Tag: pueblo
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Things heat up in Pueblo: The 32nd annual Chile & Frijoles Festival returns
The smell comes first; smoky, sharp and familiar. Before you see the crowds, hear the music or spot the rows of vendors lining Pueblo’s Union Avenue, there’s a good chance your nose will reveal the star of the weekend: chiles. Roasting over an open flame, their skins blister and pop as its unmistakable scent drifts…
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Pueblo police fatally shoot man after domestic incident, kidnapping
Pueblo police fatally shot a man during a domestic incident on Saturday, according to a news release. Officers responded at about 7:50 p.m. to a call about a domestic disturbance involving weapons at a home in the 400 block of West Ninth Street, where an armed man was threatening to shoot a woman inside the…
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Fire extinguished in Pueblo’s midtown area
A fire that ignited Saturday in Pueblo’s midtown area has been mostly extinguished, fire officials said. The Pueblo Fire Department used heavy machinery to break up the burning pile of railroad ties, separating burnt material from unburnt material, said Tim Trujillo, the department’s public information officer. The fire will continue to smolder through the night,…
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John Martin Reservoir under water contact advisory as sewage-contaminated water moves downstream
Visitors to John Martin Reservoir State Park are advised to avoid any contact with the reservoir and the Arkansas River beginning Monday as water contaminated by a 4.2 million-gallon untreated sewage spill in Pueblo moves downstream, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said Sunday. The spill began Wednesday and was stopped on Thursday, with high levels…
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Public health alert: Sewage spill contaminates Arkansas River downstream of Pueblo
Health officials are warning the public to avoid the Arkansas River downstream of Pueblo – until further notice – after a “significant accidental release” of untreated sewage from the city of Pueblo’s wastewater treatment plant last week was found to have contaminated the water with high levels of E.coli. “The contaminated water will move downstream,…
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Sales tax for Front Range passenger train heading to Colorado ballot in November
NORTHEAST OF PUEBLO — The Front Range Passenger Rail District board of directors voted 14-1 Friday to refer a funding measure connected to the Colorado Connector train service to the November ballot. The vote was held at the Federal Railroad Administration’s testing facility northeast of Pueblo. Immediately after the vote, board members and supporters took…
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3 tied to attempted murder investigation involving wounded Pueblo juvenile
Pueblo police arrested three men who allegedly were part of a mid-August shooting that left a juvenile girl with two gunshot wounds, according to a Thursday news release. Anthony Vigil and Diego Martinez, both 20, are being charged with two counts of first-degree attempted murder after authorities connected them to the shooting, Colorado court records…
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Southern Colorado sanctuary celebrates 45 years of raptor rehab, education
PUEBLO — Forty-five years ago, a small, turn-of-the-century hog barn reinvented itself as southern Colorado’s only raptor rehabilitation center. Some of the same faces are still around, nearly a half-century later. Diana Miller, director of the Raptor Center, an extension of the Nature and Wildlife Discovery Center, started working at the facility in 1983 as…
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Pueblo City Council to vote Monday on Leonardo da Vinci Museum’s $885K funding request
During its regular meeting on Monday, the Pueblo City Council is set to vote on the Leonardo da Vinci Museum’s request for $885,000 in funding from the city’s $60 million Half-Cent Economic Development Fund. The museum, which opened June 12 to great fanfare, has had more than 10,000 paying visitors so far, with more than…
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Great train linkup: New chapter for Pueblo as the Union Pacific gets a newly milled rail
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Some 144 years after Pueblo’s Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. forged its first steel rail for the Union Pacific Railroad, UP’s top executive was back in Pueblo last week to receive a second, ceremonial rail. That transaction, which took place in a newly opened mill on CF & I’s historic site, cemented Colorado’s relationship with…