Tag: park county
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2 arrested in Mississippi in connection with missing persons investigation, suspicious death
Two people wanted for questioning connected to a death in Park County and a missing person from El Paso County have been found. Law enforcement in Picayune, Miss., with the Pearl River County Sheriff’s Office and the Picayune Police Department found and arrested Johnny Morris, 46, and Hailey Cole, 43, early Monday morning. According to the Pearl…
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Mixed reactions to draft plan for target shooting in Pike National Forest
Amid mixed support and opposition, officials have drafted a plan for managing recreational shooting across the national forest near Front Range populations. The plan has been years in the making — the “Integrated Management of Target Shooting Project,” the U.S. Forest Service calls it. The project was formally launched in 2021 to address what the agency…
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Management proposed for recreational shooters across Pike National Forest
Debate continues over the U.S. Forest Service’s mission to control recreational shooting across public lands close to Front Range populations. It’s been an ongoing debate for about three years now, ever since officials launched a project called “Integrated Management of Target Shooting on the Pike National Forest.” The project has garnered standing-room-only meetings and hundreds…
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Teller County trash hauler expanding into Colorado Springs
Owners of trash companies in Teller and Chaffee counties say they plan to expand into the Colorado Springs market Monday to challenge three waste disposal giants that dominate the local industry. Father-and-son team Jay and Jayson Baker, and Dominic Haight, general manager and Jay Baker’s son-in-law, formed Infinite Disposal (infinitedisposal.com) this month to begin offering residential…
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Framework proposed for shooting guns in Pike National Forest
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A new proposed plan aims to control gunfire on increasingly busy public lands across Colorado’s Front Range. “The Integrated Management of Target Shooting,” as the U.S. Forest Service titles the 28-page document, outlines strategies within Pike National Forest, where land managers and hikers, bikers and…
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Framework proposed for shooting guns in Pike National Forest
A new proposed plan aims to control gunfire on increasingly busy public lands across Colorado’s Front Range. “The Integrated Management of Target Shooting,” as the U.S. Forest Service titles the 28-page document, outlines strategies within Pike National Forest, where land managers and hikers, bikers and off-roaders have long reported disturbing sights and sounds: piles of…
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Classes resuming in Park County despite teachers’ strike
FAIRPLAY — Classes are resuming in a rural Colorado school district despite a teachers’ strike now in its second week. The president of Park County School District RE-2, Kim Bundgaard, told The Denver Post that classrooms will be staffed Monday by teachers who chose to come back to work, licensed substitute teachers and other staffers.…