Tag: side streets
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Side Streets: Waldo Canyon fire anniversary doubly sad as vandals destroy memorial children’s bench
Three years ago today, the Waldo Canyon fire exploded down the Front Range into Mountain Shadows, killing two, destroying 346 homes and causing $453.7 million in losses. But instead of simply observing the sad anniversary, some are mourning the recent vandalism of a memorial bench placed in Mountain Shadows Park in November to honor the…
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Side Streets: Wagon Man’s latest convictions reflect on society, not him, expert says
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Early Thursday, Phillip “Wagon Man” Cargile left the van where he sleeps and trudged down to the Colorado Springs Municipal Courthouse to again face a judge for illegally pulling his wagons in the street. Again…
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Side Streets: Wagon Man’s latest convictions reflect on society, not him, expert says
Early Thursday, Phillip “Wagon Man” Cargile left the van where he sleeps and trudged down to the Colorado Springs Municipal Courthouse to again face a judge for illegally pulling his wagons in the street. Again he was convicted, for the third and fourth times, on tickets written by Colorado Springs police officer Michael Zamonas. Again,…
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Side Streets: Colorado Springs men bridges century of ‘white’ vs. ‘black’ Elks lodges
It’s enough of a headline that, in 2008, Warren “Neal” McCoy became the first black person voted in as a member of the Elks Lodge 309, which opened in Colorado Springs in 1895. It’s even better that McCoy was the first black elected as its exalted ruler, taking office last April as leader of the…
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Side Streets: Manitou Springs history told through artifacts carried in the pockets of pioneers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Atop a large granite boulder in Manitou Springs’ Memorial Park stands a statue of a World War I doughboy. To most park visitors, it’s just a typical, weathered war memorial. But once a “History Pockets”…
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Side Streets: Manitou Springs history told through artifacts carried in the pockets of pioneers
Atop a large granite boulder in Manitou Springs’ Memorial Park stands a statue of a World War I doughboy. To most park visitors, it’s just a typical, weathered war memorial. But once a “History Pockets” project is completed, this summer, visitors to the Manitou Springs Heritage Center will understand why the statue and the park…
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Side Streets: Colorado Springs man facing code violations
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Residents of the north-side Pulpit Rock neighborhood are puzzled, frustrated and angry. In recent months they have campaigned to get Colorado Springs code enforcement officers to do something about neighbor Greg Heskin, an electrician who…
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Side Streets: Colorado Springs man facing code violations
Residents of the north-side Pulpit Rock neighborhood are puzzled, frustrated and angry. In recent months they have campaigned to get Colorado Springs code enforcement officers to do something about neighbor Greg Heskin, an electrician who bought a modest split-level house in 2009 at Dublin Boulevard and Brittany Circle. It’s so bad one family has moved…
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Side Streets: Reader hits dead-end trying to get county to open road to emergency vehicles
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Last summer, crews from El Paso County went to Park Vista Estates, an unincorporated enclave near the Old Farm neighborhood, and put five concrete barriers across Copper Drive at the spot where the county road…
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Side Streets: Reader hits dead-end trying to get county to open road to emergency vehicles
Last summer, crews from El Paso County went to Park Vista Estates, an unincorporated enclave near the Old Farm neighborhood, and put five concrete barriers across Copper Drive at the spot where the county road meets the city limits of Colorado Springs. The road wasn’t dangerous. It was brand-new, having recently been built with city…