Author: By STEPHANIE EARLS [email protected]
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Iconic Air Force Academy chapel to remain closed for several more years
The U.S. Air Force Academy announced Thursday that its Cadet Chapel — Colorado’s most-visited man-made tourist attraction and an iconic structure at the campus north of Colorado Springs — will remain closed for massive renovations until early 2027, more than three years longer than originally expected. The discovery of more asbestos than anticipated or budgeted for in…
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Colorado K9 killed in officer-involved shooting last week remembered for saving lives; ‘he was one of our own’
Hundreds of mourners and law enforcement officers gathered Thursday for a public memorial service honoring Jinx, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office K9 killed in a shooting last week in Manitou Springs. “On the night he was killed, Jinx’s actions surely saved the lives of our deputies, other officers at the scene, and many citizens…
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Stockpiled booze and hidden tunnels helped get ‘dry’ Colorado Springs its fix
Tee-totalers whooped and souses sobbed as Prohibition went into effect nationwide on Jan. 17, 1920. Mock funerals were held and tombstones raised to “John Barleycorn,” the symbolic source of “God’s worst enemy and hell’s best friend.” Booze. Crusaders of the movement, including “dry reformer” and superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon League, William Anderson, envisioned…
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WeldWerks Brewing abandons plans for Colorado Springs taproom
WeldWerks Brewing Co. has abandoned plans to open a taproom in Colorado Springs, citing delays and cost overruns that drove the project exponentially over budget during the three years it was in the works on the city’s west side. “This project has experienced significant delays from the onset, some of which were inadvertent byproducts of…
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On the trail of display errors at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum
When Howard Gorrell, a Deaflympian from Delaware, first toured the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs last year, he wasn’t looking to pick a fight. OK, so, maybe that’s not technically 100% true. “The main reason that I flew to Colorado Springs was I wanted to do some research on what was wrong…
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Suicide hotline gives America’s mental health crisis an awareness boost
Whatever was weighing you down before March 2020, the virus provided a stark reminder that things can always get worse. And so it remains. In the almost two years since the first U.S. resident fell to COVID-19, the number of people who say they’ve experienced a mental health crisis has skyrocketed. Calls and texts to…
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History repeats itself on the tracks of the Royal Gorge railroad
Wearing morning coats, bustles and in the company of two Teddy Roosevelts, about 20 reenactors met Sunday in Cañon City to recreate a historic moment on the tracks of the Royal Gorge Route Railroad. In 1905, 46-year-old Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a hunting trip that became an unofficial whistle-stop tour through a state that held…
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Masks are back in Manitou Springs, and so are opinions about masking up
On-trend and dressed to the nines on a sunny afternoon last week, the quartet of fashionistas paused to reapply lip gloss and do a quick sidewalk preen in the reflection of a Manitou Springs shop window. Then, one-by-one, they breezed barefaced into the store. Past the sign, and then the other sign, that read, “NOTICE…
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‘We never knew she existed’: Long-lost sisters finally meet, after a lifetime apart
Virginia Garduño was raised in a Pueblo orphanage in the late 1940s and 50s, after her unwed teenage mother surrendered her to state care. She grew up knowing nothing of her true heritage, bearing a surname that wasn’t her own and believing she was alone in the world. When she had her own children and…
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A bumper crop of breweries for Colorado Springs and beyond | Pikes Pub
As Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) from “Jurassic Park” might have put it: “Lifestyle, uhhh, finds a way.” After the year without a summer, a year of death, depression, shutdowns, closures and uncertain futures, it feels like we’re finally on the brink of something better, a real season of rebirth. The spring buds might still…