State Vibe :: Colorado

Colorado Springs is not going to have a water shortage this year. The city’s reservoirs are 77 percent full, slightly better than average for this time of year. The snowpack in the Arkansas River Basin is about average. Avalanche danger is ...

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Susan Stanionis was a home care nurse until the day a terminally ill patient collapsed on her, causing a back injury that led to major surgery. “Six screws and two rods,” she said. Still sidelined from that injury two decades later, ...

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Three men were shot and wounded in a late-night, post-Christmas melee Saturday morning outside a bar near Hancock Expressway and Academy Boulevard. Colorado Springs police said that at about 2 a.m. Saturday morning, a large group of people ...

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John and Sarah Hutton on Thursday pushed the eleventh hour to the twelfth. Waiting at the Apple Store at the The Shops at Briargate to get his iPhone fixed, the couple had just more than an hour to get to Chapel Hills Mall before it closed at 6 ...

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Postcards were the Twitter of their day. Rather than pay full postage to mail a letter, or search out a telephone in an era when phone lines were scarce, people sent postcards to communicate a quick message on the cheap. And, of course, the ...

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Alphie Omar sits in a wheelchair, ringing a bell. The familiar red kettle of the Salvation Army sits nearby. “Hullo,” Omar says in his deep, throaty baritone. “Hullo.” He greets all, whether they feed the kettle or not. He’s at ground ...

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Now here is another unspeakable scandal: Colorado Springs Utilities pays an annual franchise fee of about $125,000 to Manitou Springs. If you’ve been listening to Doug Bruce and others recently, you’ve been led to believe that ...

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