Author: Eileen Welsome
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Man, woman lead police on 2 chases during crime spree
Colorado Springs police arrested a man Thursday suspected in a Bonnie-and-Clyde-style crime spree, car-jacking a taxi cab driver, robbing a fast-food restaurant and stealing another vehicle, all while leading police and sheriff’s deputies on a chase through the city and county. The man, identified as Jonathan Gaide, 28, eventually ditched the second vehicle and tried…
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PETA offers to put pro-vegan trash cans in Springs parks
In Colorado Springs, streetlights have been turned off, cabbies patrol for crime, and trash cans have been removed from parks. Now a controversial animal-rights group wants to help out the city — and get a little publicity for itself — by purchasing trash cans for city parks that would feature an anti-meat slogan and a…
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Peyton woman named El Paso County Fair queen
Brenna Harfert, a 19-year-old Peyton resident, has been crowned the 2010 El Paso County Fair Queen. A 2009 graduate of Peyton High School, Harfert is currently a student at Colorado State University in Pueblo. She’s majoring in business management with a minor in liberal studies. Harfert spent eight years in the Plainsmen & Fiber Friends…
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COUNTY SEAT blog: As Colorado Springs turns out streetlights, Springs Utilities may spend $1.1 million to remodel
A look at the South Slope watershed of Pikes Peak. Photo by CHRISTIAN MURDOCK, THE GAZETTE murdock
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Related story: Tire-recycling fee diverted to balance state budget
When Colorado motorists purchase new tires, they’re charged a fee of $1.50 per tire that’s supposed to go toward the clean-up of illegal tire dumps and encourage recycling and re-use of old tires. The funds from the Colorado Waste Tire Program, which state officials said have averaged between $2.3 million and $3.1 million in recent…
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Mountain of tires at Midway dump to be reduced to molehill, eventually
For years, flocks of starlings have made their way to an unlikely wintering ground south of Colorado Springs: the Midway tire dump. There, among the malodorous piles of cracked and blackened rubber, the birds have whiled away the months and then departed in the spring. Eventually, the starlings may have to find new winter quarters.…
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OPERATION CAUCUS: Political season opens at neighborhood partisan meetings
The road to November’s election passes through Colorado Springs neighborhoods March 16 in caucuses that are part tradition, part tent revival and all politics. The partisan meetings — 403 for El Paso County Republicans alone — will help winnow the field of Republican and Democratic candidates seeking local posts and the highest offices in the…
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County Commission gets powerful lesson in value of organ donation
Two years ago, Rebecca Jansen was sitting at Children’s Hospital in Denver holding the hand of her 15-year-old son who was dying from injuries suffered in a ski accident. Just hours earlier, Jansen had made the decision to take her son off life support and donate his organs. He was a healthy, outdoorsy youth and…
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County commissioners OK settlement in foster-care death
The El Paso County Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday approved a $300,000 out-of-court settlement with the estate of Alizé Vick, a 2-year-old killed while in foster care. The settlement clears the El Paso County Department of Human Services of all claims in a suit brought by the estate of Vick, who died of a…
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Room for a voting booth at CC? College says maybe. Commissioners say they feel snubbed
Members of the El Paso County Commission on Tuesday were critical of a decision by Colorado College not to allow elections officials to use a location on campus as a polling place during the August. 10 primary. “It’s a large campus,” said Commissioner Wayne Williams following a commission meeting on Tuesday. “I can’t believe that…