Author: Conrad Swanson
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Colorado Springs Public Works unveils 2C road repair list through 2025
Colorado Springs’ road improvement sales tax has been so successful that crews will begin work on projects for its second run before the first expires, city officials said. Voters approved a second five-year term for the 2C tax last month with 65% of the vote. That term begins Dec. 31, 2020, at 5.7 cents on…
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Douglas Bruce seeks to block the demolition of long-condemned Old Colorado City property
Strips of flypaper sway from Alma Cremonesi’s ceilings and they hang like tinsel around the front porch of her home at the northeast corner of North 14th and West Kiowa streets. She’s used them for years, but Cremonesi said they don’t really stop the invading horde of black stinging flies that accompany the raccoons nesting…
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Bicyclist dies after suffering severe injuries in north Colorado Springs crash
A bicyclist severely injured after he was hit by a car Friday afternoon has died, Colorado Springs Police Lt. James Sokolik said in a news release. Heiko Leach, 49, of Colorado Springs, was riding his bike south on North Cascade Avenue Friday afternoon near Sunflower Road when a Chevrolet sedan — also southbound — hit him, Sokolik said.…
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Police identify 39-year-old man killed by SUV in east Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs Police identified the man who died Saturday night after a SUV hit him on East Platte Avenue. Anthony Cooper, 39, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, was walking in the road near Babcock Road when a westbound black GMC Yukon hit him, police Lt. James Sokolik said in a release. Cooper died at the scene. The…
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Colorado Springs police identify pedestrian killed in hit-and-run crash
Colorado Springs police identified the man killed Wednesday in a hit-and-run crash on South Nevada Avenue, though the death remains under investigation. A dark colored SUV fatally hit Harold Mackey III, 52, of Sioux City, Iowa, just before 8 p.m. on Wednesday in the 1400 block of South Nevada Avenue, police Lt. James Sokolik said…
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Injured driver dies after October rollover crash at Martin Luther King Jr. Bypass
A man has died from injuries sufferent in an Oct. 1 rollover crash at the Martin Luther King Jr. Bypass and Interstate 25 , Colorado Springs police said in a release Monday. Larry K. Crook, 84 of Pueblo West, died Oct. 11, Colorado Springs Police Lt. James Sokolik said in a release. Creek is the…
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19-year-old succumbs to injuries from northeast Colorado Springs shooting
A teenager shot in northeast Colorado Springs the evening of Nov. 5 has died of his injuries, police Lt. Jim Sokolik said Monday night. Detectives are investigating the the death of 19-year-old Alijah Vialpando, Sokolik said, and few details have been released. Vialpando was driving when he was shot near the intersection of Briargate and Union…
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New Pikes Peak Summit House making progress, preparing for winter
The concrete walls and steel beams assembled slowly and deliberately atop Pikes Peak are taking shape. Each day, the picturesque mountain’s new Summit House comes further into view, said Jack Glavan, manager of Pikes Peak America’s Mountain, an enterprise of Colorado Springs. Crews broke ground last June on the $60 million undertaking and they’ve worked…
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Colorado Springs City Council approves $331 million 2020 budget
In an instant, the Colorado Springs City Council approved the city’s $331.1 million general fund budget for 2020. The unanimous vote Tuesday morning came as a part of the council’s consent calendar, which is typically reserved for decisions without controversy so the group can approve them all with a single vote. The streamlined budget process…
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Fountain celebrates a chilly Veterans Day
The winter months in Charles City, Iowa, are cold, but Korea is colder, Paul Darrow recalled, comparing his hometown to the far-flung country in which he served as a U.S. Marine during his teenage years. Darrow, 84, scoured red bricks on the Fountain Valley Veterans Memorial Wall on Monday morning at Mayors Park. His gloved…