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Scott Harrison

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — In the Lower Skyway area, it’s a problem that neighbors dread even in dry weather, because they know what rain will bring.

Rain — such as that which fell on Friday and Monday evenings — floods the south side of the Arcturus Drive/Green Star Drive intersection.

It produces large pools of water that are a splash hazard in warm weather and an ice hazard in cold weather.

There are two factors in the street flooding there.

One: Green Star is lower than Arcturus, so runoff naturally flows downhill.

Two: There is no storm drain in the immediate vicinity; a drainage channel lies a block to the east, but a long-vacant lot with thick grasses and weeds can slow or even block the drainage, and there is no infrastructure to convey the water to the channel.

Longtime neighbors told KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior that the intersection has flooded for at least a decade, and they wonder why more hasn’t been done to address it.

Green Star leads to several high-rise apartment buildings where many citizens live, and the flooded intersection can be difficult for pedestrians or disabled people to cross.

Adding to their frustrations is the recent arrival of a construction staging area on the west side of the intersection, on property that was once a gas station and repair shop; they said that additional runoff and sediment from the property worsen the flooding.

Richard Mulledy, the city’s public works director, said that he’s aware of the matter and explained that he’s waiting to learn if there are future development plans before committing to an infrastructure project.

New housing has been built over the past two years on the north side of the intersection, and long-vacant lots to the southeast and southwest could be targeted for future development.

Yet another concern from neighbors is that construction vehicles are damaging Green Star’s pavement, which was repaved only a few years ago.

“Let’s use our taxpayer dollars to do something about this,” said Dora Perez, a neighbor.

Another neighbor, Jsmers Golubic, agrees.

“I disagree with the city’s strategy on this,” he said. “I don’t think there will be more development here. Most of the area is in a flood zone.

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Michael Logerwell

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – After two weeks at the theater, The Odyssey has raked in an estimated $639.6 million globally. While Christopher Nolan’s latest epic has created a lot of local and national excitement, Cinemark says it’s not leading a trend of packing the theaters; it’s following suit.

“We’ve seen so much consumer enthusiasm for the movie-going experience across the board, across all different genres of films and different audience segments,” Julia McCartha, a spokesperson for Cinemark, said.

This year alone, Cinemark says it’s seen its all-time biggest three-day opening weekend domestic box office for a G- or PG-rated film, its biggest Easter weekend of all time, and its biggest month of May all time.

While the company won’t share the exact dollar figure behind the record-breaking time frames, we can extract some relevant information from its quarterly SEC reports (Securities and Exchange Commission).

SEC report for Cinemark Holdings LLC for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2022. Link here.

SEC report for Cinemark Holdings LLC for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2026. Link here.

In the first three months of 2021 (see first picture), Cinemark reported a total revenue of $114.4 million. Over that same time period in 2022, the revenue reported was $460.5 million. That’s a year-to-year increase of more than $300 million.

Compare that to reported revenues in 2025, $540 million, and 2026, more than $640 million.

“You know, it’s really a trend that we have been seeing for several years coming back from the pandemic,” McCartha said.

KRDO13 caught up with several movie-goers heading into and leaving The Odyssey at the Carefree Circle Cinemark theater.

“Just be able to go out and enjoy the smell of popcorn and the camaraderie between people,” Eddie Orozco said, “like, you could probably talk to the person next to you while you’re watching a movie. Like, ‘Do you see that? Oh. I’m sorry. It’s like, no, I saw it too.’ I like that interaction.”

“It’s just more of an experience and like a make-memories type of thing,” Evan Brillar said.

“When you see it on streaming services, like at home, it just doesn’t do it justice like in person at the movies,” Alex Castillo said.

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Bradley Davis

GOLDEN, Colo. (KRDO) – The Coors Brewery has turned Clear Creek into cold beer for longer than Colorado has been a state. It’s Colorado’s oldest operational brewing site.

Monday, the week of Colorado’s 150th birthday, KRDO13’s Bradley Davis introduces us to brewery archivist Heidi Harris. She takes us back to the 1800s with a glimpse into the state’s rise as a brewmaking powerhouse.

Harris walked Davis through some of the brewery’s historical accomplishments, from winning a 1894 Chicago World’s Fair medal to revolutionizing the beverage industry with its two-piece, recyclable aluminum can.

