Precinct returns show the Republican presidential margin in Monument and Palmer Lake, northern El Paso County, narrowed from R+44 in 2016 to R+26 in 2024.
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Black Forest Slash Drop-Off Ends Sept. 12; Mulch Runs Through Sept. 19
Saturday, Sept. 12, is the last day to drop off slash at the Black Forest Slash-Mulch site. Mulch pickup runs through Sept. 19, and the committee’s flyer says a loader will be on hand four days and its services are free through the end of the season.
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Palmer Lake Wine Festival Returns Sept. 12
The seventh Palmer Lake Wine Festival runs Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Palmer Lake Recreation Area, with tastings from 21 Colorado wine and mead makers and a portion of the proceeds for Tri-Lakes Cares.
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Monument Town Council, September 8, 2026: An E-Bike Ordinance Ordered, a Drive-Thru Sent Back, a Plan Nobody Could Find
Monument’s council ordered a draft e-bike and e-moto ordinance carrying a $250 fine for parents, sent a Jackson Creek Parkway drive-thru back over its driveways, and approved a shop building that the site’s own well had already shrunk.
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Monument Pours in the Park Returns Sept. 19
The Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce has renamed its September craft-beverage festival Monument Pours in the Park. It runs at Limbach Park on Saturday, Sept. 19, from noon to 4 p.m. — beer, spirits, wine, cider and non-alcoholic pours, a jazz band, and 400 tickets at $30 in advance or $35 at the gate. MONUMENT — […]
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Six Candidates, Five Seats, One Contested Race
Monument voters will elect five town officials on November 3 and decide whether to raise the town’s tax on construction. Six candidates filed for the five seats, and only the mayor’s race drew more candidates than there are places to fill: two sitting councilmembers are competing for the seat Mitch LaKind is leaving after six […]
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Woodmoor Public Safety’s August: 87 Calls and 1,919 Property Checks
Woodmoor Public Safety logged 87 dispatches in August 2026, plus 1,379 business checks and 540 vacation checks. Bears reached unsecured trash five times.
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The Water Under the Palmer Divide
The water in the Arapahoe aquifer beneath Monument fell as rain around the end of the last ice age. The U.S. Geological Survey dated it: a median of about 24,000 years, against 2,000 years for the shallower Dawson and more than 30,000 for the Denver below it. Those three stacked sandstone layers remain a primary, […]
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The Road Forked at Monument. Colorado’s Tarred Adjutant General Took the Palmer Lake Branch.
Congress made Labor Day a national holiday on June 28, 1894. Six days earlier, masked men took the commander of Colorado’s militia out of a Colorado Springs hotel and tarred him for protecting striking miners.
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Monument’s Draft 2040 Plan Is Out. Here Is How to Weigh In.
Monument published draft comprehensive and downtown plans on August 26. An open house runs noon to 4 p.m. on September 9, with a Planning Commission hearing that evening and council adoption set for October 5.