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SIDE STREETS: A stable spot for troubled young girls
Comments | RecommendWhen folks on Pilot Knob Avenue in Manitou Springs revolted against a neighborhood stable recently, they succeeded in getting a decades-old manure dump cleaned up. But in winning the Great Manitou Manure War, the neighbors nearly...
SIDE STREETS: Neighbors want tattoo parlor out of there
Comments | RecommendModest Parker Street produced shocking headlines on June 13 when police raided Shrap Metal Tattoo and arrested six people after an eightmonth investigation into the trafficking of machine guns and drugs. Now, Parker Street residents...
SIDE STREETS: Neighbors, city battle over care of tunnel
Comments | RecommendJust when you think you've heard every possible type of neighborhood dispute, along come the tunnels of Village Seven. These are not like the tunnels of Old Colorado City, rumored to have serviced the brothels and saloons of...
SIDE STREETS: Curiosity could kill the CC garden
Comments | RecommendLibby Pitman says she isn't complaining about the half-acre organic vegetable garden behind the Wood Avenue home of her neighbor across the street, Colorado College President Richard Celeste. The handful of students tending the garden are "wonderful,"...
Complaints of ZIP code change fall on deaf ears
Comments | RecommendWhen the clock strikes midnight tonight, about 5,000 residents of the Broadmoor and Skyway neighborhoods will become part of the 80905 ZIP code. Some of them are going kicking and screaming. They don't like losing...
Victory, defeat take turns in neighborhoods around the city
Comments | RecommendFolks on Sturgis Road are proud to have pulled off a weekend makeover project for a disabled neighbor. Meanwhile, in another Side Streets update, residents of Silent Rain Drive are wondering what happens now that a resident's noise...
Storm clouds hovering over Silent Rain neighborhood
Comments | RecommendSilent Rain Drive couldn't be more different than the peaceful image its name evokes. The neighborhood in Colorado Springs' northwest corner has been in turmoil for years. And the person once seen as the champion of Silent Rain...
Palmer Park area has pair of ‘angels’ for neighbors
Comments | RecommendEverybody needs neighbors like Stephanie and Jeff Newbern. In their 11 years on Sturgis Road, in the San Luis Estates near Palmer Park, the Newberns have become known as the "guardian angels" who look after the sick and the elderly or anyone who just...
3 landowners’ disputes with Manitou take different turns
Comments | RecommendTom McGee, Stephen Beisel and Bruce Brian each have spent years locked in legal disputes against Manitou Springs. Now, all are headed in different directions. One has settled his...
Building codes from 1788 show how people can work together
Comments | RecommendLots of folks complain that big government is eroding their property rights, and often they point to restrictive zoning and building codes as proof. But codes are not a recent phenomenon. Just ask Henry Yankowski, leader of the Pikes Peak Regional Building...
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