Tag: competition
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Xtreme International Ice Racing slides into The Broadmoor World Arena
Studded tires, roaring engines and zero room for error. This is racing, only with a frigid twist. That’s because of the surface. It’s not pavement, and it’s not dirt. Xtreme International Ice Racing boasts the slickest surface, and that should make for intense action. Round 5 of the fierce competition comes to Colorado Springs this…
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Cripple Creek Ice Festival will transform busy street into a frozen art gallery
Some art endures for centuries, seemingly frozen in time. Then there is the art at Cripple Creek Ice Festival: actually frozen, but only for a few days. When your medium is a 300-pound block of ice, time is not on your side. And neither is the sun. But the six professional carving teams traveling to…
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Texas-based Shipley Do-Nuts opens third Colorado Springs-area location
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Another Texas import that expanded to the Pikes Peak region in recent years is growing again. Shipley Do-Nuts debuted its third Colorado Springs-area store last month at 4296 N. Academy Blvd., north of Academy and Austin Bluffs Parkway. Shipley took over a vacant space in…
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Texas-based Shipley Do-Nuts opens third Colorado Springs-area location
Another Texas import that expanded to the Pikes Peak region in recent years is growing again. Shipley Do-Nuts debuted its third Colorado Springs-area store last month at 4296 N. Academy Blvd., north of Academy and Austin Bluffs Parkway. Shipley took over a vacant space in a multitenant retail building that had been occupied by a…
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Rampart High School marching band celebrates first Colorado state championship in 18 years
When Irene Wich joined the Rampart High School marching band in 2021, she felt a mixture of excitement and apprehension. Schools in Colorado and across the U.S. were still adjusting to the havoc wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the band’s numbers reflected the lingering uncertainty. Rampart fielded 65 students that year. But Wich was…
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LIFE | Meet the Wardens, Colorado’s closest thing to real knights
Armored Combat is a competitive international sport that features steel medieval weaponry and armor. The Wardens, Colorado’s Medieval Armored Combat team, have made themselves known this year by qualifying to compete internationally. In April dozens of countries will represent at the Buhurt League World Cup in Prague, what’s been called the Battle of the Nations.…
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Colorado Springs-based team wins statewide Science Olympiad, advances to national tournament
A Colorado Springs-based team of gifted middle- and high-school students recently defeated dozens of competitors to win a statewide science competition. Homeschool Science Colorado, which is comprised entirely of homeschool students, won both the high school and middle school divisions of the state’s Science Olympiad tournament. It was the first victory in either division for…
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VIDEO | 2019 Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo
Scenes from the final day of competition at the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo. (Video by Katie Klann)