Stephanie Earls, The Gazette

Stephanie Earls

The Gazette

Colorado Springs, CO, United States

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Past articles by Stephanie:

Colorado Springs Bridge Center, battered by pandemic loss, looks to rebuild ranks

The words and the names had been tumbling around Howard Donaldson’s mind for days. → Read More

A bittersweet end, and reincarnation, for iconic Colorado craft beer brand

If you’re a Fat Tire amber ale fan who observed Dry January, better stock up while you still can. → Read More

An unwanted record: Colorado Springs homicide count reaches new high

Minutes before midnight on a Friday last May, gunfire ripped through the walls of Babilonia Bar along Platte Avenue. → Read More

Partner, dreams of wedding chapel bliss, die in Club Q rampage

Theirs was a whirlwind romance of laughter, lyrics and the unabashed sappiness of unexpected true love. → Read More

Almost 106, WWII veteran recalls top-secret Project Ultra and running, mending the wires of war

John Sekulich learned at a young age what it meant, and how it felt, to be responsible for others. → Read More

World's largest Olympic memorabilia club sets up pins, and more, in Colorado Springs

Collectors, get ready to drop a pin: The world’s oldest, largest Olympic memorabilia club — and modern bane of autocorrect — is bringing its annual collector’s fest to Olympic City this weekend, for a three-day show that’s part museum, part swap meet. The Olympin (Olympic + pin, get it?) movement began quietly in the Albany, N.Y., area after the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid. By the time the… → Read More

Simone Biles' withdrawal from Olympic competition brings focus on athlete mental health

As the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Games loomed, Team USA gymnastics coach Sarah Jantzi talked about embracing a more nurturing training style, one that also included a focus on athletes' psychological well-being. → Read More

Colorado Springs at 150 years | New 'destination' brewery complex brings history full circle

Founded as a tourist and dreamer destination in 1871, luring outsiders with promises of a high-altitude oasis and renewed health, Colorado Springs’ siren song for subsequent generations was kind of → Read More

Colorado Springs at 150 years | North Springs neighborhood was once a railroad boom town

Editor's note: This July, as Colorado Springs gears up for its 150th birthday on the 31st, The Gazette has prepared a series of articles on the history of our city. → Read More

Colorado Springs at 150 years

Editor's note: This July, as Colorado Springs gears up for its 150th birthday on the 31st, The Gazette has prepared a series of articles on the history of our city. → Read More

Lost a drone in southeast Colorado Springs? The sheriff's got it if you want it back

As neighborly introductions go, “I think my drone is in your backyard” has the potential to get a little … awkward. → Read More

Rocking the walls: How I made peace with Colorado dirt

Colorado soil is a tough cookie, and it likes to fight dirty. I’d never before met soil that I honestly, truly, hated — and that honestly, truly seemed to hate → Read More

When Prohibition began there was always a workaround in 'dry' Colorado Springs

They hoarded alcohol, the supplies needed to make and package it, and remodeled to create furtive gathering spots where libations could continue to be enjoyed on the down low. → Read More

Pikes Pub: Biden and Bud probably won't be buying us a round; Feast of St. Arnold has a date

If the idea of herd immunity hasn’t inspired you to offer up a shoulder for the greater good, perhaps bending an elbow will do the trick. → Read More

An American dream, of family, future and good food

It was the place you passed on your way to somewhere else, maybe pondered while marking time at the light at S. Academy and Hancock in Colorado Springs. → Read More

Mental health needs in Colorado Springs skyrocket during pandemic

Colorado was deep in a mental health crisis long before the pandemic hit, but the care community in Colorado Springs was making inroads — trying to figure out how best → Read More

Colorado Springs mom of disabled daughter worries as eviction reprieve runs out

Deborah Chadwick didn’t realize how close she was to the edge, until she started to fall. → Read More

Pikes Pub: Scott Eastwood's 'Made Here Beer' launches in Colorado

There’s a scene in the 2008 film “Gran Torino” in which curmudgeonly racist Walt Kowalski sits on his front porch quietly reflecting on life while slurping through a supply of → Read More

'We never knew she existed': Long-lost sisters finally meet, after a lifetime apart

Virginia Garduño was raised in a Pueblo orphanage in the late 1940s and 50s, after her unwed teenage mother surrendered her to state care. → Read More

Pikes Pub: The great gratis machine rides again, for good causes

You had me at “complimentary.” In fact, it’s a little embarrassing how excited I get about the prospect of free stuff. A goldfish bowl full of gratis promotional lip balm (one for me, four for friends who couldn’t make it) fills me with pure joy, but I’ll take and cherish whatever you’ve got: free T-shirt, sticker, koozie, tiny Frisbee, whoopee cushion or pint of beer, even if I must drag my… → Read More