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- Volunteers pack gift boxes for soldiers
- The Red Kettles are here
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District Board,
Nov. 15: Tri-Lakes firefighters receive 3 percent
pay raise
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District, Nov. 17:
Chief
Edwards’ retirement announced
- Burns appointed to succeed Chief Edwards
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Board of Education,
Nov. 4 and 18: Board discusses superintendent search,
budget
- Community gives advice on choosing a superintendent
- District Accountability Advisory Committee, Nov. 9:
Committee
celebrates election results, tables academic
integrity debate
- Exceptional Students Learning Team, Nov. 10:
Team
hears about computer security and bullying
- El Paso County Water Authority, Nov. 3: Water
authorities make final preparations for merger
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, Nov. 17:
Dissolution
of the PPRWA anticipated
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee, Nov. 9: Planning to add treatment capacity
begins
- Monument Sanitation District, Nov. 18:
2011 budget discussions continue
-
Academy Water and Sanitation District, Dec.
1: Lightning strike knocks out well motor
-
Palmer Lake Town Council regular
meeting, Nov. 4: Five awards presented for
service to Palmer Lake
-
Palmer Lake Town Council, Nov. 13: Trustee
presents controversial proposals at forum
-
Monument Board of Trustees, Nov. 1: U.S.
Taekwondo Center donates $40,000
-
Monument Board of Trustees, Nov. 15: No
significant changes made to draft 2011 budget
-
Monument Planning Commission, Nov. 10: Code
amendment on temporary uses approved
-
Woodmoor Improvement Association Board,
Nov. 17: Replacement, repair of signs approved
- November Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
-
Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Don’t forget the books,
Santa!
-
High Country Highlights: Water
is essential to your Christmas tree
-
Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Snowy
owl
-
Art Matters: Art
and curious facts of gift economics
-
Snapshots of Our Community
-
November and December library
events: Library celebrates release of Harry
Potter movie
-
Committee formed to stimulate business
and tourism
-
Palmer Lake Historical Society, Nov.
18: Women miners and professionals had significant
roles in mining camps
-
Workforce Center rep talks to vets about
job opportunities
-
Special Events and Notices
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- Tri-Lakes community and others support the Empty Bowl
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Department board, Oct. 27:
Fire board again defers sprinkler issue
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District, Oct. 27:
Information
technology contract approved
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, Oct. 6:
Revised
permit brings new conditions
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee, Oct. 12: EPA restrictions put pressure on
budget
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, Oct. 20:
PPRWA
merger with the El Paso County Water Authority on again
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, Oct. 21:
Board
receives progress report on water reclamation study
- Monument Board of Trustees, Oct. 4: Fitzpatrick
named full member of Planning Commission
- Monument Board of Trustees, Oct. 18: Light
turnout at town meeting does not dampen discussion
- Monument Planning Commission, Oct. 13: Livestock
grazing code amendment approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Oct. 14: Council tables vote
on sidewalk maintenance
- Lewis-Palmer School District Board of Education, Oct.
5 and 21: Association will assist search for new
superintendent
- District Accountability Advisory Committee, Oct. 12:
Academic integrity discussion continues
- Exceptional Students Learning Team (formerly Special
Education Advisory Committee), Oct. 20: Committee
approves new name, hears student’s story
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of Directors,
Oct. 27: Board broadens access to WIA financial
information
- October Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Fall into some great winter reading
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Common
ring-necked pheasant
- Art Matters: Who’s minding your brain?
- Snapshots of Our Community
- October and November library events: Library
celebrates All Pikes Peak Reads, Halloween
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, Oct. 21: "Bloomer
Girl" first white woman to climb Pikes Peak
- Special Events and Notices
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- Adventure park tabled for now
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, Sept. 16:
District
wrestles with the risk of ballot measures 60, 61, and 101 passing
- Monument Sanitation District, Sept. 16: Gov.
Ritter visits Wakonda Hills project
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority Forum, Aug. 20,
NEPCO, Sept. 11: Water in the Tri-Lakes area:
"Now is the time to focus"
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, Sept. 15:
PPRWA
abandons merger with the county water authority
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation Board, Sept. 7:
Board
installs new member, hears about new mapping system
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District, Sept. 15:
Board
approves lease-purchase agreement for construction of new Highway 83 station
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District board,
Sept. 22: Decision on sprinkler requirement
delayed
- Children visit fire stations to thank crews
- Monument Board of Trustees, Sept. 7: New
Tri-Lakes Disposal garage and Jackson Creek apartment complex approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Sept. 9: Chiefs
present service awards
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 Board of Education, Sept. 2
and 14: Consultant for superintendent search approved
- Lewis-Palmer District Accountability Advisory
Committee, Sept. 16: Committee considers academic
integrity program
- Lewis-Palmer Special Education Advisory Committee,
Sept. 8: Committee considers name, goals
- Woodmoor Improvement Association board, Sept. 22:
Board
expresses concern about fire danger, car break-ins
- September Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Now you’re cooking!
- High Country Highlights: Fall
watering is essential to successful gardening
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Calliope
hummingbird
- Art Matters: This art is of
the essence
- Arts and Community Event fills the weekend with
activity
- Snapshots of Our Community
- September and October library events: All
Pikes Peak Reads and Scary Stories featured in October
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, Sept. 16: Author
finds history in pioneer cemeteries
- Chamber now coordinates Crawford Memorial project
- Monument VFW Post 7829, Sept. 21: Candidates
address Tri-Lakes veterans
- Special Events and Notices
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- Fox Run adventure park plan criticized at meeting
- D-38, Aug. 5 and 19: Bauman
describes goals
- D-38 District Accountability Advisory Committee,
Aug. 17: Fact sheets list likely effects of ballot
measures
- Monument Academy Board of Directors, Aug. 19:
Consultant group evaluates school
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District Board,
Aug. 25: Sprinkler system requirement
proposed
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District, Aug. 25:
Two
new volunteer firefighters join Wescott
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, Aug. 18:
PPRWA
to propose merger with county water authority
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, Aug. 19:
District
approves water reuse engineering study
- Upper Monument Water Quality Management
Association, Aug. 19: Consultant explains
negotiations on proposed tighter state phosphorus and nitrogen standards for
treated wastewater
- Monument Sanitation District, Aug. 19: Wakonda
Hills road construction nearing completion
- Forest View Acres Water District Board of
Directors, Aug. 26: Improvement project to begin
Sept. 7
- Monument Planning Commission, Aug. 11: New
Jackson Creek apartment complex approved
- Monument Board of Trustees, Aug. 16: Planning
commissioner appointed to advisory committee
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Aug. 12: Liquor
license fees will not increase
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board, Aug. 25:
Board
elects new member, finalizes Marsh trail contract
- August Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Discussable books
- High Country Highlights: September
garden tips
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Osprey
- Art Matters: The beautiful
local color
- Snapshots of Our Community
- Chautauqua brings the past into the
present, Aug. 6-8
- Murder on the menu at dinner theater
show, Aug. 6
- Friends and colorful expression at the
TLCA , Aug. 6
- Playground takes shape at Bear Creek
Elementary, Aug. 7
- Blood Drive at Tri-Lakes Cares
- After Hours event attracts local
nonprofits, Aug. 17
- Senior ladies dance Hawaiian-style, Aug. 17
- Art Hop, Aug. 19
- HAP receives grant from Key Club, Aug. 26
- Museum says, "Happy birthday,
burros"
- August and September library events: All
Pikes Peak Reads program coming up
- Palmer Lake Historical Society meeting, August 19:
Early
Colorado entertainment was not always wholesome
- VFW Monument Post 7829, July 20 and Aug. 17:
Monument
VFW approves Ladies Auxiliary
- Special Events and Notices
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- D-38 picks Bauman as interim superintendent
- Fox Run Aerial Adventure Park proposed
- Donala Water and Sanitation District Workshop, July
7: District to conduct aquifer recharge feasibility
study, investigate IPR project, and finance CSU connection
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, July 7:
Plan
would protect local water supply
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation Board of Directors,
July 8: Board discusses future of water authorities
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee, July 13: Possible methods for meeting new
total phosphorus limits discussed
- Monument Sanitation District, July 15: Wakonda
Hills pipeline installation concluding
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, July 21:
Petersen
resigns; members discuss merger with the El Paso County Water Authority
- Forest View Acres Water District Board of
Directors, July 22: Improvements to well,
treatment plant planned
- Triview Metropolitan District Board, July 27:
Baptist
Road landscape easement vacated
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District, July 28:
Financing
of new aerial truck finalized
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District board,
July 28: New ladder truck arrives
- Palmer Lake Town Council, July 8: Medical
marijuana cultivation space approved
- Monument Board of Trustees, July 19: Joint
water plan gets preliminary approval
- Monument Board of Trustees, Aug. 2: Water
plans discussed
- Monument Planning Commission, July 14: Two
new buildings planned for business park
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of Directors,
July 28: Board recognizes public safety officer,
considers changes in documents
- July Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Beach and backyard books
- Art Matters: Frames shouldn’t
overpower art
- Snapshots of Our Community
- Crawford Memorial Planning Meeting, July 6 and
July 20: Committee discusses redesign of
Crawford Memorial site
- July and August library events: Summer
reading ends with a gala event
- Palmer Lake Historical Society meeting, July 15:
Shamrock
Ranch history presented
- Historic Estemere mansion is for sale
- Author criticizes Canadian oil sands project
- Special Events and Notices
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- Anglers reel in trout at Palmer Lake Fishing Derby
- Rabies alert issued for Tri-Lakes Area
- County candidates present their priorities
- D-38 Board of Education June 3, 17, and 22: Superintendent
Blanch resigns; Borman appointed acting superintendent
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District
board, June 23: Board selects contractor
and fire trucks for new station
- Defensible space and Firewise annual
checklist
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection
District board, June 23: Board passes
resolution against ballot issues
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation Board of
Directors, June 14: Repaving set for White
Fawn and Deer Creek
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, June
16: Executive director of the Colorado
Water Conservation Board meets with PPRWA
- Monument Sanitation District, June 17: Wakonda
Hills lift station contract awarded
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, June
24: District to hold workshop on water
issues July 7
- Monument Board of Trustees, June 7: Restaurant
owners receive Jim Moore Award
- Monument Board of Trustees, June 21: Chief
Shirk hosts promotion and awards ceremony
- Palmer Lake Town Council, June 10: Council
approves replacement medical marijuana ordinance and three dispensary
licenses
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of
Directors, June 23: Board appoints new
members
- June Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Luke Ebaugh leaving Monument staff for
dental school
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Summer fun for kids
- Gleneagle Sertoma Club elects officers
- High Country Highlights: Perennials
for summer color
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: American
white pelican
- Art Matters: Perception
creates reality
- Snapshots of Our Community
- June and July library events: Summer
reading in full swing; big party planned
- Crawford Memorial Planning Meeting,
June 10: Memorial to honor military
personnel in region
- Palmer Lake Historical Society meeting,
June 20: Hundreds attend Fathers’ Day Ice
Cream Social
- Special Events and Notices
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- Fraud, ID theft seen in Tri-Lakes area
- El Paso County Board of County Commissioners, May
27: County approves patio homes on driving range
- Palmer Lake Town Council, May 13: Marijuana
ordinance amendment tabled
- Palmer Lake Medical Marijuana Task Force, June 2:
Neighbors
complain about location of potential dispensary
- Monument Board of Trustees, May 3:
Consultant research for proposed water purchase approved
- Monument Board of Trustees, May 17: Fountain
Mutual Irrigation water purchase canceled
- Monument Planning Commission, May 12: Monument
Marketplace auto repair shop plat approved
- Special district election results
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, May 5:
Discussion on merging with Donala revived
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation Board, May 6:
Nasser
retires from board; new officers installed
- Joint Use Committee, May 11: Crystal
Creek health hazard discussed
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, May 19:
Flaming
Gorge project gains additional participants
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, May 20:
Decision
by Colorado Springs may clear the way for a
contract with Donala
- Monument Sanitation District, May 20: Board
elects officers
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District
Board, April 28: Expenditures and income on
track
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District
special board meeting, May 18: New board sworn
in
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District,
May 26: Residents praise firefighters’
efforts
- DWFPD Safety Fair
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District Board, May
26: New board shifts focus from merger to new
station
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 Board of Education, May 20:
Board
discusses outsourcing food service, hears public comments
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 District Accountability
Advisory Committee, May 11: Committee discusses
long-term planning task force
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 Special Education Advisory
Committee, May 12: Principals’ panel addresses
committee; board elected
- Monument Academy Board of Directors, May 12: School
looks to outside consulting for reorganization help
- May Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: New favorites for fathers
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Wood Duck
- Art Matters:
Drawing
in our contemporary art scene
- Snapshots of Our Community
- School gets pizza money for playground, April 30
- Burgan entertains with tunes from the ‘50s-‘60s,
May 8
- Art sale May 15 provides support for Tri-Lakes Cares
- Blood drive delivers "Gift of Life", May
18
- Keeping our children safe, May 18
- Tea Social treated to mini-concert, May 18
- TLWC ends the year with sunflowers and cake
- Elected officials take office
- Woodmoor district makes presentations
- Palmer Lake Medical Marijuana Taskforce meeting
- "Crimes of the Heart" at the TLCA, May
20-23
- Monument Art Hop begins new season, May 20
- Gleneagle Sertoma’s "Spirits of
Spring" raises $9,085 for charities, May 22
- Monument Hill Sertoma cleans up I-25, May 2
- May and June library events: Staff
visits schools in anticipation of summer reading
- Palmer Lake Historical Society meeting, May 20:
All
aboard for Pikes Peak
- Palmer Lake Historical Society Chautauqua May
Planning Meetings: Boy Scouts volunteer to
assist Chautauqua project
- Special Events and Notices
- Hooked on Palmer Lake Kids’ Fishing Derby, June 5
- Native American Inter-Tribal Festival, June 5
- Summer Kids’ Camp at TLCA, June 7
- Adult Immunization Clinic, June 7
- Spring Fine Art Show opening reception, June 11
- Huntington’s disease fundraiser, June 12
- Tri-Lakes Cruisers Car Show, June 13
- Tri-Lakes area election debate, June 16
- Summer Soul-stice Celebration, June 19
- Fathers’ Day Ice Cream Social, June 20
- Denver Burn Camp Run, June 27
- Griffith Golf Tournament, June 28
- Farmers Markets in our community
- Independence Day Parade in Monument, July 3
- July 3 Community Events
- July 4 Events
- Slash and Mulch season underway
- Bears out; take precautions to avoid conflicts
- Rabid fox found in Woodmoor
- Check out energy savings at local libraries
- Senior Beat newsletter,
subscribe for free!
- Tri-Lakes Senior Citizens Center is now open
- Tri-Lakes Cares Thrift Shop in Monument
- Tri-Lakes Senior Alliance Thrift Store: new
location
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- Hats a hit at Senior Ladies' Tea Social
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, April
21 Woodmoor district is back in the fold
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Board of
Education, April 1, 8, 16, and 26: Board
names new school, blocks departure of Monument Academy
- D-38 District Accountability Advisory
Committee, April 13: DAAC to create
long-range planning task force
- D-38 Special Education Advisory Committee,
April 14: Differentiated and team teaching
benefits explained
- Monument Academy Board of Directors, April
21: Community likes idea of charter release
- Joint Use Committee, April 13: Attorney
updates committee on pending tighter limits
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District,
April 8: District contracts for water
rights in Lower Arkansas valley
- Monument Sanitation District, April 15:
Construction to resume for Wakonda Hills collection system expansion
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, April
22: May 4 ballots seek approval of debt,
property tax increases
- Town election results
- Monument Board of Trustees, April 5: Triview
maintenance agreement approved
- Monument Board of Trustees, April 19:
July the Third parade street closing
approved
- Monument Planning Commission, April 14: Village
Center at Woodmoor amendment approved
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, April 2: BRRTA and PPRTA having
trouble getting some sales taxes
- County transportation officials receive local
public input
- Woodmoor Improvement Association, April 28: Woodmoor
residents to receive survey
- April Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Chamber presents awards to those who made a
difference
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Celebrating
motherhood
- High Country Highlights: Springtime
gardening tips
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: White-faced
ibis, an unusual migrant
- Tri-Lakes Cares to benefit from art sale
- Art Matters: Art
Hop springing back into town for 2010
- Snapshots of Our Community
- Two comedies bring laughs to TLCA
- Easter egg hunters hit mother lode,
April 3
- Geothermal lecture heats up museum,
April 8
- Legacy Sertoma Club holds first meeting,
April 8
- Poetry, song, and art combine at TLCA,
April 9
- Screenings given at Health Fair,
April 10
- Hat contest highlights Tea Social, April 20
- Thrift shop pays back Tri-Lakes Cares,
April 22
- Sweet Sunny South lays down bluegrass at
TLCA, April 24
- Vendors brave snowstorm to participate in
Antiques Show
- April and May library events
- Palmer Lake Historical Society meeting,
April 15: Evolution of the Denver & New
Orleans Railroad
- Palmer Lake Historical Society
Chautauqua April meetings: Chuck Pyle
accepts Chautauqua invitation
- Slavens and Collson honored
- Special Events and Notices
- Put the Nuns in Charge
comedy show, May 1
- Slash and Mulch season begins May 1
- Fire Protection Districts’ special
elections, May 4
- CASA 4-1-1 Night, May 6
- Wescott Fire Department Summer Safety
Fair, May 15
- Bowling Fundraiser for the Return of the
Rocky Mountain Chautauqua, May 16
- Tri-Lakes Community Blood Drive, May 18
- Tri-Lakes Cares Hosts Community Open
House, May 18
- Art Hop is back, May 20
- Colorado Cyber School Information
Session, May 20
- District One Community Meeting with
Sheriff Maketa, May 20
- Spirits of Spring Wine and Beer Tasting
and Auction, May 22
- Sheriff’s Office announces second
Citizens’ Academy
- BOCC to consider Gleneagle Golf Course
townhouse development, May 27
- Hooked on Palmer Lake Kids’ Fishing
Derby, Jun. 5
- Native American Inter-Tribal Festival,
June 5
- Denver Burn Camp Run, June 27
- Bears coming out of hibernation; take
precautions to avoid conflicts
- Rabid fox found in Woodmoor
- El Paso County seeks community
priorities for transportation plan
- Check out energy savings at local
libraries
- Senior Beat
newsletter—subscribe for free!
- Tri-Lakes Senior Citizens Center is now
open
- Tri-Lakes Cares Thrift Shop in Monument
- Tri-Lakes Senior Alliance Thrift Store:
new location
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- Lance, Leonhardt, and Ridings receive Phoenix Club Award
- Water authority dissension continues
- Lewis-Palmer D-38 Board of Education, March 4, 11 and
18: Board continues dialogue with community as it
plans for coming year
- D-38 District Accountability Advisory Committee,
March 9: State Rep. Stephens responds to letter
campaign at meeting
- D-38 Special Education Advisory Committee, March 10:
Committee discusses future plans, priorities
- Joint Use Committee, March 9: Tighter
effluent restriction limits remain a concern
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, March 18:
May
4 ballots seek approval of debt, property tax increase
- Monument Sanitation District, March 18: District
purchases its first utility vehicle
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District, March 10:
Board
hears request to extend use of private well
- Triview Metropolitan District, March 23: Power
company gets landscaping easement
- Monument Board of Trustees, March 15: New
Jackson Creek elementary school playground proposed
- Monument Planning Commission, March 10: A
full house once again
- Palmer Lake Town Council, March 11:
New fire department protocols being developed
-
Donald Wescott Fire Protection District,
March 17: Three firefighters selected for
Phoenix Club Award
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection
District, March 24: Proposition 101 could
jeopardize future district funding
-
Special district election candidate
statements
-
March Weather Wrap
-
Letters to Our Community
-
Quality of life "report
card" presented
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Tulips, daffodils, and … new
books!
- High Country Highlights: Amending
your soil
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Yellow-headed
blackbird
- Art Matters:
Are you the next Herb and Dorothy?
