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Bradley Davis

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Celtic Steps and the Pikes Peak Highlanders are preparing to take on the El Paso County bar scene one last time for St. Patrick’s Day to close out their busiest performing week of the year.

Both groups were active around town last weekend, and Tuesday will be more of the same. You can find their St. Patrick’s Day schedules below

Celtic Steps Schedule:

11:30 a.m. – Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub and Restaurant

4:30 p.m. – Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub and Restaurant

5:00 p.m. – Brit Pub

5:30 p.m. – Wyatt’s Pub and Grill

6:30 p.m. – Great Company bar

6:30 p.m. – Purple Toad Social Tap and Grill

Pikes Peak Highlanders Schedule

4 p.m. – Back East Bar and Grill (Monument)

4:30 p.m. Wyatt’s Pub and Grill

5 p.m. – Dublin House Sports Bar

5 p.m. – Sunset Grill

5:30 p.m. – Red’s American Grill

6 p.m. – Purple Toad Social Tap and Grill

6 p.m. – Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub and Restaurant

6 p.m. – Back East Bar and Grill (Colorado Springs)

7 p.m. – Rilea’s Pub

7 p.m. – Good Company bar

7:30 p.m. – O’Leary’s Pub

8 p.m. – Dublin House sports bar

8 p.m. – Abby’s Irish Pub

8:30 p.m. – Finish Line Lounge

All the local pubs are scheduling different combinations of live music, drink deals, food deals, DJs, dance performances, or all of the above. You can find a link to a few different pub happenings below.

O’Leary’s Pub

Abby’s Irish Pub

Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub and Restaurant

Dublin House Sports Bar

Alchemy

Kelly O’Brians Sports Bar and Grill

Rilea’s Pub

Wyatt’s Pub and Grill

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Scott Harrison

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A recent rash of pothole damage along North Gate Boulevard in Colorado Springs raises an interesting question.

Who bears responsibility for repairing road damage and reimbursing drivers on a city street that is part of a county-led stormwater project that passes through a construction zone?

“Generally, within the limits of a construction site, it’s the responsibility of the contractor to maintain the road,” said Joshua Palmer, the county’s chief engineer. “It’s not just the road. It could be the drainage, it could be the signals, it could be striping or traffic control. But if it’s within the limits of the project itself, the contractors are typically responsible for those types of things.”

Earlier this month, a large pothole developed on westbound North Gate, a city street slightly west of Struthers Road, which is in the county’s jurisdiction.

The pothole wasn’t there when KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior was in the area a day earlier; drivers began experiencing flat tires and bent rims at around 5 a.m.

A construction worker filled the pothole just before 8 a.m., but the damage had been done by then.

North Gate and Struthers have been crumbling for years, but repaving has been delayed several times due to several utility projects in the area.

Last fall, the city filled many potholes on North Gate and Struthers, and repaved the eastbound right lane of North Gate in front of the Mining Museum.

However, some of the patches have since popped out, and the stormwater project seems to have accelerated the rate of deterioration on North Gate.

It may seem surprising that potholes can develop in the relatively dry and mild weather we’ve experienced since late last summer, and with less of the freeze/thaw cycle that can worsen pothole formation.

“But we’ve also had a lot of fluctuating temperatures,” Palmer explained. “Just over the weekend, we went from 70 degrees down to the teens. It’s also the fluctuation of the temperatures, because there’s always going to be moisture in the ground, and it never goes away.”

The stormwater project began last November and is scheduled for completion in May, with paving work to follow this summer.

Palmer said that it would be a waste of time and resources to perform temporary paving on roads that are already crumbling and will only continue to deteriorate during construction.

On county-maintained roads, Palmer said that crews generally respond to pothole reports within a day or two, but a large pothole in a construction zone means that someone may not repair it — or report it — for a longer period.

It’s unclear how many vehicles were damaged by the redent pothole on North Gate, but its size and scope led to a fairly quick response from the contractor.

Palmer added that generally, the county doesn’t reimburse drivers for road damage; however, people can file claims or report potholes on the county’s Citizen Connect webpage.

