Author: Jennifer Mulson
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Goats help Colorado Springs property owners with fire mitigation
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A herd of hungry firefighters is getting antsy in a trailer off Old Ranch Road in northern Colorado Springs. It’s mid-morning, and more than 40 goats are backed up to a 5-acre lot lush with weeds, grass, yucca and scrub oak – a scrumptious buffet for goats, but worrisome fire fuel for homeowners. Kimberly Jones,…
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Eating disorders in Colorado teens, young adults rose during pandemic
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As the pandemic enveloped the globe in 2020, Emma Warford used her newly acquired free time to laser in on a destructive hobby – scrutinizing her caloric intake. Over the course of the next year that obsession, coupled with stressful activities, such as taking advanced placement and college classes, having a job and extracurricular hobbies,…
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First green burial funeral home in Colorado Springs open for business
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When a funeral director is viscerally disturbed by the odor of embalming fluid, you know something is off. That’s what happened to Jon Hallford when he bent over a casket earlier this year to kiss the forehead of a dead relative. “It was unpleasant and chemical,” said the fourth-generation Oklahoman funeral director. “I got to…
