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 […]
