By: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazette.com • Yesterday
A new billboard at a busy east-side intersection in Colorado Springs is meant to send a powerful message about family and love to same-sex couples - and everyone living and working in a city identified as a...
By: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazette.com • Updated: Sun, Jun 18, 2017
On Friday, June 22, 2012, in the woods off a popular hiking trail about four miles west of Colorado Springs, someone started a fire and didn't put it out. - It smoldered, at first so discreetly it eluded fire and...
By: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazette.com • Updated: Sun, Jun 18, 2017
The daughter of a career Air Force man, Donna Lorrig grew up on military bases, part of a global family whose bonds were defined not by blood but by shared perspectives and purpose.
"We considered people in...
By: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazette.com • Updated: Thu, Jun 15, 2017
When Chris Wright founded Pikes Peak Brewing Co. in Monument in 2011, the southern Front Range was home to five commercial brewers. At a time when Colorado Springs was beginning to earn props as one of the nation's...
By: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazette.com • Updated: Mon, Jun 12, 2017
In an April policy update to encourage "socially responsible" advertising and practices in the craft beer industry, the Brewers Association delivered a chaser of soap to beer-makers with products bearing...
By: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazette.com • Updated: Fri, Jun 9, 2017
The Feast of St. Arnold's Pilgrimage of Pints "Cartogram" will warm the heart-cockles of anachronists, especially those questing for a good (and quantifiable) excuse to explore the area's regional craft...
By: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazette.com • Updated: Fri, Jun 2, 2017
"Wow. That is a (darn) good beer. ... It's like blowing my head off. That is flavor. Holy cow."
Thus proclaimed "Beerland" host Meg Gill, upon tasting Colorado Springs homebrewer Jessica Fiero's Biere de...
For Memorial Day, Kim Harter places flags on the grave of her son, Noah Harter, to symbolize the number of veterans who commit suicide every day. Harter was a Marine veteran who suffered from PTSD after tours to both Iraq and Afghanistan committed suicide in May 2015. Harter graduated early from Rampart High School so he could enter the Marines just after his 18th birthday. Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette
By: Stephaine Earls and Tom Roeder, The Gazette • Updated: Fri, Jun 2, 2017
To those who knew him in peace and served by his side in battle, Noah Harter was a born protector and an ideal Marine, so tailored for the role his edges might have had seams.
The only son and middle child...
By: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazette.com • Updated: Thu, Jun 1, 2017
Jessica Fiero wasn't always a fan of beer, but that wasn't on account of any quirk of the taste buds.
Blame dad brews.
"I'm very Mexican-American - born and raised in San Diego - and what I knew is...
By: stephanie earls and Michelle Karas The Gazette • Updated: Thu, Jun 1, 2017
Sayonara Shannara?
In 1977, Terry Brooks' bestseller, "The Sword of Shannara," drew legions of readers into a post-apocalyptic world ruled by magic and helped establish the fantasy genre as commercially...
