Colorado Community Media brought home 132 awards in the annual Colorado Press Association Better Newspaper Contest.

Included in the tally were five special honors. The Tri-Lakes Tribune (Class 1), the Golden Transcript (Class 4) and the Highlands Ranch Herald (Class 5) each won the Advertising Sweepstakes Award. The Tribune also won the Sweepstakes Award in the photo and design category and garnered the coveted General Excellence Award.

The awards were announced at a ceremony Feb. 21 in downtown Denver as part of the press association's annual convention.

For CCM - a 2-year-old media company comprising 22 newspapers and 23 websites covering the north, west and south suburbs of Denver, and El Paso and Teller counties - this year's honors were a continuation of an upward trend. A year ago, CCM was recognized with 95 awards, a major spike from the previous year's 28.

Eligible contest entries were published in print or online between Sept. 1, 2012 and Aug. 31, 2013.