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Littleton-Area Seniors Recognized As National Merit Semifinalists
Seventeen Littleton-area seniors were among 221 semifinalists in state of Colorado.

Jean Lotus is a Fort Collins native returning to NoCo. She has most recently been working in the Chicago area, where she wrote and edited for Chronicle Media, Pioneer Local and Wednesday Journal. In 2014, Lotus won the Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor award for best in-depth reporting. She also won two first prize University of Illinois Knight Awards for Investigative Journalism. She has a degree from University of Chicago and is a former daily reporter/night editor for the Lafayette, Ind. Journal & Courier (Gannett).
Seventeen Littleton-area seniors were among 221 semifinalists in state of Colorado.

Two seniors from Lakewood High School were among 221 who qualified in the state of Colorado.
The seniors are among 221 semifinalists in the state of Colorado, and 23 in JeffCo School District.
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