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• Clean-Up Crews Get School Ready for Students' Return After Fire Play Video

  March 15, 2013 9:23 AM

  Crews continue to clean up Evans Elementary School in Colorado Springs Thursday and Friday, after a student set a fire in a bathroom that evacuated the school and shut it down for several days. Now crews are working around the clock to get the school ready for students' return on... more »

• Volunteers needed to clean City Park in Pueblo

  January 14, 2013 6:59 PM

  The City of Pueblo is on the hunt for a few good volunteers. Every year, Americans participate in a Day of Service. This year in Pueblo that day is next Monday, January 21, and you're needed to clean up City Park. If you'd like to help out or find out... more »

• Park clean up could curb crime

  November 1, 2012 8:03 PM

  Drivers in Pueblo now have a clear view of Mineral Palace Park as they travel along I-25. Workers from the Pueblo Parks and Recreation Department, the Colorado Department of Transportation and the Community Corrections Services cleared out all of the unsightly sucker tree growth from the fences that border park.... more »

• Residents take advantage of clean-up in Pueblo West

  September 29, 2012 5:21 PM

  It's a cheaper way to clean up your house and yard, and many Pueblo West residents took advantage of it today. The Health Department, along with other groups in Pueblo West, organize a clean up in the area once every year. It gives people a chance to get rid... more »

• Hyde Park gets cleaned up and Pueblo West will next weekend

  September 22, 2012 7:46 PM

  Pueblo's Hyde Park neighborhood on the west side has a new look. Once a year, the Health Department goes into different communities to pick up trash and provide a dumpster service where you can drop off bulk trash items for only $15 a truckload. Today, they collected 45 truckloads and... more »

• Home of Heroes sign has a makeover in Pueblo

  July 28, 2012 8:05 PM

  It's one of the first things you see when you enter Pueblo on I-25 from the north. The "Home of Heroes" sign was in need of some clean-up, so volunteers through the City Volunteer Program took time to pull weeds and pick up trash. They were slightly surprised with... more »

• Denver students clean-up in Pueblo

  May 21, 2012 7:03 PM

  A group of students from Denver take time out of their day to help clean up in Pueblo. The students are from KIPP Collegiate High School, and they teamed up with the Students Today Leaders Forever Pay it Forward Tour to clean up at City Park in Pueblo. Through the... more »

• Cleaning up for Earth Day at Lake Pueblo

  April 22, 2012 6:23 PM

  In Pueblo people got out to do some good for the planet. Several groups cleaned up at Lake Pueblo State Park. Parks and Rec put the project together, and different groups got to help out and win prizes. By the end of the three hour clean-up, they had collected several... more »

• Clean up continues from heavy winds in Canon City Play Video

  March 19, 2012 8:13 PM

  Heavy winds Sunday left residents in Canon city cleaning up on Monday. "Just crazy; there's trees down all over town," says Shawn Poindexter; one of the bigger ones was knocked over in his yard on Greenwood. "Roofs are missing shingles; it came through here and tore stuff up,"... more »

• Cotter to comply with uranium mine cleanup orders

  October 13, 2011 1:18 PM

  DENVER (AP) - The president of Cotter Corp. says the company will comply with state orders to remove contaminated water from a former uranium mine west of Denver. Cotter president Amory Quinn tells the Denver Post the company will follow a court order to pump out and treat uranium-tainted... more »

• Keeping parks clean and accessible in a tough economy Play Video

  October 5, 2011 7:49 PM

  Palmer Park holds a special place in Tom Howes heart. Two years ago, when the city cut parks funding, he was among the first to step forward to help. "We started with 15 people in my living room saying there's something up here worth protecting," he recalls. That... more »

• Meth clean-up crisis

  August 10, 2011 8:14 AM

  ST. LOUIS (AP) - Police and sheriff's departments in states that produce much of the nation's methamphetamine have made a sudden retreat in the war on meth, at times virtually abandoning pursuit of the drug because they can no longer afford to clean up the toxic waste generated by labs.... more »

• Sailors from USS Missouri help Joplin clean up

  June 9, 2011 12:16 PM

  GROTON, Conn. (AP) - Eight sailors on the USS Missouri attack submarine are back from a week of voluntary leave they took to help clean up tornado damage in the state of Missouri. The sailors arrived back at U.S. Submarine Base in Groton Wednesday after assisting the AmeriCorps, the... more »

• Environmental groups challenge Shell drilling plan

  June 9, 2011 11:57 AM

  ATLANTA (AP) - Environmental groups are asking a federal appeals court to throw out a U.S. government decision to approve a Shell oil exploration plan that involves five proposed wells under more than 7,000 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation... more »