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Scott Harrison

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Road Warrior showed us how the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) repaired a pesky bump last week on southbound Interstate 25, under the pedestrian bridge near downtown.

But dips — areas of low pavement — are a concern, as well.

A series of dips had long existed in both directions of I-25 between Bijou Street and the Colorado Avenue bridge; those dips, combined with a bend in the highway, made drivers feel as if they were driving on waves.

CDOT recently explained its repair strategy during three overnight work sessions to correct the problem.

“It’s really unknown what caused those dips to develop,” said Eric Meyers, a CDOT maintenance supervisor. “But the result was sunken concrete panels.

He said that the dips in the lanes and shoulders created more than a maintenance issue and required an engineering solution — with a process known as foam jacking.

“We hired a contractor and provided traffic control for them,” Meyers said.

In foam jacking, small holes are drilled into the panels, and a polyurethane foam is injected; the foam cures in less than 30 minutes and can bear the weight of traffic almost immediately.

Foam jacking offers advantages over traditional mud jacking in that the drilling holes are smaller and the foam is waterproof and erosion-resistant.

Meyers said that another engineering solution will eventually be needed on the bump mentioned above, as a CDOT crew made temporary repairs there.

“They saw-cut that area,” he said. “They jackhammered all that concrete out, removed all the concrete, and then, through lifts, put hot mix asphalt back in it, to the current pavement level.”

Myers said that any kind of concrete work on a busy highway such as I-25 is a major challenge.

“When you talk about concrete pavement, it’s on an interstate corridor; it’s extremely thick,” he explained. “And it takes a long time when you have to remove that and then put a product back in there to get it back up to where traffic can flow on it within the constraints of the closure.”

Myers said that the best solution for potholes and bumps on concrete pavement is to remove the damaged panels and replace them.

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Michael Logerwell

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Nearly 4,000 people had to beat the heat without A/C Saturday afternoon thanks to a power outage.

The Mountain View Electric Association told customers they were aware of the outage before 1:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. A spokesperson told KRDO13 News during a phone call that an electrical failure caused the outage and sparked a small grass fire.

The Cimarron Hills and Falcon fire departments responded to the grass fire near Hwy 24 and Garrett Road Saturday afternoon. The grass fire was quickly put out and didn’t spread very far.

Power was restored several hours later on Saturday.

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Michael Logerwell

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Typically, you can’t take home a vehicle from a car dealership until you’re at least 16 years old.

However, that wasn’t the case at the Porsche dealership along Motor City Drive in Colorado Springs this weekend.

Of course, we’re not talking about actually roadworthy cars, but instead adaptive vehicles for children with mobility challenges.

The group ‘Geeks for Kids‘ custom-built the mobility vehicles and gave them to families for free. The nonprofit says they’ve built and given away more than 400 vehicles through more than 170,000 hours of labor, all done by volunteers.

One father told us his family took a three-day road trip to get the vehicle for his son.

“We can’t ask for anything better, you know, for him to be able to play independently by himself, but also with his big brother. It’s got toys on it like the little frisbee to throw. I mean, it’s well worth the trip,” Roy Tighe said.

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Julia Donovan

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Both the lowest- and highest-scoring restaurants this week serve tacos.

Rudy’s Little Hideaway fails routine inspection, improves on re-inspection

Rudy’s Little Hideaway on South Eighth Street failed its recent routine health inspection after inspectors documented 11 violations.

According to the inspection report, inspectors found several food safety concerns, including:

Raw chicken stored above raw pork, creating a risk of cross-contamination

An employee reportedly handled dirty dishes before preparing food without changing gloves

Glue traps placed above a food preparation area

Several live and dead flies observed during the inspection

After reviewing the inspection findings, we visited the restaurant to ask about the violations and what had changed.

Employees said the issues identified during the inspection have been addressed. They pointed to the restaurant’s follow-up inspection, during which inspectors documented just two violations.

“We passed and everything is okay right now,” one employee said.

Staff also disputed the original finding that glue traps were positioned directly above the food preparation area. Regardless, they said the traps have since been relocated well away from food prep spaces.

