Category: Local News

Median age 44.4, median household income of $160,525, 89 percent homeowners and a veteran share more than double the state rate. What the federal and state data say about who lives in the Tri-Lakes.

Two land trusts have signed an open letter against the Buc-ee’s proposed for Monument Hill. Neither can stop it. What they can do is make it harder to decide quietly—because one of them holds the paper on the 17,700 acres across the road. Another voice has entered the long argument over the travel center proposed […]

El Paso County denied the Highway 83 & Walker Road rezoning 3–2. What comes next — appeal, refile, or build by right — and how each commissioner voted.

After six months of Xfinity outages, I switched to Conexon Connect’s two-gig fiber over Mountain View Electric’s co-op network. The speed, the cost, the install — and one shallow-buried complaint.

El Paso County commissioners take up the Highway 83 & Walker Road rezoning July 23 — 229 public comments opposed, and a 6-1 denial from their own planning commission.

Woodmoor isn’t a town. A plain-English guide to the Tri-Lakes community’s history, how it’s governed, and the districts that provide its water, fire and schools.

Twenty-six years ago a cable billionaire, a county and a lottery-funded land program bought the view north of County Line Road. The easement they built stops at the county line — which is exactly where Buc-ee’s is standing.

A 29-page analysis released July 15th by Tri-Lakes Preservation works through El Paso County’s own classification criteria and lands on the one label Buc-ee’s has spent this fight avoiding: a truck stop.

The Monument Independent launches a daily food truck tracker for Monument, Palmer Lake, Woodmoor and Gleneagle.

The developer behind the Highway 83 and Walker Road rezoning also owns the private water utility that would serve it — a new plant regional reviewers say is about $1m short of funding.