• Cashing in on a dirty job

  May 30, 2011 5:30 PM

  A Colorado Springs man is seeing green when many dog owners only see brown. His pooper scooper business is growing, even in a down economy. Brad Gouveia started Backyard Pooper Scooper in 2007 and has steadily grown a loyal customer base. Things are going well enough that he's hired... more »

• Clean up deadline arrives for local hoarder

  December 15, 2010 2:18 PM

  Today was the deadline for a Colorado Springs man to clean up his yard. He had hoarded so much stuff at his Skyway home that the City of Colorado Springs took the unusual step of taking him to court. Thomas Taylor has spent the last three weeks sorting and... more »

• Arbitrators rule county grossly over-billed in clean-up

  October 5, 2010 1:54 PM

  An arbitrator has ruled Pueblo County was over-billed nearly $5.4 million for the clean-up of an old warehouse. The building at 6th St. and Elizabeth St. in Pueblo burned in October 2007. The property owner, Omar Maaliki hired Qualiclean to clean up the site, but when Maaliki stopped paying the... more »

• Clean up planned at dog park

  September 28, 2010 2:29 PM

  El Paso County Parks and the Pikes Peak United Way will host a clean up day at the Bear Creek Dog Park on Saturday. The event is called Happy Hounds Day and is part of the national " Make A Difference Day " campaign. Volunteers will be provided pizza... more »

• Group pitches in "One Hour" to clean city parks

  September 27, 2010 4:39 PM

  With the City of Colorado Springs unable to clean up many of the parks around town, a group of friends are pledging one hour to clean up their communities. "I just got sick and tired of being sick and tired and figured I'd do something about it." explains Mark DeZuba,... more »

• County admits mishandling of Ice House clean up

  September 23, 2010 5:47 PM

  A look into the clean up of a burned down warehouse in Pueblo shows the county's attorney mishandled a contract worth millions of dollars. The old Ice House at 6th and Elizabeth burned in October 2007. Pueblo County paid about $6.6 million to clean up the site--which is planned... more »

• Cotter uranium mill on track to close

  August 18, 2010 7:51 PM

  A uranium mill that has operated in Canon City for decades is now on track to permanently close. The Cotter Corporation now says it plans to shut down containment ponds that store millions of tons of toxic waste. Without containment ponds, the mill can't operate. The Cotter Uranium Mill sits... more »

• Big Hill clean-up on Saturday

  May 21, 2010 3:25 PM

  Volunteers are needed to help clean-up "Big Hill" on Pueblo's northside on Saturday May 22. Rakes, gloves and other tools will be provided--so just show up and lend a hand. The clean-up will run from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you want to help, show up at Montezuma and... more »

• Bessemer Neighborhood clean-up Saturday

  April 30, 2010 11:57 AM

  It's that time of year for spring cleaning and Saturday May 1st there's a big clean-up scheduled in one of Pueblo's oldest neighborhoods. It's the 7th annual Bessemer Neighborhood clean-up. Residents can drop off old appliances, tires, yard waste and other trash to the corner of Abriendo Ave. and Canal... more »

• Leaking oil may be attacked by chemicals underwater

  April 29, 2010 5:00 PM

  BP officials say they are hoping to try an unusual technique to stop the flow of oil from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. BP PLC chief operating officer Doug Suttles says the company is studying whether to use chemicals to break up the oil under water.... more »

• Cemetery clean up planned

  February 22, 2010 1:29 PM

  The two City-operated cemeteries, Evergreen and Fairview, will do an annual clean-up from March 1 to March 15. People are now encouraged to remove any items from gravesites and headstones they wish to save. Christmas wreaths, for example, will be removed and thrown away, as well as tarnished or damaged... more »

• Cleanup restarts at site of massive Pueblo fire

  January 12, 2010 12:23 PM

  Clean-up work has started once again in Pueblo, where an old cold storage building burned to the ground. The fire happened in Oct. 2007 at the corner of 6th and Elizabeth. Pueblo County has spent millions of dollars to clean up the site, which still contains materials contaminated with asbestos.... more »

• From confrontation to cooperation

  October 1, 2009 9:40 PM

  Colorado Springs is seeing change in handling homelessness. A homeless man, known to friends as "Tools" says, "They use to give tickets for trespassing and all this other stuff and it's a big change. It's a change for the homeless and I'm happy about it." Patrolman Dan McCormack... more »