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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Arts Council Opens Free Palmer Lake Arts Fest at Centennial Park This Weekend
Palmer Lake Arts Fest is free and runs Friday through Sunday, July 24-26, at Centennial Park: nine bands, more than thirty artists, food trucks, a beer garden and a Saturday night star party.
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Historical Society Hosts Palmer Divide History Day in Palmer Lake on Saturday
A costumed General Palmer, an open museum, a rare rail speeder and a screening of the Palmer Divide Trilogy anchor the society’s turn at the region’s 250/150 celebration.
Posted inBusiness Spotlight
The Lantern on Highway 105
On a bend of Highway 105 in Palmer Lake, a green-trimmed storefront with a lantern on its sign has quietly become one of the Tri-Lakes’ busiest breakfast tables. Lake & Lantern Café serves cinnamon rolls the size of a fist and coffee poured with unusual care. Its founder is also selling something harder to fit on a menu: a second chance.
Posted inGovernment
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.
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Who Actually Governs the Tri-Lakes? A Field Guide
Five governments and a web of special districts make the decisions that shape Monument and Palmer Lake. Here is who votes on what.