-
Snapshots of Our Community
-
March and April library events
- Palmer Lake Historical Society
meeting, March 18: "A portrayal of Lucretia
Vaile"
-
Special Events and Notices
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- Dramatic ice rescue
- PPRWA divided over coalition
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Feb. 11: Town
survey results presented
- Monument Board of Trustees, March 1: Change
in staffing for Triview requested
- Joint Use Committee, Feb. 9: Tighter
effluent restriction limits remain a concern
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation Board, Feb. 11:
Board
votes to join wastewater council; Nasser honored
- Monument Sanitation District, Feb. 18: Wakonda
Hills tap fees will increase Oct. 1
- Triview Metropolitan District, Feb. 23: Board
election cancelled
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, Feb. 24:
Board
approves debt and mill levy questions for ballot
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, March 3:
Water
rates going up
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District, Feb. 24:
Board
accepts bookkeeper’s resignation; staff will manage district finances
again
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District Board,
Feb. 24: Subcommittee formed for union liaison
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Board of Education,
Feb. 18: School Board discusses changes for upcoming
school year
- Lewis-Palmer District Accountability Advisory
Committee, Feb. 9: Legislators are focus of school
funding concerns
- Lewis-Palmer Special Education Advisory Committee,
Feb. 10: Superintendent responds to position
statement
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board, Feb. 24:
Board
holds first meeting, makes changes
- February Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Spring into spring with a new book
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Cranes
- Art Matters: Objets du jour:
Quilts, fiber, multimedia, and more
- Snapshots of Our Community
- February and March library events
- Palmer Lake Historical Society meeting, Feb. 18:
The
rebirth of Old Colorado City
- Palmer Lake Historical Society Chautauqua
meeting, Feb. 22: Historical Society begins
Chautauqua planning
- Special Events and Notices
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- Palmer Lake Volunteer Fire Department receives
matching grant from Modern Woodmen of America
- WIA Annual Meeting, Jan. 25: WIA
elects directors
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, Jan. 20:
Dissension
arises over Woodmoor district’s actions
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District Board,
Jan.14: Board discusses public relations approach,
ongoing projects
- Monument Sanitation District Board, Jan. 21:
Wakonda
Hills project on winter break
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, Jan. 27:
District
prepares for May 4 election
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, Feb. 3:
Concerns over water, wastewater issues are
addressed
- Monument Board of Trustees, Jan. 19: Town
employees can donate vacation time to Haiti
- Monument Planning Commission, Jan. 13: Planning
code amendments approved
-
Palmer Lake Town Council, Jan.14: New
fire chief sworn in
-
Palmer Lake Town Council special
meeting, Jan. 21: Medical marijuana moratorium
approved for 90 days
-
Donald Wescott Fire Protection District
Board, Jan. 27: Bookkeeping problems continue
-
Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection
District Board, Jan. 27: Board discusses revenues,
expenses
-
School District 38 Board of Education, Jan.
21 and 28: Additional school budget cuts considered
-
D-38 District Accountability Advisory
Committee, Jan. 5: Budget reviewed before public
survey
-
D-38 Special Education Advisory
Committee, Jan. 13: Committee discusses response to
intervention, position statement
-
Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, Jan. 8: I-25 Baptist Road interchange
construction completed for this year
-
Doewood Gate meeting, Jan. 13: Citizens
comment on future of controversial road gate
-
January Weather Wrap
-
Letters to Our Community
-
Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Love is in the air
-
Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
The red-tailed hawk and the red-winged blackbird
-
Art Matters: Porkbusters:
Public art you can support for "free"
-
Snapshots of Our Community
- January and February library events
- Historical Society holds annual dinner,
election
- Special Events and Notices
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- School District 38 Board of Education, Dec. 17:
Board
votes to close Grace Best, reconfigure others
- D-38 Special Education Advisory Committee, Dec. 9:
Committee
discusses position statement, extended school year option
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, Dec. 3:
District
reviews survey results, plans Jan. 13-14 community meetings
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation Board, Dec. 10:
Board
approves budget, discusses project
- Monument Sanitation District Board, Dec. 17:
Residential
fees increase $3 per month beginning April 1
- Woodman Hills joins PPRWA
- Triview Metropolitan District Board, Dec. 22:
District
OKs 2010 budget
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, Jan. 6:
Missing
2007 documentation troubling
- Monument Board of Trustees, Dec. 7: 2010
budget narrowly approved
- Monument Board of Trustees, Jan. 4: Board
approves AutoZone store in Monument Ridge Center
- Monument Planning Commission, Dec. 9: AutoZone
site approved for Monument Ridge center
- Palmer Lake Town Council special meeting, Dec.
3: Water rates increased to pay for plant
expansion loan; Moreland sworn in as police chief
- Palmer Lake Town Council regular meeting,
Dec.10: 2010 budget approved
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District Board,
Dec. 9: 2010 budget approved; funds authorized
- December Weather Wrap
- Top weather events of 2009
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Great reads for cold nights
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Greater sage grouse
- Woodmoor Holiday Party, Dec. 6
- Art Matters: Creative
community legislation
- Snapshots of Our Community
- December and January library events
- Holiday powwow benefits Native Americans
- Special Events and Notices
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- Watch for the Red Kettles
- Community summit on D-38 funding, Dec. 8, 10
- Third street paving completed, Nov. 7
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, Nov.
18: Tentative $1 million per year water
lease agreement announced
- Donala phone survey finds strong support for
connection to CSU
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation Board, Nov.
12: Board holds preliminary discussion of
2010 budget
- Monument Sanitation District board, Nov. 19:
2010 budget options proposed
- Monument Board of Trustees, Nov. 2: Officer
joins Monument Police Department
- Monument Board of Trustees, Nov. 16: FBI
agents present award
- Monument Planning Commission, Nov. 10: Monument
Ridge plans approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Nov. 12: Vote
on water rate increase delayed
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection
District, Nov. 18: District will pursue
federal grant for staffing
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 Board of Education,
Nov. 19: New board member installed; budget
process discussed
- Lewis-Palmer School District Accountability
Advisory Committee, Nov. 11: DAAC discusses
ways to cut $5 million
- Lewis-Palmer School District Special
Education Advisory Committee, Nov. 11: Fleury
seeks improved communication
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, Nov. 13: I-25 Baptist Road
interchange completed for this year
- BRRTA ceremony marks interchange milestone
- November Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Gifts for treasuring
beyond the holidays
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Mourning
dove
- Art Matters: The
art of living in "Try" Lakes
- Two journeys make for one great TLCA show
- Snapshots of Our Community
- November and December library events
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, Nov. 19: Historian
reveals history of USAFA grounds
- Special Events and Notices
- Historic Monument Small Town Christmas,
Dec. 5
- MOMS Club Holiday Extravaganza and Coat
Drive, Dec. 5
- North Pole at Tri-Lakes Craft Show,
Dec. 5 and 6
- Community Summit on School Funding, Dec. 8
and 10
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Dec.
10-13
- Project Lighthouse 6th Annual Christmas
Pow Wow, Dec. 12
- Gleneagle Festival of Lights, Dec. 12
- Christmas handbell concert, Dec. 12
- Palmer Lake Yule Log Hunt, Dec. 13
- Combined Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District and PAETEC Christmas Food Drive, Dec. 15
- A Colorado Evening featuring John
Fielder and Chuck Pyle, Dec. 15
- Combined Police and Fire Departments’
Holiday Toy Drive ends Dec. 16
- "The Wonder of Christmas"
Holiday Concert, Dec. 18-19
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District
Santa Patrol
- Acoustic Eidolon Concert, Dec. 19
- The Tri-Lakes Women’s Club Colorado
Classic Collection 2009
- Pikes Peak Rural Transportation
Authority seeks volunteer
- Clear snow and ice around mailboxes for
letter carriers
- Free firearm safety kits to be
distributed locally
- Low-Income Energy Assistance Program
(LEAP)
- County Prescription Discount Program now
online
- New thrift shop opens in Monument
- Tri-Lakes Senior Alliance Thrift
Store in Palmer Lake
- Senior Safety Program
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- Monument Safe Trick or Treat
- Wilson wins reelection
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, Oct. 21:
Faced
with the need to increase water rates, authority monitors water
deliberations
- Colorado Springs Utilities Utility Policy Advisory
Committee, Oct. 7: Policy panel considers financial
issues in regional water partnerships
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation Board, Oct. 15:
Sewer
project behind schedule
- Monument Sanitation District board, Oct. 22:
Change
in cost-sharing rules could spur fee hike
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, Oct. 21:
District
plans survey of views about water and potential ballot measure
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District board, Oct.
28: Board switches location for new station
- Donald Wescott Open House, Oct. 3
- PLVFD Open House, Oct. 3
- Monument Board of Trustees, Oct. 5: Gingrich
appointed to board
- Board holds town hall meeting, Oct. 19
- Monument Planning Commission, Oct. 14: Regulation
of medical marijuana dispensaries approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Oct. 8: Town
survey extended to Nov. 30
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 Board, Oct. 15: Blanch
underscores technological advances
- Lewis-Palmer School District Accountability Advisory
Committee, Oct. 13: Great Education Colorado,
Colorado Growth Model explained
- Web site exclusive: D-38 Special Education Advisory Committee, Oct.14:
Committee discusses priorities, vision with superintendent
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation Authority, Oct.
9: All Baptist Road bridge lanes opened
- October Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Gifts that keep on giving
- High Country Highlights: Water
now to prevent plant damage
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Northern
saw-whet owl
- Art Matters: Is your wish
list ready?
- PLAG Craft Fair, Oct. 3-4
- TLCA Annual Member Show
- Snapshots of Our Community
- Empty Bowl filled with compassion for those in
need
- Hundreds contribute to Wine and Roses
- October and November library events
- Health Fair provides low-cost screenings for many,
Oct. 24
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, Oct. 15: Air
Force Academy historian details Pike expeditions
- Monica Deluca installed as ninth Monument postmaster
- Special Events and Notices
- Black Forest Arts & Crafts Show and Sale,
Nov. 5-8
- Tri-Lakes Chapel Community Blood Drive, Nov. 12
- Taste of Lewis-Palmer Middle
School, Nov. 12
- Department of Human Services Advisory Commission
needs volunteers
- Wayne Williams speaks on county development
issues, Nov. 14
- Operation Christmas Child Collection Week, Nov.
16-23
- Monument unveils Christmas Banners, Nov. 20
- Palmer Divide Bluegrass Band, Nov. 21
- Palmer Lake’s Chili Supper and Star Lighting,
Nov. 28
- Comments on the Regional Transportation Plan due
by Dec. 1
- Historic Monument Small Town Christmas, Dec. 5
- MOMS Club Holiday Extravaganza and Coat Drive, Dec.
5
- Singers and musicians needed for Christmas
production
- Free firearm safety kits to be distributed
locally
- Gleneagle Golf Club seeks volunteers for advisory
committee
- Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP)
- County Prescription Discount Program now online
- New thrift shop opens in Monument
- Senior Safety Program
- Wildlife Masters in El Paso County
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- Volunteers clean up the Santa Fe Trail
- Triview Metropolitan District, Sept. 15: Fixed-rate
bond refinancing approved
- 5 candidates for 4 seats
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 board, Sept. 17:
Board
discusses organization, funding
- Lewis-Palmer School District Accountability Advisory
Committee, Sept. 15: Committee discusses programs,
goals
- D-38 Special Education Advisory Committee, Sept. 9:
School
funding a major concern
- Monument Board of Trustees, Sept. 8: Trustee
Tim Miller resigns
- Monument Board of Trustees, Sept. 21: Gingrich
appointed to succeed Miller
- Beacon Lite Road Improvements Community
Meeting, Sept. 22: County officials get
residents’ input on road upgrade
- Palmer Lake Town Council meeting, Sept. 10:
Final
Lucy Owens Fund payment decision deferred
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District board, Sept.
3: Board approves development of conservation plan
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, Sept. 16:
Authority
focuses on connection to Springs Utilities
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, Sept. 16:
District
considers raising water rates 10 percent
- Monument Sanitation District Board, Sept. 24:
Wakonda
Hills stimulus project begins
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District board,
Sept. 23: District offers fire mitigation
recommendations
- September Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: What’s new in the book world?
- High Country Highlights: The
well-diversified garden
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Prothonotary
warbler
- Art Matters: The thought
leaders
- Monument Art Hop concludes another successful year
- Snapshots of Our Community
- Concert in the Park series receives Governor’s Award
- September and October library events
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, Sept. 17: Local
videographer documents history
- Taste the wine, smell the roses
- Haunted Mines opens
- Special Events and Notices
- Christmas Crafts Fair, Oct. 3-4
- Flu shot clinic and Palmer Lake Fire Station Open
House, Oct. 3
- Donald Wescott Fire Prevention Week Open House,
Oct. 3
- A Tribute to John Denver, Oct. 3
- Benefit for Golden Retriever Freedom Rescue,
Oct. 4
- Halloween Scavenger Hunt, through Oct. 31
- Haunted Mines, through Oct. 31
- Tri-Lakes Immunization Clinic, Oct. 6
- Empty Bowls Dinner, Oct. 7
- Meet the School Board Candidates, Oct. 8
- Lewis-Palmer football games broadcast live over
the Internet by Q-SKY FM
- Community Closet now open second and fourth
Saturdays
- "A Casino Night in Casablanca," Oct. 17
- Wine and Roses, Oct. 23
- Meet the Author: Homer Hickam, The Rocket Boys,
Oct. 23
- Tri-Lakes Health Fair, Oct. 24
- Safe Trick or Treat, Oct. 31
- CASA 411 Night, Nov. 5
- Black Forest Arts & Crafts Show and Sale, Nov.
5-8
- Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP)
- Gleneagle Golf Club seeks volunteers for advisory
committee
- County Prescription Discount Program now online
- Tri-Lakes Senior Citizens Center is now open
- Handbell ringers needed for holiday concert
- New thrift shop opens in Monument
- Tri-Lakes Senior Alliance Thrift Store in Palmer
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- Chautauqua makes successful return
- Beacon Lite Rd. meeting, Sept. 22
- Monument Sanitation District board, Aug. 20: District
approved for $2.4 million in stimulus loans
- Rancher offers land for new fire station
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, Aug.
26: Board gets update on arrested firefighter
- Monument Board of Trustees, Aug. 3: Kaiser
appointed to vacant trustee seat
- Monument Board of Trustees, Aug. 17: Gingrich
appointed to vacant Planning Commission seat
- Monument Planning Commission, Aug. 12: Extensive
changes to fence regulations approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Aug. 6: Search
begins for new police chief and admin assistant
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation Board, Aug. 13:
Budget
bumps balance out
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, Aug. 19:
Authority
decides to continue one more year; plans second
presentation to CSU
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, Aug. 19:
District
closer to a water deal with Colorado Springs
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, Sept. 2:
Preventing
water source contamination focus of presentation
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Board, Aug. 20:
Board
hears support for private instruction
- Senior center opens in Monument
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation Authority, Aug.
14: 2008 audit accepted
- August Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Tri-Lakes Cares names Swanson Executive Director; holds
events Sept. 19
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Real lives, real people
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Black-crowned night heron
- Art Matters: Arts education
lacking despite call for creativity
- Art Hop, Aug. 20
- Snapshots of Our Community
- August and September library events
- Everyone a winner at Tri-Lakes Non-Profit Day
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, Aug. 20: Trombone
quintet serenades Historical Society
- Empty Bowl fundraiser returns Oct. 7
- Special Events and Notices
- Fill the boot for the MDA, to Sept. 7
- Tri-Lakes Women’s Club Open
House, Sept. 10
- Patriots Golf Tournament, Sept. 11
- Community Closet now open second and fourth
Saturdays
- Dakota Blonde returns to TLCA, Sept. 12
- Slash and Mulch season ends soon
- Monument Citizen Police Academy, Sept. 15
- Annual Chili Cook-Off and Tasting, Sept. 19
- Beacon Lite Road Community Meeting, Sept. 22
- Haunted Mines, Oct. 1-31
- Christmas Crafts Fair, Oct. 3-4
- Flu shot clinic and Palmer Lake Fire Station Open
House, Oct. 3
- Benefit for Golden Retriever Freedom Rescue,
Oct. 4
- Empty Bowl 2009, Oct. 7
- Wine and Roses 2009, Oct. 23
- Meet the Author: Homer Hickam, The Rocket Boys,
Oct. 23
- County Prescription Discount Program now online
- Tri-Lakes Senior Citizens Center is now open
- Handbell ringers needed for holiday concert
- New thrift shop opens in Monument
- Tri-Lakes Senior Alliance Thrift Store in Palmer
Lake
- Senior Safety Program
- Wildlife Masters in El Paso County
- Parting Shots
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- Palmer Lake Fishing Derby
- Possible fire district consolidation
- Fire damages three businesses
- Monument Board of Trustees, June 1: Mayor
Glenn leaves; Dominguez to serve as mayor for now
- Monument Planning Commission, June 10: Commissioners
approve Monument Marketplace plat
- Palmer Lake Town Council, June 11: Both
wells pumping as town awaits plant upgrade
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District Board, June
11: District won’t pass on fee to employees
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, June 17:
Authority
prepares for presentation to CSU committee
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, June 17:
Water
court case filed to convert ranch water to district use
- Monument Sanitation District Board, June 18: Federal
stimulus funding for Wakonda Hills still on track
- Triview Metropolitan District Board, June 24:
Park
construction contract awarded to Copestone
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, June
24: Some district personnel getting a new home
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Board, June 18:
Four
board seats up for election
- June Weather Wrap
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: I’m Bo-o-o-o-red!
- High Country Highlights: Making
the best use of rainwater
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Prairie
falcon
- Art Matters: The
arts play on in Tri-Lakes
- A Celebration of Art and History in
Monument at the new Town Hall
- Snapshots of Our Community
- June and July library events
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, June 21: Historical
Society sponsors Fathers’ Day gala
- Civil War program, July 16; Chautauqua, August 7-9
- Special Events and Notices
- Overlay begins on northernmost paved
section of Black Forest Road, July 6-8
- WMMI’s 27th Anniversary, July 6
- Community Closet now open second and
fourth Saturdays
- Special Screening of The Dying
Western, July 9
- Free Outdoor Concert and Ice Cream at Fox
Run Regional Park, July 10
- NEPCO meeting on public safety, July 11
- Fill the Cart Campaign, July 13-17
- Display your art at a local library
art gallery
- Tri-Lakes Community Blood Drive, July 21
- CASA Fall Training Class application
deadline, July 31
- Western Museum of Mining & Industry
(WMMI): Burro Birthday Bash, Aug. 1
- Pikes Peak Library District End of Summer
Teen Concert, Aug. 1
- 2009 Return of the Rocky Mountain
Chautauqua Assembly, Aug. 7-9
- Monument Open Chess Tournament coming in
August
- County launches Prescription Discount Program
- Needed: handbell ringers
- Library District creates new Job Help on Web
site
- Exchange student host families needed
- New thrift shop opens in Monument
- Tri-Lakes Senior Alliance Thrift Store in
Palmer Lake
- Slash and Mulch season underway
- Master Gardener Help Desk at Monument
Library
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- Get ready for a wonderful 4th!
- A Perspective on Our Community: Are
we running out of water?
