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COPPeR, the nonprofit Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, has hired Bettina Swigger as its first executive director.
She starts the job Jan. 3.
Swigger has managed the Summer Arts Festival at Colorado College for three years and also has worked as the administrator for the citywide Mozart @ 250 celebration, a freelance arts journalist and […]

About 9,700 Colorado Springs-area businesses will receive 2007 Economic Census forms in December.
Federal law requires all businesses that receive the forms to respond.
The forms must be returned to the U.S. Census Bureau by Feb. 12.
The census, taken every five years, develops a portrait of national and local American business.
Businesses use the data to assess where […]

Fort Carson will host the 6th Annual Community Sustainability Conference and Expo from noon to 9 p.m. Oct. 30 and from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 31 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 2886 S. Circle Drive.
This year’s theme is “Securing the Future – A Sustainability Strategy.”
The conference is an educational forum intended to provide […]

The world’s biggest drinks maker, Coca-Cola, and Italian coffee roaster illycaffe have teamed up create ready-to-drink coffee products.
The companies plan to seal the deal by the end of the year.
The RTD global coffee market is valued at just under $10 billion and has grown an estimated 10 percent during the past five years.
Coca-Cola has been […]