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BUILDING RESURRECTED as church
In 2001, Clayanna Killing (above in a 2004 photo) sparked a ruckus in Mountain Shadows when she paid $325,000 for 22 acres at the end of Fieldstone Road and announced plans to build a...
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LIKE A ROLLING STONE! Life below Pikeview Quarry
Most people look out their back windows and, beyond the fence, can see into their neighbor’s kitchen or family room or bedrooms. Not true for folks in Oak Valley Ranch, a neighborhood tucked in the...
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FRIENDS of AQUATICS REFUSES TO THROW IN THE TOWEL ON CITY POOLS
The Friends of Aquatics is a group of people who love to swim. And they want everyone in Colorado Springs to have the chance to learn and enjoy the water, regardless of the economic condition. That’s...
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IS IT A HOME OR A HOTEL?
. Folks across Colorado Springs are complaining that properties in their neighborhoods are hotels masquerading as single-family homes. I’ve heard the complaints from upscale areas like the Broadmoor...
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EVEN DEATH DOESN’T END SOME NEIGHBORHOOD DISPUTES
In 2004, I met Jean Raubolt. In 1982, she bought a new house on Silent Rain Drive in a neighborhood sandwiched between Mountain Shadows and what is now Peregrine on the city’s northwest edge. She was...
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WALDO CANYON FIRE: THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Dozens of homes on Courtney Drive in the center of the photo were burned to the ground by the Waldo Canyon fire on June 26, 2012, as the inferno exploded down the foothills and into the Colorado...
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AS FLYING W SMOLDERS, RUSS WOLFE PERSEVERES
Russ Wolfe, owner of the Flying W Ranch, surveys damage from the Waldo Canyon fire. The mosaic in front of him was part of the Ute Theater in downtown Coloraodo Springs. He salvaged much of the...
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IS PLEASANT VALLEY COUPLE ON DOORSTEP OF DISASTER?
. Since 1976, Frank and Barbara Sanders have lived quietly on the northern edge of Pleasant Valley along the banks of Camp Creek, giving them a front-row seat to Rock Ledge Ranch and Garden of the...
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