The Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce has renamed its September craft-beverage festival Monument Pours in the Park. It runs at Limbach Park on Saturday, Sept. 19, from noon to 4 p.m. — beer, spirits, wine, cider and non-alcoholic pours, a jazz band, and 400 tickets at $30 in advance or $35 at the gate. MONUMENT — […]
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Six Candidates, Five Seats, One Contested Race
Monument voters will elect five town officials on November 3 and decide whether to raise the town’s tax on construction. Six candidates filed for the five seats, and only the mayor’s race drew more candidates than there are places to fill: two sitting councilmembers are competing for the seat Mitch LaKind is leaving after six […]
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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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Monument’s Draft 2040 Plan Is Out. Here Is How to Weigh In.
Monument published draft comprehensive and downtown plans on August 26. An open house runs noon to 4 p.m. on September 9, with a Planning Commission hearing that evening and council adoption set for October 5.
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A Monument Academy Graduate Wins a Denver Woman’s Press Club Scholarship
Isabelle Vigueria didn’t apply. A Scholastic medal for the first chapter of her unfinished novel brought the Denver Woman’s Press Club to the Monument Academy graduate with $2,500 for tuition.
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Monument’s Target Has Its Permit. Construction Has Started.
A building permit for a 129,000-square-foot Target was issued in Monument on August 31st, and inspectors were on the site two days later.
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E-Bike Rules in the Tri-Lakes: What Parents Should Know
Colorado sets a floor with no age limit and almost no helmet requirement. What sits on top of it depends on whose land you are on.
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Promontory Pointe and Sanctuary Pointe Vote on Dissolving Their Metro Districts
Mail ballots on dissolving Triview Metropolitan Districts No. 2 and No. 4 were due Sept. 1. The count is Sept. 10. The $6.4 million in road bonds stays until 2048.
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Eight Bands, Nine Hours: Monu-Palooza Returns to Limbach Park
Monu-Palooza X brings eight acts to Limbach Park in Monument from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 6. Advance admission $15, $10 for children; $25 at the gate.
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LaKind Will Not Seek Re-Election as Mayor of Monument
Mitch LaKind announced he will not seek re-election as Monument’s mayor in November, ending a six-year run from trustee to mayor that spanned the town’s conversion to home rule. His departure puts an open seat atop a ballot already carrying four council seats and a use-tax question.