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Pikes Peak Library District celebrates 50 years of summertime reading programs
Pikes Peak Library District is celebrating a half-century of instilling and encouraging a love of reading – while combating summertime learning loss — in Colorado Springs-area students. The library system’s annual summer reading program, 2024 Summer Adventure, will kick off at all 15 PPLD locations on Friday, according to a news release. Presented by Children’s…
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Colorado Springs library staff see 911 calls unanswered as police response times remain high
When an erratic patron started threatening himself and others at the Rockrimmon Library on the evening of April 22, staff called 911 for help. Then they called again and again, never receiving an in-person response from patrol during the nearly two-hour incident. Police say the lack of response was due to a combination of factors,…
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Downtown Penrose Library to close for renovations, including security upgrades
Penrose Library at 20 N. Cascade Ave., the Pikes Peak Library District’s oldest location, will close for two months starting Feb. 1 for what officials describe as an overdue facelift. Built in 1968, the flagship of the 16-branch system has not been refreshed in years, said Chief Librarian and CEO Teona Shainidze-Krebs. “I’m very excited;…
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Author Pam Houston to receive writing award in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Mother Nature stepped in when Pam Houston’s parents failed her. To say the award-winning author’s childhood was rough is putting it mildly. Though her mother loved her, she has said in interviews, she was more devoted to booze and did nothing to protect Houston from…
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Author Pam Houston to receive writing award in Colorado Springs
Mother Nature stepped in when Pam Houston’s parents failed her. To say the award-winning author’s childhood was rough is putting it mildly. Though her mother loved her, she has said in interviews, she was more devoted to booze and did nothing to protect Houston from years of physical and sexual abuse heaped upon her by…
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Read, imagine and move with Pikes Peak Library District all summer
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Summer Adventure presented by Children’s Hospital of Colorado When Pikes Peak Library District says Summer Adventure, presented by Children’s Hospital of Colorado, — the District’s free annual reading and activities program for kids and teens — is just getting rolling, they’re very serious. The program,…
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Read, imagine and move with Pikes Peak Library District all summer
When Pikes Peak Library District says Summer Adventure, presented by Children’s Hospital of Colorado, — the District’s free annual reading and activities program for kids and teens — is just getting rolling, they’re very serious. The program, which encourages those ages 0-18 to read, imagine and move, runs through Aug. 14, but in just a…
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Manitou Springs selects architectural firm in historic Carnegie Library restoration efforts
Manitou Springs is one step closer to fulfilling long-planned upgrades and remodels to its historic Carnegie Library building after choosing an architectural firm to engineer and design the changes to the more than century-old facility. Of seven firms who submitted proposals, the city on Tuesday formally selected Ratio Architects LLC — headquartered in Indianapolis with an…