Ute Pass area new business profile: Woodland Park Apothecary & Energy Healing Annae Bert opened Woodland Park Apothecary & Energy Healing early July in the corner of the Gold Hill Shopping Plaza of Woodland Park. The shop is overflowing with luscious scents, beautiful handcrafted jewelry, specialty candles, hard-to-find kitchen gadgets, oils, soaps, apothecary jars, a […]
Manitou Springs Receives $18,000 Grant for Wildlife-Proof Trash Cans thanks to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The city is providing 64-gallon wildlife-proof trash cans to protect local wildlife and keep our neighborhoods clean. These durable “Toter” cans are IGBC-certified (#5416), measuring 32.3″ x 25.2″ x 45.5″, and are specially designed to resist wildlife interference, keeping […]
Manitou Springs is full of larger-than-life personas – think of civic legends like former Mayor and Colorado state representative Marcy Morrison, artist Charles Rockey and the legendary Emma Crawford, whose coffin slid down Red Mountain during a heavy rainstorm in 1929. Manitoids see themselves as quirky and fun, sharply contrasting with the dull and duty-driven […]
Searching for an activity to siphon the kids away from their screens? Seeking a reason to get outside and savor the outdoors? Looking for a family-friendly event at a low cost? For $2 a person, all of this can be yours. What a bargain! On Saturday, Aug. 24, the Bear Creek Nature Center will be […]
When you join the Army at 18, and then wake up in your 40s, you get accustomed to living everywhere. A place is just a place, and every place can be changed for another place. So I once thought. Not anymore. My family recently moved back to Manitou Springs. I’m told this happens often. People […]
Do you love great live music? And do you also love your local newspaper, the Pikes Peak Bulletin? From now through Sept. 20, support the Bulletin by making a donation – the top three donors will win a pair of regular admission tickets to Blues on the Mesa! The event is on Sept. 28 from […]
The Colorado Springs City Council voted Aug. 13 to take the next step toward putting a proposed ordinance to create a Downtown Development Authority for Old Colorado City on a separate ballot during the election period later this year. The second reading of the ordinance and possible ordinance adoption is scheduled for the Council’s regular […]
This Tuesday the Manitou Springs City Council considered the demolition application for the Green Willow Motel cottages on Manitou Avenue and the donation of four undeveloped parcels of land north of Sunwater Spa. During a June presentation to the Historic Preservation Commission, NES Landscape Architects identified a host of issues with the cottages on the […]
Amy’s life has changed dramatically this summer. After years of homelessness and housing insecurity, she got her own apartment on the Westside of Colorado Springs. Just weeks after moving into her own home, she started working at the Circle K right down the road from her new place. She also got new dentures that, unlike […]
Sports! It has been too long since the kids roaming the hallways of Manitou Springs High School have donned the green and gold and taken to their respective battlegrounds. But that wait is over. As we head into another year of high school athletics, it’s important to keep an eye on where these kids are […]
Tucked away between a gift shop and an arcade bar, to walk into Hapke’s Hortum is to enter a world of green, earthly delights. (Warning for readers: plant-based puns are ahead … I just want to make this “fern” for you!) In between fronds, you’ll most likely find Clay Hapke, who will not only tell […]
As you may know, the Chamberlain Trail – which is mountain bike and hiking friendly – connects to Red Rock Canyon and the Intemann Trail from Old Stage Road. The Intemann Trail connects through Ruxton to the Barr Trail up to Pikes Peak and the Ute Trail. Here’s where the Chamberlain Trail goes today: from […]
Last week I wrote about my parents’ glittering 1926 wedding in the then-new Grace Episcopal Church, the first couple to be “solemnized within its walls.” (See “Finding a treasure in an envelope” in the Bulletin’s Aug. 2 edition. –ed.). They weren’t kids – my father was 32, my mother 27. They were small business owners […]
Do you love great live music? And do you also love your local newspaper, the Pikes Peak Bulletin? From now through Sept. 20, support the Bulletin by making a donation – the top three donors will win a pair of regular admission tickets to Blues on the Mesa! The event is on Sept. 28 from […]
There is a grace to Laura that I can’t seem to capture in a picture, though I tried. I had her stand in different corners of her motel room, where the sunshine came through the curtained windows, attempting to catch her in the right angle of light to show you, readers, what I saw. Laura […]
During the July 22 meeting of the Manitou Springs Open Space Advisory Committee (OSAC), the committee tabled a resolution brought by Ken Jaray and the community activist group Friends of Ruxton Canyon to urge the Manitou Springs City Council to acquire the land involved in the potential Jenkins development for inclusion in the City’s open […]
If you know Old Colorado City, you know the red umbrellas of Jives. And if you’ve ever been to Jives, you’ve almost certainly been greeted as a friend by Dored Najjar. “I must know a hundred thousand people in Colorado Springs!” he said. You may not know, however, that Dored’s incredible journey to Colorado involves […]
The Manitou Springs Day of Friendship was held in Manitou’s Fields Park on July 27. The community event featured vintage baseball, a pickleball tournament, live music by Patchwork Jack and a potluck with burgers and hot dogs, courtesy of Kiwanis Club of Manitou Springs and Colorado Creamery ice cream scooped courtesy of Visit Manitou Springs.
The 86th Annual Bronc Day was held in Green Mountain Falls on July 27. Bronc Day celebrates the community of Ute Pass and beyond with a day of free, fun, festive family activities. Since 1939, Bronc Day has welcomed tourists and locals alike. Early Bronc Days boasted up to 148 horses in the parade and […]
