The Wal-Mart Foundation has awarded a $59,000 grant to Catholic Charities which allowed for the purchase of a new Marian House Community Outreach truck.
The truck will have both Catholic Charities and Wal-Mart brands and will deliver food and other needed items to the rural communities in Colorado. They plan to deliver to five food pantries [...] [...]
With Valentine’s Day still more than a week away, there are four local restaurants with reputations for romance that are booking up quickly.
Mona Lisa, the Craftwood Inn and Briarhurst Manor in Manitou Springs, along with The Pepper Tree on the southwest side of Colorado Springs, were ranked among the 100 most romantic restaurants in the [...] [...]
Colorado Springs Buick and GMC auto dealer Mike Shaw has been named Time magazine’s 2012 Dealer of the Year.
Shaw, who also runs Chevrolet and Saab dealerships in Denver, Fountain and Castle Rock, as well as in Louisiana and Texas, is the 43rd auto dealer to win Time’s annual award.
The announcement was made Saturday during the [...] [...]
Following are the most expensive foreclosures greater than $200,000 that sold at the El Paso County Public Trustee’s foreclosure auction ... [...]
Greccio Housing is preparing to close on two apartment buildings that will increase their inventory of affordable housing by more than 30 percent.
Lee Patke, Greccio executive director, said he couldn’t discuss specifics about the buildings or the bank that owns them until the closings on Feb. 6 and March 6.
But the two buildings, which are [...] [...]
A new sandwich franchise is slated to open in University Village this March.
Which Wich Superior Sandwiches is a Texas company with locations in 22 states, including 12 in Colorado.
“Outside of Texas, we have more stores in Colorado than anywhere else,” said Which Wich communications director Hala Habal. “Our Colorado franchisees have a really strong presence [...] [...]
New teacher tenure rules proposed for Colorado are getting their first review by state lawmakers who asked for them.
A House-Senate panel is meeting Monday afternoon to look at the proposed four-tier review standards for teachers. The state board of education approved the new evaluation standards to decide when teachers get employment protections sometimes called tenure.
Colorado [...] [...]
Plans for a new event center in Manitou Springs are moving forward.
Julian Heron, president of the Craft Lager Festival, said the big project he’s been working on during the last year is gaining momentum. He aims to build an event center on the western edge of Manitou Springs that will have indoor and outdoor amphitheater [...] [...]
Blue Ridge Construction will begin work on realigning Vincent Drive and creating a new intersection with it and Dublin Boulevard on Monday.
Crews will extend Vincent Drive south over an existing stone masonry culvert crossing at Cottonwood Creek.
Before roadway work starts, crews will do extensive utility work with minor traffic encroachments. They will grow more extensive [...] [...]
Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers opened the first of four new restaurants in the Colorado Springs area today.
The restaurant chain opened in Monument and franchisee Kyle Gerstner said he plans to begin construction on another along the Powers Boulevard corridor in June.
Freddy’s opened its first store in 2002 in Wichita, Kan. The Monument restaurant is [...] [...]
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