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What’s Your Take On … Neighborhood street games
For four years, residents of a Colorado Springs neighborhood enjoyed a weekly summertime pickup game of kickball … until other neighbors called the police. Gazette reporter Debbie Kelley wrote about a weekly evening kickball game being shut down by police earlier this month (“CSPD shuts down street kickball game in Old North End, says activity…
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Movie history in the Springs | Caboose Cobwebs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In researching railroad history, I stumbled across some movie history. One bit of history I found was about a photographer named Harry Buckwalter. He had a pretty good Denver commercial photography business, but when movies…
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Movie history in the Springs | Caboose Cobwebs
In researching railroad history, I stumbled across some movie history. One bit of history I found was about a photographer named Harry Buckwalter. He had a pretty good Denver commercial photography business, but when movies came along he tried that, too. It was around 1901 that he started making historical films. Buckwalter’s film company shot…
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What’s Your Take On … Increase in car break-ins, thefts lately
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I’ve been noticing an uptick in car break-ins and seeing more car thefts in the city of Colorado Springs lately. Earlier this month I watched from my front porch a man walk lingering on my…
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Hard lessons from the border | Writers on the Range
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The wall between the United States and Mexico has come to stand for desperation and suffering for many people. For most of us who live within 20 miles of this 452-mile wall, it’s also seen…
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Benefits far beyond game day | From the Editor
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save If you haven’t been to a game at the new Weidner Field, home of the Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC, you’re missing out. Not just on a way to support the home team, but also an…
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How the simple task of weeding changed everything | Intentional Living in the Cañon
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As I write this, I’m preparing for a week of exploring, camping, hiking and rafting in new parts of Colorado. This morning, as I refereed my son and rescue dog’s play, I realized I wasn’t…
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Benefits far beyond game day | From the Editor
If you haven’t been to a game at the new Weidner Field, home of the Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC, you’re missing out. Not just on a way to support the home team, but also an opportunity to support the region. One of Colorado Springs’ five City for Champions projects, the soccer stadium is a prime…
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Hard lessons from the border | Writers on the Range
The wall between the United States and Mexico has come to stand for desperation and suffering for many people. For most of us who live within 20 miles of this 452-mile wall, it’s also seen as a bizarre experiment: How much damage can ripple into the surrounding landscape from a wall that cuts a 60-foot…
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What’s Your Take On … Increase in car break-ins, thefts lately
I’ve been noticing an uptick in car break-ins and seeing more car thefts in the city of Colorado Springs lately. Earlier this month I watched from my front porch a man walk lingering on my street on a Saturday afternoon. When he thought he was out of my view, he tried my neighbor’s car door…