Tag: local
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Visit Colorado Springs announces new president and CEO
Visit Colorado Springs, the marketing organization meant to increase tourism to the city and region, is getting a new boss. The group announced Wednesday it is hiring Sean Dixon as president and CEO. He will succeed Doug Price, who is retiring before the end of the year, The Gazette reported in March. Dixon has served…
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The kindness after 9/11: ‘Come From Away’ offers 200 free tickets to first responders
They came carrying luggage. Initially, some were heading home. Others were traveling for business or vacation. Then the world changed. On Sept. 11, 2001, as hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., the United States shut down all airports for the first time in history. …
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Colorado Springs theater company to mount bloodiest Tony Award winner ‘Sweeney Todd’
The costume shop is a bloody mess. Blood in the sink. A bloody tunic in the washing machine. A nearly empty plastic container of vampire blood on a work table. And Kaya Cogger’s palms are stained red. There isn’t a secret serial killer on the loose in the second-floor shop at the Ent Center for…
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From line to table: Popular Colorado Springs barbecue spot opening up dining space | Table Talk
The 2,400 square feet of new dining room space at The Chuckwagon 719 BBQ, 6453 Omaha Blvd., is within a couple of weeks of opening. For customers accustomed to waiting in a line that circles the building, the new dining room will be a welcome change — a place to sit down and enjoy that…
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As tarantulas go marching across southeast Colorado, so do human admirers
Tarantulas of southeast Colorado are out looking for love. And this is when we go looking for them. While it has always been a ritual around this time of year for big, fuzzy males to seek mates burrowed across the vast grassland beyond La Junta, it has increasingly become a spectacle for curious Coloradans near…
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New trail up Colorado 14er the culmination of yearslong, ‘incredibly complex’ effort
A nonprofit stewarding Colorado’s biggest mountains recently marked its “largest and most expensive” project ever complete. That’s how Colorado Fourteeners Initiative referred to the job that is wrapping up a fifth summer on Mount Shavano. After about $2 million, 2 ½ miles of new trail and another 2 miles closed for restoration, CFI recently hosted…
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Mitchell boys soccer building off last season’s success with 4-0 start, ‘family mentality’
As rain clouds moved in, Mitchell boys soccer handled business with a 10-0 shutout over Sierra. Tuesday’s contest at the Stallions’ home field ended just 10 minutes into the second half per Colorado High School Activities Association’s mercy rule. It was the Marauders’ third shutout and put them at 4-0, their best start in program…
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Coroner’s report: Overdose deaths rise in El Paso County, buck national trend
Last year, El Paso County saw 178 accidental overdose deaths, a 16% increase over 2024. The numbers, recently released in the El Paso County Coroner’s annual report, show that drug-related deaths in Colorado’s most populous county rose at close to the same rate that overdoses decreased nationwide. In the United States, overdose deaths decreased by…
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Coroner’s report: Overdose deaths rise in El Paso County, buck national trend
Last year, El Paso County saw 178 accidental overdose deaths, a 16% increase over 2024. The numbers, recently released in the El Paso County Coroner’s annual report, show that drug-related deaths in Colorado’s most populous county rose at close to the same rate that overdoses decreased nationwide. In the United States, overdose deaths decreased by…
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Man charged with arson in Cheyenne Mountain Estates vehicle fire
El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man believed to have set a vehicle on fire in the 8100 block of Piute Road west of Colorado 115 near Fort Carson Gate 5, they Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday. Alex Luevano, 32, was apprehended in the 1000 block of Rice Drive in Colorado Springs on Thursday…