Tag: side streets
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Side Streets: Buried arts treasure found at the Albany
Buried in a basement boiler room of the 112-year-old Albany Hotel, Jerimy Noon found a strange black object. Noon, who manages the 70-room rental house at 228 N. Tejon St., was cleaning out years of junk when he noticed the object wedged behind a large air duct and a stone foundation wall. “I tried to…
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Side Streets: Newly sculpted walking paths, flowers brighten Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save To passers-by, the entrance to Discovery Park off Pebble Way in the Rockrimmon neighborhood is just a nicely landscaped gateway to a playground, baseball diamond and soccer field. But the newly sculpted walking paths, the…
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Side Streets: Newly sculpted walking paths, flowers brighten Colorado Springs
To passers-by, the entrance to Discovery Park off Pebble Way in the Rockrimmon neighborhood is just a nicely landscaped gateway to a playground, baseball diamond and soccer field. But the newly sculpted walking paths, the bright flowers, the shrubs, trees and mulch represent much more than a neighborhood amenity. To Barbara Barton, principal at Rockrimmon…
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Side Streets: Good read about a bad time in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In January, I stumbled upon a display at a small museum honoring Ron Stallworth, who became the Colorado Springs Police Department’s first black detective in August 1975 and three years later infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan as a card-carrying member. Did I mention Stallworth, now…
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Side Streets: Good read about a bad time in Colorado Springs
In January, I stumbled upon a display at a small museum honoring Ron Stallworth, who became the Colorado Springs Police Department’s first black detective in August 1975 and three years later infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan as a card-carrying member. Did I mention Stallworth, now retired in Salt Lake City, is black? The display is…
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Side Streets: Mental illness at the root of violent case
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ben Poynter turned 29 in prison Sunday. He likely will turn 39 in prison, too, after being sentenced to 18 years for attempted murder of his girlfriend during a drug- and alcohol-fueled rage in June.…
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Side Streets: Mental illness at the root of violent case
Ben Poynter turned 29 in prison Sunday. He likely will turn 39 in prison, too, after being sentenced to 18 years for attempted murder of his girlfriend during a drug- and alcohol-fueled rage in June. He also was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated animal cruelty. At sentencing May 5, prosecutors described…
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Side Streets: Stars in the making at an intimate venue
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Last week, my wife, Cary, and I had front-row seats for a sold-out concert featuring some up-and-coming talent we really enjoyed. The standing-room-only crowd sang and clapped and lined up to buy CDs after the…
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Side Streets: Stars in the making at an intimate venue
Last week, my wife, Cary, and I had front-row seats for a sold-out concert featuring some up-and-coming talent we really enjoyed. The standing-room-only crowd sang and clapped and lined up to buy CDs after the show. Even better, the stars of the show hung around to chat with the guests long after the music ended.…
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Side Streets: Proposed restaurant diving Colorado Springs residents
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Residents of the Shooks Run neighborhood east of downtown Colorado Springs are divided over proposed plans to put a restaurant in a shuttered building that, for more than a century, housed a neighborhood grocery. Many…