Author: Stephanie Earls
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Oral history: How a Colorado dentist’s discovery paved the way for nationwide water fluoridation
Soon after the turn of the 20th century, a dapper young dentist from the Boston area collected his degree from the University of Pennsylvania and turned his sights west. Dr. Frederick McKay opened a practice in Colorado Springs and began treating patients in 1901. The following spring, he addressed the 18 members of the newly…
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Popular restaurant and brewpub in historic Colorado church to prepare for a ‘rebirth’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A pop-up social enterprise that became a destination brewery and restaurant at the Carter Payne Chapel in Colorado Springs will soon close to the general public, under a rebranding owners say they hope will bring new energy and focus to the historic space. The restaurant…
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‘Hopperpocalypse: Colorado farmers say this year’s grasshopper infestation the worst in generations
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the late 1930s, during the depths of The Great Depression and on the eve of a second world war, Colorado faced off against a domestic invader whose hordes reached biblical proportions. The scenes conjured up by news reports and legend are equal parts monster…
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Return to Nature purgatory: At least 989 families remain without answers
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the days after her 33-year-old son, Zach, died in July, 2020, Heather DeWolf started taking a new route to and from work so she could slow-roll by the Colorado Springs funeral home that was handling his final arrangements. She knew the oldest of her…
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Motherhood wasn’t part of the mission for first Black female fighter pilot, until it was
Rochelle Kimbrell knew by fourth grade what she wanted to do with her life, and spent the next 15 years on a trail-blazing trajectory of singular purpose. For the first Black female fighter pilot in the history of the U.S. Air Force, becoming a mother was an entirely different kind of mission, an unknowable challenge…
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A Father’s Day remembrance: My dad loved a great deal | Stephanie Earls
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On an afternoon in late June 2022, as I sat by my dad’s hospital bed in Colorado Springs, trying to read a book and forget for a few moments that the only man I’d loved, and who’d loved me, for the entirety of my life…
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A decade later, mitigation against new Black Forest inferno remains incomplete
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As fire erupted in a densely wooded bedroom community northeast of Colorado Springs on June 11, 2013, Laura Lollar was driving home from a working lunch where the lead communications officer for the 2012 Waldo Canyon fire talked about handling unexpected challenges. The coincidence for…
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Club Q lays groundwork for ‘phoenix-like’ rebirth; remodel, on-site memorial planned
When the founding owner of Club Q and his newly-appointed advisory and development team set out to design a permanent on-site memorial to the victims and survivors of the massacre last year in Colorado Springs, they found themselves on a well-worn but largely unmarked path through a uniquely American landscape. Only a fraction of the…
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Army vet who helped end Club Q mass shooting to be honored by Red Cross
The gratitude and honors continue for Club Q hero Richard Fierro, one of two men who sprung into action to subdue a mass shooter at the LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs on Nov. 19. The decorated Army veteran, who served four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, will receive the “Lifesaving Military Hero of the Year…