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June 2001 are posted on this web site. Generally, only articles from the past year or two are included in
the tables of links below.
Please use OCN's search
function at the top left of each page to find all the articles on a topic.
Academy Water and Sanitation District
The Academy Water and Sanitation District serves approximately 300 homes east
of the Donala Water and Sanitation District. It has been proposed that the
Academy district be merged into the Donala district. For more on the topic...
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Academy Water and Sanitation
District Board of Directors, August 16: District
still exploring options to merger with Donala |
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Academy Water and
Sanitation District, September 9: New
proposal clarifies financial expectations of a merger |
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Academy Water and
Sanitation District Special Meeting, September 27:
Board wonders where merger money will come from |
| Academy Water and Sanitation District, Oct.
3: Violation of state standards turns out
to be false alarm |
| Academy Water and Sanitation District, Nov. 7:
Rate,
service fee increase approved |
| Academy Water and Sanitation District, December
5: Board leaning toward merger with Donala |
| Academy Water and Sanitation District, January
2: Another step taken toward merger |
| Academy
Water and Sanitation District, February 6: Colorado
House bill could kill merger plans |
| Academy
Water and Sanitation District, March 12: Merger
talks back on track with Donala |
| Academy
Water and Sanitation District, April 2: Early
bond payoff not possible |
OCN carries a series of articles on local arts and crafts and
performing arts...
| Art
is a journey: Donna Arndt |
| Tri-Lakes
Railroad Festival, Sept. 25 |
| Creative Crafters Showcase, Oct. 23 |
| New
Column: Art Matters |
| Art Matters: Art
and culture count |
| Art Matters:
Bits
and pieces: papier-mâché |
| 29th Annual Pine Forest Antique
Show and Sale |
| Art Matters:
Art
is the fountain of youth |
| Art
Matters: How to recognize good art |
| Art
Matters: The Art of an Endless Summer |
| Art Matters:
Local artists and the Art Hop |
| Art
Matters: Art and History: A 12,000-Year Redux |
| Art Matters:
"Shui"
the universe for good luck |
| Concert series coming to Tri-Lakes |
| Art Matters:
Art,
Pop Art, or Plop Art |
| Art
Matters: The care and keeping of art |
| Art Matters: Innovative
art choices jazz up January
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| Piano concert a delight |
| Art Matters:
Local
Artists in the Global Village |
| Art
Matters: Threads |
| Art
Matters: Earth Day, April 22 |
| Rocky
Mountain Music Alliance Concert |
| 30th
Pine Forest Antique Show |
| Art Matters: Walk
of the Town: The Art Hop rides again May 18 |
| Don’t miss
the Palmer Lake Art Group Spring Show & Sale |
| Art Matters: Let’s
do art evenings with friends |
| Art Matters:
It pays to collect art |
| Over
the Bar performs for the Black Rose
Acoustic Society, Aug. 25 |
| Art Matters: Is
Modern Art still new? |
| Art
Matters: With modernism, Rembrandt helps
shoot "Friends" and "Pirates" |
| Art Matters: Holiday
art: Fame and fortune for this pop-art genre |
| Art Matters: On
Enjoying Art, Creating Community |
| Art Matters:
Artists are in a class of their own
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| Tri-Lakes enjoys a Rockin’ Sock Hop! |
| Art Matters: Plein
air painting |
| da Vinci students to perform at the
Kennedy Center |
| Art Matters: Earth
Day and Plein Aire Art |
| Art Matters: Enjoy
paintings ‘en plein aire’ |
| Art Matters:
The secret of ‘fine art" |
| Art
Matters: Art spirit creates community spirit |
| Art Matters: Painting
with light and bubbles |
| Art Matters: Hoving’s
gift and ‘the Artful Tommy’ |
| The arts in Palmer Lake celebrated and
demonstrated, Sept. 8 |
| Ice harvest history represented in art
wall |
| Art Matters: Ladies
and gentlemen, what’s your art IQ? |
| At the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts |
| Art Matters: Art
that warms our community |
| Art Matters: Enjoy
the great indoors
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| Art Matters:
Jeanne Claude and Cristo |
| Art group schedules winter show |
| Art
Matters: Drawing |
| Watercolor
Workshop Feb. 9 |
| Palmer Lake
Art Group opens new show |
| Dakota
Blonde brings music of life to Tri-Lakes |
| Art Matters:
Spring |
| Ceol Ceili
rouses an audience with lively Irish music |
| Snapshots: RMMA
Concert, March 8 |
| Snapshots:
Taos Film Festival at the TLCA, March 8 |
|  Art
Matters: Jump into Art Hop this month |
| Pine
Forest Antiques Show excites collector in all of us |
| Snapshots:
coustic duo enthralls audience |
Growth along Baptist Road has led to greatly increased traffic. The Baptist
Road Rural Transportation Authority (BRRTA) was formed to coordinate changes to Baptist
Road to help address the resulting hazardous conditions and congestion. For more
on this topic...
