Author: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com
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Colorado Springs at 150 years | North Springs neighborhood was once a railroad boom town
Editor’s note: This July, as Colorado Springs gears up for its 150th birthday on the 31st, our sister paper, The Gazette, has prepared a series of articles on the history of our city. Say “Roswell” today and the location that leaps to mind is probably a few hundred miles south of Colorado Springs. Maybe straight up…
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Colorado Springs at 150 years | North Springs neighborhood was once a railroad boom town
Editor’s note: This July, as Colorado Springs gears up for its 150th birthday on the 31st, The Gazette has prepared a series of articles on the history of our city. Check back for fascinating glimpses into the people and events that have shaped Colorado Springs into the landmark it is today. Say “Roswell” today and the…
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Rocking the walls: How I made peace with Colorado dirt
I like it when nature meets me halfway. OK, 70/30. Plant it and forget it, that’s my motto. Or, at least, it used to be. In West Virginia, Washington and New York, minimal effort was all it took. An impromptu toss of seeds on random ground on a random spring day, and in six weeks…
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The first local target for COVID, Colorado Springs Bridge Center reopens, with joy and tears
Ann Parker was already on the move, arms propelled by emotion and muscle memory, when she caught herself. “This is OK, right? she said, a question to the universe and also to Tom Goings, who’d just arrived at the Colorado Springs Bridge Center on Tuesday, July 6, the center’s first day of in-person play since…
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Colorado Springs at 150 years | The local legend of Lon Chaney
Editor’s note: This July, as Colorado Springs gears up for its 150th birthday on the 31st, The Gazette has prepared a series of articles on the history of our city. Check back for fascinating glimpses into the people and events that have shaped Colorado Springs into the landmark it is today. In 1893, a 10-year-old Colorado…
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Corrections and clarifications
This week’s Pikes Pub column included incorrect information about the sale and ownership of Pabst Brewing Co. In 2014, the brewery was acquired by a consortium of investors led by Russian-born American beer entrepreneur Eugene Kashper, who had previously co-founded Cypress-based Oasis Beverages.
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Breakups are tough, and sometimes delicious | Pikes Pub
As Prince crooned in “Under the Cherry Moon,” in the most depressing breakup song ever: “Sometimes it snows in April.” Such a phenomenon might be unusual enough to carry poetic punch elsewhere. I guess Prince never visited Colorado in the spring (or lyrically factored in climate change). Weather here likes to make a point, and…
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The Spillane family: A legacy of service, and so much more
It was an accidental beginning that spawned fate, faith and a sprawling legacy that, today, can be hard to keep straight, even for a matriarch with a cheat sheet. The Spillanes are a military family, like so many families, in Colorado Springs. They’re also a family that’s not like very many families at all. “They…
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‘American von Trapps’ reflect on a love that launched a family of 14, music
It was an accidental beginning that spawned fate, faith and a sprawling legacy that, today, can be hard to keep straight, even for a matriarch with a cheat sheet. The Spillanes are a military family like so many families in Colorado Springs. They’re also a family that’s not like very many families at all. “They…
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For Colorado’s Superintendent of the Year from Fountain-Fort Carson, education is a career and a calling
Colorado’s 2021 Superintendent of the Year didn’t plan a career in education. Engineering was Keith Owen’s calling, he was sure, but once the Pueblo native arrived at Colorado State University in Fort Collins and enrolled in a program where students spend time on the job with professional engineers, he quickly realized he’d picked the wrong…