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How one Colorado community stopped light pollution from washing out its skies | Popular Science
This story originally appeared in the Calm issue of Popular Science. Current subscribers can access the whole digital edition here, or click here to subscribe.ON HARDSCRABBLE PASS in south-central Colorado, bighorn sheep, patches of ice, and blown-over snow regularly...
Dining review: Expansive menu at Colorado Springs’ Mexican restaurant’s spinoff
The now not-so-new La Carreta #2 restaurant has big plates to fill, following the success of the original in the Knob Hill area that’s been dishing up quality Mexican food for more than two decades.Mexican restaurants always get a pass when it comes to my aversion to...
Colorado Springs area business events starting July 4
Employment Education: Using Indeed and Craigslist in Your Job Search — 10 a.m.-noon Tuesday, The Independence Center, 729 S. Tejon St.; 1-3 p.m. Thursday virtual; Registration: theindependencecenter.org.Virtual SmartSTART 1: Should You Start Your Own Business...
Amid drought, Colorado rafters flock to oases while they can
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Across Colorado, parched rivers are at some of their lowest levels on record. But on one still spared by the drought, boisterous children and guides bob along as water splashes into their blue inflatable rafts.The summer activity on the...
Colorado could vaccinate two-thirds of eligible residents by Labor Day
Under the state's current vaccination trajectory, two-thirds of Coloradans over the age of 11 will be at least partially inoculated by Labor Day, according to new projections released by state health experts Thursday.The report, which has been released intermittently...
U.S. triathlete Kevin McDowell beat cancer. Next he takes on the world at Tokyo Olympics. | OutThere Colorado
They are Kevin McDowell's parents, and you can imagine their reaction when Kevin told Mom and Dad he had made the U.S. Olympic team as a triathlete. Goodness, you can imagine the reaction. They thought he didn’t make it.Kevin had stayed up all night for the yes-no...
Rocking the walls: How I made peace with Colorado dirt
I like it when nature meets me halfway.OK, 70/30. Plant it and forget it, that’s my motto. Or, at least, it used to be.In West Virginia, Washington and New York, minimal effort was all it took. An impromptu toss of seeds on random ground on a random spring day, and in...
The 25th Annual Colorado Brewers Rendezvous Set for October 2 | Brewbound
Salida, CO – Brought to you by the Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG) and the Salida Chamber of Commerce, the 25th Annual Colorado Brewers Rendezvous will take place on Saturday, October 2 in historic Salida, CO, against a backdrop of beautiful views of the Collegiate Peaks...
US proposes removing Colorado River fish’s endangered status
US proposes removing Colorado River fish's endangered statusJames Anderson | Associated PressThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday it plans to propose reclassifying a rare Colorado River Basin fish called the razorback sucker from endangered to threatened...