Author: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com
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The Q Bar and Lounge opens in Colorado Springs, bringing unity and healing: ‘It felt like a homecoming’
More than a year after a deadly mass shooting forced the closure of its popular namesake and predecessor, The Q Bar by the Orbit Lounge quietly opened its doors March 29 inside a funky, mid-century high-rise hotel on Colorado Springs’ east side. After more than six months of buildup and build-out, it was nonetheless meant…
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South Park Brewing has moved
After almost 10 years making and pouring craft suds in the high mountain valley that inspired its name, South Park Brewing Co. is bidding a fond farewell to Fairplay, and moving to Colorado Springs. “We are fully moving the operation down there, picking up the whole thing and going into a bigger market,” said Paul…
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Colorado Springs veterans’ groups partner for mental health symposium
American Legion Post 209 and the Veterans Trauma Court Mentor Team will host a suicide prevention symposium, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at 3613 Jeannine Drive in Colorado Springs. Presenters include Brian Murphy, who will discuss the VA S.A.V.E. program, a free online or in-person course that provides training on how friends and loved ones…
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South Park Brewing is coming to Colorado Springs
After almost 10 years making and pouring craft suds in the high mountain valley that inspired its name, South Park Brewing Co. is bidding a fond farewell to Fairplay, and moving to Colorado Springs. A grand re-opening, in the former Smiling Toad Brewery building off 21st Street in Old Colorado City, could come as soon…
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‘We got … lucky’: Late-winter storm likely more boon than bane for Colorado Springs trees
Despite the damage late-season winter storms can wreak on trees and other plants, the so-called 2024 “snowpocalypse” came at a lucky time — an early point in the seasonal growth cycle that likely will mean more boon than bane, according to Colorado Springs city forester Dennis Will. “If the trees had already been leafed out, you’re talking…
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Trails End Taproom to reopen in partnership with Felipe’s 109 in Old Colorado City
When the big “For Sale” sign recently disappeared from outside Trails End Taproom at The Mason Jar, it was clear something was afoot at Colorado Springs’ former pour-your-own craft bar, which closed Jan. 1 in what originally was announced as a seasonal shutdown, just ‘til spring. Taproom owner Kevin Weese declined to elaborate about plans…
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Colorado Springs weather: CDOT warns travelers ahead of expected major winter storm
A major winter storm that could drop up to four feet of snow in some areas of the state is moving in, and the Colorado Department of Transportation is preparing residents and travelers for likely closures of major highways – including Interstate 25 between Castle Rock and Colorado Springs, and I-70 west of Denver, from…
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Long-reigning ‘barbecue king’ of Colorado Springs leaves a legacy of good food, good will
Long before a national TV crew swooped in to film a segment about Colorado Springs’ first Black-owned business to hit the $1 million mark, circa 1976, Reginald Smith said he knew he was working for a local icon. His dad, restaurant founder Howard L. Smith, had worked his way up from hardscrabble beginnings, persevered through…
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Artist’s ‘love letter’ to late Manitou Springs artist is a movable Mardi Gras mega-float
When Sofia Hernandez Crade says that the late Manitou Springs artist Charles H. Rockey has taken over her life, she means it literally. An unfinished papier-mâché shoe and hand, each the size of an ottoman, claim the dinner table of her Colorado Springs home. In her workshop, the kind-eyed and wispy-haired visage of Manitou’s Gandalf-like…
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Skills Academy teaches trades to special needs students
After Randee Van Ness discovered her special needs children’s instructor was picking them up late, dropping them off early and not teaching them anything, she decided to take matters into her own hands. Van Ness founded the Skills Academy that takes special needs students and trains them in vocational trades among other life skills such…