- Monument Board of Trustees, May 4: New
summer event narrowly approved
- Monument Board of Trustees, May 18: First
board meeting held in new Town Hall
- Monument Planning Commission, May 13: Rod
Smith Business Park approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council, May 14: Scout
does his part to improve town park
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee, May 12: Smith takes over as JUC
president
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, May 20:
Authority
pursues connection to Colorado Spring Utilities
- Group monitors issues facing well owners
- Monument Sanitation District Board, May 21: Stimulus
funding recommended for Wakonda Hills
- Triview Metropolitan District board, May 27: Board
appoints new district manager and financial director
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, June 3:
Expenses,
past-due accounts dominate discussion
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Board, May 21:
Parents
give varied opinions on preschool program
- Lundeen retires
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 District
Accountability Advisory Committee, May 12: School
panel looks back at year’s issues
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Special Education
Advisory Committee, May 8: Panel evaluates
achievements, changes meeting format
- El Paso County Planning Commission, May 19:
Palomino,
Gleneagle proposals advance
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation Authority, May
22: Merrifield casts deciding committee vote to
eliminate state funds for widening I-25
- May Weather Wrap
- Memorial Day, May 25
- Letters to Our Community
- Stop at the Click: Save fuel and the environment
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Summertime, and the readin’ is easy
- High Country Highlights: How
to attract hummingbirds
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Chipping
sparrow
- Art Matters: Real art for
real people: the driving force of success
- Community responds to the energy of Brulé & AIRO
- Snapshots of Our Community
- May and June library events
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, May 21: Historical
Society hears history of two early preachers
- Event for fathers set for June 21
- Special Events and Notices
- Hooked on Palmer Lake Fishing Derby,
June 6
- Spring Fine Art Show opening reception,
June 6
- Farmers Markets in our community
- Gold! Gold! Gold! June 8
- Community Closet now open second and
fourth Saturdays
- Gleneagle Community Garage Sale, June
12-13
- Palmer Lake’s 8th Annual Blue
Columbine Festival, June 13
- Tri-Lakes Cruisers Car Show, June 14
- The Tri-Lakes Non-Profit Council
meeting, June 17
- D-38 to host information session for
prospective board members, June 18
- Rock Fair at WMMI, June 20
- New Tri-Lakes Cares thrift shop opens in
Monument, June 20
- Summer Soul-stice Celebration, June 20
- Fathers’ Day Ice Cream Social, June
21
- Citizen-at-Large Member Sought for Pikes
Peak Rural Transportation Authority (PPRTA) Citizen Advisory Committee
- Monument’s free Concerts in the Park
begin June 24
- Woodmoor Garage Sale, June 26-27
- Chuck Pyle Concert for the Wild, June 27
- Parade of Ponds, June 27-28
- "Field Day" Public Demonstration
of Emergency Communications
- D-38 Operations Advisory Committee seeks
volunteers
- Dotsero concert, July 3
- NEPCO meeting on public safety, July 11
- Exchange student host families needed
- Slash and Mulch season underway
- Master Gardener Help Desk at the
Monument Library
- Tri-Lakes Senior Alliance Thrift Store in
Palmer Lake
- Fourth of July Community Events
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- Palmer Lake Easter Egg Hunt, April 11
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, April 8:
Operator
considers options for upgrades
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, April 15:
Authority
interested in connection to CSU
- Palmer Lake Town Council, April 2: Loan
sought for water treatment improvements
- Palmer Lake Town Council, April 9: Continued
supervision by Monument police chief approved
- Monument Board of Trustees, April 6: Temporary
supervision of Palmer Lake police approved
- Monument Board of Trustees, April 20: Town
Forum presentations engage citizens
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District, April 9:
Board
approves annual audit
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee, April 14: JUC gets high marks in audit
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, April 15:
Auditor
recommends some changes in procedures
- Triview Metropolitan District board, April 22:
2008
audit approved
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, April
22: Pay changed to hourly
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District Board,
April 22: Volunteer data submitted for pension plan
evaluation
- Lewis-Palmer School District Accountability Advisory
Committee, April 14: Community safety program coming
to schools
- Lewis Palmer School District Special Education
Advisory Committee, April 8: Committee’s funds,
goals discussed
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation Authority board,
April 23: Authority approves new accountant
- April Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Heartwarming books for troubling
times
- High Country Highlights: Tips
on container gardening
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: The
American dipper
- Art Matters: Local
artists share their secrets
- Snapshots of Our Community
- April and May library events
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, April
16: History of women’s fashion displayed
- Special Events and Notices
- Slash and Mulch season begins in May
- D-38 Special Needs Community Resource Fair, May 2
- Gleneagle Sertoma Wine and Beer Tasting and Auction, May 9
- John Adams & Friends concert,
May 9
- Protect Our Wells annual meeting, May 11
- Master Gardener Help Desk opens at Monument Library, May 13
- Fourth Annual Gleneagle Spirit 5K
Run/Walk, May 16
- CASA 4-1-1 Night, May 19
- Brulé & AIRO concert, May 22
- Book and Beck bluegrass concert, May
29
- Wendy Woo concert, June 5
- Hooked on Palmer Lake Fishing Derby, June 6
- Tri-Lakes Cruisers Car Show, June 14
- D-38 Operations Advisory Committee
seeks volunteers
- Tri-Lakes Senior Alliance Thrift
Store in Palmer Lake
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- Monument Library, March 14
- Credit union slammed with phishing scheme
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, March 18:
Authority
may conduct survey on water issues
- Palmer Lake Town Council workshop, March 5:
Forum
focuses on police budget concerns
- Palmer Lake Town Council, March 12: Town
proceeding with audit to evaluate policies
- Monument Board of Trustees, March 16: Downtown
Walgreens traffic flow options discussed
- Monument Planning Commission, March 9: Replat
for Arbor Mountain senior facility approved
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee, March 10: Changes in policy document
approved
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District, March 12:
Board
monitors projects
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, March 18:
District
calculates cost of providing services
- Monument Sanitation District Board meeting, March 19:
Preliminary engineering report for Wakonda Hills
expansion approved
- Triview Metropolitan District Board, March 25:
Terms
for new financing of Triview debt discussed
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, March
25: Resolution to radio problems taking time
- Lewis Palmer School District Accountability Advisory
Committee, March 10: Students learning Internet
safety
- Lewis Palmer School District Special Education
Advisory Committee, March 11: Stimulus funding
expected
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of Directors,
March 11: Board votes to hire new auditors
- March Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: How does your garden grow?
- High Country Highlights: Ready,
set, garden!
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Western
bluebird
- Art Matters: You can take it
with you
- Snapshots of Our Community
- March and April library events
- Historical Society hears history of trolley system
- Special Events and Notices
- D-38 Special Needs Community Resource Fair, April 4
- County Hazardous Materials Facility open April
11
- Palmer Lake Easter Pancake Breakfast, April 12
- National Library Week 2009: Worlds Connect @
your library®, April 12-18
- County seeks citizen volunteers, April 17
- Friday Night Jam Series: Reckless, April
17
- Dakota Blonde
concert, April 18
- Pine Forest Antiques Show and Sale, April
18-19
- Low-Income Energy Assistance Program ends April 30
- Live theater in Monument, May 8-10
- John Adams & Friends concert, May 9
- Fourth Annual Gleneagle Spirit 5K Run/Walk, May
16
- Tri-Lakes Senior Alliance Thrift Store now open
- Senior Safety Program
- Gardener Help Desk at Monument Library
begins May 13
- Wildlife Masters in El Paso County
- IRS offers free e-newsletter for small
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- D-38 Chess Tournament, Feb. 21
- Pikes Peak or Bust Winter
Festival draws 900
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 Board of Education, Feb. 19:
Teachers
concerned about budget cuts
- Monument Board of Trustees, Feb. 17: Downtown
Walgreens plat approved
- Monument Board of Trustees, March 2: Arbor
Mountain site plan approved
- Monument Planning Commission meeting, Feb. 11:
Downtown
Walgreens final plat and Arbor Mountain site plan approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Feb. 12: Police
chief Ferrin resigns
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, Feb 18:
Proposed
Fountain Creek district raises concerns for wastewater plant operators
- Monument Sanitation District special board
meeting, Feb. 6: Board to consider fee increase
amid revenue dip
- Monument Sanitation District board, Feb. 19:
Board
approves user fee increases
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee, Feb. 10: Revisions to policy document
approved
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District board, Feb.
12: Water main breaks boost expenses
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, Feb. 18:
District
collecting data for Mt. Massive Ranch water court case
- Triview Metropolitan District Board, Feb. 25:
Board
extends employment of district manager and administrator
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, Feb.
25: Battalion chief recounts difficult night at
house fire
- Tri-Lakes gets a look at Red Cross emergency
vehicle
- District Accountability Advisory Committee, Feb. 10:
Panel discusses behavior survey, Palmer Ridge goals
- Lewis Palmer School District 38 Special Education
Advisory Committee, Feb. 11: SEAC discusses Resource
Fair, school staffing
- Special-education panel hears behavior analyst
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation Authority, Feb.
13: Increase in number of road use fee categories
discussed
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of Directors,
Feb. 11: Barn will get new wood floor, sign
- February Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Is there an electric car in your future?
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Low-budget vacations
- Local couple has enjoyed a lifetime of public service
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Western scrub jay
- Reflections: Meeting
Lorna: first lessons in sign language
- Art Matters: Fiber
art stars in Tri-Lakes
- Whitworth fills TLCA with sounds of Southern
bluegrass
- Snapshots of Our Community
- February and March library events
- Historical Society hears presentation on museum and
mining
- Special Events and Notices
- After Prom fundraiser, March 13
- County Planning Commission volunteers
needed. Apply by March 13
- Outreach workshop for homeowners in
foreclosure, March 14
- County Hazardous Materials Facility
opens March 14
- Women in Mining, Mar. 14
- Tri-Lakes Women’s Club grant application
deadline, March 15
- Theater auditions for adults, March
16-19
- Blood drive, March 18
- Monument Citizen Police Academy, March
19-May 14
- Finders & Youngberg Concert at
Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, March 21
- Display your art in library galleries,
March 25
- Protect Our Wells annual meeting, March 30
- Hiking for Hooters fundraiser, April 2
- Heritage Lecture at the Mining Museum,
April 2
- Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble at Tri-Lakes
Center for the Arts, April 3
- D-38 Special Needs Community Resource Fair,
April 4
- Pine Forest Antiques Show and Sale,
April 18-19
- Low-Income Energy Assistance Program ends
April 30
- Fourth Annual Gleneagle Spirit 5K Run/Walk
coming in May
- Senior discount Mondays at the
Mining Museum
- Tri-Lakes Senior Alliance Thrift Store now
open
- Senior Safety Program
- Library District’s new Kids Web
- Wildlife Masters in El Paso County
- IRS offers free e-newsletter for small
businesses
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- Winterfest coming Feb. 14
- Free concert, Feb. 14
- Weighted grades, school closure rumors discussed
- Donala Water and Sanitation District Board, Jan. 28:
Board tours wastewater facility; expansion nearing
completion
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, Jan. 21:
Woodmen
Hills decides not to join; Flaming Gorge project a step closer to
feasibility study
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee, Jan. 13: Total expenditures under budget
for 2008
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, Jan. 7:
Operator
reports improved numbers, ideas for tackling future issues
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, Feb. 4:
Reverse
osmosis system is newest lagoon upgrade idea
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation Board, Jan. 8:
Review
of Joint Use Agreement sought
- Monument Board of Trustees meeting, Jan. 5:
Monument
Marketplace Discount Tire plat approved
- Monument Board of Trustees meeting, Feb. 2:
Creation
of Fountain Creek Watershed district endorsed
- Monument Planning Commission meeting, Jan. 14:
Downtown
Walgreens hearing continued again
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Jan. 8: Participation
in watershed district discussed
- Police chief Ferrin placed on administrative leave
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, Jan.
28: Ups and downs of economy affected ‘08 budget
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District Board, Jan.
28: Amended 2008 budget approved
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board, Jan. 15:
Board
discusses program promoting science, technology, engineering, and math
- Special Education Advisory Committee, Jan. 14:
Annual
report on services completed
- Board of County Commissioners January meetings summary
- NEPCO meeting, Jan. 10: Homeowners’
associations get update on Baptist Road I-25 interchange
- Woodmoor Improvement Association annual meeting, Jan.
26: Annual meeting covers budget, election
- Top weather events of 2008
- January Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Click It or Ticket
enforcement focuses on rural Colorado
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Let’s celebrate presidents’ month
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Common
merganser
- On the Trail: Treat our
suffering trails with care
- Art Matters: Art as creative
industry jump-starts local economies
- At the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts
- Snapshots of Our Community
- January and February library events
- Event Feb. 28 marks anniversary of gold rush
- Special Events and Notices
- Winter Fine Art Show Opening Reception, Feb. 7
- Colorado Autism Commission Public Hearing, Feb.
13
- The Jean Ciavonne Poetry Contest: Poetry Stew –
Poems About Food
- Tri-Lakes Cares Electronics Recycling Event,
Feb. 14
- Palmer Lake Winterfest, Feb. 14
- Free Rocky Mountain Music Alliance Concert, Feb.
14
- Shannon Whitworth & the Refugees, Feb. 15
- County Fair Queen contestants wanted, apply by
Feb. 19
- Apply by Feb. 20 for Sheriff’s new Citizens’
Patrol
- Apply by Feb. 20 for Sheriff’s Office Citizens’
Academy
- D-38 Chess Tournament, Feb. 21
- Joseph Bohler signing reception, Feb. 21
- Protect Our Wells Annual Meeting, Mar. 30
- "Mine Your Own Business!" Opening
Reception at Mining Museum, Feb. 26
- Community Development Advisory Board volunteers
wanted
- Discovery Canyon Campus "Give Your Heart to
Science" Gala, Feb. 27
- "Pikes Peak or Bust" at the Mining
Museum, Feb. 28
- Poetry submissions wanted for "Poetry While
You Wait"
- "Outta The Garage" at the Tri-Lakes
Center for the Arts, Mar. 6
- Volunteers needed for Black Forest Regional
Park panel and Pineries Open Space Master Plan Committee
- Senior discount Mondays at the Mining Museum
- State Patrol targets I-25 north of Colorado
Springs
- Adult reading program, Jan. 12-March 9
- Tri-Lakes Women’s Club grant application
deadline, Mar. 15
- Theater auditions for adults coming in March
- El Paso County Sheriff’s Office seeking
citizen input
- CDOT seeks input on I-25 rest areas at Larkspur
- Wanted: Public Art Information
- Fourth Annual Gleneagle Spirit 5K run/walk coming in
May
- Volunteer tutors wanted
- Low-Income Energy Assistance Program
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- Palmer Lake, Dec. 14: 75th
annual Yule log hunt
- Tri-Lakes Cares sees increased need in the community
- Monument Planning Commission, Dec. 10: Plat
for tire store rejected
- Monument Board of Trustees, Dec. 15: $7.5
million budget approved for 2009
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Dec. 11
Town adopts budget, pursues road takeover
- Palmer Lake Sanitation District, Dec. 9: Smith sworn in
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee meeting, Dec. 9: JUC approves 2009 budget
- Triview Metropolitan District Board meetings, Nov.
15, 19, 21, and Dec. 9: After several meetings,
Triview’s 2009 budget approved
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, Dec. 10:
Violations
a sore subject with the state
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District Board, Dec.
12: Board approves 2009 budget
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority meeting, Dec.
19: Authority urged to join coalition to bring
water from the Flaming Gorge Reservoir
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District Board, Dec.
3: Edwards being deployed; Burns appointed acting
chief
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, Dec.
10: Tri-Lakes to provide ambulance service for
Palmer Lake
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board, Dec. 18:
Second-graders
make holiday presentation to the board
- District 38 Special Education Advisory Committee
meeting, Dec. 10: Special Education Advisory
Committee plans programs for 2009
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation Authority, Dec.
12: 2009 budget approved, including interchange
expansion
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of Directors,
Dec. 16: Public Safety staff busy with vacation
checks
- December Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Perspective on our community: Phil
Steininger to retire from water district
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Tightening the belt and the wallet
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: The
goldeneye
- Art Matters: Show will
feature a local legend
- Snapshots of Our Community
- December and January events at the library
- Johnson and Maguire receive Sertoma awards
- Special Events and Notices
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- D-38 board workshop, Nov. 6, and regular meeting, Nov.
20: D-38 wrestles with further budget cuts
- Summary of the November 4 election results
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, Nov. 5:
Lagoon violations trigger fee increase
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority Field Trip Nov.
4 and Meeting Nov. 19: Authority visits
Rueter-Hess
Reservoir, considers joining coalition to bring water from the Flaming Gorge
Reservoir
- Triview Metropolitan District Board meeting, Oct. 29:
District debt temporarily converted from annual to
weekly variable rate bonds
- Donala Water and Sanitation District Board Meeting,
Nov. 24: District completes purchase of $4.8 million
ranch
- Donala xeriscaping project proceeds yard by
yard
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee, Nov. 11: Budget hearing, annual meeting
scheduled for Dec. 9
- Palmer Lake Sanitation District Board, Nov. 11:
Monthly
rates will increase; Dale Smith named to board
- Monument Sanitation District Board meeting, Nov. 20:
2009
budget approved
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation Board, Nov. 13:
Board
discusses repairs, drainage easement
- Monument Board of Trustees meeting, Nov. 3:
Downtown
home-based occupation code changes approved
- Monument Board of Trustees, Nov. 17: Ordinance
to help pay for new Town Hall postponed
- Monument Board of Trustees, Dec. 1: Ordinance
to help pay for new Town Hall approved
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District
Volunteer Pension Board, Nov. 19: Pension
fund sound despite market upheavals
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District Board, Nov.
19: Successful CPR recovery from cardiac arrest
reported
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 District
Accountability Advisory Committee Meeting, Nov. 11: D-38
committee discusses School Improvement Plans
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Special Education
Advisory Committee Meeting, Nov. 12: Special-education
panel discusses Web site, parental support activities
- El Paso County Planning Commission meetings
November 4 and December 2: Cathedral Pines
expansion and Palomino Estates preliminary plan approved
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of Directors,
Nov. 24: Barn closed for mold removal, remodeling
until Jan. 1
- November Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Eye-catching coffee table books
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Trumpeter
swan
- Art Matters:
The
emerging art face of Tri-Lakes
- Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, Nov. 22: Dotsero
jazzes up the arts center
- Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, Nov. 23: TLCA
Member Show
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, Nov. 20: Historical
Society hears about early Colorado railroading
- Snapshots of Our Community
- November and December events at the library
- Special Events and Notices
- Monument Christmas Banners
- Historic Monument Small Town Christmas, Dec. 6
- Monument Hill Brass Quintet Holiday Concert, Dec.
6
- Palmer Lake Yule Log Pot Luck Dinner, Dec. 9
- Black Rose Acoustic Society Christmas Potluck
Party, Dec. 12
- Night of Lights, Dec. 12-14
- Christmas Handbell Concert, Dec. 13
- Palmer Lake Yule Log Hunt, Dec. 14
- Call to Artists, Dec. 15
- County seeks volunteers for Highway Advisory
Commission, Dec. 19
- "The Splendor of Christmas" Holiday
Concert, Dec. 19-20
- Combined Police and Fire Departments’ Holiday Toy
Drive
- Low-Income Energy Assistance Program
- Library District’s new Kids Web
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- Lawrence Construction picked for interchange work
- Palmer Lake approves water rate hikes
- Monument Board of Trustees, Oct. 6: New
members appointed to Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission
- Monument Board of Trustees, Oct. 20: Detective
Mark Owens promoted to sergeant
- Monument Planning Commission, Oct. 8: New
downtown design guidelines approved
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District Board, Oct.
9: Progress reported on Lake Woodmoor repairs
- Stallsmith's service recognized
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee, Oct. 14: Geological Survey won’t join in
creek sampling
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, October 15:
Steininger
to retire from the Woodmoor District; Cherokee metro district building
aquifer recharge facility
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, October 15:
District
on schedule to complete purchase of $4.6 million ranch
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District Board, Oct.
22: Cut gas line leads to fire at construction site
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board Meeting, October
16: D-38 receives $190,000 check for PRHS geothermal
system
- Children participate in Walk and Bike to School Day
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 Special Education Advisory
Committee, Oct. 8: Committee sets special education
goals
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of Director,
Oct. 27: Third board member resigns; new members
elected
- October Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: When life gives you scraps,
make quilts
- High Country Highlights: November
tips for gardeners
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Sandhill
crane
- Art Matters: Art for the
doctors is in
- Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, Oct. 11:
Two
paths merge for one great sound
- Let the dogs out in Douglas County
- Empty Bowl brings community together to help those in
need
- Annual fair focuses on health
- Snapshots of Our Community
- October and November events at the library
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, Oct. 16: Trombone
Quintet entertains Historical Society
- Western Museum of Mining and Industry, Oct. 11:
Art
and geology combine for fun experience at museum
- Western Museum of Mining and Industry through
Nov. 1: Haunted Mines offers thrills and chills
to the adventurous
- Special Events and Notices
- Singers and musicians needed for Christmas
production
- Volunteer to tutor English
- Western Museum of Mining & Industry’s Fifth
Annual Gold Party, Nov. 7
- Pine Creek Holiday Bazaar, Nov. 8
- Veterans Day, Nov. 11
- Ladies Day at the YMCA, Nov. 12
- "Guys and Dolls" at Palmer Ridge
High School, Nov. 13-15
- El Paso County needs volunteers
- Shakespeare off the Shelf at Tri-Lakes
Center for the Arts, Nov. 15
- Monument unveils Christmas Banners,
Nov. 21
- Dotsero Concert, Nov. 22
- Palmer Lake’s Chili Supper, Nov. 29
- Yule Log Pot Luck Dinner, Dec. 2
- Historic Monument Small Town Christmas, Dec. 6
- Project ChildSafe comes to Monument
- Low-Income Energy Assistance Program
- Handbell choir ringers needed
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- 9-11 remembered
- Interchange contract award Oct. 3
- Palmer Lake water treatment plant requires $1.9 million
upgrade
- Monument Board of Trustees, September 2:
Sheriff
asks board to support sales tax for public safety
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee meeting, Sept. 9: Additional testing for
stream contaminants included in 2009 draft budget
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, September 17:
Board
to close in November on ranch purchase; hears concerns about proposed golf
course development
- Triview Metropolitan District board, Sept. 23:
Board
starts conversion of $47 million in variable-rate bond debt to 30-year
fixed-rate bonds
- Monument Sanitation District Board meeting, September
25: Board bans installation of copper water pipes
- Medications in the Water Supply: Symposium on Policy
Options, September 26: Experts study issue of
pharmaceuticals in the water supply
- Consensus: Don’t flush them - Dispose of unneeded
medications in a plastic bag in the trash
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District Board
meeting, Sept. 24: Board considers options in first
draft of 2009 budget
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, Sept.
