Author: Stephanie Earls
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Colorado community colleges, students adapt to fill vital workforce gaps: ‘We need more, we need more’
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Teddy Roosevelt The famous quote by United States’ trailblazing president, delivered during a 1903 speech to farmers in upstate New York, is a messier maxim for those living in a post-pandemic age, under the rising…
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Margaret Woolsey disappeared almost 6 months ago. Detectives suspect the worst, but hope the public can help.
Authorities on Friday reiterated an emotional, public plea for information in a missing persons case the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Manitou Springs Police Department now say may have involved foul play. Margaret Woolsey, 57, dropped off the map in the early days of August 2025, but wasn’t reported missing until Sept. 23. According…
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Former Monument Academy teacher accused of murder will see trial
What truly happened before police arrived at a Patty Jewett neighborhood home to find one person dead and two injured from stab wounds on Halloween last year will be up to a jury to decide, an El Paso County judge ruled last week. Matthew Regnier, 34, is charged with several felonies, including first-degree murder, after…
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Former Monument Academy teacher accused of murder will see trial
What truly happened before police arrived at a Patty Jewett neighborhood home to find one person dead and two injured from stab wounds on Halloween last year will be up to a jury to decide, an El Paso County judge ruled last week. Matthew Regnier, 34, is charged with several felonies, including first-degree murder, after…
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New urban grocery store heading to downtown Colorado Springs
A historic building with affectionately incongruous optics, and a chef with a boundary-pushing farm-to-table vision, are coming full circle in Colorado Springs this spring — by getting back to basics. The Warehouse Urban Grocer, a corner market-style shop offering high-end delicacies as well as everyday staples, is on track to open in March inside former…
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Good’s friends in the Springs take issue with how she’s portrayed
The shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Nichole Good by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday has sparked nationwide protests, vitriol and outrage, from all sides. From those who maintain the mother of three, who grew up and graduated from Coronado High School in Colorado Springs, stumbled into the violent crosshairs…
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Colorado experiences record number of flu hospitalizations
With almost 800 hospitalizations statewide last week, Colorado is in the throes of its worst flu surge in almost a generation, less than midway through a season of sickness doctors say they worry hasn’t yet bared its full fangs. “We’ve definitely seen an increase in the flu, and I think over the last two to…
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Colorado experiences record number of flu hospitalizations
With almost 800 hospitalizations statewide last week, Colorado is in the throes of its worst flu surge in almost a generation, less than midway through a season of sickness doctors say they worry hasn’t yet bared its full fangs. “We’ve definitely seen an increase in the flu, and I think over the last two to…
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Colorado experiences record number of flu hospitalizations
With almost 800 hospitalizations statewide last week, Colorado is in the throes of its worst flu surge in almost a generation, less than midway through a season of sickness doctors say they worry hasn’t yet bared its full fangs. “We’ve definitely seen an increase in the flu, and I think over the last two to…
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Adieu to Pikes Peak Brewing, hello Goat Patch Monument
“Out with the old, in with the new” is more than a seasonal saw at the former Pikes Peak Brewing Co. in Monument. Almost a year after its acquisition by Colorado Springs’ Goat Patch Brewing Co., the familiar Front Range brand has assumed its spot among Colorado beer’s auld lang syne. The brewpub at 1756…