The Bear Creek Nature Center will host a free celebration from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m., on Saturday, January 5, inviting the community to explore and experience the nature center’s new and updated exhibits. The celebration will include live music from the All In! Jazz Trio, Greenback Cutthroat Trout educational presentations from Colorado Parks and Wildlife,…
El Paso County Parks to host three upcoming event. Trails, Tails and Ales Saturday, January 12, 10:30 a.m. Black Forest Section 16 Trailhead, 8510 Burgess Road, Colorado Springs Grab your dog and join us for this special hike! We will be hitting the Black Forest Section 16 Trail, hike the 4-mile trail, and then…
El Paso County Assessor Steve Schleiker and his team will discontinue its outdated parcel search web page and transition to a remodeled, more user-friendly tool called the Property Record Card on Jan. 2, 2019. The new parcel search web page can be found at https://property.spatialest.com/co/elpaso/. The Property Record Card and another new tool called Citizen…
El Paso County’s Fountain Creek Nature Center and Bear Creek Nature Center announce the events and activities for January 2019 which includes: a bird count, night photography, hikes, volunteer orientations and a celebration of the new exhibits at Bear Creek Nature Center. Fountain Creek Nature Center 320 Pepper Grass Lane, Fountain, CO 80817 719-520-6745,…
Outgoing Commissioners Darryl Glenn (District 1) and Peggy Littleton (District 5) were honored on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2018, at their last Board of County Commissioners meeting.
A special proclamation reading honoring outgoing El Paso County Commissioners Peggy Littleton and Darryl Glenn will take place at 8 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. What: Special proclamation reading to honor term-limited Commissioners Peggy Littleton and Darryl Glenn, whose terms end at the end of 2018. A reception will follow. When: 8 a.m., Thursday, Dec.…
The El Paso County Board of Health approved the 2019 budget for El Paso County Public Health on Wednesday, Dec. 19 at its regular monthly meeting. The vote was unanimously in favor of the $17.1 million budget. The new budget includes the use of $650,000 from the agency’s reserve funds, and an increase in support…
El Paso County began construction of the Chipita Park Road Drainage Improvements at Sand Gulch this week. The project is located along Chipita Park Road, approximately 13 miles northwest of downtown Colorado Springs and adjacent to Ute Pass Elementary School. The Project will generally consist of reconstruction and armoring of the Sand Gulch channel between…
El Paso County, the City of Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Utilities, Rocky Top Resources, Colorado Springs Gazette, Asplundh Tree Expert Co., and Colorado Springs Youth Sports will be operating a TreeCycle event to reduce landfilled tree waste, provide free mulch and support youth sports. For a suggested minimum donation of only $5 per tree, area…
Most El Paso County administrative and elected administrative offices and affiliated agencies, including El Paso County Public Health, the Department of Human Services, Clerk and Recorder, County Treasurer, County Assessor, Pikes Peak Workforce Center, CSU Extension, the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), the Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) and the El Paso County Public Trustee…
