Saturday’s Lynyrd Skynyrd concert at the Ford Amphitheater was the most strongly upwind evening in three years of records, and it drew the largest response the resident-run noise map has ever logged on a night the wind was blowing the other way. It was also the second show running that the Independent’s own sound forecast […]
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The County’s Zoning Rewrite Comes to the Woodmoor Barn Monday
El Paso County brings its draft Land Development Code to the Woodmoor Barn on Monday, September 21. Comments on the 516-page draft close October 16.
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Gleneagle Removes All Five Directors and Seats Its Challengers
Gleneagle’s owners removed all five directors of their civic association on September 15 and elected the five challengers who had campaigned for the recall. Five days on, neither the association nor the group that won has published an account of the result, and no certified tally has been released. The question this newspaper asked three […]
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A Yes Vote with a Warning: The Needles Rezoning Goes to Commissioners
The Planning Commission backed smaller lots off Highway 83, 6-3. One of the six asked where it stops.
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Gleneagle’s Proxy Form Names a Director Facing Removal
Correction, September 15, 2026: An earlier version of this article said that Ray Micklewright had not replied to questions from The Independent. He replied at 6:55 p.m. on September 13, some six hours after publication and well inside the deadline The Independent had set. His reply was not seen before the article was updated later […]
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A Robotics Room in Monument Became a Community Workshop in Palmer Lake
Monumental Impact began in 2020 because a home-based business could not host a high-school intern properly. Six years on it runs a workshop at 866 Highway 105 in Palmer Lake with a computer-controlled router, a ninety-watt laser and a rack of 3D printers, open on a monthly membership to teenagers through retirees. It marked its […]
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Denied in July, Walker Road Rezoning Returns as RM-12 and RS-5000
Less than seven weeks after El Paso County commissioners denied multi-family zoning at Highway 83 and Walker Road, the landowner has filed two new requests for the same 15 acres, now zoned for five-acre rural lots: multi-dwelling zoning allowing up to 12 dwelling units an acre on the northern half, and small-lot single-family and duplex […]
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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.