A new flock is taking over Ptarmigan Country Club.

The club outside Fort Collins was purchased this month by Heritage Golf Group, a Virginia-based operator that expanded into Colorado two years ago. Records show the company paid $6.1 million for the land.

Heritage now owns 39 private or semi-private courses across the country, including The Golf Club at Bear Dance in Larkspur, Plum Creek Golf Club in Castle Rock and Colorado National Golf Club in Erie. It bought those three clubs in 2022.

It bought the private club at 5416 Vardon Way from Ryan Flack, whose family owned and operated it for more than 20 years.

“It was a good long-term relationship and the timing was right. We’re very thankful that they selected us,” said Heritage Chief Acquisition Officer Scott McMartin, who has known Flack since he started operating the club.

Ptarmigan, which opened in 1987, features an 18-hole course designed by golf legend Jack Nicklaus. It also has a swimming pool, racquet courts and a clubhouse.

Ron Flack, Ryan’s dad, bought it in 2004 for $4.8 million, records show. He and his son revamped several parts of the clubhouse during their tenure, according to the Ptarmigan website.

The older Flack died this past summer, in part leading to the sale, McMartin said. Ryan Flack did not respond to a request for comment.

“It was a combination of high comfort level with Heritage, the right price and the timing with the family. It was just an opportunistic situation,” McMartin said of Flack’s decision to sell.

McMartin said Heritage will improve several aspects of the club, which is already underway with the clubhouse. While the course is in good shape, his team is evaluating whether to give some bunkers a face-lift.

“Once we acquire a property, we go in pretty big with capital,” McMartin said. “We don’t like to stretch it out over years.”

He said Heritage has been looking to expand into Fort Collins because of its growing population and it being a university town. Ptarmigan also fit McMartin’s criteria when it comes to a new club: private with full amenities in a residential area. He said the company also likes to target legacy family-owned clubs that want a dependable exit.

McMartin said Heritage is under contract to buy two more clubs in the eastern U.S and interested in buying more clubs along Colorado’s Front Range.

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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – An un-housed man in Atlanta’s Virginia-Highland neighborhood has continuously been arrested for indecent exposure and urinating in public. Neighbors want to know why he doesn’t stay behind bars.

“I was in total shock like am I really seeing what I’m seeing right now,” said David Robertson, who lives in Virginia-Highland.

For three years, David Robertson has been dealing with this when he walks outside of his condo.

“It’s a never ending battle like what do we do? Like I don’t know what the solution here is,” said Robertson.

The same man, Ruben Gates according to police reports, masturbating in public.

“It’s just you shouldn’t do that in front of people. Period,” said Robertson.

Robertson has called the police more times than he can remember. He’s recorded videos because many times by the time police have arrived, Gates have left. Atlanta police confirmed they arrested Gates at least twice this year.

Gates’ records go as far back as the 1990’s in Fulton County’s system. Gates has seven cases listed with the Municipal Court of Atlanta.

He was arrested for exposing his genitals and public drinking on July 3. That case is still open. Less than two weeks later, he was arrested again for indecency. Three cases are for urinating or defecating in public. Those were closed when gates didn’t show up for court, according to records.

“There’s a lot of these issues around here and it seems that’s the outcome with every single one of them,” said Robertson.

We reached out to the Fulton County district attorney’s office to ask about what the sentencing could be in gates’ open cases and were told they would look into it.

“I just want it to stop. I would love to see it stop,” said Robertson.

According to Georgia law, a person can be sentenced to up to five years in prison for indecency and put on the sex offender registry.

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An Arlington resident and former federal prosecutor is running for Virginia lieutenant governor.

Victor Salgado, the fifth declared candidate vying to be the Democratic Party’s nominee in November, knows he’s a political outsider. But he told ARLnow that possible federal policy changes inspired him to enter the political arena.

“We need to respond to some of the policies of federal encroachment coming our way with smart legislation and partnerships,” he said. “There are going to be important court battles, but I see our next steps as being primarily political.”

Salgado, who spent eight years working in the U.S. Department of Justice, kicked off his campaign this month and launched his website this week.

A campaign video mentions priorities of protections for reproductive rights, special education, and early childhood programs, as well as fighting possible policies related to immigration and citizenship status under the Trump administration.

“When that happens, Richmond needs to step up,” he said in the video.

Virginia’s lieutenant governor has limited duties but, as the president of the Senate, is a key figure in crafting policy around the statehouse.

The son of Peruvian immigrants, Salgado was born and raised in New Jersey. But his legal life — starting with a bachelor’s degree from George Washington University — began in the D.C. area.

From 2006 to 2012, he focused on compliance, enforcement and government investigations at a D.C. law office before leaving for a four-year stint as a Deputy Attorney General of New Jersey.

Salgado returned to the D.C. area in April 2016 as part of the DOJ’s public integrity section, which oversees the investigation and prosecution of all federal crimes affecting government integrity.

He was promoted to senior litigation counsel for the public integrity section in 2020, and remained in that position until this month.

“I cut my chops as a prosecutor, essentially policing our systems of government and protecting our democracy,” Salgado said. “That positions me — quite uniquely — to talk about the issues that I want to talk about in this campaign and the reason why I’m jumping at this juncture.”

Since September 2019, he has also worked as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, focusing on white collar crime and securities fraud.

“I am going to outwork everybody in this race,” Salgado said. “I quit the department so that I can focus on this, exclusively working 18-hour days non-stop from today through the primary.”

He said residents throughout Arlington and Virginia should keep an eye out for him.

“I will be talking to anybody who wants to talk to me,” the candidate said. “You will see me outside of Metro stops greeting people, meeting people outside of grocery stores, talking to people … I want to be busy. I intend to be busy. This is going to be my job, 24/7.”

The other candidates in the Democratic field are state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi (15th District), Prince William County School Board chair Babur Lateef, state Sen. Aaron Rouse (22nd District) and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney.

The primary election is scheduled for June 17.