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Limestone was mined from Pikeview Quarry from 1903 to 2018 using drill and blast mining methods. The quarry was expanded in 1940 to mine the stone used in the construction of the Air Force Academy ...

For more events listings, click here! 1. ODDBALLS Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27, Colorado Springs Event Center, 3960 Palmer Park Blvd. Times vary. World of… ...

In Goldman Sachs’ “Music in the Air” report for the year of 2023, it was estimated that the live music industry brought in revenues of $33.1 billion — a 20% increase from the estimated $26 ...

Welcome to the first issue of the new Colorado Springs Independent. I know what some of you might be thinking. Again with this? Yes, again. A newspaper is a bit like a tardigrade—primitive and ...

I returned to China Town Restaurant at opening the following Tuesday, shocked to find that several customers were already seated. Zhang quickly led me to the kitchen and pulled up a stool. As she ...

When I revisited Concrete Coyote three weeks later, the masses who had gathered for the nonprofit’s 20th anniversary party had disappeared. Strong winds blew dirt into my eyes and mouth. It took ...

Skiing slowed on Pikes Peak during World War II, with only troops from Camp Carson and Peterson Airfield using the facilities, but after the war, skiing resumed at Glen Cove and continued into the ...

Scott O'Malley sidles up to the hitching post at his Western Jubilee Recording Company offices and Warehouse Theater in downtown Colorado Springs where E. Cucharras meets the old railroad track ...

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In tandem with the pervasive threat of TB, the curative power of nature promoted by mid-19th-century writers grew into an interpretation of American wilderness areas as therapeutic in the 1870s ...

Erin Bents, PPLD board of trustees President Dora Gonzalez, Angela Dougan, Debbie English, Julie Smyth and Scott Taylor listen to a speaker at the Dec. 4, 2024, meeting at Library 21C. English and ...