Palmer Lake’s clerk certified the November 3 ballot: two candidates for mayor, ten for five trustee seats. The top two winners serve four years, the next three two.
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Kent Hutson Chaired Palmer Lake’s Master Plan. Now He Is Running for Mayor.
A neuroradiologist who chaired the volunteer team behind Palmer Lake’s 2022 community master plan is running for mayor, taking no campaign contributions. He would inherit a water emergency, a Highway 105 sidewalk design due at year’s end, and a budget drawing on reserves.
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Palmer Lake Board of Trustees, August 13, 2026: A New Administrator, a Land Swap and a Legal Bill Past Budget
Palmer Lake hired a permanent town administrator, declared a water emergency, gave a Hermosa Avenue land swap an informal 3-1 blessing the mayor had to recuse himself from, and learned legal spending has passed $174,600 with five months of the year to run.
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In Palmer Lake, Outdoor Watering Is Now One Hour a Week, by Bucket
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.
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Palmer Lake Could Vote in 2027 on Dissolving Its Fire Department
Monument Fire District told Palmer Lake’s trustees it can take over fire and EMS for 8.4 more mills, and recommends a new station at Elephant Rock rather than in the village. A ballot question could come as early as May 2027.
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A Colorado Springs Councilman Told a Forum on Civility That Palmer Lake Was Steamrolled. Palmer Lake Won.
A councilman told a forum on civility that Palmer Lake refused a Buc-ee’s and got it built anyway. The town forced the company out. Nothing is being built.
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Palmer Lake Board of Trustees, July 23, 2026: A Hearing Officer, a Clean Audit and a Bridge Already Gone
Palmer Lake’s board sent the removal of Trustee Roger Moseley to an outside hearing officer, accepted a clean 2025 audit and heard a bid to rebuild a bridge the town had already torn out.
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A Town Without Guardrails
Palmer Lake has spent a year showing what becomes of a small town when the ordinary machinery of self-government goes missing — an ethics code, a permanent administrator, a clean line between the police and the town’s payroll, and minutes that match the recording. Local watchdog groups have published a heavily documented dossier arguing that an elected trustee is being run out of office by improper means; the town’s own record and the region’s reporting fill in the rest. The striking thing is not who is right. It is how little now works in Palmer Lake to decide it.