24: Fire truck heavily damaged in accident
- MA holds ribbon-cutting ceremony, Sept. 13
- Monument Academy Board of Education, Sept. 16:
Bond
sale closed; new school building opens on schedule
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board Meeting,
September 18: Pike sworn in to fill board vacancy;
Options 38 students and their parents discuss the program
- District 38 Special Education Advisory Committee,
Sept. 10: D-38 special education programs discussed
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of Directors,
Sept. 22: Residents express concern over firing of
lawyer; president resigns
- September Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Ready, Set, Vote!
- High Country Highlights: More
fall gardening tips
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Burrowing
owl
- Art Matters: Is the art
market world unfair?
- Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, September 6:
Rebecca
Folsom performs and instructs at arts center
- Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, September 27:
Oktoberfest
serves bratwurst and, yes, polkas
- An artistic outlet for those with developmental
disabilities
- Snapshots of Our Community
- September and October events at the library
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, September 18:
Historical
Society presents saga of "Italians in Colorado"
- Western Museum of Mining and Industry, September 18:
Farrar Art Collection on display at mining museum
- Special Events and Notices
- Fall Festival in Monument, Oct. 1-31
- Palmer Lake Art Group Christmas Crafts Fair, Oct.
4-5
- A busy Saturday in Palmer Lake, Oct.4
- Wescott Volunteer Firefighter Benefit Concert,
Oct. 5
- Creative Crafters Showcase, Oct. 11-12
- Donald Wescott Fire Prevention Week Open
House, Oct. 11
- Mill Levy Override Community Informational Meeting,
Oct. 13
- Empty Bowl Dinner, Oct. 15
- Wine & Roses 2008, "The Event to
Attend," Oct. 18
-
Tri-Lakes Health Fair, Oct. 25
-
Stories in the Dark in Monument and
Palmer Lake, Oct. 25 & 30
-
Safe Trick or Treat, Oct. 31
-
LPTV receives grant award
-
Volunteer tutors needed!
-
Low-Income Energy Assistance Program
-
Handbell choir ringers needed
-
Senior Safety Program
-
The Library Channel
-
Library District’s new Kids Web
-
Wildlife Masters in El Paso County
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- Two new schools!
- D-38 board approves ballot measure requesting $2.7
million; remains concerned about Monument Academy issues
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 MLO Summit, August
14: District administration recommends $2.7 million
measure
- Monument Academy Board meeting, Aug. 16: Steady
progress reported toward opening school Sept. 8
- Officials celebrate completion of Baptist Road
project
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation Authority, Aug.
8: 2007 audit approved; interchange expansion
contract options discussed
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, Aug. 6:
Lift
station pump creating headaches
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility Joint Use
Committee meeting, Aug. 8: New rules for effluent
limits discussed
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, August 20:
District
under contract to buy ranch; wins awards
- Monument Board of Trustees, Aug. 4: Expert
reviews history of regional water issues
- Monument Board of Trustees, Aug. 18: New
police officer sworn in and four staff awards presented
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Aug. 14: Council
faces decisions on water
- Palmer Lake celebrates 70 years of volunteer
firefighting
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District Board
members
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District Board, Aug.
20: New firefighter and lieutenant sworn in
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of
Directors special meeting, Aug.14: Former
candidate joins board
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of
Directors, Aug. 25: No plans to use management
company
- August Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Corrections to article on toxic chemicals used
in gas drilling
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: First novels
- High Country Highlights: How
Dry I Am
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Killdeer
- Art Matters: Imagination made
visible
- Fiber works and photos highlight Art Hop
- Chautauqua event recalls 19th-century gatherings
- Snapshots of Our Community
- August and September events at the library
- Monument Library is Colorado Library of the Year
- Burros’ birthday and bluegrass a blast
- Special Events and Notices
- Slash and Mulch season ends in September
- Rebecca Folsom Concert at Tri-Lakes Center Sept.
6
- Watercolor show & sale, Sept. 9-Oct. 4
- Tri-Lakes Women’s Club Open House, Sept. 10
- High Point Academy Benefit Horse Show, Sept.
13
- Chili Cook-Off, Sept. 13
- Pikes Peak Library District Call for Art, Sept.
17
- Mill Levy Override Community Informational
Meetings
- Citizen Emergency Response Training (CERT) in Black
Forest, Sept. 24, 26, 27
- Rx in the Watershed Symposium, Sept. 26
- Palmer Lake Art Group Christmas Crafts Fair, Oct.
4-5
- Creative Crafters Showcase, Oct. 11-12
- Wine and Roses, Oct. 18
- Handbell choir ringers needed
- Volunteer Tutors Needed!
- Senior Safety Program
- Gardener Help Desk at Monument Library
- The Library Channel
- Library District’s new Kids Web
- Wildlife Masters in El Paso County
- County offers on-line mapping service
- IRS starts free e-newsletter for small businesses
- County now accepting batteries and electronics at
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- Monument Band Shell opens on a high note
- Expert details extensive use and production of toxic
chemicals in natural gas production
- Monument Academy Board, July 15: Board
gives update on new Academy school building
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board Special Meeting,
July 24: Monument Academy building shortfall now
estimated at $1.6 million; second bond issue planned
- Update: Lawsuit filed by D-38 retirees
- Monument Academy special board meeting, July 28:
Board
provides responses to D-38 concerns
- Tri-Lakes Joint Use Committee, July 9: Creek
reclassification issue still muddy
- Monument Sanitation District Board meeting, July 17:
Tighter
restrictions on Tri-Lakes Wastewater Facility may lead to district rate
increase
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, July 16:
Private
funding for pipeline to transport ag water on hold
- Don’t waste your water
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, July 16:
Negotiations
continue on district’s offer to buy a ranch for the surface water rights
- Triview Metropolitan District, July 22: $2
million state loan approved
- Monument Board of Trustees, July 21: Village
at Monument commercial filing rezoned residential
- Monument Board of Adjustments, July 10: Variance
for rear deck glass sunroom approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council, July 10: Vacancies
filled on council and planning commission
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District Board, July
16: Community wildfire protection plan on hold
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, July
23: Budget review shows hiring more firefighters may not be possible
- Gleneagle group fights golf course development
- July Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Perspective on our community: Congress
shows its disconnect again
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Beyond Harry Potter
- High Country Highlights: Deadheading
your flowers
- On the Trail: Fox Run Regional Park
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
The black-chinned and magnificent hummingbirds
- Art Matters: Culture remix
and the creative commons era
- Monument Art Hop brings art, music, and a birthday
- Arts center marks anniversary and looks to the future
- Snapshots of Our Community
- July and August events at the library
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, July 25: Estemere
Mansion comes alive once again
- Mining museum celebrates 26th anniversary
- Special Events and Notices
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- Monument Academy short $1.2 million on funding for new
building
- Decision delayed on gas drilling proposal
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, June 18:
Private funding being considered for pipeline
- 10 more ways to conserve water
- Tri-Lakes Joint Use Committee, June 9: Creek
reclassification could cost the area $25 million
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District board, June
12: YMCA financing may be jeopardized by easement
dispute
- Monument Sanitation District Board, June 24: Pollution
control costs could increase from $1.5 million to $25 million
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, June 18:
District
offers to buy ranch for the water
- Triview Metropolitan District, June 24: Board
discusses shifting administration to Monument
- Jacobson resigns from Academy Water and Sanitation
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, July 2:
Clogged
pumps will require a closer look
- Monument Board of Trustees, June 16: Residential
variance fee reduced
- Monument Planning Commission, June 11: Commercial
filing of Village at Monument rezoned to residential
- Palmer Lake Town Council, June 12 and July 2:
Vacant
trustee seat filled
- The best small-town celebration in America!
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District board, June
18: Community wildfire protection plan to be
created
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board Meeting, June
19: Retired teachers concerned about change in retiree
health benefits; Staff recommends $2.7 million ballot measure
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation Authority, June
13: Condemnation of interchange right-of-way
authorized
- MVEA meeting electrifies membership
- June Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Summertime, when the reading is easy
- High Country Highlights: Help
plants beat the heat
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
The bald eagle, symbol of the nation
- Art Matters: "Green"
and "greener" art
- Palmer Lake Art Group show displays works of 50 artists
- June and July events at the library
- Chautauqua returns to Tri-Lakes
- Snapshots of Our Community
- Museum provides sights and sounds of power
- Over 200 attend Safety Awareness Day
- Emergency preparedness takes to the airwaves
- Special Events and Notices
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- In case you haven’t noticed...Monument Lake is full!
- Plan your 4th now
- Valero agrees to donate land for I-25 off-ramp
- Monument Board of Trustees, May 5: Wakonda
Meadows development annexed
- Monument Board of Trustees, May 19: Progress
of senior living center discussed
- Monument Board of Trustees, June 2: No
problems found in audit
- Palmer Lake Town Council, May 8: New
council makes appointments
- Palmer Lake Planning Commission, May 21: County’s
Palmer Lake master plan amendment adopted
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, May 21:
New
state law requires developers to demonstrate adequate water supply
- Water Returns project participants off and
running
- 10 more ways to conserve water
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, May 7:
Merger
is off; district looking at financing options
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, May 21:
Two
board members sworn-in; wastewater plant costs expected to exceed $16
million
- Limbach Park band shell groundbreaking
- Triview Metropolitan District Board, May 27: Board
to consider fee waiver for corrections building
- Wescott FPD opens door to raise safety awareness
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District Board, May
21: New directors sworn in
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, May
28: New board members challenged on their
comments, motives
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board Meeting, May 15:
Board encouraged to support theater arts
- D-38 District Accountability Advisory Committee, May
13: Committee reviews budget and school programs
- District 38 offers Big Red Saturdays for summer
- El Paso County Parks Department Open House, April
30: County considers Palmer Lake improvements
- Front Range Environmental Resource
Coalition Community Meeting, May 21: Coalition
presents update on proposed drilling
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of
Directors, May 27: Progress on golf course
ponds reported
- May Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Don’t forget Dad!
- High Country Highlights: Mulch
101
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, May 15: Colorado:
A Liquid History of Pikes Peak Regional Pubs
- Museum holds seminar on prospecting
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Great
horned owls nest at Home Depot
- Art Matters:
Buying and selling art
- Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts—10 years and
counting
- May and June events at the library
- Audience hitches ride with Spring Creek
- Snapshots of Our Community
- Special Events and Notices
- Slash and Mulch season under way
- Summer Reading Programs for children and
teens
- Spring Fine Art Show opening reception,
June 7
- District 38 Offers Big Red Saturdays
for the summer
- Saturday Monument Farmers’ Market
opens Jun. 7
- Gleneagle Garage Sale, June 6-7
- Fire Station Open House, June 7
- Tri-Lakes Cruisers Benefit Car Show,
June 8
- Model Engineering & Historic Power
Show, June 12-15
- LPHS Booster Club Second Annual Golf
Tournament, June 14
- Fathers’ Day Ice Cream Social, June
15
- Junior League Informational Party,
June 16
- Free tutoring in reading at Monument
Library
- Art Hop in Historic Downtown Monument,
June 19
- Community safety class for all ages,
June 21
- Volunteer tutors needed!
- NEW! Palmer Lake Farmers’ Market,
July 6
- Host an exchange student
- July 4 Community Events
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- Palmer Lake community comes together
- Fire ban issued
- Monument Board of Trustees, April 7: Board
takes over highway
- Monument Board of Trustees, April 21: Wakonda
Meadows hearings postponed; Board approves
increase in D-38 fees for new homes
- Monument Planning Commission, April 9: Blue
Kona building plan approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council, April 14: Group
presents concerns about drilling
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, April 16:
Authority
expresses concerns about proposed gas drilling
- Facing the Yuck Factor: Embracing Recycled Water
- 10 ways to conserve water
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, April 16:
Merger
with Academy "may be getting too hard to do"
- Donala Water and Sanitation District
Candidate Statements
- Triview Metropolitan District Candidate
Statements
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District Board,
April 23: Bill Lowes appointed to two-year board
term; two other seats to be decided in May 6 election
- Donald Wescott FPD Candidate Statements
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, April
23: Election attracts a surprising number of
candidates
- Tri-Lakes Monument FPD Candidate Statements
- Monument Firefighters Association honors its own
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board Meeting, April
17: Board continues implementing policy governance
- El Paso County Parks Department Open House, April
30: Palmer Lake Park Master Plan update presented
- After 16 years, TABOR still brings out strong feelings
on both sides
- April Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
-
Perspective on Our Community:
Kill the umpire — or is it the referee?
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Wise words for moms and grads
- High Country Highlights: Early
May gardening tips
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Snowy
egret
- Art Matters:
Jump into Art Hop this month
- April and May events at the library
- Pine Forest Antiques Show excites
collector in all of us
- Snapshots of Our Community
- Special Events and Notices
- Arts and Crafts show, May 3-4
- Slash and Mulch season begins May 3
- Baptist Road lane change, May 5
- Spirits of Spring Wine and Beer Tasting
and Silent Auction, May 9
- Ron and Opal Benefit concert, May 10
- Art Hop Returns to Historic Downtown
Monument, May 15
- Summer Reading Programs for children and
teens starts May 17
- Emergency response training, May 29-31
- Spring Fine Art Show coming in June
- Gleneagle Garage Sale, June 6-7
- Fire Station Open House, June 7
- Monument Farmers’ Market Opens, June 7
- Tri-Lakes Cruisers Benefit Car Show,
June 8
- LPHS Booster Club 2nd Annual Golf
Tournament, June 14
- Monument Academy Golf Tournament, June 23
- Free tutoring in reading at Monument
Library
- Volunteer! English tutoring classes in
Monument in May
- Gardener Help Desk at Monument Library
begins May 14
- Volunteer at the Mining Museum
- Library District’s new Kids Web
- Wildlife Masters in El Paso County
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- Local group sees proposed gas drilling as
environmental threat
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, March 10:
Ag
water import cost estimates
soar to as much as $1.6 billion
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority,
March 19: Authority forms committees to
do planning
- Two local districts part of pilot water
conservation program
- Academy Water and Sanitation District,
March 12: Merger talks back on track
with Donala
- Academy Water and Sanitation District,
April 2: Early bond payoff not possible
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, March
19: Donala to test for pharmaceuticals in
the water
- Triview Metropolitan District, March 25: Board
includes Sanctuary Pointe, reduces commercial fees
- Monument Board of Trustees, Mar. 3: Controversial
Willow Springs Ranch sketch plan approved
- Monument Board of Trustees meeting, Mar.
17: Monument election cancelled
- Monument Planning Commission meeting, Mar.
12: Wakonda Meadows annexation, rezoning,
and sketch plan approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council, March 13: Council
seeks new town water attorney
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School District
Budget Summit, March 10: District plans
November mill levy override ballot measure
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board
Meeting, March 20: Board implementing
policy governance
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District
Board, March 12: May election ballot
complicated by resignation
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, Mar. 27: Several expenses
approved to expedite construction
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of
Directors, March 24: Knollwood Village again
asks for extended hours
- March Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Perspective on Our Community: Things
HOAs can do to help the water situation
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: April is Poetry Month
- High Country Highlights: How
to garden in sun or shade
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Northern
pintail
- Art Matters: Spring
- March and April events at the library
- Ceol Ceili rouses an audience with lively Irish
music
- Snapshots of Our Community
-
Special Events and Notices
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- Valentines for Vets
- Water districts suffering from sticker shock
- Academy Water and Sanitation District,
February 6: Colorado House bill could kill
merger plans
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
February 20: District takes positions on
pending state legislation
- Monument Sanitation District Board, February
21: Willow Springs Ranch development included
- Triview Metropolitan District Board meeting,
February 26: Difficult financial choices
discussed
- Monument Board of Trustees, February 4: Willow
Springs Ranch annexation and rezoning approved; sketch plan tabled
- Monument Board of Trustees, February 19: Controversial
sign ordinance expansion approved
- Monument Planning Commission, February 13: YMCA
parcel replat, Empirical Testing site plan approved
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, February 8: BRRTA to move
forward on bids for interchange
- Gleneagle Community Meeting, February
12: Gleneagle Golf Club pushes patio
homes
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board
Meeting, February 21: Board urged to propose
mill levy override ballot measure
- Woodmoor Improvement Association meeting,
February 25: Firefighters donate equipment to
Woodmoor Public Safety
- February Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Perspective on Our Community: Proposed
gas drilling poses risk to Monument Preserve
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Pack a new paperback
- High Country Highlights: Garden
planning for spring
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Hooded
merganser
- Art Matters: Drawing
- Watercolor Workshop Feb. 9
- Palmer Lake Art Group opens new show
- Monument Library events for February and
March
-
Dakota Blonde brings music of
life to Tri-Lakes
-
Snapshots of Our Community
-
Special Events and Notices
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- Wescott firefighters receive Medal of Valor
- Access roads approved across Santa Fe Trail
- On the Roads: Status
of Baptist Road construction
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
January 22: District reviews draft water infrastructure study results
- Triview Metropolitan District, January 22: Board
appoints Fisher to fill vacancy
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District
board, January 10: Positive year-end
financial and staff reports presented
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District
Board, January 16: New firefighter and
board member sworn in
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection
District, January 23: Miller elected
president of new district’s board
- Monument Board of Trustees, January 7: Police
officers awarded Distinguished Service Cross
- Monument Board of Trustees, January 22: Progress
announced on starting Baptist interchange work
- Monument Planning Commission, January 9: Willow
Springs plans narrowly approved
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board
Meeting, January 17: Decision deferred on
girls’ gymnastics program
- NEPCO meeting, January 12: Schueler
presents information on special districts
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Annual
General Meeting, January 28: Election
procedure scrutinized
- Top Weather Events of 2007 in the
Tri-Lakes area
- January Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Books that created lively
discussions in 2007
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Common
house finch
- Art Matters:
Jeanne Claude and Cristo
- Monument Library events for January and
February
- Art group schedules winter show
- Palmer Lake Historical Society Feb. 21: History of the New Santa Fe Regional Trail
- Snapshots of Our Community
- Special Events and Notices
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- SERTOMA honors Ted Bauman and Linda and Richard
Pankratz
- Water for the future
- Pikes Peak Regional Water Authority, December 13:
Authority
looks at bringing agricultural water to the Tri-Lakes area
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, December
5: Board leaning toward merger with Donala
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, January
2: Another step taken toward merger
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, November
29: District increases rates; mill levies
unchanged
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Facility Joint Use Committee,
December 11: 2008 budget approved for wastewater
facility
- Monument Sanitation District board, December 20:
District mill levy eliminated; all debt paid off
-
Triview Metropolitan District Board meeting,
December 11: 2008 budget approved, property taxes increased without an election
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District
board, December 13: 2008 budget and rate increase
approved
- Monument Board of Trustees,
December 3: Board approves 2008 budget, expansion
of church campus
- Monument Board of Trustees,
December 17: Five planning commissioners
appointed
- Palmer Lake Town Council, December 13:
Town approves water rate increase, 3 new hires
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District board, December 19: Shooting response
leads to emergency purchase of body armor
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Rescue
Authority, December 12: A little nostalgia, a lot
of paperwork mark authority’s last meeting
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board
Meeting, December 20: Board reaffirms plan to open
PRHS in Fall 2008
- Woodmoor Improvement Association board,
December 17: Toboggan Hill parking concerns debated
- On the Roads: Baptist
Rd. and Struthers Rd. project construction update
-
December Weather Wrap
-
Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: A new you for the new year
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Pine
siskin
- Art Matters: Enjoy
the great indoors
-
Snapshots of Our Community
-
Rocky Mountain Music Alliance Concert,
Dec. 1
-
Small Town Christmas, Dec. 1
-
Taekwondo Center holds board
break-a-thon to benefit Tri-Lakes YMCA, Dec. 1
-
Handbell Concert, Dec. 8
-
Yule Log Ceremony rekindles
Christmas tradition, Dec. 9
-
Chuck Pyle and John Fielder at the
Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, Dec. 12
-
Local AARP chapter celebrates the
Holidays, Dec. 12
-
Annual Tri-Lakes Cares ham drive a
great success, Dec. 15
-
Travis Book and the Play Boys in
concert, Dec. 16
-
PRHS is taking shape, Dec. 20
-
D-38 receives donation from Staples
-
Chewy finds a new home
-
Local team works to makes wish come
true
-
Special Events and Notices
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- ‘Tis the Season!
