CSBJ Daily

Headlines from this week’s CSBJ:
Early snowfall bodes well for winter ski season
By Amy Gillentine
With millions of dollars spent for renovations and improvements, Colorado’s ski resorts are counting on early snow reports to bring tourists from around the world to the slopes this winter.
With early snowfall amounts at some resorts nearing two feet — and with […]

The free downtown shuttle service could come to an end early next year.

The city’s public transportation arm, Mountain Metropolitan Transit, had planned to pay for the shuttle’s operation cost starting in 2008, but proposed 2008 public transportation cuts to cover a $1.3 million budget shortfall include eliminating the shuttle service.
Proponents of the free service say […]

A premier party for a Trading Spaces television episode filmed in Colorado Springs this summer is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at Will’s Sports Pub & Grill, 424 S. Nevada Ave.
The episode will be televised at the party from 8 to 9 p.m.
The episode features local residents and roller derby skaters Karma Getcha of the […]

St. Louis-based nonprofit Webster University, which has two campuses in Colorado Springs, has received a $10 million donation from former U.S. Ambassador George H. Walker III.
The gift is the largest single donation in Webster’s 92-year history.
Walker cited Webster’s “tremendous international outreach” as the motivation for the donation.
“Having served abroad in Hungary for three years I […]

Personnel and equipment is on its way to California from Denver to assist with wildfire response and recovery efforts in California.
The team, members of the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, consists of five people and four pieces of equipment from the Mobile Emergency Response System.
The team left yesterday, and is driving to […]