Colorado Springs is lucky to have an active local music scene, ranging from classical to country with every music genre in between. My favorite local band, The Verdict, plays classic rock from the ‘80s, the kind of music that when the band starts to play a song, you exclaim, “Great! Let’s dance. We can sing […]
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The controversy surrounding the proposal to relocate the Colorado Springs Sky Sox’s stadium has become a misguided battle between perception and reality. The impression many citizens seem to have is that Mayor Steve Bach is a puppet of some very powerful property and land developers. Hence, this line of reasoning suggests that the stadium shouldn’t be relocated at all, under any
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Your eyes are not deceiving you! This cat has a purple face. His name is Sammy, and he’s a foster kitten that my mother-in-law is housing. She provides a foster home for cats from the Humane Society, taking on special cases and nursing them back to health so they can be adopted. Sammy is what’s
Seeds Community Café blossomed from Lyn Harwell’s simple vision to help the homeless and impact food insecurities within our community. Lyn was raised on a farm in northeast Ohio, where he recalls sharing fresh grown produce, eggs, dairy, pigs, and chickens with neighbors. Offering individual contributions and partaking of other’s hard work and efforts, in
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Sandra Knauf’s Zera and the Green Man is a sci-fi fantasy for the YA market, but I and many other adults have reveled in it. It is “right on time” with current events—plenty of GMO Franken-creatures—and it features the timeless themes of love for nature and family. I recently spent an afternoon interviewing the author,
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New teachers, it turns out, have very little personal time. Between lesson plans, waking up at the crack of dawn, and handling masses of children all day, I’ve always been surprised they don’t just go home and turn themselves off for a few hours, rebooting the next morning to do it all again. However, it
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