Author: Andrea Brown
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YOUR SPACE: Lordy, lordy! Look who’s 109
CALHAN •Jettie Grimes likes to read the headlines. If she remains a loyal Gazette reader much longer, she’s going to be the headline. At 109, she’s one of the few babies of 1901 still breathing — and she’s within a decade of becoming the oldest person in the U.S. ever. This slender lady in the…
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YOUR SPACE: Facebook goes to the dogs
I get a lot of readers asking me to write about their dogs. Each is more wonderful than any other dog. I don’t do it, because I’m a serious journalist, dogonnit. And besides, my frou-frou dog, Gary, is the best. But then came the letter from Maria Mandel. It read: “I have a 3-year-old dog,…
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YOUR SPACE blog: Hot dog! These Goodwill stars sizzle
Andrew Darrigan, co-owner of Food Designers, presented a display of chocolate truffles created at the business in early April. He introduced truffle lollipops a few years ago at Kidpower’s Chocoholic Frolic. Photo by BRYAN OLLER, THE GAZETTE BRYAN OLLER, THE GAZETTE
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Dream is on for the $252 million Powerball jackpot
How does a cool $121.7 million in cash sound? That’s the cash payout on tonight’s Powerball $252 million jackpot if only one ticket hits. It’s the biggest Powerball pot since last August and the 11th largest ever. “We are seeing an increase in sales and we expect it to continue increasing if the jackpot does not…
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Springs robbers on the loose in stolen car
Two women were robbed at gunpoint by a couple late Friday in a restaurant parking lot on the city’s southeast side. Colorado Springs police said the victims were robbed outside Twisters Restaurant, 2810 E. Fountain Blvd., about 11 p.m. Police said the man pointed a handgun as the female robber forced one of the victims to…
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Neighborly love bought and sold at annual Ellicott yard sale
ELLICOTT • It takes a village to hold a yard sale of this magnitude. Every year, folks on this dot on the eastern El Paso County plains set up shop in the school gym to raise money for a neighbor in need. There’s usually a family or two in bad straits. This year, there were…
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Skull finally finds a home, but where’s the body?
CRIPPLE CREEK • Poor Mr. Roberts. Gold miner James Roberts was pistol-whipped to death a century ago, but he can’t rest in peace. He’s resting in pieces. His body is buried in an unmarked grave, and his cranium is in a box formerly used to hold raffle tickets in a saloon. Such has been the…
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Fire destroys three vehicles at dealership
Three vehicles were destroyed by fire early today at Perkins Motor Co. Colorado Springs Fire Department spokesman Lt. Mike Smaldino said flames were intense when crews arrived at the dealership about 3 a.m. “They thought the building was on fire,” Smaldino said. “They found two of the service carts and one pickup truck all fully involved.”…
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YOUR SPACE: Apron-Man to the rescue
Wesley Julian isn’t just another guy in an orange Home Depot apron lugging bags of mulch, corraling stray shopping carts and pointing customers to the right aisle. He’s the guy who flashes a smile as he hoists propane tanks and grabs that stray cart before it dents your precious Prius. Always smiling, always hustling, eager…