- Authority feeling pressure to find renewable water
supply
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, Nov. 7:
Rate,
service fee increase approved
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District Board, Nov.
8: Rate increases to pay for alternative water
sources
- Triview Metropolitan District Board, Nov. 27:
Triview
board raises rates; faces financial challenges
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Rescue Authority board,
Nov. 28: 2008 budget still in flux; new trucks
arrive
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District Board, Nov.
28: 2008 budget will add three full-time
firefighters to staff
- Monument Board of Trustees, Nov. 5: Police
department asks for five new employees
- Monument Board of Trustees, Nov. 19: Palmer
Lake Historical Society to donate sculpture to town
- Monument Planning Commission, Nov. 14: St.
Peter Church campus upgrade plan approved
-
Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, Nov. 9: Land condemnation approved in
hopes of speeding up I-25 interchange construction
- Monument Academy Board of
Directors, Nov. 12: New school representative
named
- Lewis-Palmer School District
38 Special Education Advisory Committee, Nov. 14: Committee
focuses on special education goals
- Pfoff picked to fill D-38 board
vacancy
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board, Nov. 26: Residents
concerned proposed parking at Toboggan Hill
- November Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: The perfect
gift
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society, Nov. 18: Chuggin’ through the
Divide
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Blue Jay
- Art Matters: Art
that warms our community
- Special Events and Notices
- LPHS band fundraiser sale,
Dec. 1
- Christmas Cookie Walk
Sale, Dec. 1
- Historic Monument’s Small
Town Christmas, Dec. 1
- An Evening of Mozart with
the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, Dec. 1
- Learn more about
veterans’ benefits, Dec. 3
- Yule Log Pot Luck Dinner,
Dec. 4
- Fire station "boot
drive" for Tri-Lakes Cares, Dec. 7 & 8
- Holiday Ham Drive for
Tri-Lakes Cares
- Reindeer coming your way
at Monument and Palmer Lake Libraries, Dec. 8
- Christmas handbell
concert, Dec. 8
- Palmer Lake Yule Log Hunt,
Dec. 9
- Colorado Songs and
Pictures with John Fielder and Chuck Pyle¸ Dec. 12
- Travis Book and the
Colorado Playboys concert, Dec. 16
- Christmas concerts, Dec.
21 & 22
- Art show and silent
auction
- Adult Reading Program
- Haunted Mines donates
$62,353 to the Mining Museum
- Mining Musem seeks
volunteers
- Volunteer reading tutors
needed!
- Free Tutoring in Reading
- County launches new
on-line mapping service
- Senior Safety Program
- Local AARP Thanksgiving
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- Ice harvest history represented in art
wall
- Sertoma wades through water issues
- Academy Water and Sanitation District, Oct.
3: Violation of state standards turns out
to be false alarm
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
October 17: District adopts conservation
rebates; water authority moves closer to water supply agreements
- Forest View Acres Water District,
September 27, October 12, 19, and 25: District
selects new management company
- Joint Use Committee, October 9: Alternative
to building $300,000 sludge tank proposed
- Monument Sanitation District Board, October
18: Consultant describes grant proposals for
Wakonda Hills expansion
- Triview Metropolitan District, October 23: District
bids farewell to Stephenson and Ritter
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District,
Sept. 13, Oct. 11 and 15: Taxes decrease
but fee hike proposed
- Wescott FPD holds open house Oct. 13
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Rescue Authority
board, Oct. 24: Vehicle purchases
approved
- Monument Board of Trustees, Oct. 15: Audit
contract awarded to new firm
- Monument Academy Board of Directors, Oct. 15:
School project to start soon and Correction
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board
Meeting, October 18: Board sets procedure to
fill vacancy
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board of
Directors, Oct. 22: Water: A hot topic
- October Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Making your list?
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, October 18:
Grisly 1911 murders never solved
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Flamulated
owl
- Art Matters: Ladies
and gentlemen, what’s your art IQ?
- Snapshots of Our Community
- Late Breaking News: Arrests made for felony
theft of baby formula from the Monument Wal-Mart
- Special Events and Notices
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- Groundbreaking Oct. 12 for new Monument
Academy building on Highway 105
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire
Protection District dissolution and inclusion measures pass, Oct. 2. 181 For, 8 Against on each of the ballot measures.
The merger into
the Tri-Lakes FPD will take effect January 1, 2008.
- Gleneagle residents
surprised and angered by plans for golf course
- Monument Board of Trustees
meeting, September 4: Hull Subdivision
rezoning approved
-
Monument Board of Trustees
meeting, September 17: Contract
for water line along Old Denver Highway approved
- Monument Board of Trustees
Meeting, October 1: Board holds open
house for TABOR waiver ballot initiative
- Palmer Lake Town Council
Meeting, September 13: Town has new plan to
fill lake
- Academy Water and
Sanitation District, September 9: New
proposal clarifies financial expectations of a merger
-
Academy Water and
Sanitation District Special Meeting, September 27:
Board wonders where merger money will come from
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, September 17: Donala to consider
water rate increases
- Forest View Acres Water
District, September 27: District seeks
management and operations companies
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment
Facility Joint Use Committee, September 11: New
treatment tank could help Monument Creek
- Monument Sanitation District
Board of Directors, September 13: 2008
budget proposal reviewed
- Triview Metropolitan District
Board meeting, September 25: Board changes
impact fees
- Triview Metropolitan
District Ballot Issues
- Donald Wescott Fire
Protection District board meeting, September 26: 2008
Budget may include hiring of three additional full-time firefighters
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire
Rescue Authority, September 26: If no one
steps forward, county will appoint new board member
- Safety Fair helps locals
prepare for emergencies
- Lewis-Palmer District 38
School Board Meeting, September 20: Superintendent
presents contingency plans for opening Palmer Ridge High School
- New partnership brings
opportunities to senior citizens
- D-38 Candidate
Statements
- Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority special meeting, September 24: Baptist
Road project delayed; contract extended
- El Paso County Planning
Commission: Hodgen plan will be reviewed
again
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board of Directors, September 24: Residents
concerned over plans to lower Lake Woodmoor
- September Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Get spooked
with a good mystery
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society, September 20: Descendant tells of
escape from Taos Massacre
- The old boathouse at Palmer
Lake
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Warblers
- The arts in Palmer Lake
celebrated and demonstrated, Sept. 8
- Snapshots of Our Community
- Special Events and Notices
- Historic Downtown Monument
Potato Festival, Oct. 6
- Flu shots in Palmer Lake,
Oct. 6
- Christmas Crafts Festival,
Oct. 6 & 7
- Jalan Crossland concert
at TLCA, Oct. 6
- Rocky Mountain Music
Alliance Concert Series begins Oct. 6
- Meet the School
Board candidates, Oct. 8 & 15
- Empty Bowl Dinner, Oct.
10
- Pikes Peak Library
District: Call for Artists
- Monument Library: Oh Zorro,
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oct. 13
- Volunteer singers and
musicians needed
- Colorado Vocal Arts
Ensemble at Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, Oct. 14
- Community meeting with
Sheriff Maketa, Oct. 16
- Student art on display at
Art Hop, Oct. 18
- "The Event to
Attend"–Wine and Roses 2007, Oct. 19
- Tri-Lakes Health Fair,
Oct. 20
- Alaskan Adventure, Oct. 23
- Dotsero concert at TLCA,
Oct. 27
- "Stories in the
Dark" at the library, Oct. 27 & Oct. 31
- Trick-or-Treat and Halloween
Carnival, Oct. 31
- Film premier at Palmer
Lake Town Hall, Nov. 2
- WMMI’s Annual Gold Party,
Nov. 2
- Coming up! Volunteer
tutors wanted!
- Youth handbell ringers
needed
- Palmer Lake Fire Department
wins grant
- The Library Channel
- Senior Safety
Program
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- Iron Horse visits Tri-Lakes
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Rescue
Authority, August 22: Woodmoor/Monument residents
to vote on fire district merger Oct. 2
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District, August 22: Board approves questions
-
Donald Wescott Fire Protection District
celebrates 25 years
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board
Meeting, August 16: Board approves ballot measure for
$3 million mill levy override
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District Board of Directors Meeting, August 9: Dam
repairs on schedule
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District Board of Directors Meeting, August 15: Donala
wins water plant of the year award
- Academy Water and Sanitation
District Board of Directors, August 16: District
still exploring options to merger with Donala
- Forest View Acres Water
District Board of Directors, August 23: District’s
administration and operation contracts terminated
- Protect Our Wells Meeting,
August 27: Well owners urged to form
observation well network
- Monument Board of Trustees
Meeting, August 20: Numerous downtown and
Jackson Creek land use applications discussed
- Monument Planning Commission,
Aug. 8: Hull Subdivision rezoning, plat
approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council
Meeting, August 9: Two new trustees
sworn-in
- Palmer Lake Town Council
Special Meeting, August 16: Council
passes resolution to start filling lake
- El Paso County Planning
Commission, August 23: Discussion of Hodgen
Road improvements to continue
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board of Directors, August 27: Resident
questions need for Public Safety Department
- Top women golfers come to
Woodmoor
- New Tri-Lakes Cares building is
dedicated
- St. Peter’s brings
community together at festival
- Chili Cook-off raises $1,900 for
Tri-Lakes Cares
- Tri-Lakes Chamber of
Commerce hosts 2nd Annual Leadership Conference
- August Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Turn a page to
a better education
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society, August 16: The Palmer Lake
Chautauqua: A people’s university
-
Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Western Grebe
- Art Matters: Hoving’s
gift and ‘the Artful Tommy’
- Snapshots of Our Community
- Special Events and Notices
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-
Baptist Rd./Hodgen Rd. connection opens
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School
Board Meeting, July 19: D38 to ask for $3
million mill levy override; board candidate petitions available August 8
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School
Board Workshop, July 16: Superintendent Blanch
recommends $3 million mill levy override phased in over 5 years
- Triview Metropolitan District Board of
Directors Meeting, July 25: Board considers $41
million bond issue for renewable water
- Donala Water and Sanitation District
Board of Directors Meeting, July 18: Irrigation
rationing continues to stir controversy
- Monument Sanitation District
Board of Directors, June 26: Beacon Lite Road
emergency repairs explained
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District Board of Directors Meeting, July 19: Water
restrictions are making a difference
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment
Facility Joint Use Committee Meeting, July 17: Influent
to be tested for levels of acidity
- Academy Water and Sanitation
District Special Meeting, July 26: Problems
with early draft of merger plan slow decisions
- Forest View Acres Water
District Board of Directors Meeting, July 26: Board
wrestles with the role of volunteer committees
- Donald Wescott Fire
Protection District, July 11: Townsend
newest full-time firefighter/EMT
- Monument Board of Trustees
Meeting, July 16: 2006 audit, capital
improvement program, and mid-year budget restatement approved
- Monument Planning Commission
Meeting, July 11: Three commercial plats,
new by-laws, procedures approved
-
Photo of Monument Lake
- Palmer Lake Town Council, July
12: Emergency access to Lakeview Heights
proposed
- Palmer Lake Planning
Commission, July 11 and 17: Santa Fe Trail
proposed for emergency access
- On the Roads: Baptist-Struthers
Road Update
- El Paso County Planning
Commission, July 17: Rezoning of Knollwood
parcel approved
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board of Directors, July 23: West
Nile virus concerns addressed
-
July Weather Wrap
- Weather Q&A
- Letters to Our Community
-
Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Don’t forget
to pack a book!
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society, July 19: Dr. Colorado gives a
history lesson
- High Country Highlights: Help
plants beat the heat
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Common Nighthawk
- Art Matters: Painting
with light and bubbles
-
Snapshots of Our Community
-
Special Events and Notices
-
Sue DiNapoli Ovarian
Cancer Awareness Walk, Aug. 4
-
Creative Crafters Show and
Sale, Aug. 4 & 5
-
D-38 Education Summit, Aug.
8
-
Chuck Pyle at Monument
Concerts in the Park, Aug. 8
-
D-38 "Coffee and
Conversation" with Ray Blanch
-
Golf Classic, Aug. 10
-
Quilt documentation, Aug. 11
-
Libraries’ Old-Fashioned
Ice Cream Social, Aug. 11
-
El Paso County Sheriff’s
Office Citizens’ Academy - Apply by Aug. 15
-
Black Forest Community
Club Festival, Aug. 18
-
Tri-Lakes Cares Grand
Opening Celebration, Aug. 18
-
Burro Birthday Concert, Aug.
18
-
Forest View Acres Water
District Facility Tour, Aug. 18
-
St. Peter Community
Festival, Aug. 24-26
-
High Country Chili Cook-off,
Aug. 25
-
Library needs
volunteers
-
Slash and mulch site open
until Sept. 16
-
IRS starts free e-newsletter
for small businesses
-
Help for gardeners at
Monument Library
-
The Library Channel
-
Senior Safety Program
-
County now accepting
batteries and electronics at waste facility
-
Wildlife Masters in El
Paso County
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-
A Hot Time in the Old Town!
- Monument Sanitation District
Board of Directors, June 21: Monument
Sanitation District performs emergency Beacon Lite Road repairs
- OCN
headline makes Leno’s list
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, June 20: Inclusion of Academy
W&S into Donala planned
- Triview Metropolitan District
Board of Directors, June 26: Violation
reported at treatment plant
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment
Facility Joint Use Committee, June 12: Wastewater
facility likely to get reprieve on copper limits
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District Board of Directors, June 14: Board
considers plan to drain, maintain lake
- Forest View Acres Water
District Board of Directors, June 28: Residents
propose volunteer committees to address issues
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire
Rescue Authority Board of Directors, June 27: Authority
moves toward merger, achieves lower ISO rating
-
Donald Wescott FPD receives new
pumper
- Lewis-Palmer District 38
School Board Workshop, June 14: Board
considers ways to meet PRHS costs and to recruit and retain teachers
- Lewis-Palmer District 38
School Board Meeting, June 21: Board
votes to put mill levy override question on the ballot
- Monument Board of
Trustees, June 4: Fourth of July parade
and street fair permit approved
- Monument Board of
Trustees, June 18: Town will share new
water tank with Forest Lakes
- Palmer Lake Town Council,
June 14: Bowling alley to be renovated and
reopened
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board of Directors, June 29: Woodmoor
Water outlines plans to drain the lake
- June Weather Wrap
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Introduce a
child to reading
- High Country Highlights:
How to garden in sun or shade
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society, June 17: Ice Cream Social
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: American Coot
- Art Matters: Art
spirit creates community spirit
- Special Events and Notices
-
Slash and mulch site open
-
Monument Concerts in the
Park, Wednesday evenings through Aug. 8
-
2007 Summer Reading
Programs for children through July 31
-
"Through the Looking
Glass" opening reception, July 13
-
Jubilant Bridge Concert
at TLCA, July 14
-
Sheriff’s Office Teen
Academy, July 16-20
-
"Coffee and
Conversation" with D-38 Superintendent Ray Blanch
-
Woodmoor Community
Garage Sale, July 20-22
-
Volunteers needed For El Paso
County boards and commissions
-
Teen Writer’s Contest
ends July 21
-
Town Mountain Bluegrass
Concert at TLCA, July 24
-
D-38 Education Summits,
July 25 & Aug. 8
-
Summer Reading Party, July
27
-
Rocky Mountain
Storytelling Festival and Workshops, July 27-28
-
Care packages for wounded
troops, drop off July 27-28
-
Creative Crafters Show
and Sale, Aug. 4 & 5
-
St. Peter Community
Festival coming Aug. 24-26
-
American Legion Tri-Lakes
Post 9-11 receives awards at state convention
-
Chamber announces new
"Golfing for Education" scholarship
-
Help for gardeners at
Monument Library
-
The Library Channel
-
Senior Safety Program
-
County now accepting
batteries and electronics at waste facility
-
Wildlife Masters in El
Paso County
-
Snapshots of Our Community
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- Forest View Acres: Best water to no
water
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, May 4: $21.5 million bond sale for
interchange work approved
- On the Roads: Baptist
and Struthers Road construction schedules
- Black Forest Community
Meeting, May 9: County presents changes
planned for Hodgen east of 83
- Monument Board of Trustees,
May 7: Jim Moore honored for downtown
efforts
- Monument Board of Trustees,
May 21: Jim Moore receives first annual
"Jim Moore Award"
- Monument Planning Commission,
May 9: Four referrals from the county
reviewed
- Palmer Lake Town Council
Workshop, May 3: Building addition,
town ordinances proposed
- Palmer Lake Town Council
Meeting, May 10: Town joins rail authority,
plans to seek water storage rights
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment
Facility Joint Use Committee, May 8: State
proposes tightened rules on copper concentrations
- Repairs underway at Beacon
Lite and Highway 105
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, May 10: Woodmoor board considers
dam repairs
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire
Rescue Authority, May 23: Merger efforts
proceeding on schedule
- North Group training burn
held in Palmer Lake
- DWFPD receives award
- USAFA cadets and firefighters
complete service project
- Lewis-Palmer School District
38 Board of Education Workshop, May 5: Board
to hold further policy governance workshop; communications audit cites lack
of trust
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38
Board of Education Meeting, May 17: Board
accepts communications report, reviews $38.8 million 2007-2008 budget that
includes 5% pay raise
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association, May 21: Auditor says reserve
fund is healthy
- May Weather Wrap
- Spirit 5K Run/Walk for Fun held
May 14
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Thanks, Dad!
- High Country Highlights: Get
in the zone!
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society, May 17: Denver’s Schoolmarm Saint
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Cinnamon Teal
- Art Matters: The
secret of ‘fine art"
- Special Events and Notices
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-
Late April blizzard hits the
Tri-Lakes area
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, April 13: Board approves fee waiver for
Timbers
- On the Roads: Status
of Baptist and Struthers road construction
-
Signal at Northgate and Struthers
awaiting electrical connection
- Monument Board of Trustees, April
16: Third Street upgrades and water line
extension approved
- Monument Planning Commission, April
11: Commissioners take time to train
- Palmer Lake Town Council, April 18:
Council
approves liquor license expansion for Inn
- Palmer Lake Planning Commission, April
11 and April 18: Projects along Highway 105 approved
- Academy Water and Sanitation District,
May 2: Merger with Donala discussed
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
April 23: Consolidation with Academy district
discussed
- Triview Metropolitan District,
April 11: Board approves new impact fees
- Triview Metropolitan District,
April 25: Large shopping center planned;
treatment plant costs soar
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, April 12: Woodmoor launches conservation
program
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Rescue
Authority, April 23: Board approves merger
agreement
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38
Board of Education, April 19: Board changes
school boundaries; picks Gabel as Palmer Ridge High School Principal
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38
Board of Education Workshop, April 23: Board
receives overview of policy governance
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38
Board of Education, April 26: Board approves
construction contracts, reviews boundary implementation plan
- El Paso County Planning Commission,
April 17: Colorado Estates rezoning request denied
- Woodmoor Improvement Association, April
24: Board hears plans for homes next to Lake Woodmoor
-
April Weather Wrap
-
Letters to Our Community
-
YMCA Broke Ground April 12
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Smiles & inspiration for
grads & moms
- High Country Highlights: Take
steps to improve your lawn
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, April
19: Dizzy sits, stays
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Common
Mallard
- Art Matters: Enjoy
paintings ‘en plein aire’
-
Special Events and Notices
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-
Home Place Ranch plan
approved; Jackson Creek Land Co. threatens de-annexation
- Monument Board of Trustees,
March 5: Interchange improvements inch
toward start date; YMCA and Promontory Pointe site plans approved
- Monument Board of Trustees,
March 19: Board discusses possible
conversion of bowling alley to senior center
- Monument Planning Commission,
March 14: Home Plan Ranch Development
approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council
Workshop, March 1: Trustees consider
request to change residential lots into retail property
- Palmer Lake Town Council
Meeting, March 8: Illumination Pointe
rezoned from residential to commercial
- Palmer Lake Planning
Commission Special Meeting, March 8: Illumination
Pointe rezoning recommended for approval
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, March 21: Waste plant buildings
going up
- Triview Metropolitan District,
March 14: Base rate raised for water, sewer
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, March 8: Surface water a vital
part of Woodmoor’s plans
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection
District, March 28: Legal action considered
in Station 2 sewage problem
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire
Rescue Authority, March 28: Merger moving
ahead; public meeting April 23; name change debated
- Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority, March 9: Board
approves funding for Gleneagle Drive signal
- El Paso County Planning
Commission, March 6 and 20: Cherry Springs
preliminary plan approved
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School
Board Meeting, March 15: Board names new high
school Palmer Ridge
- Lewis-Palmer District 38
School Board Workshop, March 22: Board
considers ways to address citizen comments
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association, March 26: Knollwood development
plans include bank, print shop, possibly restaurants
-
March Weather Wrap
-
Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: "The Book
Club"
- High Country Highlights: Building
a new garden
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society, March 15: The story of the Monument
Tree Farm
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Cedar waxwing
- On the Trail: Trails
still snow-covered or wet
- Art Matters: Earth
Day and Plein Aire Art
-
Special Events and Notices
-
Creekside Middle School’s
Carrabba’s Night and Silent Auction, April 11
-
D-38 seeks community
input by April 15
-
Classical Concert at
TLCA, April 15
-
Friends of Monument Preserve
Annual Meeting, April 18
-
Rocky Mountain Music Alliance
Concert, April 21
-
AARP Mature Safe Driving
Program at Monument Library, April 21
-
Pine Forest Antiques
Show and Sale, April 21 and 22
-
D-38 Student Chess
Tournament, April 21
-
Volunteer Tutors Needed
-
Talk English! Facilitator
Training, May 5
-
Gleneagle Sertoma Presents
‘Spirits of Spring’, May 11
-
Help for Gardeners at
Monument Library, Wednesdays
-
Senior Safety Program
-
County Accepting Batteries
and Electronics at Waste Facility
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- Tri-Lakes enjoys a Rockin’ Sock Hop!