To view the page, click here: https://citizenconnect.elpasoco.com//

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Rob Namnoum

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Scott Harrison

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Many neighbors and park visitors express support for recent drainage work that restricted traffic at the entrance to popular Rampart Park, but they’ve also voiced concerns and offered ideas about how to improve safety there.

Of the four citizen concerns shared with KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior, the city will take action on one: installing a fence at the park entrance.

That decision addresses concerns about kids and pets possibly getting into the lower half of the drainage channel along the park’s entrance during heavy stormwater flows.

The lower half remains open and wasn’t upgraded with an underground pipe, as the upper section recently was; the upgrade was to protect a new housing complex from the type of heavy flows that damaged a retaining wall below the complex last summer.

City officials responded to a related concern by saying that the remaining open channel doesn’t require a similar upgrade because it’s “in outstanding condition.”

Speeding traffic along Lexington Drive at the park entrance is another concern raised by citizens, but the city said that Lexington is a major transportation route and, as such, doesn’t qualify for speed humps, roundabouts, or other so-called “traffic calming” devices.

Finally, several citizens believe that the downhill road between the park entrance and a popular dog park is still too narrow and should be widened.

However, the city responded that it has yet to receive such a complaint, and that the road is standard and consistent with other park roads.

“We will continue to monitor the situation and remain open to any feedback we receive,” officials said in a statement.

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Bradley Davis

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – As Hollywood celebrates the best films of 2025 at the Oscars, KRDO13’s Bradley Davis met with experts around the city to learn more about Colorado Springs’ film history over the decades.

Two major blockbusters have traveled to Colorado Springs in the last 15 years. Furious 7 filmed parts of its mountain chase scene on the Pikes Peak highway. It was one of the most iconic scenes in the movie, which grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide. More recently, the late Robert Redford chose the residential district of Old Colorado City as the main site for his 2017 Netflix rom-com, “Our Souls at Night.” Redford was the producer and co-starred in the film with Jane Fonda.

Once upon a time, Colorado Springs boasted the largest commercial theatrical production company in the world. The Alexander Film Company employed over 600 people locally during its height, creating advertisements to draw audiences in before catching their movie on the big screen. The studio went out of business in the 1960s, but residents can still find its history at “The Public House at the Alexander,” a restaurant and distillery that now occupies the space.

Perhaps no space locally has gotten more love from film crews than the old El Paso County courtroom on the second floor of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Preserved, renovated and on display for anyone who frequents the free museum, both low and high-budget productions have used the space for its authentic courtroom feel. As museum director Matt Mayberry puts it, “this is what a courtroom is supposed to look like.” The 1990 film “The Incident” used the space liberally throughout the movie, as well as the Perry Mason episode, “The Case of the Sinister Space.”

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Rob Namnoum

The Colorado Springs Switchbacks played their home opener against the Las Vegas Lights on Saturday. The Switchbacks won the match 3-2.

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Rob Namnoum

The Salida girls basketball team won the Class 3A state championship on Saturday afternoon. The Spartans beat Yuma 48-38. It is the first time in school history that Salida has won a state championship in girls basketball.

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Michael Logerwell

PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – High winds and rough waters overturned a 14-foot fishing boat on Lake Pueblo, Friday, sending the two people on board into the water. One boater was picked up by another vessel 100 yards away; the other did not make it out of the water until almost 9 hours later.

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Pueblo County Coroner identified 48-year-old Evans C. Downie of Howard, Colorado, as the man killed in the boating accident.

Downie’s cause of death is still under investigation by the coroner, and his next-of-kin have been notified.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the fishing boat was swamped by white-capped waves in an area of the lake that reached 40ft deep. The water temperature on Friday was 44 degrees (F).

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Rob Namnoum

The St. Mary’s boys basketball team took on Strasburg in the Class 3A Final Four on Friday and lost 64-41.

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Rob Namnoum

The Salida girls basketball team beat Denver Christian in the Class 3A Final Four on Friday 50-47.

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