As I watched the reports each day of new cases and deaths I kept hoping there would some way to honor and remember these victims. Mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, neighbors, friends and c…
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Lewis-Palmer School District 38 formed two new partnerships this past year that are delivering significant outcomes. These successful collabor…
On April 27, my mom will celebrate her 90th birthday — truly a major milestone that deserves recognition and reverence.
“There are several messages here … the biggest one for me is the lesson that every life, no matter how damaged, seemingly insignificant or los…
A few months back, I wrote about the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave on Lookout Mountain west of Denver. I mentioned in the article that Buffalo…
I got my first COVID vaccination last week and it made me feel hopeful, relieved ... and a little giddy.
One of the numerous hats I wear in my life is overseeing the children and youth ministries at a progressive Christian church in Colorado Sprin…
I went to the grocery store the other night. I made my way through the produce department, the meat counter, the pet foods aisle, canned goods…
Meanwhile, about five miles east of the dearly departed Sibell barn …
Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
When the Denver and Rio Grande actually started building south from Denver, there were few towns along the way.
Letters to the Editor — March 31, 2021
No doubt many of you have visited the Garden of Gods. Did you glimpse the majestic Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep that sometimes come down out o…
Children’s Hospital Colorado this month partnered with Generation Wild on a project that helps to bring smiles to kids who are very sick.
Imagine your daily life, but with your faculty of speech taken away. Explaining that you are hungry, or tired, or in pain, is beyond your power.
Before food delivery services and meal kits, there were good old-fashioned TV dinners.
March 6 marked what may be the end of a social era around here … the final hoedown, quite possibly, at Sibell’s barn in downtown Monument. (Fo…
By now many of you have heard snippets of the “Cinderella Story” involving Incline Friends. There’s no glass slipper or white mice but there w…
Eight Pikes Peak region women’s organizations partnered this month to host a celebration (virtual, this year) of International Women’s Day, wh…
As an employee of Pikes Peak Library District, I often find myself asking others in the community, “Did you know the Library offers …?” That’s…
In January, the Brian Tally VA Employment Transparency Act was passed into law.
Schools across El Paso County, Colorado, and our country are carefully navigating a return to 100% in-person learning. Lewis-Palmer School Dis…
Top o’ the day to ya, me little leprechauns, ‘tis that time ‘o the year when we pay homage to that peace-makin’, snake-charmin’ Irishman, St. …
If you catch glimpses of Fountain Creek while driving, biking or walking along the creek, you know it tends to be relatively inactive. You mig…
The Academy Awards are already a strange endeavor. As we watch famous people dressing up, mingling with their famous peers and receiving subje…
