Author: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com
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Icons Bar to reopen Friday in new downtown Colorado Springs spot
Almost a year after a fire forced the closure of Colorado Springs’ “first and only” gay piano bar, the owners of Icons nightclub are celebrating their grand reopening Friday in a new location, 16 E. Kiowa St., a block south of the old address. The Kiowa revival (of an original Bijou Street production) is even…
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Possibly dangerous AWOL Army sergeant found deceased
The Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division announced over the weekend an Army sergeant who went missing from Fort Johnson, La. was found deceased. Sgt. David Lee Johnson was believed to be en route to Colorado and may have been in possession of firearms. The agency said it is working with local police to…
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Snyder, VanderWerf race for state Senate District 12 too close to call
The race for Colorado state Senate District 12, between Republican Stan VanderWerf and Democrat Marc Snyder, was still too close to call late Tuesday night, with Republicans’ hopes of staving off a Democrat supermajority in the state Senate riding on fewer than two thousand votes. “We don’t really know yet, and we might not know…
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Manitou Springs artist Don Goede back from the brink and from creative destruction
Don Goede, aka “Jack Medicine,” aka “Chaos,” night-napped maybe four hours on the couch, but to him that’s like hibernation (“I used to never sleep, never.”). A full day of office work already in the rearview on this late-July afternoon, he was sock-clad and guitar-slung in the kitchen of his Manitou Springs home, suddenly launching…
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E. coli outbreak in Colorado: People sickened in 13 states; other fast food restaurants pull onions off menus
Yellow onions from a California company have been identified as the likely culprit in a recent E. coli outbreak that killed a Colorado man, led to dozens of hospitalizations and spurred voluntary recalls by a growing number of businesses that fear they may have received, or distributed, infected produce, according to reporting by The Associated…
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Colorado House District 14 race: Rose Pugliese vs. Katherine Gayle | Voter Guide
Incumbent Rose Pugliese, a Republican, will face Democrat challenger Katherine “Kat” Gayle for the seat in Colorado House District 14, a geographic area which encompasses parts of west and north Colorado Springs bordering the Air Force Academy. A former Mesa County Commissioner, Pugliese was elected to represent District 14 in 2022, and earlier this year…
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Colorado House District 20: Caldwell vs. Dougherty | Voter Guide
Republican Jarvis Caldwell faces Democrat Arik Dougherty in the race for Colorado House District 20, a seat left open when Monument Republican Don Wilson decided to throw his hat into the ring for El Paso County Commissioner. (Wilson went on to be defeated by Bill Wysong in the District 3 primary.) House District 20 covers…
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Cripple Creek mine elevator had a bad, but not deadly, summer in the 1990s
Mine tour guide Patrick Weier, a 46-year-old father from Victor, was the sole fatality in a deadly elevator accident that also stranded a dozen people deep inside Cripple Creek’s Mollie Kathleen Mine for several hours Thursday afternoon. Weier was among about a dozen people inside the tourist mine’s rapidly-moving “cage” style elevator car when the…
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Mollie Kathleen Mine made headlines in 1994, when elevator system failed twice in 5 weeks
No one was injured in the 1994 Cripple Creek mine incidents.
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‘A little bit Narnia:’ Colorado Springs food hall aims to transport
When Finch Gortz’s parents recommended a newish food hall in Colorado Springs a few years ago, he took the advice to heart, and with a grain of salt. Even cool parents are from a different generation, with much earlier bedtimes. “A place that appeals to a lot of different demographics … people who have different…