Author: Eileen Welsome
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County feeling left out by governor’s child abuse task force
El Paso County is feeling left out by a gubernatorial task force that is winding up an 18-month investigation into ways to better protect kids who are potential victims of child abuse or neglect. The task force, formed by Gov. Bill Ritter in 2008 after 13 children died the previous year, is proposing sweeping reforms…
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City, county at odds over collecting stormwater money
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A battle is brewing between Colorado Springs and El Paso County over the collection of delinquent storm-water bills. The city wants to turn over nearly 10,000 past-due accounts to the county treasurer for collection by…
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City, county at odds over collecting stormwater money
A battle is brewing between Colorado Springs and El Paso County over the collection of delinquent storm-water bills. The city wants to turn over nearly 10,000 past-due accounts to the county treasurer for collection by mid-November, but the treasurer is being cautioned against putting them on the 2010 property tax bills. County Attorney William Louis…
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City turns over building maintenance to county
City employees who may be getting pink slips might consider applying for one of a dozen county jobs that will soon be opening up. The jobs are the result of a cooperative agreement finalized this week in which Colorado Springs has agreed to pay El Paso County $836,000 to take over the maintenance and upkeep…
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Old West echoes in battle between Fountain Creek ranchers, mining firm
There’s a stretch of land along Fountain Creek where the Old West lives on. Cattle move across the brown hills and the cottonwood trees are black against the sky. To motorists speeding on Interstate 25 between Colorado Springs and Pueblo, the land seems peaceful. In actuality, it’s a battleground. For six decades, the Frosts and…
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Early ballot returns a sign of high turnout
Judging by the number of ballots that have been returned to the El Paso County Election Department, turnout could be relatively heavy in the Nov. 3 mail-in ballot election. Through Wednesday, the Election Department had received nearly 23 percent — 63,818 — of the 279,000 ballots that went out by mail the week of Oct.…
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Drive to upgrade little-traveled Myers Road steamrolled policies
Rolling across the brown prairie of southeast El Paso County, Myers Road isn’t a place where motorists are likely to pull over and admire the view. Baked in summer, windswept in winter, it’s desolate in any season. It’s one of the county’s lesser-traveled roads, but that didn’t stop officials from spending more than $1.3 million…
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Planning board backs opponents of Fountain Creek gravel pit
Lafarge, a multinational company that wants to open sand and gravel pits and an asphalt plant in southern El Paso County along side Fountain Creek , hit a snag on Tuesday when the El Paso County Planning Commission overwhelmingly voted against the project. Numerous officials and residents who lived in the area spoke out against…
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Fair’s champion steer under suspicion of not playing fair
When Maarten van Zoeren, a Dutchman who once couldn’t bring himself to kill a chicken, butchers an animal, he likes to do it quickly so that the animal thinks it’s going for a drink of water instead of getting a bolt gun to the head. It makes the meat taste better and makes van Zoeren…
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Lap dance costs strip club a pretty penny
The El Paso County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday ordered a seven-day suspension of the liquor license of a nightclub in El Paso County after three undercover detectives witnessed a patron groping a lap dancer. It’s the second liquor-related violation in 18 months for PT’s Showclub and follows a similar undercover operation that occurred at…