Despite the pandemic, taxable sales in Manitou Springs never really plummeted as they did nationally and globally. Manitou sales during 2020 trailed 2019 totals only slightly on a month-to-month basis and were actually a little ahead some months. Sales in January 2020, when the pandemic’s severity was beginning to be realized, were barely ahead of […]
Manitou Springs District 14 Superintendent Elizabeth Domangue and school board member and former City Councilor Gary Smith asked City Council to schedule a joint meeting of the two groups before council voted to reinstate the city’s mask mandate at its Aug. 17 regular meeting. That was not done and the mandate was reinstated, effective Aug. […]
The city is proposing a facility that provides opportunities for Manitou Springs Fire Department personnel and volunteers to train and drill in a controlled environment that resembles Manitou’s topography and other features. This is needed to ensure the safety of the first responders and that they are sufficiently prepared to react to actual emergencies. An […]
At its most basic level, gardening is about planting seeds, nurturing them with hard work and tender loving care, and watching them grow. That works for ideas, too. One shining example: Manitou Springs’ new Pollination Stations scattered along Manitou Avenue. The seed was planted when Becca Sickbert of the Manitou Springs Creative District and […]
Colorado Springs firefighters have recovered a man’s body from a pond at Red Rock Canyon Open Space. The mission started the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 17, when firefighters were called about a person who had gone into the water and never re-emerged. A witness told them the person had fallen down a rock face, went […]
The 4-year-old found dead in a Manitou Springs hotel in late July died from a fentanyl overdose, the El Paso County Coroner’s Office has announced. El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call from the hotel in the 100 block of Manitou Avenue a little before midnight July 24. The boy, who has been […]
As of Tuesday, Aug. 17, 922 people have died of the coronavirus in El Paso County since March 1, 2020. That’s an increase of two deaths since Aug. 10. Also as of Tuesday, 78,298 total cases have been reported in the county. By far, the most vulnerable age group is 80- to 89-year-olds, with 284 […]
Greg Johnson, left, hands a check to Gerard “Star” Starling as American Legion Post 39 Commander Tom Coca watches Tuesday, Aug. 17, in the post’s headquarters at 634 Manitou Ave. Johnson is the commander of the local Sons of the American Legion and Starling is a longtime city employee. The $500 check from the Sons […]
The Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce has announced that the Emma Crawford Coffin Races will not return in 2021. With the increasing impact of the Delta variant of COVID-19, the chamber and the city have made the difficult decision to postpone the event’s return until 2022. It also was canceled in 2020. Festivities honoring the […]
Beginning Monday, Aug. 23, masks will once again be required in all Manitou Springs indoor spaces. The new order includes Manitou Springs School District 14. The vote to re-impose the mask requirement was 6-1, with Mayor John Graham the lone dissenter. Graham told council that he wants to preserve the school district’s autonomy. All recent […]
Organizers of the premiere annual arts event in the Ute Pass area are serving notice that they intend for the Green Box Arts Festival to continue blazing trails. On Saturday, April 24, ground was broken for construction on a James Turrell Skyspace, nestled into a hillside near Green Mountain Falls. Turrell, who was born in […]
Colorado vaccination providers have resumed giving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine after a two-week pause. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Colorado Join Vaccine Task Force approved the resumption on Friday, April 23. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had recommended the pause […]
By Jack Elder Manitou Springs City Council’s work session on Tuesday, April 27, had only one item for discussion — a joint meeting with the Planning Commission to review the subdivision and zoning code revision project. There was widespread agreement on the need to simplify the code and to make it more user-friendly, as well […]
Courtesy of the city of Manitou Springs In 2019, Manitou Springs passed a tree-planting resolution and, in 2020, earned Tree City USA status. Since then, the city, the Manitou Springs Climate Action Work Group and many volunteers planted 150 trees in our many parks, the Crystal Valley Cemetery and other public spaces. We initially planted […]
By Rhonda Van Pelt The Manitou Arts, Culture, and Heritage program receives funds from a three-tenths of 1 percent increase in the city’s use and sales tax rates. Manitou Springs voters approved the measure, which earmarks 66 percent of the funds for facility improvements and operations at the Carnegie Library building, Manitou Art Center, Manitou […]
By Denise Howell, City Administrator Dear Manitou Springs residents, I am pleased to inform you that the first quarter of 2021 has been as successful and productive as ever before. All departments continue to work tirelessly to improve Manitou for our residents, businesses and visitors. Our Public Works Department employees excelled at their day-to-day tasks […]
In 2020, the Creative District saw not only new leadership, we also saw new opportunities to lead the community’s economic recovery efforts. We announced a new executive director, Becca Sickbert, in May, and added three board members: Laura Neumann, a local mobility advocate and community leader behind projects like City for Champions; Joye Cook-Levy, director […]
