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Articles bylined Staff are reported and written by The Monument Independent newsroom and edited by Michael Christensen, the editor. They are held to the same standards as every article the Independent publishes, set out in its editorial policy, and corrections are published on the corrections page. Tips and corrections: [email protected].
Posted inGovernment
Palmer Lake Board of Trustees, July 23, 2026: A Hearing Officer, a Clean Audit and a Bridge Already Gone
Palmer Lake’s board sent the removal of Trustee Roger Moseley to an outside hearing officer, accepted a clean 2025 audit and heard a bid to rebuild a bridge the town had already torn out.
Posted inEvents News
Arts Council Opens Free Palmer Lake Arts Fest at Centennial Park This Weekend
Palmer Lake Arts Fest is free and runs Friday through Sunday, July 24-26, at Centennial Park: nine bands, more than thirty artists, food trucks, a beer garden and a Saturday night star party.
Posted inSchools
School Spotlight: Lewis-Palmer Middle School, the Bridge Every Ranger and Bear Crosses
School Spotlight is a Monument Independent series profiling the schools that serve Tri-Lakes families. Having walked through the four high schools, we drop down a level to the building almost every D38 student passes through on the way there: Lewis-Palmer Middle School, a compact two-year school in Woodmoor where the district’s future Rangers and Bears […]
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School Spotlight: The Classical Academy, the Charter You Have to Wait For
School Spotlight is a Monument Independent series profiling the schools that serve Tri-Lakes families — every D38 school, plus The Classical Academy, the D20 charter that many Monument students call home. We’ve done Lewis-Palmer, Palmer Ridge, and Monument Academy. Here is the one that isn’t even in our district: The Classical Academy, the highest-ranked high […]
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School Spotlight: Monument Academy, the Charter That Rebuilt Its High School
School Spotlight is a Monument Independent series profiling the schools that serve Tri-Lakes families — every D38 school, plus The Classical Academy, the D20 charter that many Monument students call home. We’ve done the two comprehensive high schools, Lewis-Palmer and Palmer Ridge. Here is the third door: Monument Academy, the classical charter that closed its […]
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School Spotlight: Palmer Ridge High School, the Bears on the Hill
School Spotlight is a Monument Independent series profiling the schools that serve Tri-Lakes families — every D38 school, plus The Classical Academy, the D20 charter that many Monument students call home. We started at the beginning, with Lewis-Palmer. Now the school D38 built to relieve it: Palmer Ridge High School, the newer campus on Monument […]
Posted inEvents News
Historical Society Hosts Palmer Divide History Day in Palmer Lake on Saturday
A costumed General Palmer, an open museum, a rare rail speeder and a screening of the Palmer Divide Trilogy anchor the society’s turn at the region’s 250/150 celebration.
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What Monument’s license-plate cameras capture, keep and share
Six Flock license-plate cameras watch Monument’s roads, reading nearly every passing plate. What they capture, how long the data is kept, who can see it, where they are, and how the town got them.
Posted inEvents News, Local News
The Fourth in Monument: A Parade at Ten, No Fireworks This Year
Monument’s Fourth of July, Saturday, July 4: the Kiwanis parade, a street fair and beer garden, where to park — and why there are no fireworks this year.