Tag: Woodland Park
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While aspens steal the show in Colorado, this native tree also delivers fall colors
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Come fall in Colorado, aspen gets all the love. But yellow isn’t the only color in the hilly palette. However short lived and uncertain the display, it’s all the more reason to appreciate the underappreciated native that is Gambel oak. For fall colors, Pikes Peak…
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Construction on Charis Bible College student housing starts same day ministry donates $250,000 to city
WOODLAND PARK • Construction on apartments for Charis Bible College students started Thursday on the nearly 500-acre Andrew Wommack Ministries campus in Woodland Park, the same day the organization presented a “goodwill” donation of $250,000 to the city following a heated community dispute over the student-housing project. Each 40-bed complex will cost an estimated $6.5 million…
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In Woodland Park the doughnuts are larger than life, so are the stories | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WOODLAND PARK • Michael Sturdevant always marvels at the world map on the wall. Every corner is covered by pins, a reminder that people from everywhere have made their way to this little blue house in the little town up the mountain pass from Colorado…
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‘Jurassic Park’ in Colorado: Discover dinosaurs at these 8 sites
Near the northern Colorado-Utah border, there’s a river-cut land of colorful rock traversed by the short Fossil Discovery Trail. It is an interpretive trail, with educational signs and remembrances of Earl Douglas. He is the paleontologist credited with the 1915 establishment of Dinosaur National Monument. Along that trail through this sweeping dinosaur graveyard, one panel…
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Vaccine mandates lead to job loss for some in Colorado as deadlines mount
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A city councilor in the small Colorado mountain town of Woodland Park has lost her job over her employer’s edict to either get a COVID-19 vaccinate and/or wear a mask, as deadlines for mandatory vaccines loom and protests mount. Stephanie Alfieri, senior banker at Vectra…
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‘Wild West’ shooting area west of Colorado Springs a focus of Forest Service plan
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Last summer, the volunteer fire chief overseeing lands along the Teller and Douglas county line received word of “dragon’s breath” in a place of frequent trouble. “I’d never heard of it,” Steve Brown recalled. “It’s…
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Woodland Park Mayor dies of COVID-19
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Val Carr, the mayor of Woodland Park, died Tuesday after an ongoing battle with COVID-19, city officials announced in a release Wednesday. Carr began his term as mayor last April after serving on the Woodland…
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Val Carr, mayor of Woodland Park, dies at 71
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Woodland Park Mayor Val Carr died Tuesday weeks after being diagnosed with COVID-19, according to Mayor Pro Tem Hilary LaBarre. He was 71. Carr, who was less than a year into his mayoral term, had…
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As mayor is hospitalized with COVID, Woodland Park council deadlocks on resolution opposing Colorado restrictions
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WOODLAND PARK • The City Council on Thursday deadlocked on a resolution branding Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ COVID-19 restrictions on businesses and gatherings as unconstitutional, unable to break a tie vote because the mayor is hospitalized with the virus. Mayor Pro Tem Hilary Labarre announced…
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Two-year remembrance for Kelsey Berreth comes days before accomplice in her murder could be let out of prison
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Scenes from the Kelsey Berreth Remembrance Vigil in Woodland Park on Sunday afternoon. (Video by Katie Klann) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “NEWS | Kelsey Berreth Remembrance Vigil”, “description”: “Scenes from the Kelsey Berreth Remembrance Vigil in Woodland Park on Sunday afternoon. (Video by…