- Monument Board of Trustees, Feb. 5:
Delay in I-25 interchange adds to Baptist Road
commuter woes
- On the Roads: Status
of Baptist, Struthers road construction
- Monument Board of Trustees, Feb.
20: Plans for senior center advance
- Monument Planning Commission, Feb.
21: YMCA final site plan approved; modified
Promontory Pointe site plan not approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting, Feb.
8: Police Chief Gilliana announces 24-hour police
coverage
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
Feb 21: Waste plant costs escalate
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, Feb. 8: Woodmoor to repair dam
- Web site exclusive: Artesian
Conduit
- Forest View Acres water judged
"best tasting in Colorado"
- Web site exclusive: Donald Wescott Fire
Protection District board meeting, Feb. 21: Two
new volunteers sworn in
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School
Board Workshop/Special Meeting, Feb. 5: After
asking for school board president’s resignation, three board members vote
to curtail president’s role
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School
Board Meeting, Feb. 15: Board formally strips
president and vice-president of non-statutory powers
- Proposed secondary school
boundary alternatives
- El Paso County Planning Commission,
Feb. 6 and 20: Knollwood Village filing approved
- Woodmoor Improvement Association
Annual General Meeting, Jan. 29: Benny Nasser
wins Vincent J. Elorie Award
- Woodmoor Improvement Association, Feb.
15: New board members installed
- February Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Gripping Nonfiction for the
Last (We hope) Cold Winter Month
- High Country Highlights:
Landscaping is for the birds
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, Feb.
15: Lincoln’s greatest speech
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
The
golden eagle
- Art Matters: Plein
air painting
- da Vinci students to perform at the
Kennedy Center
- Special Events and Notices
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-
WinterFest: The cool side of frigid
weather!
-
Monument Ridge and Copper Heights
developments approved
- Monument Planning Commission, January
10: Monument Marketplace PD site plan amended
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting,
January 11: Mayor presents "State of the
Town"
- Palmer Lake Town Round Table
Discussion on Refilling the Lake, January 16: Town
to discuss cost to refill the lake
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
January 24: New water authority main topic of
discussion
- Monument Sanitation District, January
18: Residential tap fees increase $500
- Triview Metropolitan District, January
24: Board to consider new commercial impact fee
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, January 11: Woodmoor looks at long-term
plan
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District, January 17: Board switches auditors
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District,
January 24: Fire authority and districts end year
within budget; board discusses Palmer Lake ambulance service
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board,
January 18: Blanch named superintendent; Citizens
question handling of Pomarico’s departure
- El Paso County Planning Commission,
January 16 and 23: Forest Lakes, Grandview projects
approved
- Woodmoor Improvement Association,
January 17: Superintendent reviews high school plans
-
2006 Weather Summary
-
January Weather Wrap
-
Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Cozy, mouth-watering meals
for cold winter nights
- High Country Highlights:
Preventing snow damage
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, January
18: Story swap and honky-tonk pep up January
potluck
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Red-tailed
hawk
- Perspective on Our Community:
Linda
Pankratz
- Art Matters:
Artists are in a class of their own
-
Special Events and Notices
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- Superintendent Pomarico resigns
- Blanch named finalist to succeed
Pomarico
- Monument Board of Trustees,
December 4: Monument Board approves $7.3 million
2007 budget
- Monument Board of Trustees,
December 18: Contract negotiations to begin on
new Town Hall/Police Department facility
- Monument Planning Commission,
December 13: Monument Ridge and Copper Heights
plans approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council Workshop,
December 7: 2007 budget and alternatives for
refilling the Lake discussed
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting,
December 14: Dan Gilliana appointed police chief
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
November 29: Wastewater facility expansion reaches
first milestone
- Triview Metropolitan District, December
13: Triview budget rises to $3 million for 2007
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, December 14: Woodmoor works to provide
non-potable irrigation water to new high school
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District, December 6: 2006 budget amendment and
2007 budget approved
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District, December 27: District helps motorists
stranded by blizzard
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Rescue
Authority, December 13: Authority board approves
$3.9 million budget despite oppostion from WMFPD treasurer; moves toward
merger
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District,
December 13: District ends year 7% over budget
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District, December 13: Board votes to pursue
inclusion into the Tri-Lakes district
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, December 8: Triview sewer line
construction delays Baptist Road improvements
- Woodmoor Improvement Association,
December 13: Emergency access to Doewood gate
provided
- December Weather Wrap
- Cast your vote: Top 2006 weather event
- Letters to Our Community
- A Perspective on Our Community:
A Life Saved!
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Book highlights for 2006
- High Country Highlights:
Winter entertainment
- Palmer Lake Historical Society:
Free
January potluck and Joe Bohler pianofest
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Black-billed
Magpie
- Holiday Festivities
- Art Matters: On
Enjoying Art, Creating Community
- Special Events and Notices
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-
Monument
Board of Trustees, November 20: Monument board approves Sanctuary
Pointe
- A time for sharing
- Monument Board of Trustees,
November 6: Outrageous Oasis tax rebate approved;
Sanctuary Pointe hearing held
- Monument Planning Commission,
November 8: RV parking ordinance and Marketplace
plats approved
- Monument Board of Adjustment,
November 16: Rocky Mountain Oil Change variances
approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council Workshop,
November 2: Annexation of commercial center on 105
discussed
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting,
November 9: Annexation of commercial center approved
- Palmer Divide Water Group, November
16: Group seeks water authority status; unveils goal
of bringing renewable water to the Tri-Lakes
- Forest View Acres Water District,
November 2: Community Solutions picked to
operate system
- Forest View Acres Water District,
November 10: Board refines 2007 budget in light
of election results
- Monument Sanitation District, November
16: District saves $35,000 on Wakonda project
- Triview Metropolitan District, November
15: Board considers car wash issues
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, November 9: Slight rate increases planned
for Spring 2007
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District, November 15: Board finalizes some budget
issues
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District,
November 15: Expenses over budget; Impact fees
imposed
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District, November 15: Financial discrepancies
resolved; conflict over discussion of personnel issues continues
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Rescue
Authority, November 15: Firefighters call for
inclusion of WMFPD into TLFPD
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38,
November 16: Second high school bond issue passes;
project proceeds
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority Special Meeting, November 13: Final
planning for interchange work
- El Paso County Planning Commission,
November 21: Preliminary plan approved for
development on County Line Road
- Woodmoor Improvement Association,
November 15: Wildfire protection plan approved
- November Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Making your list? Check it
twice!
- High Country Highlights: December
Gardening Tips
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Giant Canada Geese
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society: Countess Murat: The Betsy Ross of Colorado
- Art Matters: Holiday
art: Fame and fortune for this pop-art genre
- Special Events and Notices
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- Monument board negotiates
10-year sales tax waiver with resort developer
- Draft agreement with Team
O2
- Palmer Lake Town Council
Workshop, October 5: Council focuses on
licenses and sign permits
- Palmer Lake Town Council
Meeting, October 12: Council approves
amendments to hillside ordinance
- Palmer Lake Planning
Commission, October 18: Annexation of
commercial lot on Highway 105 approved
- Lewis-Palmer District 38
School Board Meeting, October 19: Board
selects Saunders as contractor for 2nd high school
- Citizens present reasons for
opposing 3D and 3E
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, October 18: Board discusses water
issues
- Monument Sanitation
District, October 17: 2007 budgets revised
- Triview Metropolitan
District, October 25: Board discusses draft
2007 budget
- Woodmoor Water and
Sanitation District, October 12: New area
water authority likely to be formed
- Donald Wescott Fire
Protection District, October 25: Open
house a big success
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection
District, October 25: Fire station 2 water
woes continue
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire
Protection District, October 25: Disagreement
continues over financial discrepancies
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire
Rescue Authority, October 25: Auditing
issue resolved, new company hired
- El Paso County Planning
Commission, October 17: New Timberview
filing recommended for approval
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association, October 18: Wildfire protection
plan and reasons for 3C presented
- October Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Here there be
dragons!
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Wild Turkey
- Reflections: Drowning
in Electrons
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society: Dizzy Dedication, October 17
- Art Matters: With
modernism, Rembrandt helps shoot "Friends" and "Pirates"
- Special Events and Notices
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- Plans for second high school presented
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School
Board, September 21: Blanch named assistant
superintendent, heads second high school project
- Palmer Lake Town Council Special
Meeting and Workshop, September 7: Council
considers using capped well to fill lake
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting,
September 14: Tri-Lakes fire district cancels
ambulance service
- Monument Board of Trustees,
September 5: Promontory Pointe Plat and
preliminary site plan approved
- Monument Board of Trustees,
September 18: Board opposes Amendment 38
- Monument Board of Trustees,
October 2: Nov. 6 set for Sanctuary Pointe
annexation hearings
- Monument Planning Commission,
September 13: Fox Run residents review Sanctuary
Pointe sketch plan
- Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority, September 8: BRRTA
finalizes the ballot question
- Baptist Road being extended to
connect to Hodgen Road
- Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority, September 25: BRRTA
proceeds with interchange project planning in advance of sales tax the
election
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, September 20: Classic considers building
2,600 houses off Highway 83
- Monument Sanitation District nears
completion of Wakonda Hills improvements
- Forest View Acres Water
District, September 19: Walker resigns amid
ballot measure controversy
- Palmer Lake Sanitation District,
September 12: Board plans hearing on Lake of
the Rockies inclusion
- Triview Metropolitan District,
September 27: All of Triview’s high interest debt
refinanced
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, September 14: Mott commended for service;
D-38 and YMCA present plans
- Donald Wescott FPD collects more than
$11,000 for Muscular Dystrophy Association with "Fill the Boot"
campaign
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District,
September 27: Ambulance agreement ends;
impact fee plan tabled
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District, September 27: Discrepancies lead
treasurer to insist on a change
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Authority,
September 27: Auditor’s charges raise ire of
directors
- September Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Regional and
local writers shine
- High Country Highlights: Fall
Garden Tips
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: The Raven
- Reflections: The
Cliffs Notes version, please
- Art Matters: Is
Modern Art still new?
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society, September 21: The Lewis and Jones
Gang
- Special Events and Notices
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- Controversy continues over
second high school site; Board proceeds with ballot measure
- Woodmoor residents discuss
plans for second high school
- Monument Board of
Trustees, August 7: Financing of new town
police building approved
- Monument Board of
Trustees, August 21: Open house held on
Baptist Road interchange plans
- Monument Planning
Commission, August 9: Promontory Pointe
plans recommended for approval
- Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority, August 11: Draft
language for sales tax discussed
- Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority, August 28: Sales
tax ballot question certified
- Palmer Lake Town Council
Workshop, August 3: All agenda items
continued due to applicants’ absences
- Palmer Lake Town Council
Meeting, August 10: Fire Authority proposes
new support agreement
- Palmer Lake Planning
Commission, August 16: Three proposals
recommended for approval
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, August 21: Area water groups work
to find supplemental water sources
- Forest View Acres Water
District, August 24: Board places property
tax measure on the November ballot
- Monument Sanitation District,
August 15: Office upgrade nearing completion
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater
Treatment Facility Open House, August 12: Facility
shows off new capabilities
- Triview Metropolitan
District, August 23: District considers
loan allocations
- Triview Metropolitan
District, August 30: Board approves
ballot measure
- Triview Ballot Issue
- Woodmoor Water and
Sanitation District, August 10: District
will serve new high school
- Donald Wescott Fire
Protection District, August 16: Board
renews insurance policy with VFIS
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection
District, August 24: New ambulance on the
way
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire
Protection District, August 23: Firefighters
praised for work on Station 3 remodel
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire
Authority, August 23: Auditors expenses
questioned
- Fox Run Regional Park
master plan update open house, August 29: Park
plan receives favorable comments
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board, August 16: Board approves
matching funds for fire protection grants
- August Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Page turners
- High Country Highlights: To
Deadhead or Not to Deadhead
- Reflections: A
Care Bear Color Wheel
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Yellow Warblers
- Art Matters:
It pays to collect art
- Over the Bar
performs for the Black Rose Acoustic Society, Aug. 25
- Special Events and Notices
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- Marshal Smith retires after 31 years
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board
- July 20: Board picks Woodmoor Drive site for second
high school
- Palmer Lake Town Council Workshop,
July 6: Council reviews three replat requests and
a rezoning
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting,
July 13: Progress reported on town streetscape plan
- Monument Board of Trustees, June
26: Board receives draft 2005 audit
- Monument Board of Trustees, July
17: New Triview special road
constructiondistricts approved for November ballot
- Monument Board of Trustees
Special Meeting, July 31: Board accepts 2005
audit on time
- Monument Planning Commission, July
12: Promontory Pointe vote postponed
- Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority, July 14: Cost
overruns and funding shortfalls reported
- El Paso County Planning Commission,
July 18, 25: Subdivision of Chaparral Hills lots
approved
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, July 19: Next year’s cost projections
outlined
- Forest View Acres Water District,
July 27: District proposes property tax to fund
improvements
- Monument Sanitation District, July
18: Building renovation underway
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment
Facility Joint Use Committee, July 11: Management of
facility will change
- Winkler celebrates 25 years with the
Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District
- Triview Metropolitan District,
June 28: Board approves charge for effluent
- Triview Metropolitan District,
July 26: Board approves refinancing $35 million
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District, July 19: Pumper specifications finalized
during plant visit
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District,
July 28: Puzzling problem arises at Station 2
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District, July 28: District running under budget
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Authority,
July 28: Fire Authority receives clean audit; calls
up 14 percent
- Woodmoor Improvement Association
Board, July 19: Pine beetle infestation eases
-
July Weather Wrap
-
Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Got Art?
- High Country Highlights: More
on summer tree care
-
Tri-Lakes enjoys a fantastic 4th
-
Sibell’s Barn Dance: A July 4th
tradition
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
American
Goldfinch
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, July
27: Lotave, the artist buried on Pikes Peak
- Art Matters: Let’s
do art evenings with friends
-
Special Events and Notices
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- Tri-Lakes loves its independence
- Community support sought for sales
tax to finance interchange improvements
- Monument Board of Trustees, June
5: Town agrees to continue operating Triview’s
water system for 6 more months
- Monument Planning Commission, June
14: Two Village Center @ Woodmoor plats approved;
county asked to send Hillsong Village project to the town
- Sanctuary Pointe sketch plans
critiqued by neighbors
- Palmer Lake Town Council Workshop,
June 1: Three new business licenses approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting,
June 8: Brennan named interim police chief
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
May 17: Colorado Springs rebuffs Donala’s service
offer, moves ahead with $400,000 lift station; Corrections
to May 17 meeting article
- Forest View Acres Water District,
June 22: Unger pleads guilty, gives back $300,000
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, June 8: Drought affects allocation of Lake
Woodmoor water
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District, June 21: Lease-purchase for new pumper
approved
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District,
June 28: Station 2 issues discussed in private
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District, June 28: High fire danger limits district’s
participation in parade
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Rescue
Authority, June 28: Lack of feedback prevents
decision on schedule change
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Board
of Education, June 15: Board bids farewell to
Superintendent Dilley
- El Paso County Planning
Commission, June 20: X-cel clear cutting
policy questioned
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board, June 21: Board focuses on
forestry issues and fireworks ban
- June Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Summer reads
of substance – Not an oxymoron
- High Country Highlights: Help
plants beat the heat
- Car Show, June 11
- Cyclonauts complete Race Across
America
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Belted Kingfishers
- Hummingbirds, butterflies,
and columbines
- Don’t miss the Palmer Lake Art
Group Spring Show & Sale
- Monument youths 1, 2, 3 at
Springs soapbox derby
- Special Events and Notices
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- Tri-Lakes enjoys pushing and
pulling!
- Triview Manager leaving
- Monument approves Home Place Ranch
annexation
- Monument Planning Commission, May
10: Flurry of filings approved retroactively
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation Authority Special
Meeting, May 12: Construction funding sources and
amounts clarified
- Baptist Road improvement schedule announced
- Palmer Lake Town Council Workshop, May 4: Opposition
continues to Fritts’ subdivision request
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting, May 11: Williams
named new police chief
- Williams declines appointment
- Donala Water and Sanitation District, May 17:
Donala
swears in new board members; discusses wastewater plant expansion progress
- Forest View Acres Water District, May 25: Board
ponders financing $6.2 million for improvements
- DeLaney honored for service to Monument Sanitation
District
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District, May 11:
Board
plans conservation measures
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection District, May 23:
New
fire engine bids reviewed
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District, May 24:
Problems
arise with potential site for Jackson Creek station
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection District, May 24:
New truck approved; firefighters will provide elbow
grease for station remodel
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Rescue Authority, May 24:
Proposed
schedule change debated
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Board of Education,
May 18: Board responds to some school site comments
- Retiring Principal Liebert honored at Prairewinds
track dedication
- El Paso County Planning Commission, May 16:
Commission recommends approval of three
local projects
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Board, May
17: Board addresses fire risk and fees
- May Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Children’s books that never go
out of style
- High Country Highlights:
Perennial Garden Ideas
- Palmer Lake Historical Society: Dizzy
takes a trip
- Western Museum of Mining & Industry: Mining
museum like an undiscovered nugget
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Crossbills
- Monument Hill Sertoma SERTEEN club honored
- Special Events and Notices
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- Wescott FPD donates pumper to
hurricane ravaged Louisana department
- High school site selection summit
raises issues and alternatives
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, April 14: Traffic impact fees to double July 1
- Palmer Lake Town Council Workshop,
April 6: Council discusses two controversial developments
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting,
April 13: Council approves concept of mixed-use development
- Monument Board of Trustees, April 3:
Three development proposals approved
- Monument Board of
Trustees, April 17: Board salutes Orten at his last meeting
- Monument Board of
Trustees, May 1: Same trustees begin new
term of office
- Monument Planning
Commission, April 12: Meadows at Monument
Lake approved
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, April 18: Donala approves plant
expansion loan
- Forest View Acres Water
District, April 27: Residents object to fee
increase; board considers proposing property tax
- Wakonda Hills sewer construction
begun
- Triview Metropolitan
District, April 26: Ballot issue hotly
debated; then defeated by voters
- Donald Wescott Fire
Protection District, April 19: District
donates engine to flooded Louisiana department
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire
Protection District, February 22: Keough
receives medal
- El Paso County Planning
Commission, February 22: Springs toll road
project en route
- Senior Forum, April 29: Forum
tackles numerous issues faced by local seniors
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board, April 29: YMCA Tri-Lakes
facility proposal discussed
- Community meeting,
May 3: Morningview: A new Gleneagle
housing development
- County seeks your thoughts on
Fox Run Park
- April Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Remembering
Mom
- High Country Highlights:
Attracting Hummingbirds
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society, April 20: Searching for an Air
Force Academy
- Reflections: My
quest for an umbrella stand
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Larks
- On the Trail: Limbaugh
Trail still requires alternate route
- Art Matters: Walk
of the Town: The Art Hop rides again May 18
- Special Events and Notices
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- Concerns raised about potential high
school on Wissler property
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, March 10: Wal-Mart refuses to
participate in public improvement fee
- Baptist and Struthers Road
construction contract awarded
- Palmer Lake Town Council Workshop,
March 2: Adjacent property owner trustees fight
Fritts’ subdivision
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting,
March 9: Fritts’ subdivision request continued
- Palmer Lake Ballot Issue, April 4
Election
- Palmer Lake Candidate
Statements, April 4 Election
- Monument Board of Trustees, March
6: Officer Degenkolbe awarded Distinguished
Service Medal
- Monument Board of Trustees, March
20: Baptist Interchange options discussed
- Monument Planning Commission, March
8: Home Place Ranch annexation approved
- Donala Water and Sanitation District
May 2 election and ballot question
- Forest View Acres Water District,
March 23: Residents object to $25 per month fee
increase
- Monument Sanitation District, March
21: District Election Canceled
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Facility Joint
Use Committee, March 13: Lab/admin building completed
- Palmer Lake Sanitation District Board
Election Canceled
- Triview Metropolitan District, March
22: Carwash being considered for Marketplace
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, March 13: D-38 has not yet requested
service to Wissler site
- Donald Wescott FPD election
May 2
- Wescott FPD receives MVEA grant
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District,
March 22: Ambulance revenues strong, May election
canceled
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District, March 22: Directors run unopposed,
election canceled
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Rescue
Authority, March 22: Woodmoor/Monument director
Tim Miller elected president
- El Paso County Planning
Commission, March 21: Court rules water
insufficient for 13 approved projects
- County report on ruling to be
presented April 27
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board, March 15: Board approves
ancillary buildings
- March Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Time for a
thrill
- High Country Highlights:
Early Spring Garden Tips
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society, March 16: Hummingbirds, our
mischievous neighbors
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Mountain Bluebird
- Art Matters:
Earth Day, April 22
- Special Events and Notices
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- Monument Board of Trustees,
February 6: Promontory Pointe annexation approved,
sketch plan withdrawn
- Mayor Glenn’s remarks Feb. 6
- Monument Board of Trustees,
February 21: Timbers commercial center approved
- Home Place Ranch community meetings,
February 21 and 22: Monument Planning Commission to
consider Home Place Ranch Sketch Plan March 8
- Palmer Lake Town Council Workshop,
February 2: Council considers water rate change and
ballot issues
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting,
February 9: New water rates approved
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, February 6: Donala will ask voters for
mill levy extension
- Triview Metropolitan District,
February 22: Voters will see
"de-Brucing" ballot issue in May
- Forest View Acres Water District,
February 23: 2.18 million gallons lost in January
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District Board, February 15: 2006 budget revised
downward by $350,000
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District,
February 22: Board pursues sale of trouble-prone
ladder truck, gets update on potential Jackson Creek fire station
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District Board, February 22: Scouts learn about the
fire district
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Rescue
Authority, February 22: Board considers
consolidated 2006 audit
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, February 10: Private financing of
interchange improvements approved
- Lewis-Palmer School District
38 Board of Education, February 16: Bond
issue on the horizon?
