Author: Debbie Kelley
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Orthodox faithful in Calhan grieve in solidarity with Ukrainian brothers and sisters
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CALHAN • A bond of suspension-cable strength bridges the people of Ukraine with parishioners of St. Mary’s Holy Dormition Orthodox Church in the small rural town of Calhan. “The biggest uniting factor is we’re all part of one church,” Father Stephen Osburn, rector, said Sunday, after…
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Fentanyl inferno: Monument dad talks about drug epidemic that took 2 sons
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Matt Riviere can hear his sons’ voices in his head saying, “That was really stupid, Dad.” But Andrew and Stephen Riviere aren’t around anymore to talk to their father about the worst decision they ever made, let alone watch a movie, toss a football or…
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Bloodstained Men and other groups’ push to not circumcise infant boys seen as anti-Semitic by some, a child-protection issue by others
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A decade after men began showing up at public events wearing white pants smeared with red paint on the crotch, the shock value hasn’t faded. People seem simultaneously repulsed and intrigued. “What’s this about?” onlookers wonder. Meet the Bloodstained Men, a nationwide organization formed in 2012,…
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Colorado school staffs get new violence prevention training
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CASTLE ROCK — After more than two decades of analyzing school shootings, the nation’s top prevention specialists believe they have come up with a framework that presents the best ways to ward off such violence. It’s not an easy fix, they say. But the strategies have…
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Colorado school enrollment rebounding slowly after pandemic losses
Across Colorado, student enrollment remains lower than would normally be expected, a trend that began with a dramatic public school enrollment drop in 2020, when the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic disrupted normal life — especially education. Newly released statewide enrollment data suggests that some of the tens of thousands of missing students returned, but in…
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Student pilot from Colorado Springs area killed in Texas air base training mishap
Second Lt. Anthony D. Wentz, a student pilot killed Friday morning in what Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas is calling a mishap between two trainer aircraft on a runway, graduated from Falcon High School in 2016 and told The Gazette a few weeks before accepting his diploma that he wanted to follow in his…
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Colorado Springs shooting near skate park leaves 2 dead
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As residents awoke to a chilly Sunday, some skateboarders arrived at the Memorial Park Skate Park wearing hoodies and carrying boards, ready to warm up. A few had heard about the shooting Saturday night near…
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Colorado children’s mental health leaders plead for pandemic recovery funding
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Children’s mental health advocates want a fair share of Colorado’s federal pandemic recovery money that has yet to be allocated, they announced Tuesday during a virtual discussion spearheaded by Children’s Hospital Colorado. “There is a continued sense of being overwhelmed as a system, and it’s…
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Work begins on addressing violations at Colorado mental hospital: ‘We’re using a system that doesn’t work now’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As the number of online beds and employees working at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo continue on a downward trajectory, triage measures to help alleviate the increasingly clogged pipeline for pre-trial criminal defendants waiting in jails for admittance to Colorado’s largest psychiatric hospital…
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Colorado Springs couple honored for adopting 7 foster kids — with 436 children on state waiting list
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Colorado Springs couple who adopted seven children they were fostering will be honored Monday for their dedicated work in the field, one of five families statewide being recognized this year during November’s National Adoption Month. “Foster-care adoption is hard, and when someone says you…