Although the Manitou Springs girls soccer team is looking good early in the year, this young roster still has plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. The Mustangs went to Mesa Ridge on March 19 and came away with a 9-0 win, but as they circled up postgame, it felt less like they had kicked […]
The Manitou Springs School District 14 Board of Education met remotely at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 18. Board members Tina Vidovich and Connie Brachtenbach were absent and excused from the meeting. The board unanimously approved the minutes from its February meeting and the intended agenda for the nightâs meeting. The consent agenda was also approved […]
One year ago, March 15, 2023, I was laid off from my job as the Bulletinâs editor. It was not a huge surprise, and Iâd already started making plans for finding another way to support myself financially. I was in our publishing companyâs office in downtown Colorado Springs as my colleagues from the Colorado Springs […]
The Blue Moose Tavern 10530 Ute Pass Ave, Green Mountain Falls facebook.com/thebluemoosetavern or 719-418-3384 The Blue Moose serves up some of the best brews Colorado has to offer, along with mountain-style pizza, a selection of wraps, wings, salads, entrees and more. Non-alcoholic drinks are also available. Outdoor seating offers views of the gazebo and […]
Do you like to gamble? Like to take risks? Do you think that one of these days youâll hit a big jackpot on the slots, on the tables or in a card game? For the first 50 years of my life, I never gambled. I knew that casinos were for suckers and slots were implacable […]
At this point in time, I would never describe Manitou Springs as a âsports town.â After all, aside from the local high school teams, there are very few sporting interests within the city limits. So how can it really be a sports town? The only problem I see with that statement is that, after this […]
Emily Beginâs workplace isnât for everyone: It can be cold and windy, the work is strenuous and she and her colleagues have to be vigilant about lightning strikes. Still, she loves working for The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway as a section crew assistant foreman. Every day is different on those 8.9 miles […]
Francis Drexel Smith (1874-1956) was an atypical artist in the Colorado Springs art community. He wasnât a professional artist, he didn’t rely upon the sale of his paintings to bolster his finances and he was shy and retiring â not one to promote himself. And (bias alert!) he was my grandfather. Born to a wealthy […]
The Saturday, March 2, festivities started with the 30th annual Mumbo Jumbo Cook-off in Soda Springs Park. Twelve teams competed in professional and amateur chef categories, along with the Showmanship and Peopleâs Choice awards. Creole Roots Food Truck won first place in the professional division, along with the Peopleâs Choice award. Border Burger Bar and […]
The Manni Awards ceremony will take place Friday, March 15, in City Hall/Memorial Hall, 606 Manitou Ave. The evening starts with a potluck and music from Michael Galvin beginning about 5:15 p.m.; the ceremony will begin at 6:30. If you canât attend, the event will be streamed live at youtube.com/@manniawards. Cody John Kelley, a […]
Serving on the board of a small community newspaper isnât for the faint of heart. You may be called upon to deliver newspapers, haul pallets around, wrap contest entry boxes, do a little database entry, write grants, make presentations, paint newspaper boxes, set up and break down events and field questions/comments/complaints. This is truly a […]
Itâs been years since there were more people interested in running for the Green Mountain Falls Board of Trustees than seats available. Yet that is exactly whatâs happening this year! Although Mayor Todd Dixon will run unopposed, two seats are being vacated (by the much appreciated members Katharine Guthrie and Nick Donzello) on the board. […]
First off, I have to say that this opinion is mine alone and does not represent the position of the Green Mountain Falls Board of Trustees. I am the mayor of Green Mountain Falls and co-chair of the Legislative Committee for the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments. The PPACG registered a formal âopposeâ to […]
April 25, 1896, was a clear and bright day in Cripple Creek. It was a lively and prosperous (although dirty and unkempt) city populated by prospectors, miners, scammers, prostitutes, dreamers and others with less romantic pursuits. There were grocers, dressmakers, railroaders, firefighters, stablemen, brewers, bartenders, musicians and assorted tradesmen of all kinds. The city […]
Nobody knows exactly when or why Carl (or Karl) Schwanbeck decided to change his name; in about 1870, he took the name Charles Adams, possibly at his fiancĂŠâs request. If he hadnât, we could be driving over the Schwanbeck Crossing bridge on our way from Manitou Springs to Old Colorado City. Schwanbeck was born in […]
The Manni Awards ceremony will take place Friday, March 15, in City Hall/Memorial Hall, 606 Manitou Ave. The evening kicks off with a potluck and music from Michael Galvin starting about 5:15 p.m.; the ceremony will begin at 6:30. If you canât attend, the event will be streamed live at youtube.com/@manniawards. The March 8 Bulletin […]
When Lyn Ettinger-Harwell (president and publisher) asked me to write a column for this weekâs edition of the Bulletin, I thought, âDidnât I just do that?â But then I realized that it was about this time last year, when our committed board was working on bringing the Pikes Peak Bulletin back to print form. And […]
Reading the annual report from downtown Colorado Springs, one thing was abundantly clear: Compared to Old Colorado City and the historic Westside, downtown is the big dog. Under Susan Edmonson’s extraordinary leadership at the Downtown Partnership, our once-scruffy and underperforming city center has become a billion-dollar juggernaut, home to thousands of new apartment dwellings, hundreds […]
Ric Hudsonâs popular âAll About Manitou Springsâ Facebook page began as an accident of technology. Hudson, 66, didnât mean to start a Facebook page that would make him the townâs unofficial spokesperson and grizzled malcontent. It was 2016 and Hudson was writing a rant on his friendâs âI Love Manitou Springsâ page about how tourists […]
Geologically speaking, Colorado is the recent recipient of a makeover. Some 300 million years ago, the Rocky Mountain state was situated near todayâs flat Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Ever since those pre-human days, life-exterminating events carved and molded Coloradoâs natural history while tectonic movements nudged it northward. Severe global disruptions were continually being unleashed on […]
