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SPEED – scares Prospect Street residents
Residents of North Prospect Street are upset about speeding on their residential street. Here is a view from www.FlashEarth.com of Prospect Street and the surrounding area. Folks on Prospect are...
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GROWTH CONFLICT – a century-old issue in the Springs
One of my favorite features in The Gazette is the daily “Back Pages” column on Page 2. Often, the items offer a sense of history and perspective. Consider that the 100-year-ago items likely were read...
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JUST ANOTHER BRICK in the wall
Holger and Sally Christiansen decided they needed their own sound wall to buffer their home in the historic Old North End neighborhood, north of downtown, from the growing roar of traffic on nearby...
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SHOCKING streetlight pricetag
It’s a classic image: a bunch of construction workers standing around, leaning on shovels, as one poor schmuck stands in a hole, digging away. Folks in the small Stonesthrow neighborhood on the...
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BITTER HARVEST from community garden
When I think of gardening, I get images of snapdragons. And towering stalks of corn. And twisting pumpkin vines. And weeds, of course. I don’t think of bickering and nasty signs and talk of bylaws and...
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ART or EYESORE?
Folks at Sierra Pointe Condominiums have been upset for months about operations of the homeowners association that governs the 282-unit complex. There have been feuds among members and repeated recall...
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HILLSIDE no longer going downhill
Everything is looking up in the Hillside neighborhood, southeast of downtown Colorado Springs. Longtime resident Fred Bland has completed his rescue of the 50-year-old Hillside Plaza. First, he took...
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GUNS, kids and cops
Freddy Gibbons walks her dogs, Bonsai and Lola, along Monument Creek behind her apartment complex every day. Recently, she found a small handgun in the sand in the creek. Here is a view of the complex...
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