| BRRTA meeting Apr. 9 |
| BRRTA
board meeting July 9 |
| BRRTA Special Meeting Aug. 6 |
| BRRTA board, Dec. 16 |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, Jan. 14: Increased urgency to approve Baptist Road upgrade plans |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority Open House, Feb. 2: Residents express concern about noise and
safety |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, March 11: Right-of-way acquisition
advances to the next stage |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, April 8: Resolution of Necessity for
right-of-way approved |
| Baptist
Road Rural Transportation Authority, July 8: Special
meeting deals with frontage road issues; BRRTA lacks funds for right-of-way |
| Baptist
Road Rural Transportation Authority, August 12: 22
of 26 tracts acquired; board to decide church
access Sept. 16 |
| BRRTA to build frontage road |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, December 9: 37 additional parcels likely
subject to traffic impact fees |
| Important Baptist Road Development
Hearings Feb. 6 and Feb. 10 |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, February 10: Private financing of
interchange improvements approved |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, March 10: Wal-Mart refuses to
participate in public improvement fee |
| Baptist and Struthers Road
construction contract awarded |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, April 14: Traffic impact fees to double July 1 |
| Letter: Wal-Mart
should pay |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation Authority Special
Meeting, May 12: Construction funding sources and
amounts clarified |
| Baptist Road improvement schedule announced |
| Community support sought for sales
tax to finance interchange improvements |
| Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority, July 14: Cost
overruns and funding shortfalls reported |
| Baptist
Road Rural Transportation Authority, August 11: Draft
language for sales tax discussed |
| Baptist
Road Rural Transportation Authority, August 28: Sales
tax ballot question certified |
| Monument
Board of Trustees, August 21: Open
house held on Baptist Road interchange plans |
| Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority, September 8: BRRTA
finalizes the ballot question |
| Baptist Road being extended to
connect to Hodgen Road |
| Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority, September 25: BRRTA
proceeds with interchange project planning in advance of sales tax the
election |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority Special Meeting, November 13: Final
planning for interchange work |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, December 8: Triview sewer line
construction delays Baptist Road improvements |
| On the Roads: Status
of Baptist, Struthers road construction |
| Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority, March 9: Board
approves funding for Gleneagle Drive signal |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, April 13: Board approves fee waiver for
Timbers |
| On the Roads: Status
of Baptist and Struthers road construction |
| Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, May 4: $21.5 million bond sale for
interchange work approved |
| On
the Roads: Baptist and Struthers Road
construction schedules |
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Baptist
Rd./Hodgen Rd. connection opens |
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On the Roads: Baptist-Struthers
Road Update |
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Baptist Road Rural
Transportation Authority special meeting, September 24: Baptist
Road project delayed; contract extended |
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Baptist Road Rural Transportation
Authority, Nov. 9: Land condemnation approved in
hopes of speeding up I-25 interchange construction |
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Access roads approved across Santa Fe Trail |
| Baptist
Road Rural Transportation Authority, February 8: BRRTA
to move forward on bids for interchange |
| Baptist
Road Rural Transportation Authority, Mar. 27: Several
expenses approved to expedite construction |
Residents are raising money to acquire 190 acres on
the top and north side of Ben Lomond Mountain to be set aside as publicly
accessible open space. For more on this topic...
Articles to help you identify our local feathered friends...
Articles to help you find your way in the digital world...
King's Deer developer Dan Potter has proposed building a road through Black
Forest Regional Park to provide access to his proposed 161 lot Cathedral Pines
development. Opponents of the plan have successfully fought it in court. For
more on this topic...
This series of book reviews focuses on books of special interest to Tri-Lakes
area residents...
The El Paso County Board of County Commissioners wields considerable power
as the governing authority for land use and other decisions for the
unincorporated areas of the county. For more on
this topic...
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