Tag: Monument
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Colorado Gives Day is here for annual online donation appeal
Today is the 15th year Coloradans get to show their generous spirit during Colorado Gives Day, a statewide online appeal to benefit more than 4,300 organizations. Coming a week after the global Giving Tuesday, Colorado’s own version held on the second Tuesday of December since 2010 raised a record $54.8 million last year. More than 94,000…
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A timeline of the days leading to Cybertruck explosion at Trump’s Las Vegas hotel
The motive for why career Army man Matthew Livelsberger, 37, apparently committed suicide before detonating a rented Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day remains unclear. However, investigators have laid out the path he took from his home in Colorado Springs to that fateful valet station.…
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USFS on X
The #MetzFire_CO is a new fire located approximately 10 mi NW of Monument. The fire is .10 of an acre and resources are utilizing 2 helicopters to drop water on the fire to limit spread. More info: https://t.co/HLB9kHcILs — USFS_Pike&San Isabel (@PSICC_NF) July 23, 2024
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Fire reported 10 miles northwest of Monument
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A fire, reported at under an acre in size, has been spotted in the hills north and west of Monument. The U.S. Forest Service announced the fire, named the Metz fire, on social media Tuesday…
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New trails to complete vision for open space north of Colorado Springs
At a tucked-away open space north of Colorado Springs, the trail additions will be small — but big in the context of a vision going back years. “This is a great feeling,” said Ross Williams, the El Paso County park planner who has overseen development at Santa Fe Open Space since its public acquisition in 2017.…
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Monument high school student dies in crash at ski resort
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A Palmer Ridge High School student died Monday night from injuries suffered while snowboarding at Keystone Resort. Levi Inama, 14, from Monument hit a tree near the beginner trail Two Sled on Dercum Mountain about 9:20 a.m. Saturday. He was later transported to the Keystone Medical Center by ski patrol. A bystander witnessed the crash…
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Fentanyl inferno: Monument dad talks about drug epidemic that took 2 sons
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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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2 lotto winners in Monument, Pueblo to split Colorado’s largest jackpot in decades
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Two Coloradans won the $25 million Colorado Lotto+ jackpot on Wednesday. The winning tickets were purchased at a Safeway Fuel in Monument and at a Winners Corner in Pueblo, according to Colorado Lottery. The two winners…
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Cowboy’s dream led to longhorn cattle of Colorado fame
Stan Searle sketched a portrait of himself 63 years ago. There he is on horseback over rugged terrain, reins in hand, clouds building behind him, eyes on the horizon. “It’s perfect,” observes his son, Charlie. Stan Searle was 22 then. No longer a boy and not yet a man, the family farm behind him and…