- Bright colors are blossoming once again on the concrete face of Pueblo’s Arkansas River levee. Paintings are going up in an effort to reclaim a lost public art space and the title of world’s largest outdoor mural.
- Alone. In the middle of the ocean. In a motorless boat. That's how Tez Steinberg, of Boulder, spent his summer. He rowed 2700 miles from California to Hawaii. He was at sea for 70 days. His goal is to inspire a more courageous world and raise scholarships for United World Colleges.
- Amtrak has cut most of its daily long-distance train services to three days a week., including the Southwest Chief and the California Zephyr, which both have multiple stops in Colorado.
- Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler visited the Colorado Smelter Superfund site in Pueblo on Monday, July 27. Some 1,900 south Pueblo properties were potentially affected by lead and arsenic left behind by a silver smelter that shut down in 1908.
- City Park on Pueblo’s west side now has a newly restored historic entrance. The city of Pueblo constructed a grand entryway to the 157-acre park in 1905. It featured Colorado granite pillars topped by ornate Italian statuary. Over the years, it fell into disrepair and many of the statues disappeared.
- Summer is here and so are the joys, and woes, of gardening.
- A century ago the U.S. Forest Service’s first landscape architect argued for protecting wilderness, but that didn’t stop him from also making it easier to drive into the nation’s forests. Arthur Carhart wrote the agency’s first recreation plan and completed it in June 1920.
