Author: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com
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With unlimited forever storage space, cloud enables unhealthy habits
Please, ma’am, I want some more. A terabyte should do it. The Gazette’s system support specialist, Louise Pearson, spins around in her chair. “Why do you need that much space?” I stutter, because no one’s ever asked me this question. “Well, you know, work stuff and photos and videos and … emails.” “When’s the last…
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Digital clutter clogging your systems? These tips can help
Whittling down an overwhelming collection of stuff – and a bad lifestyle habit – requires similar approaches in both the real and virtual worlds. “Organizing is like dieting. You’re going to do really well for a couple of days, then you’re going to eat a box of cookies,” said Deniece Schofield, a California-based author and…
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Colorado Springs family-owned business, Use Again, wants you to do just that
On the front lines of progress, Rick Clouse stands by with a roll-off and a mission to fight waste. He doesn’t always win. “I cried every day we came to work,” says Clouse, as a Colorado Department of Transportation backhoe chews at the razed field across from his business, Use Again Building Materials. The work…
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El Paso County Head Start now enrolling
The Community Partnership for Child Development has openings for qualifying children in its Head Start, Early Head Start and Colorado Preschool Program. Started in 1987 under Catholic Charities of Central Colorado, CPCD today operates more than 65 classrooms in six El Paso County school districts and on Fort Carson. Last year, the nonprofit was able…
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Manitou Springs’ Commonwheel arts fest returns to Memorial Park for 40th year
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Manitou Springs Memorial Park, 502 Manitou Ave.; free admission; commonwheel.com/festival or 685-1008. For four decades, the Manitou Springs Commonwheel Arts & Crafts Festival has connected the public with the area’s creators of one-of-a-kind works, in a variety of media, for a farmers-market-style gathering that includes the…
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Lion cubs make playful public debut at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
From a perch inside her enclosure at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, mother lioness Lomela watches over her trio of playful cubs as a crowd of humans – and their cubs – watch over them, snapping photos and videos and pressing their faces to the glass partition for a better view. A weekend news clip showing the…
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Memorial Hospital’s Child Life Specialists help patients and families adjust
Laced to machines, a tube up his nose and an IV in his arm, Joseph Viegas – the boy who has something to say about pretty much everything – was so miserable he didn’t want to speak. His family had expected the all-clear after the 9-year-old underwent emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix, but two…
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Mumford & Sons concert ‘is biggest thing we’ve seen’ in Salida
Each year, organizers with the Gentlemen of the Road Stopover tour search the globe for idyllic rural towns and small cities to host the multiday, traveling music extravaganza, founded in 2012 by British chart-toppers Mumford & Sons. The one-off locales must meet a sweet set of requirements, from demographics to natural beauty, as well as a…
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Mumford & Sons’ ‘Gentlemen of the Road’ fest draws massive crowd to Salida
Each year, organizers with the Gentlemen of the Road Stopover tour search the globe for idyllic rural towns and small cities to host the multi-day, traveling music extravaganza, founded in 2012 by British chart-toppers Mumford & Sons. The one-off locales must meet a sweet set of requirements, from demographics to natural beauty, as well as…
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Triple threat: Teaching teens to drive is a rough road for parents of multiples
Things come at you fast when you’re cruising down the exit ramp of childhood. Like that Subaru, and that pothole. And whoa … pedestrian. From her spot in the passenger seat, Lisa Rudolph gently suggests the driver, her 15-year-old daughter, consider breaking the hard and fast rules of the road. “So Grace, since there’s no…