Author: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com
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Challenges ahead, but ‘the sky is not falling’ for Colorado brewing industry
Signs that craft brewing has turned a page on the boom-time chapters are hard to ignore, even for those sporting the rosiest of glasses. For not the first time in recent memory, more breweries closed than opened over a six-month period in Colorado, according to a 2025 mid-year report from the Boulder-based Brewers Association. A…
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Calm in a storm: Memorial Hospital’s forensic nursing center is a one-of-a-kind resource
Steps away from the clamor of one of the country’s busiest emergency departments, a first-of-its-kind, 24-hour medical unit in Colorado Springs strives for serenity in the treatment of patients whose physical injuries only hint at the horrors they’ve survived. A security badge is flashed and the doors just beyond the ER check-in desk at UCHealth…
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The business of love: After more than 50 years, Skyway Creations in Colorado Springs will soon be closing its doors
The owners of Skyway Creations, Don Jr. and Lori Goede, have spent most of their lives helping generations of Colorado Springs customers express sentiments that feel too big for language alone. I love you. I’m sorry. Goodbye. “Any feelings or message you want to say, flowers can do that in a way that … really…
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The business of love: After more than 50 years, Skyway Creations in Colorado Springs will soon be closing its doors
The owners of Skyway Creations, Don Jr. and Lori Goede, have spent most of their lives helping generations of Colorado Springs customers express sentiments that feel too big for language alone. I love you. I’m sorry. Goodbye. “Any feelings or message you want to say, flowers can do that in a way that … really…
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Class action suit filed against disgraced former Colorado jail commander
A former Colorado jail commander, accused of secretly viewing and replaying thousands of strip-search videos of female inmates over a five-year period, now is also facing a federal class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of his accusers at the La Plata County jail in Durango. Edward Aber, 62, was charged in July with 117 counts of…
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Lawsuit settled against Air Force Academy over former race-based admissions practices
More than four months after the U.S. Air Force Academy announced it no longer would consider race as a factor in its admissions process, the Justice Department said Tuesday a settlement has been reached between the Colorado Springs academy and a conservative nonprofit whose years long lawsuit challenged the school’s now-abandoned affirmative-action policies. The settlement…
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POW/MIA bracelet honoring Lt. Col. Ben Pollard
Dan Rector, of Monument, was a college student at CU Boulder in the early 1970s when he purchased this POW/MIA bracelet honoring Air Force Lt. Col. Ben Pollard, who was shot down during a night bombing mission north of Hanoi, and spent almost six years as a prisoner of war of the North Vietnamese. The…
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Lost POW/MIA bracelet finds its way home after 50 years
A Vietnam-era POW/MIA bracelet long lost, then found, inspires a mission to set things right after half a century. A cold call to a mostly forgotten landline finally makes it through, leading to a full-circle moment more complete than anyone imagined. Is it serendipity? Fate? Luck? “Use whatever flowery, psychic, cosmic words you would choose,”…
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Story of POW/MIA bracelet concludes, with deep connections in Colorado Springs
Dan Rector (left) and Mark Pollard met for the first time, in person, at a coffee shop in Monument, in early June. Pollard’s father, Col. Ben Pollard, was a POW in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Rector was a college student in Boulder in the early 1970s, when he purchased a POW/MIA bracelet honoring…
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New craft brewery in the works for northeast Colorado Springs
Kristin and Jeff Lockhart spent untold hours cruising Colorado Springs in search of the perfect location for their startup craft brewery, in arguably imperfect craft brewing times. The spot they ultimately settled on for Armillary Brewing Co., in the end cap of a three-unit shopping plaza off Austin Bluffs Parkway, felt like it was located…