This week’s top inspection scores

Several restaurants earned top marks during recent inspections, including:

Good Neighbors Meeting House on Columbia Street

Tortilleria Delicias on South Circle Drive

Por Favor Tacos and Tragos on Voyager Parkway

At Por Favor Tacos and Tragos, employees credited a team-focused approach for helping maintain a clean kitchen.

“Everybody helps each other. No one lets anyone get behind,” one employee said.

This spot also features unique, tasty tacos, colorful décor and a lively atmosphere!

Keep an eye out for the KRDO13 Restaurant Roundup awards at your favorite restaurant to know the kitchen inside is clean.

Reminder: all of our high and low-scoring restaurants are based on routine health inspections conducted by the El Paso County Health Department.

Click here for a look at all the most recent health inspection scores.

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Scott Harrison

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — While work continues on the three-year, $55 million widening of Marksheffel Road on the city’s eastern border, another project has begun to extend three existing streets a mile east to the growing Banning Lewis Ranch subdivision.

Several developers are financing the extensions of Stetson Hills Boulevard, Barnes Road, and North Carefree Circle to connect between Marksheffel Road and the new Banning Lewis Parkway, which opened last year as the major north-south route through that community.

The city said that North Carefree will stop just short of the parkway but connect to side streets from the parkway.

Dublin Boulevard already connects to the parkway, and city officials said that it will eventually connect to US 24 between the Woodmen Road and Constitution Avenue interchanges.

All four streets form the length of the Marksheffel widening, which began in late summer of 2023 and is on schedule for completion by the end of the year.

Gayle Sturdivant, the city’s deputy public works director, said that the city will assume maintenance responsibility for the street extensions two years after completion.

But it will be a gradual process.

“We’re talking about a 15- to 30-year buildout,” Sturdivant explained. “As the rooftops or the traffic move to the east, the developers associated with that development are going to be building the roads. The responsible development should be paying for itself. And that’s what they do.” 

Construction geared up this summer on the Stetson Hills and Barnes extensions, with construction activity visible on the east side of Marksheffel at those intersections and moving east.

As of yet, no construction appears to be happening for the North Carefree extension, but work has geared up on Stetson Hills and Barnes.

Sturdivant said that the existing Huber Road, east of the Marksheffel/Stetson Hills intersection, will become part of the Stetson Hills extension.

Some segments of that extension have already been built at what is currently the southeast end of the ranch.

A common criticism from ranch residents is that the Marksheffel widening should have happened a decade before the housing boom began there.

City officials have learned from that, and hope to be better prepared for future growth and traffic with the street extensions.

It makes one wonder, though: With all of the growth so far and more to come, will four lanes on Marksheffel be enough?

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Bradley Davis

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum (CSPM) will debut it’s new exhibit, “Freedom to Thrive: The American Experiment in Colorado Springs” during its Colorado 150 celebration on Saturday, August 1.

August 1 is Colorado’s 150th birthday.

The exhibit is part of CSPM’s no-cost celebration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with live music, including the United States Air Force Academy “Wild Blue” band, food trucks, family activities, and birthday cake. The Pikes Peak Library District will have its photobooth that puts you in different historical scenes, and Wishing Star Farms will have a petting zoo.

The new exhibit highlights “people and stories to examine opportunities and obstacles to freedom in our community — while challenging us all to find common ground for the common good in 2026.”

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Bradley Davis

GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS, Colo. (KRDO) – The 88th Annual Bronc Day returns Saturday from 7:30. a.m. to 3 p.m. with a pancake breakfast, parade, pie contest, games and more. All activities are free.

Similar to the Western Street Breakfast in Colorado Springs, Bronc Day celebrates Colorado’s Western Heritage. The first Bronc Day in 1939 celebrated the start of the tourist season in Green Mountain Falls with a taste of the region’s culture.

The pancake breakfast starts at 7:30 a.m. at the Church of the Wildwood. The parade, filled with floats, horseback riders and more, starts at 10 a.m. Throughout the day, participants can enjoy old-fashioned kids games, live performers, live music and more. You can find a full list of attractions here.

Organizers recommend getting into town early for parking. Bronc Day will close the streets around Green Mountain Falls Pond to vehicle traffic at 9:45 a.m.

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