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Recent Posts
- From Freelancer to staffer – my current work archive has moved!
- Agriculture Grants Spice Up A Pueblo Sriracha Maker And Six Other Businesses
- The Colorado State Fair Is Ready To Return In 2021 After The Pandemic Closed Down Most Activities Last Year
- The 1921 Flood Changed Pueblo Forever. What Has Recovery Looked Like?
- 100 Years Ago, A Devastating Flood Changed The Course Of Pueblo’s Future
- $1.1 Million In EPA Grants Target Contaminants At Trinidad’s Fox West Theatre And Other Historic Las Animas County Buildings
- As The Pueblo Region Plans For The Future, Solving Housing Issues And Supporting Diverse Communities Are Among The Priorities
- New Green Mountain Falls Art Installation To Use Light and Space to Explore Human Perception
- Powerful Pedal Pushers To Pump It Out At This Weekend’s Pueblo Classic Bike Race
- Pueblo Got $36 Million In Federal COVID Aid. City Residents Can Tell The Mayor Their Ideas For Spending It
- A Connection Between The Amtrak Southwest Chief And The Proposed Front Range Rail Chugs Closer To Reality
- Pueblo School District 60 Breaks Ground On Two New High Schools As Part Of Major Upgrade Project
- From Backyards To Balconies It’s Time To Think About Your Garden
- EPA Grant Will Bring Gardens To Pueblo Homes Impacted By The Colorado Smelter Superfund Site
- Pueblo’s Old Steel Mill Headquarters Becomes Colorado’s 26th National Historic Landmark
- Pueblo Wants More Pedestrians On Union Avenue And Main Street
- Colorado Is Cracking Down On Illegal Ponds In The Arkansas River Basin
- Amtrak CEO’s Priorities Could Be Good News For Train Travel In Colorado
- Historic Cabin Hidden Inside Walls Of Modern Home Is Being Restored In Southern Colorado
- In Southern Colorado, Giving The Old Cuchara Mountain Ski Area A New Life
- Potential Arkansas River Dam Safety Project In Pueblo Could Create Better Recreation
- Pueblo Mayor Nick Gradisar Highlights COVID-19 Resilience, Previews Development In State Of The City Address
- Plans Are Underway To Restore Pueblo’s Historic Keating School
- Testing On Amtrak’s Newest High-Speed Train Nears Completion At Pueblo R&D Track
- Wild Bison Return To Colorado’s Great Plains
Tag Archives: Colorado
KRCC News wins Colorado Broadcasters Association Award of Excellence
KRCC’s “Railroad West” series garnered top honors for Best News Report, Feature or Series in major markets from the Colorado Broadcasters Association. This series focused on Colorado’s possible loss of Amtrak’s Southwest Chief route and included work by multiple reporters overseen by … Continue reading
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Tagged amtrak, andrea chalfin, Colorado, pueblo, railroad, Southwest Chief
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How Colorado’s mountains are named
Mounts Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and Oxford are among the peaks forming Colorado’s Collegiate Peaks, in the Sawatch Range. Recently, an application was made to have Mount William and Mary join that group. Will the application to name a peak … Continue reading
Demolition Underway as Major Repairs Begin on Arkansas River Levee in Pueblo
Demolition work has begun to remove the top 12 feet of a section of the Arkansas River Levee in Pueblo. It’s part of the first phase of a project to repair the aging structure and meet FEMA flood control guidelines. … Continue reading
Water Use Decreases Nationally, Shortages Still Loom in Colorado
Water use across the country has reached its lowest level in nearly 45 years, according to a recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey. Yet, western states still face shortages and just a dozen states account for half the nation’s water … Continue reading
As Pueblo levee repair project moves forward, documentation is planned for world’s largest mural
The largest mural in the world will be destroyed due to forthcoming major repairs to the aging Arkansas River levee in Pueblo, Colorado. Built following the deadly 1921 flood, the levee needs to meet post-Hurricane Katrina flood insurance requirements. Local … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Colorado Public Radio, KRCC, Radio, Reported Story
Tagged arkansas river, Colorado, colorado history, current-events, levee, mural, pueblo, Pueblo Levee Mural
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Swimming in the Mountains
Just posted this photo to my online gallery .
Repairs to Pueblo levee to destroy world’s largest mural
The largest mural in the world will be destroyed due to forthcoming major repairs to the aging Arkansas River levee in Pueblo, Colorado. Built following the deadly 1921 flood, the levee needs to meet post-Hurricane Katrina flood insurance requirements. Local … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Colorado Public Radio, KRCC, Radio, Reported Story
Tagged arkansas river, Colorado, colorado history, current-events, levee, mural, pueblo, Pueblo Levee Mural
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Glowing Cloud and City
I shot this image earlier this summer. A gorgeous cloud lit up over downtown as we walked to the river for the lantern parade. This image and others are available as prints at http://shannalewis.fineartamerica.com/
How marketers turned rugged Colorado into a ‘vacationland’
It wasn’t so long ago that Colorado had a much more unpolished image, a place of dauntingly high peaks and the few rough-and-ready types ready to climb them. Not for recreation, but for fur trapping, mining and expeditions of discovery. … Continue reading
Shanna Lewis - Radio Journalist, Photographer 