Tag: michelle karas
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Cañon City’s Music and Blossom Festival celebrates 81st year
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For 81 years, Cañon City has celebrated young musicians at its Music and Blossom Festival. The National Band Championship portion of the event is the largest school band competition in Colorado. “This year we have about 45 schools participating,” said Mike Nolan, who’s in his…
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Comedian Rodney Carrington to bring the laughs to Pikes Peak Center
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Three decades ago, when Rodney Carrington was starting as a comedian, he did a show with Steve Harvey in Baton Rouge, La. This was long before Harvey, one of the original “Kings of Comedy,” was…
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Frozen superheroes take shape at Cripple Creek Ice Festival
For the sixth year in a row, Jeff and Precious Kaiser will caravan nearly 1,500 miles from Youngstown, Ohio, with their team of five, two vans and a trailer full of scaffolding and ice-carving equipment to participate in the Cripple Creek Ice Festival. The Kaisers, who head Team Sub-Zero Hand Crafted Ice Sculptures, love this…
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Saying goodbye to family lake house filled with emotion for Gazette reporter Michelle Karas
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Completed in 1975 from a house kit ordered from a New York Times ad, my family’s summer home in western Pennsylvania features all the wood paneling and harvest gold appliances one would expect of that era. The house has its quirks. The builder installed all…
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Pikes Pick: Colorado Springs restaurant set to roll out Cuban-inspired food
Springs restaurant set to roll out Cuban-inspired food TV TONIGHT In 1944, Recy Taylor, an African-American woman, was attacked by six white men in Alabama. None was indicted. “The Rape of Recy Taylor” is a revelatory documentary that recounts how Taylor fought for justice. 7 p.m., Starz Chuck Barney, Tribune News Service Cool coffee spot…
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Pikes Pick: Colorado Springs restaurant set to roll out Cuban-inspired food
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Springs restaurant set to roll out Cuban-inspired food TV TONIGHT In 1944, Recy Taylor, an African-American woman, was attacked by six white men in Alabama. None was indicted. “The Rape of Recy Taylor” is a…
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The buzz about bee-friendly gardens
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It pays to be nice to honeybees. They’re putting food in your mouth, after all. One in three bites of the food we eat depend on pollinators including bees, according to the Boulder-based National Honey Board. These little flying insects also help plants reproduce by…
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The buzz about bee-friendly gardens
It pays to be nice to honeybees. They’re putting food in your mouth, after all. One in three bites of the food we eat depend on pollinators including bees, according to the Boulder-based National Honey Board. These little flying insects also help plants reproduce by pollinating them — carrying pollen on their bodies from plant…