editor-in-chief — having just overseen the newly published, 43rd edition of Best of Denver — she’ll stay on as editor emeritus to contribute a column and lead Westword toward its 50th anniversary on Sept. 1, 2027, she said.

“Oh, I’ll have plenty more to say in the next three months… and after,” she wrote in an email to The Denver Post. “But right now, we’re celebrating the Best of Denver, which is much more interesting than I am.”

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