A pediatric dentist who teaches residents at Children’s Hospital Colorado has written against Amendment 83, the measure on the Nov. 3 ballot that would put a right to hunt and fish into the Colorado Constitution. She is studying for a doctorate in bioethics, and her letter, offered to The Independent for publication, turns on the […]
Monthly Archives: October 2026
Posted inLocal News
The Palmer Lake Historical Society Turns 70
The Palmer Lake Historical Society was founded in 1956 to publish one town history. Seventy years on, it runs a museum. It celebrates on Oct. 15 in Palmer Lake.
Posted inSchools
D38 Buys Colorado Produce with Its First Local Food Grant
Colorado-grown carrots, peaches and heirloom tomatoes are on lunch trays at seven Lewis-Palmer School District 38 schools this fall, bought with the district’s first grant from the state’s Local Food Program. D38 received $68,925.50 for food, the most the state’s formula allows, and a further $20,797.26 for stipends to the kitchen staff who serve it. […]
Posted inEvents News
Black Forest Community Club Will Honor the Munson Family on October 17
The Black Forest Community Club will present a plaque to the Munson family on Saturday, Oct. 17, to thank a family it says has been part of the club for generations. The club’s October newsletter also lists six other dates through early December, reports a new fence along Black Forest Road and opens renewals of […]
Posted inEvents News
Empty Bowls Holds Its Final Dinner on October 14
The Empty Bowls Dinner and Silent Auction, which raises money for Tri-Lakes Cares, runs from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, at Lewis-Palmer High School. The Monument Hill Kiwanis Club, which puts on the dinner, says it will be the last. The Monument Hill Kiwanis Club, a service club with more than 100 volunteers, […]
Posted inGovernment
Atis Jurka Wants Palmer Lake Residents Heard First. Now He Is Running for Mayor.
A retired Army officer who has spent two years on Palmer Lake’s board, and cast its lone dissent on some of its biggest decisions, is asking voters to make him mayor. Atis Jurka’s campaign rests on the idea that residents should be heard before decisions are made and able to see how their money is […]
Posted inLocal News
The Forecast Said High. The Map Logged Five Reports.
The Independent’s sound forecast gave the September 25 concert at the Ford Amphitheater its highest rating, a band in which past nights have drawn a median of twenty-four reports to the resident-run noise map. The map logged five, three of them the following day. The forecast has now misjudged three shows in a row, twice […]