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.
Monthly Archives: September 2026
Posted inEvents News
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 — […]
Posted inGovernment
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 […]
Posted inLocal News
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.
Posted inLocal News
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, […]
Posted inLocal News
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.
Posted inGovernment
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.
Posted inLocal News
Sound Reached Six Miles on a Nearly Windless Night
Nineteen households reported Saturday’s Brantley Gilbert show at the Ford Amphitheater, and a fifth sat four miles or more out. The Independent’s own forecast had ranked the night low.
Posted inLocal News
At the Ford Amphitheater, Six Shows and Higher Rent
VENU’s second-quarter filing shows the Ford Amphitheater playing six shows instead of eleven, its revenue down 37 percent, and its ground rent up $1 million a year to a company co-owned by the chief executive.
Posted inSchools
A Monument Academy Graduate Wins a Denver Woman’s Press Club Scholarship
Isabelle Vigueria didn’t apply. A Scholastic medal for the first chapter of her unfinished novel brought the Denver Woman’s Press Club to the Monument Academy graduate with $2,500 for tuition.