- Late Breaking News:
Pomarico named Superindendent
- Lewis-Palmer School
District 38, February 22: Options 38
program offers alternatives
- El Paso County Planning
Commission, February 14, 21, and 28: Revised
Land Development Code and two local projects approved
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board, February 1: Hans Post
elected president
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Annual Meeting, February 15: Woodmoor
Water and Sanitation seeks well location
-
February Weather Wrap
-
New Bridge on Northgate Road
-
Letters to Our Community
- High Country Highlights: Spring
pruning tips
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Dreaming of
Gardening
- Palmer Lake Historical Society,
February 16: The Fascinating World of
Specialty Walking Sticks
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Peregrine Falcon
- Art Matters: Threads
-
Special Events and Notices
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- Piano concert a delight
- Important Baptist Road Development
Hearings Feb. 6 and Feb. 10
- Monument Board of Trustees,
January 3: Highway 105 commercial plat rejected
- Monument Board of Trustees,
January 17: Board approves Carriage Point West,
rejects Lake of the Rockies during marathon session
- Monument Planning Commission,
January 11: Timbers at Monument approved
- Palmer Lake Town Council, January 5:
$179,000 road grader purchase approved
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, January 6: Wastewater treatment plant
expansion "off and running"
- Triview Metropolitan District,
January 25: Monument interested in district’s park
plan
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, June 14: Hacker appointed interim member
- Palmer Divide Water Group, January
19: Growth increases pressure for water
- Forest View Acres Water District,
January 26: Board accepts resignation, ponders
mysterious water loss
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District Board, January 18: Assessor’s error
creates $350,000 shortfall
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District,
January 25: District to outsource ambulance
billing; considers sale of trouble-prone ladder truck
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District Board, January 25: District contemplates
replacing fire engine
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Rescue
Authority, January 25: Seven firefighters hired
under SAFER grant; board reviews first year of operation
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Board
of Education, January 19: Board adopts school
calendars
- County Planning Commission,
November 19: Commission reviews Land Development
Code revisions
-
Woodmoor Improvement Association Board,
January 18: Residents express concerns about
townhome development
- Woodmoor Improvement Association
Annual Meeting, January 30: WIA elects board
members, approves ancillary buildings
-
2005 Tri-Lakes Weather Summary
-
January Weather Wrap
-
Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Love is in the air
- High Country Highlights: Windowsill
Herb Gardening
- Palmer Lake Historical Society, January
19: Potluck evening success despite snow
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Merlin
Falcon
- Art Matters: Local
Artists in the Global Village
-
Special Events and Notices
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- A Grand Yule Log Celebration
- Monument Board of Trustees,
December 5: Monument Ridge annexation approved
- Monument Board of Trustees,
December 19: Senior facilities discussed;
DeLaney, Dominowski, and Morgan receive Spirit awards
- Monument Planning Commission,
December 14: Lake of the Rockies plan rejected,
Timbers continued
- Palmer Lake Town Council, December 1
and December 8: Nicky’s at the Villa business
license and Inn at Palmer Divide liquor license approved
- Forest View Acres Water District,
December 7: District increases fee, approves 2006
budget
- Triview Metropolitan District,
November 16: Loan for wastewater plant expansion
approved
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, December 13: Board to appoint interim
member
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District Board, December 7: 2006 budget
ordinances approved
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District Board, December 21: District considers
additional Hazmat training
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District,
December 13: District to provide more than $900,000
over 5 years to match staffing grant
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Fire
Protection District, December 13: Amended budget
needed to balance 2005 figures
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Rescue
Authority, December 13: Authority approves $3.2
million 2006 budget; increases employee medical co-pays
- Black Forest Fire Protection
District, December 7: North substation planned
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, December 9: 37 additional parcels likely
subject to traffic impact fees
- Web Site Exclusive: Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Board of
Education, December 17: Mill Levy Lowered by
School Board
- Woodmoor Improvement Association, May
19: Choi Pankey multifamily housing project reviewed
- December Weather Wrap
-
Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures
Bookstore: 2005 Book Highlights
- High Country Highlights: January
in the garden
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Northern
Harrier
- Palmer Lake Historical Society,
December 2: John Fielder at Town Hall
- Art Matters: Innovative
art choices jazz up January
-
Special Events and Notices
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- Wescott Chief Sheldon
retires
- Tis’ the season for red
kettles
- Monument Board of
Trustees, November 7: $1 million found
for water improvements
- Monument Board of
Trustees, November 21: Treasurer
explains recently discovered funds
- Monument Planning
Commission, November 9: Promontory Pointe
annexation approved; plan disapproved
- Monument holds Town Hall
Meeting Nov. 29
- Palmer Lake Town Council,
November 10: Renaissance Festival may move
to Palmer Lake
- Felony arrests resolved
Nov. 17
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, November 28: Tri-Lakes will
continue to fight for a place in water talks
- Forest View Acres Water
District, November 2: Draft 2006 budget
reviewed
- Joint Use Committee,
November 14: Parking lot subgrading
disagreement settled
- Monument Sanitation
District, November 15: Board approves new
office design
- Triview Metropolitan
District, November 16: Green reports on
Promontory Pointe and Monument Ridge
- Woodmoor Water and
Sanitation District, November 8: Board
considers 2006 water and sewer rates
- Donald Wescott Fire
Protection District Board, November 23: Pension
board finalizes budget recommendations
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire
Rescue Authority, November 16: Fire
Authority awarded $700,000 grant to hire firefighters; audit firm selected
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection
District, November 16: District increases
ambulance billing rates
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire
Fire Protection District, November 16: Board
considers building a training facility
- Lewis-Palmer School District
38 Board of Education, November 17: District
says, "We Are L-P!"; plans 2nd high school
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association, November 2: Board candidates
introduce themselves
- NEPCO, November 12: Homeowners
associations to comment on proposed developments
- County Planning
Commission, November 19: Brookmoor plat,
Cherry Springs Ranch rezoning approved
- November Weather Wrap
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Making a
List...
- High Country Highlights: Basic
Tree Pruning
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: American Kestrel
- Art Matters: The
care and keeping of art
- Palmer Lake Historical
Society, November 17: A Brass Band -
Vintage Film Evening
- Special Events and Notices
- County seeks volunteers
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- Harvest Party a big hit
- Eaton, Wilson elected to D-38
board, town sales tax and TLFPD measures pass
- Monument Planning Commission,
September 28: Commerce Center plan and Monument
Ridge annexation approved, Promontory Pointe postponed, Timbers tabled
- Monument Board of Trustees,
October 3: Board approves revision to 2005 budget
- Monument Board of Trustees,
October 17: Miller appointed to board, Meszaros
sworn in as town clerk
- Monument Board of Adjustment,
October 12: Oil change center setback variance
approved
- Monument Parks and Landscape
Committee, October 13: Committee holds final
meeting, may regroup
- Palmer Lake Town Council, October
13: Inn sign approved
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
October 19: Access road delays hamper wastewater
facility expansion
- Forest View Acres Water District,
October 5: Nowacki appointed to the board
- Monument Sanitation District, October
18: Trail’s End lift station repair completed
- Triview Metropolitan District,
September 28: District seeks to serve new
developments
- Triview Metropolitan District,
October 26: Rate increase approved
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, October 11: District begins 2006 budget
preparation, plans deep well
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District Board, October 19: Open house a big
success, draft 2006 budget reviewed
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Rescue
Authority, September 28: Chief, firefighters
receive honors for their efforts
- Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Rescue
Authority, October 26: Fire Authority
personnel help with hurricane disaster relief
-
Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District,
October 26: District pursues grants for tank truck
and staff
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Fire
Protection District, September 28: Ambulance
for Woodmoor station not feasible at present
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Fire
Protection District, October 26: Training
program may pave the way for regional facility
- Woodmoor Improvement Association,
October 5: Vice president Shields resigns
- Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Board
of Education, October 20: Superintendent Dilley to
resign
-
October Weather Wrap
-
Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Best Durn Reads...Encore!
- High Country Highlights: Fall
care for roses
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Migration
- Art Matters: Art,
Pop Art, or Plop Art
-
Tri-Lakes Cares receives donations
-
Special Events and Notices
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- Palmer Lake Railroad Festival Rolls On
- Unger rejects mediation agreement
- BRRTA to build frontage road
- El Paso County Planning Commission,
Sept. 20 and Sept. 27: Peaceful Pines to feel
effects of Hilltop Pines development
- Construction begins on extension of
Milam Road
- El Paso County Board of County
Commissioners work session, Aug. 4: Protect Our Wells
presents recommendations
- Black Forest Community Club, Sept.
22 : Black Forest Options Committee recommends
incorporation
- Sheriff’s Department Community
Meeting, Sept. 6: Sheriff notes shortage of
deputies, suggests ways residents can help
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Sept. 8:
Council
appoints interim trustee
- Monument Board of Trustees, Sept.
6: Board approves revision of 2005 budget
- Monument Board of Trustees, Sept.
19: Board fills vacancy, receives presentations on
growth, planning
- Monument Board of Trustees,
September 28: Board approves 2004 audit
- Monument Board of Adjustment,
September 28: Tuscany Hills Plaza receives parking
variance
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment
Facility Joint Use Committee, September 12: New
treatment facility building undergoes changes
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, September 13: Billing cycle to change in
2006
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, September 13: Triview tables Donala’s
wastewater plant buyout offer; water rates may remain unchanged for 2006
- Forest View Acres Water District,
September 11 and September 14: District hires
manager and fills board vacancy
- Monument Sanitation District,
September 20: Schutz appointed to board
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District Board, September 15: Open House Oct. 8 has
activities for all
- District 38 Candidate Statements
- Woodmoor Improvement Association,
September 7: Board rejects cell tower in common area;
supports addtional stop signs in South Woodmoor
- September Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: The Fine Art of Sleuthing
- Hands that help: The
2005 Empty Bowl
- High Country Highlights:
Changes of Autumn
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Evening
Grosbeak
- Fire Marshal’s Safety Tips:
Preparing
and responding
- Palmer Lake police seek information
about assault
- Art Matters: "Shui"
the universe for good luck
- Concert series coming to Tri-Lakes
- Special Events and Notices
- County seeks volunteers for outreach
group
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- Dance benefits Tri-Lakes Cares
and Sertoma
- Ripples continue from
alleged embezzlement: Second board member
resigns, Unger to enter plea Sept. 1
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, August 17: Donala looks to
purchase Triview’s share of treatment plan; Classic buys Baptist Camp
- Forest View Acres Water
District, August 10: District wrestles with
bills, seeks board members
- Joint Use Committee,
August 8: Raising copper limits won’t
pose a threat
- Joint Use Committee
Annual Meeting, August 22: Three district
boards meet to review agreement
- Monument Sanitation District,
July 12: Fine upheld for opening a manhole
- Correction
- Triview Metropolitan
District, August 24: Proposed permitting
system put on hold
- Woodmoor Water and
Sanitation District, August 9: District
shelves water station plans
- Palmer Lake Town Council,
August 11: Record high water usage (and
bills) "tax" town staff
- Monument Board of
Trustees, August 15: Board approves first
Remington Hills filing
- Monument Board of
Trustees, August 22: Sales tax ballot
measure wording approved
- Donald Wescott Fire
Protection District Board, August 17: Volunteer
pensions unchanged, station expansion completed
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire
Rescue Authority, August 24: 2004 audit
issues revisited
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire
Protection District, August 24 and 29: Tim
Miller appointed to fill board vacancy
- Lewis-Palmer School
District 38 Board of Education, August 18: School
board considers new building/field use policy
- School board candidates
announced
- Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority, August 12: 22 of
26 tracts acquired; board to decide church
access Sept. 16
- August Weather Wrap
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: A Real
Knee-Slapper
- High Country Highlights: Fall
Garden Tips
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Rufous Hummingbird
- The Society Page: Society
and its roots
- Art Matters: Art
and History: A 12,000-Year Redux
- Special Events and Notices
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- Moved by the music
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, July 20: Donala to borrow $10 million
for wastewater plant expansion
- Forest View Acres Water District,
July 13: District President Guenther resigns;
Board interviews management companies
- Monument Sanitation District, July
19: Director Jeremy Diggins resigns
- Palmer Lake Sanitation District,
July 12: Board announces staff reorganization
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, July 12: Steininger will sit at state
water initiative roundtable
- Protect Our Wells, July 17: Well
owners call for survey of groundwater levels
- Palmer Lake Town Council, July 14:
Oliver
thanks emergency services personnel
- Monument Board of Trustees, July
5: Board approves zoning change for shopping
center lot
- Monument Board of Trustees, July
18: Interim treasurer Pamela Smith named town
treasurer
- Monument Board of Trustees, August
1: Landreth hired as Public Works Director
- Monument Planning Commission, July
13: Village Center at Monument zoning corrected
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District Board, June 15: Fire station expansion
nears completion
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection
District Board, July 27: District adds
Equine Acres
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire
Protection District Board, July 27: Diggins
resigns from the board
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire
Rescue Authority Board, July 27: Authority
reviews mid-year results
- Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority, July 8: Special
meeting deals with frontage road issues; BRRTA lacks funds for right-of-way
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board, July 6: Pine Beetle
battle continues
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board, August 3: Still seeking
feedback
- July Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: A Summer
Afternoon
- High Country Highlights: Help
your plants beat the heat
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Rufous Sided Towhee
- The Society Page: Estemere
tour a huge success
- Art Matters: Local
artists and the Art Hop
- Special Events and Notices
- Volunteers needed for CERT
Training
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- Tri-Lakes celebrates Independence Day
- Red Rocks Ranch Homeowners’
Association, June 13: Prosecutor discusses Unger
embezzlement case
- Forest View Acres Water District,
June 15: Recall initiated against two board members
- Palmer Lake Town Council Workshop,
June 2: Challenges to refilling the lake discussed
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting,
June 9: Town water attorney lists storage rights
alternatives
- Monument Board of Trustees, June
6: Water is heading to Monument Lake
- Monument Board of Trustees, June
20: Brown and Drumm unsuccessful in revoking HMMA
grant
- Monument Board of Trustees
Special Meeting, June 27: Possible November
ballot issues discussed
- Monument Planning Commission,
June 9: Realignment of lot lines by First
National Bank approved
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment
Facility Joint Use Committee, June 13: New
administrative building delayed
- Palmer Lake Sanitation District,
June 14: District copes with loss of Bonnie Hanson
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, June 14: Board okays new metering and
billing systems, considers Lake Woodmoor’s storage potential
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, June 15: Contractors submit proposals to
bid on wastewater plant expansion
- Monument Sanitation District, May 10:
Zonta’s infrastructure intentions unclear
- Triview Metropolitan District, June
22: Treatment plant loan application being prepared
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District Board, June 15: Paramedic pay approved
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District Board, June 22: Meeting cancelled for lack
of quorum
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District
Board, June 22: District applies for grants and
disposes of old vehicles
-
Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Rescue Authority
Board, June 22: Authority gives commendations, wrestles with future and
board member absences
- Lewis-Palmer Board of Education, June 16: Principal
selected for Grace Best
- El Paso County Planning Commission, June 21: Commission
approves two controversial projects
- June Weather Wrap
- Toppled tree troubles town
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures Bookstore:
For
a child’s eyes
- High Country Highlights: The
Essence of Mulching
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: American
Robin
- The Society Page: Society
meets again at Town Hall
- Fish in Monument Lake
- Art Matters: The Art
of an Endless Summer
- Special Events and Notices
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- Benefit race draws many residents
- Palmer Lake Town Council Workshop,
May 5: Awake The Lake chair resigns
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting May
12: Finan appointed trustee
- Monument Board of Trustees, May
16: Town organization discussed, watering rules
revised
- Monument Planning Commission, May
11: Church lots recommended for rezoning to
commercial
- Monument Board of Adjustment, May
12: Rear deck variance approved
- Home Place Ranch Community
Meeting, May 12: Concerns voiced about
density, water, traffic
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, May 25: District to aid Monument Lake
refilling
- Forest View Acres Water District,
May 11: District approves well maintenance work,
seeks recovery of missing funds
- Monument Sanitation District, May 17:
Builder unhappy with sewer pump regulations
- Triview Metropolitan District, May 4:
Timbers project raises zoning regulation
discrepancies
- Triview Metropolitan District, May
29: District will help fill Monument Lake
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, May 10: Woodmoor chooses new metering
system
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District Board, May 18: Station addition scheduled
for completion in July
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District
Board, May 25: District completes phase 2 of
expansion plan
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District Board, May 10: District reviews finances
- Lewis-Palmer Board of Education, May
19: Raises approved
- El Paso County Planning Commission,
May17: Red Rock Preserve/Raspberry Ridge rezoning
approved
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Town
Meeting May 19: Issues surrounding Walters Common
persist
- Woodmoor Improvement Association
Board, June 1: Ottino asks for feedback
- May Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Monument exit improvements
completed
- 2nd Street entrance
completed
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Dear Dad
- High Country Highlights: Growing
tomatoes in Colorado
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Lazuli and Indigo Buntings
- The (Palmer Lake
Historical) Society Page: Society and
the Colorado Indians
- Art Matters: How
to recognize good art
- Special Events and Notices
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- Big Splash April 16
- Protect Our Wells Annual Meeting,
April 24: Hydrogeologist warns of declining aquifer
water levels
- Palmer Lake Town Council Workshop
April 7 and Meeting April 14: Developer’s
request muddies water for the Inn
- Monument Board of Trustees, April
4: Town Manager resigns
- Monument Board of Trustees, April
18: Jackson Creek Market Village shopping
center/townhome development approved
- Monument Board of Trustees
Meeting, May 2: Board wrestles with funding
options for police building
- Monument Planning Commission, April
13: Green holds get-acquainted workshop
- Monument Parks and Landscape
Committee, April 12: Committee redefines its role
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, April 27: Bridge may increase cost of
wastewater treatment plant expansion
- Forest View Acres Water District,
April 13: District fills board vacancy; works to
assess impact of embezzlement
- Monument Sanitation District, April
19: Board tightens legal correspondence policy
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, April 12: Board questions cost
effectiveness of model
- Corrections
- Joint Use Committee, April 25:
Schedule
for construction of new lab building adjusted
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District Board, April 20: District sells another
old fire engine
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District
Board, April 27: District accepts Wissler Ranch
filing 4
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District Board, April 27: No quorum, so no meeting
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Rescue
Authority Board, April 27: Board lacks quorum, but
members receive status reports
- Chiefs summarize lessons from
Bardsley Place fire
- Chief Sheldon’s letter regarding
the Bardsley Place fire
- Lewis-Palmer Board of Education,
April 21: Monument Charter Academy 11th grade
approved
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, April 8: Resolution of Necessity for
right-of-way approved
- Woodmoor Improvement Association
Board, April 6: YMCA shares plans, invites
cooperation
- Woodmoor Improvement Association
Board, May 4: Board receives update on beetles
- April Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- 29th Annual Pine Forest Antique
Show and Sale
- Palmer Lake film series combines
movies, discussion
- A new home for Tri-Lakes Cares
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Happy New Mother’s
Day
- High Country Highlights: Springtime
in the Tri-Lakes region
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Western
Tanager
- Art Matters: Art
is the fountain of youth
- Special Events and Notices
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- Palmer Lake Town Council Workshop, March 3:
Lake
study sparks spirited discussion
- Palmer Lake Town Council, March 10:
Council
votes to start pumping water into the lake
- Monument Board of Trustees, March
7: Two Jackson Creek developments discussed
- Monument Board of Trustees, March
21: Warm reception precedes cold confrontation
- Monument Board of Trustees Special
Meeting, March 28: Board revises development
application review fees
- Monument Planning Commission, March
9: Jackson Creek Market Village Plans approved
- Monument Parks and Landscape
Committee, March 8: Group reconvenes after
four-month hiatus
- Palmer Divide Water Group
Presentation, March 16: Group responds to Colorado
Springs stance on wells
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
March 28: Air Force Academy presents possible
wastewater treatment alternative; Baptist Camp may be developed
- Monument Sanitation District, March 15:
Board approves higher construction bid
- Triview Metropolitan District, March
23: Board discusses potential inclusions
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District,
March 8: Work on Walters Commons halted
- Donald Wescott Fire Protection
District, March 16: Two oldest fire engines sold
- Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District,
March 23: Auditor contends district violated budget
law
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire Protection
District, March 23: Citizen concerns dominate
meeting
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Authority,
March 23: Board discusses financial, operational,
and public perception issues
- Fire Marshal’s Safety Tips:
Hazards
of propane and natural gas
- Lewis-Palmer Board of Education, March
17: Middle school boundaries changed
- El Paso County Planning Commission,
March 15: Subdivision of another Chapparal Hills
lot approved
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, March 11: Right-of-way acquisition
advances to the next stage
- March Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- "Big Splash at the Lake"
April 16
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: More "Durn Good"
Reads
- On the Trail: Be
mindful of where you are
- High Country Highlights: Few
Gardening Tips
- Art Matters: Bits
and pieces: papier-mâché
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Waxwings
-
The Society Page:
Society sees the past with Palmer
- Special Events and Notices
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- Judge faults county and developer but
approves taking of private land for Milam Road extension
- Bills would create "water
development district"
- New Monument police chief
and town planner named
- El Paso County Planning
Commission, Feb. 15: Plat for Walters
Commons recommended for denial
- Palmer Lake Town Council,
Feb. 10: Restoring the lake’s water level
dominates meeting
- Monument Board of
Trustees, Feb. 7: Case presented for
repairing damaged car
- Monument Board of
Trustees, Feb. 22: Board hears two
pre-application presentations
- Monument Planning
Commission, Feb. 9: Plan presented for
converting campground
- Monument Sanitation District,
Feb. 15: Board plans for additional
infrastructure
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation
District, Feb. 8: District prepares for busy
building season
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater
Treatment Facility, Feb. 14: Joint Use
Committee awards construction contract
- Forest View Acres Water
District, Feb. 9: Possible criminal
activities surface at water district
- Triview Metropolitan
District, Feb. 23: Erroneous classification
could cause difficulties, costs
- Donala Water and Sanitation
District, Feb. 16: District wrestles with
golf course water contract
- Woodmoor/Monument Fire
Protection District, Feb. 23: Board works
for improved communications
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire
Authority, Feb. 23: Board plans to address
public relations issues
- Donald Wescott Fire
Protection District, Feb. 23: Board adds
engine bay, subtracts oldest apparatus
- Lewis-Palmer Board of
Education, Feb. 17: Major change to
school schedule and calendar approved
- Woodmoor Improvement
Association Board, Mar. 2: Variances granted
to town home project rescinded
- February Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Snuggle Up
Travel
- Web site exclusive: High
Country Highlights: Gardening in
March
- Wells Fargo opens Monument
Marketplace branch Feb. 25
- Art Matters: Art
and culture count
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Woodpeckers
- Special Events and Notices
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- Wal-Mart among likely new Monument
Marketplace tenants
- Gleneagle pond site of tragic
drowning
- Monument Board of Trustees, Jan. 18:
Franchise fee dispute settled; Mountain View Electric to pay town $102,500
- Monument Planning Commission, Jan. 12:
Higher-density senior housing and Higby Road subdivision proposals previewed
- Palmer Lake Town Council Meeting, Jan.
