Author: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com
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How one Colorado Springs brewery is bucking sobering trends
Not so long and forever ago, a group of Colorado Springs entrepreneurs herded its creative energies and funds into a startup brewery named after an epic display of chin whiskers. When we first met Goat Patch Brewing Co.’s founding friends in 2016, they’d secured an anchor location inside Lincoln Center, a former elementary school and…
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Snoring is no joke if sleep apnea is to blame, but tech brings hope in Colorado Springs
It’s the butt of jokes and metaphors invoking locomotives and lawn equipment. For those producing the seismic zzzzzs, snoring’s also usually someone else’s problem. Or, so it begins. “I guess kind of the selfish part of this is, it didn’t really affect me,” said 68 year-old Mike Guber, as his wife — seated beside him…
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Demonstrator struck by car outside Steve Bannon event in Colorado Springs
A spirited but peaceful demonstration outside the venue where Trump ally and former top adviser Steve Bannon spoke Friday night erupted briefly after a protester appeared to have been struck by a vehicle entering the Phil Long Music Hall at Bourbon Brothers. Eyewitnesses say the woman was among a group of demonstrators crossing an entry…
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Colorado GOP moves annual fundraising dinner featuring Steve Bannon after Colorado Springs hotel cancels event
The Colorado Republican Party was left scrambling, looking for a new location for its annual fundraising dinner after The Antlers in downtown Colorado Springs on Monday abruptly canceled the March 28 event featuring keynote speaker Steve Bannon, a former top Trump adviser, in response to an online uproar the party blamed on “radical leftists.” By…
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A ‘big vibration’: American Airlines passenger recalls minutes leading up to plane engine catching fire at DIA
Two investigators with “expertise in commercial aircraft and power plants” were expected to be in Denver Friday, to begin looking into what caused the engine of an American Airlines plane to catch fire shortly after a precautionary landing early Thursday evening at Denver International Airport, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Once at DIA,…
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What will we say about COVID-19 in 100 years? Colorado Springs educator examines wins, losses
On a table at the back of Phoebe Lostroh’s classroom at Colorado College whirs a constant reminder that pandemics are not just the purview of the past. It’s called a Corsi-Rosenthal box, with the latter surname supplied by CC alumnus Jim Rosenthal, who partnered with Richard Corsi to create and free-share designs for the low-cost,…
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Downfall of an Ironman: Former USA Triathlon chief believes black mold led to devastating illness
Steve Locke was a paragon of health and fitness, a career executive with the U.S. Olympic Committee who embraced athletics just as enthusiastically off the clock. “He’d be out there at the crack of dawn, riding his bike in Garden of the Gods,” said Locke’s wife, Linda Kilis. “He did Ironman in Hawaii eight times.…
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Downfall of an Ironman: Former USA Triathlon chief believes black mold led to devastating illness
Steve Locke was a paragon of health and fitness, a career executive with the U.S. Olympic Committee who embraced athletics just as enthusiastically off the clock. “He’d be out there at the crack of dawn, riding his bike in Garden of the Gods,” said Locke’s wife, Linda Kilis. “He did Ironman in Hawaii eight times.…
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Historic Johnny’s Navajo Hogan building in Colorado Springs finally has a buyer
After being vacant and on the market for years after the second of two fires brought operations to a close in 2021, the former Johnny’s Navajo Hogan finally has a buyer. The property at 2817 N. Nevada Ave. sold for $700,000 to Rocky Ocean properties #2, LLC, on Feb 6, according to public records from…
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Colorado Springs could feel outsized hit from federal workforce exodus
President Donald Trump’s moves to slash the federal workforce could have a disproportionate impact in El Paso County, where the population of civilian government employees is almost double the national average. As questions about how the epic downsizing continue to swirl — around water coolers, and in the courts — economic and labor experts say…