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Tiny Colorado town floats idea of purchasing resort estimated to cost $100 million-plus

Last week, news broke that the tiny town of Nederland may be considering the purchase of nearby Eldora Mountain Resort, long known for attracting Front Range winter slopesport enthusiasts looking to skip I-70 traffic to instead enjoy the 600-plus acres of skiable terrain at this local spot instead. After all, winter sports company POWDR is looking for a new owner of the spot, meaning that big changes are likely on the way regardless of who ends up acquiring the destination.

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Gaines: You can make a difference by volunteering for a local board or committee

Realigning the main drag through Sterling left a couple parcels of land orphaned.  It wasn’t necessarily that they looked worse than they did before — one of them was a former trailer park where the only vestiges of its former life were bare concrete pads with socketless meter boxes poking up here and there.  The highway realignment didn’t make them ugly, it made them uglier:  it left a bit of land whose shape wouldn’t be too conducive to anything useful.  Yet another empty patch of dirt on my daily commute.

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Colorado Springs retail marijuana ban still failing, according to final unofficial election results

Colorado Springs residents appear to have rejected a ballot question that sought to more permanently ban recreational marijuana sales in the city, according to updated election results from the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Thursday night.

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