Tag: goldfield
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Sample hired as principal in CC/V schools
For Holly Sample, a return to public education after eight years of retirement is another step in a life filled with service to others. Last week, Sample bid farewell to retirement and resumed a career in education, this time as principal of the Cripple Creek-Victor Junior/Senior High School. With 34 years of experience in public…
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Bullfighting and the lost story of the Pikes Peak region’s ‘City of Destiny’
Northeast of Cripple Creek, that once booming city of gold, there’s an empty, windswept meadow where another city rose and fell and never rose again. Gillett was the “City of Destiny,” proclaimed the Gillett Forum in 1898, the decade prospectors rushed for riches in the surrounding, craggy hillsides. The grandeur was then still mostly unblemished.…