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Banning Lewis football team set to host food drive, scrimmage against Englewood
Although Banning Lewis Ranch Academy will host Englewood for a football scrimmage Friday, their most important drive will happen off the turf. The Stallions, alongside Care and Share Food Bank, will hold a food drive at 7 p.m. at Banning Lewis. Attendees will be asked to bring one nonperishable food item per person for entry.…
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Colorado Springs woman celebrates 100th birthday: ‘I have no idea how this happened’
Of all the technological marvels Grace Burns has seen throughout her lifetime, the most amazing has been the television, she said. “I was already married when I got my first TV,” said Burns, who turned 100 on Thursday. “My husband and I took a vacation to California, and we brought back a black-and-white television set.…
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Colorado justices leave question unanswered of who should handle interstate couple’s divorce
The state Supreme Court acknowledged its decision on Monday, involving a Denver judge’s erroneous finding that she had jurisdiction over a divorce between a Nebraska man and his Colorado wife, did not answer the question of how a court could, in fact, handle the case. “In our review, we found no straightforward answer to this…
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Fraudulent unemployment claims flooding Colorado employers
Gary Seabolt receives unemployment claim notices almost every day for Pikes Peak Construction for people who have never worked for the company, listing some fairly unlikely jobs, such as ship’s engineer. The tiny Colorado Springs company has just five employees and has never laid off any of them, yet the flood of notices has forced…
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Space Command’s home will be decided by Congress, Lamborn says
When former President Donald Trump awarded the permanent basing of U.S. Space Command headquarters to Alabama, where he had some of his highest approval ratings, in his final week in office, he yanked the command from front-runner Colorado Springs. In so doing, he triggered a pair of government investigations that lawmakers say could ultimately doom…
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Waste Connections acquires major Colorado Springs trash company
Toronto-based trash giant Waste Connections has acquired Springs Waste Systems, the last remaining locally owned company among the four largest trash haulers in the Colorado Springs area. Waste Connections bought Springs Waste Systems and trash companies in Bailey, southwest of Denver, and in Omaha, Neb., last month from the Shrader family. Terms of the transaction…
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Polis ponders next steps on transportation at NoCo summit
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis was late arriving at the Regional Issues Summit in Loveland on Tuesday morning — stuck in traffic, a host joked, as hundreds of business and civic leaders took a break and waited. The governor arrived at the Embassy Suites Conference Center, after weaving through hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of ongoing…
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Polis ponders next steps on transportation at NoCo summit
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Gov. Jared Polis was late arriving at the Regional Issues Summit in Loveland on Tuesday morning — stuck in traffic, a host joked, as hundreds of business and civic leaders took a break and waited. The governor arrived at the Embassy Suites Conference Center, after…
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Polis urges high school girls to sign up for cybersecurity challenge
Gov. Jared Polis on Monday invited Colorado girls in grades 9-12 to participate in Girls Go CyberStart, an online challenge that introduces players to Linux, cryptography and programming, and leads to a national championship with scholarship awards. “To maintain Colorado’s distinction as a nationally recognized leader in cybersecurity, we must equip our students with educational…