If you voted in the June 30 primary election — and I sure hope you did — I’m guessing you had an easy time of it.
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Every year in October, the Kiwanis Club hosts the annual Empty Bowl Dinner to raise critical and necessary funds for Tri-Lakes Cares, our loca…
How many of you recall TV’s detective-minded sleuth, “MacGyver,” and his demonstrating the more than one million uses for duct tape?
By the D38 Board of Education
Last week the Associated Press changed its style for the words “Black” and “Indigenous” when describing race and cultural status.
As I write this, I’m sitting in my happy, colorful, dining room on an already warm summer Wednesday morning. The world inside my house is a pr…
Due to COVID-19, the last few months I have touted virtual tours as an alternative until we can travel freely again. While airline travel rema…
“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately” ~ Benjamin Franklin, July 4, 1776
Letter to the Editor — July 1, 2020
Last Saturday was Black Forest Fire remembrance day, the seventh anniversary of the day in 2013 when the Black Forest Fire — the most destruct…
Like many people, I spent part of my quarantine time at home assembling jigsaw puzzles. I’ve enjoyed this pastime for many years and I’m very …
At first glance, the sight of a large cottonwood standing precariously on a dwindling stump is a cause for concern, but before we lament over …
As families come together for family celebrations such as Father’s Day — either in person or virtually — there is an opportunity to recognize …
Letter to the Editor — June 24, 2020
Editor’s note: I yield the space that would have been filled with my weekly “From the Editor” column to a Pikes Peak region native with an imp…
A certain bookish witch once said, “When in doubt, go to the library.” Now more than ever it is clear to me that Hermione had a point.
Barr, Palmer, Intemann — all are popular local trails named for the people who championed their construction. Stories describing their passion…
This June, during Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month, join the Alzheimer’s Association to help raise awareness of this devastating diseas…
Last week was especially tough on all of us. As we were beginning to emerge from weeks of isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country …
An electrocardiogram, or EKG, checks the electric system in your heart, looking for problems. We would like to humbly suggest that our communi…
In response to the current health challenges, August 2020 will not look like a typical back-to-school season.
Local artist Terre Christensen creates and markets her pottery under the name PotTerre Raku & Stoneware.
I don’t always do the right thing (just ask my mom).
Congratulations: we survived Quarantine 2020! Granted, we aren’t remotely out of the woods in terms of COVID-19, but at least we have a little…
“I love what I do,” says First National Bank CFO Quentin Leighty of Monument. “Though I come from a banking family, I started on the ground fl…
While it seems like there might eventually be some light at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic tunnel, travel opportunities are currently still …
