Category: Local News

From a marshal who was also the mayor and the fire chief, to a department planning around thirty-seven sworn officers: how Monument built its police force.

In December 1957 The Columbine Herald printed a set of instructions for reaching the Monument fire department. Call GR. 5-2454 during business hours. Call GR. 5-2350 after them, and the Simpson family across from the Higby store would turn in the alarm. If neither telephone answered, walk to the north side of the Simpson house, […]

Woodmoor Public Safety logged 100 dispatches in July 2026, led by 22 animal complaints. The larger numbers are the routine ones: 1,277 business checks and 714 vacation checks, and 15 doors and windows found open.

Palmer Lake’s trustees declared a Stage 1 water emergency on August 13th. Outdoor irrigation is confined to Wednesdays between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m., by five-gallon bucket only. Monument Creek has been dry since mid-June.

Development records for the Tri-Lakes sit in three unrelated government systems, and no map showed all three at once. TriLakes Growth, a Monument Independent publication now in beta, indexes El Paso County, Monument and Palmer Lake filings into one free public record.

Palmer Land Conservancy has acquired Pinestone Ranch, 674 acres at the foot of Pikes Peak that had been on the market at $5.9m as a development site. The land is to become public open space — after the conservancy finds an owner for it and raises half the purchase price.

Tri-Lakes Preservation and The Community Voice estimate a Buc-ee’s on Monument Hill would leave local governments and districts about $602,000 a year worse off. The estimate turns on a projected fall in nearby home values.

El Paso County’s commissioners will hear Buc-ee’s appeal on Thursday, Aug. 27, deciding whether a 74,000-square-foot travel plaza is a “convenience store” under C-1 zoning.

Ground is broken at Second and Adams for the Heart of Monument Play Park, a universally accessible playground built by the town, the Kiwanis club and the church that donated the land. Phase One is funded; about $48,000 remains for Phase Two.

Tri-Lakes Colorado lists 360 businesses in Monument, Palmer Lake and Woodmoor. Listings are free, every business gets its own indexable page, and owners can correct or remove theirs at no charge.