Monument’s council started paid parking at Monument Lake, froze data centers for six months, and moved to withhold a $219,815 payment to the Loop water project.
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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 […]
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Home Place Ranch: Who Runs the Ranch
Home Place Ranch has no independent homeowners association. Its covenants are written, and enforced, by companies that answer to the same builder. Second in a three-part examination of Home Place Ranch. Part 1: the promise versus what was built. Part 2: who controls the community. Part 3: drainage, stormwater and fire. Home Place Ranch is […]
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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.
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Not an HOA: The Government That Runs Much of Monument
Triview Metropolitan District plows the roads, pipes the water and mows the parks that many residents assume a homeowners’ association handles. It is something more consequential — a local government with the power to tax and borrow — and that difference explains why two neighbors in the same town can owe very different property taxes. […]
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Home Place Ranch: The Empty-Nest Promise
Home Place Ranch was pitched to Monument as an age-targeted community for buyers 55 and older — quieter, lower-traffic, low-maintenance. That pitch helped win a contested approval. It was never written into the law, and it isn’t what got built. First in a three-part examination of Home Place Ranch. Part 1: the promise versus what […]
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Blame the Buildings? What D38’s Test Scores Actually Show
Critics blame new apartments for D38’s test scores. The data shows scores are flat, far above Colorado, and the district’s lowest scores are its own charter.
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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.
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Food Truck Friday Tonight at Sanctuary Pointe Park
Red Rocks Rebellion plays and three food trucks roll into Sanctuary Pointe Park in Monument tonight, Friday, June 26, from 5 to 8 p.m.
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Monument Town Survey: What the Words Are Worth
The Monument use tax on the November ballot: the town’s own survey shows the 1.5% road-tax measure can fail or pass depending on the wording.