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Killeen's mayor will take time this week to honor a Killeen man who participated in one of the  most dangerous air raids of World War II. Bob Gray Day is Sunday, April 18, but Killeen Mayor Jose Segarra will visit Gray's gravesite on Friday at 2 PM. According to a City of Killeen News Release, Mayor Segarra will  present an official proclamation to a Gray descendant and join in laying a wreath of remembrance. So, who is Bob Gray? Captain Robert “Bob” Gray was a Killeen native, born May 24, 1919, who flew in the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo on April 18 1942 - about five months after the...

Signs officially marking the path of the Stage and Rail Trail, a planned 70-mile cycling trail that closely follows the rail line of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad between Salida and Leadville, were recently erected along CR 371, a big step in a very gradual process to create a long-distance cycling trail in Chaffee and Lake counties. “We’re celebrating the end of about a 15-year-process of trying to develop an ambitious regional trail,” said Alan Robinson, the trail’s volunteer project advisor. “It’s a combination of driving on county roads and on state highwa...

Police are pleading for a stop to excessive driver behaviours following a catastrophic five days on the state's roads and hundreds of drivers being...

The local skate park, part of the Midcoast Youth Center, has grown to be a safe haven for some local kids.

When it comes to fire departments, I have street cred. I am junior fire chief emeritus for Elmhurst Elementary School. My yearlong reign, won by virtue of writing an essay on how to survive house fires, stretched from 1973 to 1974. For a solid week, a fire engine, siren blaring, picked me up at home and delivered me to school each day. Before that, I was a victim, having stuck my leg down a drainpipe at a demolished laundromat after wandering from the mobile home where I spent formative years. It took the better part of an afternoon, and a jackhammer, to extricate me. Firefighters were th...