13: New methods of funding lake restoration considered
- Palmer Lake Planning Commission, Jan.
19: Two requests for road right of way changes approved
-
Tri-Lakes FPD Board, Jan. 26: Two fire engines donated to community college
- Woodmoor/Monument FPD Board, Jan. 26:
Liaison between department and board discussed
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Authority
Board, Jan. 26: Unified personnel manual and shift schedule adopted
- Hasbrouck recognized for home fire
rescue
- Donald Wescott FPD Board, Jan. 26:
Construction begins on Gleneagle Drive station expansion
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
Jan. 7: District pursues treatment facility expansion
- Monument Sanitation District, Jan. 18:
Dissolution issues made for a spirited meeting
- Triview Metropolitan District, Jan. 26:
Incomplete Baptist Road plans vex board
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District,
Jan. 26: District receives award for design excellence
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, Jan. 14: Increased urgency to approve Baptist Road upgrade plans
- Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority Open House, Feb. 2: Residents express concern about noise and
safety
- Sunken "treasure"found by
local geologist
- Lewis-Palmer Board of Education,
Jan. 19: District to consider early release times for elementary schools
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Annual
Meeting, Jan. 31 and Board Meeting, Feb. 2: Continuing themes: Safety and
the health of the forest
- January Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Monument Mayor Glenn: State of the Town
- Perspective on Our Community: Lessons
yet to be learned
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Red/Read
- High Country Highlights: National Bird
Feeding Month
- Art Matters
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide: Steller’s
Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri)
- The Society Page: The Old-Timers’ Stories
- Fire Marshal’s Safety Tips: Move to the
right for sirens and lights
- Special Events and Notices
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- King’s Deer house fire continues to
stir controversy
- Bardsley Place Fire: Chiefs’ Letter
- Bardsley Place Fire: Response
- Tri-Lakes FPD Board, Dec. 9
- Woodmoor/Monument FPD board, Dec. 9
- Tri-Lakes-Monument Fire Authority
board, Dec. 9
- Palmer Lake Town Fire Chief Resigns
- Water bill surcharge dominates Dec. 9
town council meeting
- Palmer Lake community group explores alternatives to water
surcharge
- Late Breaking News on the
Surcharge
- Monument Board of Trustees, Dec. 6
- Monument Board of Trustees, Dec. 20
- Monument Board of Trustees, Jan. 3
- Monument Planning Commission, Dec. 8
- Monument Police Advisory Committee,
Dec. 6
- Monument Sanitation District Dec. 14
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
Dec. 6
- Triview Metro District, Dec. 9
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District,
Dec. 14
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School Board,
Dec. 16
- BRRTA board, Dec. 16
- NEPCO meeting Dec. 4 featured
Commissioner Williams
- WIA plans annual meeting
- December Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Anew
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hymenalis)
- High Country Highlights: Winter Rose
Care
- Reflections: Of dolls and hermit crabs
- Special Events and Notices
-
Holiday Celebrations: Hay Rides and Log
Rides
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- Monument Town Planner Mike
Davenport resigns
- King’s Deer house fire discussed at
Tri-Lakes FPD board meeting, Nov. 18
- Fire Authority Agreement signed;
Harvey resigns, Nov. 4
- Woodmoor/Monument FPD Board, Nov. 23
- Donald Wescott FPD board, Nov. 10
- North Group fire chiefs meeting,
Nov. 10
- Palmer Lake Town Council workshop,
Nov. 4
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Nov. 11
- Monument Board of Trustees, Nov. 15
- Monument Board of Trustees special
meeting, Nov. 22
- Monument Parks and Landscape, Nov. 9
- Monument Sanitation District board, Nov.
16
- Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility
Joint Use Committee, Nov. 8
- Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District,
Nov. 9
- Triview Metro District, Nov. 17
- Lewis-Palmer District 38 School
Board, Nov. 18
- County Planning Commission, Nov. 16,
23, 30
- Woodmoor Improvement Association board,
Dec. 1
- Save the Trees: Kick the Salting Habit
- No free lunch? How about a free
dinner!
- November Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the
Covered Treasures Bookstore: Checking it twice...
- High Country Highlights: Winter
Watering
- On the Trail: Winter Trail
Tips
- Big turnout for Annual Palmer
Lake chili supper and star lighting
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Chickadees
- Reflections: Scratching that
Genetic Itch
- Reality (TV) comes to
Monument
- Fire Marshal’s Safety
Tips: Christmas Trees and Lighting Safety
- The Society Page: Society visits
Yules of yesteryear
- Christmas concert to raise
money for Tri-Lakes Cares
- Special Events and Notices
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- Woodmoor/Monument FPD Board fires
Chief David Youtsey, Oct. 26
- Tri-Lakes FPD Board, Oct. 21
- Donald Wescott FPD board, Oct. 13
- Big trucks, little kids meet
for open house at Wescott, Oct. 16
- County election results available
on-line
- County Planning Commission, Oct. 19
and 26
- County Water Authority looks to
conjure up some water
- Palmer Lake Town Council workshop,
Oct. 7
- Palmer Lake Town Council, Oct. 14
- Monument Board of Trustees, Oct. 4
- Monument Board of Trustees, Oct. 18
- Monument Board of Trustees, Nov. 1
- Monument Planning Commission, Oct. 13
- Monument Parks and Landscape, Oct. 12
- Monument Sanitation District, Oct. 14
- Triview Metro District, Oct. 27
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
Oct. 20
- Lewis-Palmer School Board, Oct. 21
- WIA Oct. and Nov. meetings
- NEPCO Annual Meeting, Oct. 2
- October Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Just "Durn Good" Reads
- High Country Highlights: November Tips
for Gardeners
- Bird Watch on the Palmer Divide:
Sparrows
- Christmas concert to raise money for
Tri-Lakes Cares
- Threads of Honor
- Reflections: Burning Down the
House
-
Creative Crafters Showcase, Oct. 23
- Special Events and Notices
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- Woodmoor/Monument and Tri-Lakes fire districts move toward fire authority
- Tri-Lakes, Woodmoor/Monument FPD joint
meeting Sept. 7
- Woodmoor/Monument FPD board, Sept. 29
- Flight for Life helicopter visits
W/MFPD,
Sept. 17
- Donald Wescott FPD Board, Sep. 15
- County Planning Commission approves
Major Transportation Corridors Plan, Sept. 21
- Palmer Lake Town Council combined
workshop and meeting, Sept. 9
- Palmer Lake Planning Commission
Workshop, Sept. 8
- Meadow Lane Subdivision site
inspection, Sept. 13
- Palmer Lake Planning Commission
meeting, Sept. 15
- Monument Board of Trustees, Sept. 7
- Monument Board of Trustees, Sept.
20
- Monument Planning Commission, Sept. 8
- Monument Parks and Landscape,
Sept. 14
- Monument Sanitation District, Sept. 21
- Triview Metro District, Sept. 22
- Donala Water and Sanitation District,
Sept. 13
- Lewis-Palmer School Board, Sept.
16
- Election Day is coming Nov. 2: Do you know the ballot issues?
- September Weather Wrap
- Letters to Our Community
-
Between The Covers at the Covered Treasures Bookstore: Things
That Go Bump
- On the Trail: Trail Daze
- High Country Highlights:
Changes of Autumn
- Bird Watch on the Palmer
Divide: Owls are on the Divide
- Tri-Lakes Railroad Festival,
Sept. 25
- Woodmoor Water and
Sanitation District Open House
- Fire Marshal’s safety tips
- Special Events and Notices
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- Wal-Mart meeting draws hundreds of
concerned Tri-Lakes residents
- Baptist and Northgate interchange
projects on indefinite hold
- County parks board postpones decision
on Wal-Mart
- Open house on I-25 interchange
designs Dec. 11
- BRRTA meeting Nov. 8 approved budget,
reviewed Baptist Road design, and wrestled with Creekside fee
- School board appoints Dilley
superintendent, considers high school alternatives
- County planning commission
recommends approval of Falcon’s Nest #3 Preliminary Plan and Final Plat
- Fire protection district merger study
update
- TLFPD board reviews plans for station 2
and commends success of training program for volunteers
- Fire stations collecting Christmas toys
- County water authority adopts final
water study, discusses next steps
- Monument Board of Trustees meetings
November 4
- Monument Board of Trustees meeting
November 18
- Monument Board of Trustees meetings
December 2
- Monument comp plan land use plan
meeting Nov. 20
- Palmer Lake Town Council workshop
November 7
- Palmer Lake Town Council meeting
November 14
- Palmer Lake Planning Commission Nov. 13
and 20
- Triview Metro District discusses
Monument comp plan, Wal-Mart, the Baptist interchange, drainage, water, and
the 2003 budget
- Woodmoor Improvement Association Oct. and
Nov. board meetings
- Letters to Our Community
- Letters from Law Enforcement: Safe
shopping
- Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: Holiday Books
- High Country Highlights: Christmas Traditions
- Annie got her man!
- Palmer Lake’s chili supper a rousing
success
- Palmer Lake Christmas decoration
contest
- Steppin’ to the Starz New Year’s Eve Party for LPHS Students
- Sawatzki’s film "Voices of
Cripple Creek" to debut Dec. 22
- Western Museum of Mining and Industry
Update
- The Society Page: Local boy makes good in the big city
- Driving Beat: Loud, fast music linked
to dangerous driving
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- Water authority to present study results
Wednesday, October 2, 7 pm, LPHS
- BRRTA plans Oct. public meeting on
Baptist Road traffic study and improvements, forces inclusion of Brookharts
- County planning commission recommends
approval of Greenland Preserve, tower, and Struthers Road site
- Revised plan being prepared for
Struthers Ranch
- County commissioners approved Falcon’s
Nest Filing #3 rezoning and Phillips Ranch plan
- County commissioners delay Doral Way
hearing
- Triview metro board authorizes PIC for
Wal-Mart
- Denboske named Tri-Lakes Fire Protection
District Chief
- Fire District Board Joint Meeting
August 13
- WMFPD Says "Farewell" to
Dick Crowell
- Monument Board of Trustees Meeting,
August 5
- Monument Board of Trustees Meeting,
August 19
- Monument Board of Trustees Meeting,
September 3
- Letters to Our Community
-
Letters from Law Enforcement: Weed
Violations
-
Republican primary election
results for county commissioner
-
Between The Covers at the Covered
Treasures Bookstore: School Days, School Daze
-
High Country Highlights: What wine is all
about
-
Balink likely next county clerk and
recorder, Sholdt appointed as interim
-
Palmer Lake’s Blue Columbine
Fall Concert in the Park, Saturday September 14
-
Palmer Lake Art Group’s annual
Christmas Crafts Festival October 5 and 6
-
It’s that time again -
Tri-Lakes Business Expo Sept. 13
-
Tri-Lakes Women’s Club Fall
Kick-Off Meeting Sept. 20
-
PLHS Historic Homes and Walking
Tour
-
Model train show, September 28
-
Western Museum of Mining and
Industry August 24
-
Friends of Ben Lomond continually
looking for friends
-
Monument Committee Openings
-
News from the Tri-Lakes Center for
the Arts
-
Women’s Club and Car Club
raise money for fire department
-
105: CDOT met with Monument
business community
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- Tri-Lakes Olympic Torch events planned for
January 31
- Forest Lakes hearing tentatively
scheduled for January 22
- January meetings: important opportunity to
air concerns about draft Monument comp plan
- Monument board plans spring completion of
Beacon Lite extension, raises concerns about interchange funding, considers
trails crossing lights
- Palmer Lake Town Council: New fire
truck, PLVFD day, streetscape options considered, dog license fee increase
- Board rethinks ambulance contract
- Controversial 2002 budget and various
ordinances adopted at special December 27 Monument board meeting
- Planning Commission recommends approval
of Parish education center and Jackson Creek subdivision
- Triview board adopts budget, discusses
bondholder concerns, bond refinancing, Wal-Mart water study, comp plan update,
water reuse, developer fees, and sales tax collection
- Tri-Rec seeks developer funds
- Heritage grant used to fund Tri-Lakes
area studies
- Congressional reapportionment
goes to court
- LP school board appoints member,
reviews special ed costs, sets mill levy
- Rep. Hefley helps Congress pass trade promotion
authority
- Letter: Palmer Lake resident shocked by
behavior
- Letter: Former Monument mayor analyzes budget
- Serving our community: Monument Hill
Sertoma collects $3,600 for 9-11 survivors, $21,700 for local needy
- Joe Beggs to Differ: The Triview
Metropolitan District
- Friends of Ben Lomond team with Tri-Rec for
passage of ballot measure
- Palmer Lake Holiday Decorating Contest
winners announced
- High Country Highlights:
Gardening by Window
- Letters from law enforcement:
Most asked questions
- Friends of Black Forest Regional Park face
daunting legal bills
- In firefighting, every second counts!
- Between the Covers at Covered Treasures
Bookstore: Reading and Resolutions
- Palmer Lake Yule Log Hunt continues local
tradition
- Arts and Crafts Corner:
PDQ lives up to its name
- The nature of our community:
Aspens—not just another pretty leaf
- Our community needs you
- Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, housed in an
historic building, welcomes new executive director
- The Lucretia Vaille Museum preserves
Tri-Lakes history
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Interview with Chief Kissell by George Barnes
Letter of Appreciation by Katy Page
Letter: Development Update by John Heiser
Property Taxes by Joe Beggs
Our Community Views by Roth Hyland
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Interview with Mayor Tenney by Ray Bedingfield
Open Letter to Monument by Claudette Bedingfield
Demands Delay Dam Repairs by Roth Hyland
Editor's Note
Interview with Betty Konarski by Tommie Plank
Six Good People by Ray Bedingfield
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Interview with Trustee DeLaney by George Barnes
Letter from Trustee Morgan
The Monument Comp Plan by Chris Pollard
What is NEPCO?
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Emergency Services by Rebecca Hicks
Our Continuing Mission by Roth Hyland, Publisher,
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Interview with Trustee Schutz by Ray Bedingfield
Interview with Trustee Wilcox by Ray Bedingfield
Letter: Sunshine Law Rumor vs. Fact by Joe Beggs
In the Works by Judy
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Interview with Trustee Morgan by Ray
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Monument Police Audit by George Barnes
New Police Chief Sworn In by Andrew Keating
Speaking Out by
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July 4th a Great Success Courtesy the Monument
Hill Sertoma Club
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Interview with Trustee Smith by Ray
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Recall Appeal Filed by Andrew Keating
Letter: In Support of Glenda Smith by Donna Merrifield
Letter: Sibell Fights Annexation
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Save Ben Lomond Courtesy the Friends of Ben Lomond Mountain
Nick Liebovitz' Resignation
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The Monument Recall by John Heiser
The Recall Protest Hearing by George Barnes
July 4th Celebration Courtesy the Monument Hill Sertoma Club
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