Round-Up: Pueblo’s City Manager steps down; Manitou Springs leases parking lot; and more

By On May 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Andrea Chalfin, AP, Intern, Katherine-Claire O'Connor, KRCC News, Manitou Springs, Pueblo, Round-Up, Uncategorized, Wildfires

Pueblo’s City Manager is stepping down after leaving the scene of a minor traffic incident…

Manitou Springs has leased a parking lot in an effort to help ease traffic issues this summer…

Fire managers have requested an additional helicopter to help fight a nine-square-mile wildfire in southwestern Colorado near the Utah border…

Anti-tax activist Doug Bruce is expected to be released from Denver County Jail tomorrow.

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