GRANITE — The Arkansas river both ambles and rages below Leadville, with gold-medal fishing, Class II to Class V rapids hosting hundreds of thousands of rafting trips and a vast, aging network of reservoirs and pipelines that water two of the biggest — and thirstiest — cities in the state. But just below the former […]
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Cañon City falls short in TV small-town makeover contest
CAÑON CITY — The #mycanoncity fever rising in this Arkansas River town got splashed with cold water Tuesday evening when residents gathered in the high school auditorium learned they lost a small-town makeover competition to Searcy, Arkansas. The bleachers in the Cañon City High School gymnasium filled with a hopeful crowd Tuesday evening as they […]
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Cañon City seeks a makeover to become a destination, not just a drive-through prison town
CAÑON CITY — The languid seven blocks or so of Main Street that mark the heart of downtown here hardly seem like a place for a revolution. Traffic rushes by on U.S. Highway 50 a block away, most drivers oblivious to the struggling downtown business district — even if city officials tout it as the […]