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The old Goehring Meat Company site on the Highway 99 frontage road north of Lodi has been cleared. All of the buildings have been torn down and the property scraped
An Alton woman claims she and her children may have been exposed to friable asbestos and then wrongfully accused of arson after an intoxicated man hit their Alton rental property.
Legalese has taken center stage in the debate regarding electric bikes on Colorado Springs trails.
In the latest Trails, Open Space and Parks (TOPS) meeting, members of the city committee heard disputes over federal and state definitions of the technology and local laws pertaining to non-motorized trails. The 1997 voter-approved TOPS ordinance, directing portions of sales tax revenue to preservation and outdoor recreation, mandated “[n]o motorized vehicles” on lands supported by those funds, “other than those necessary for maintenance, emergencies or safety.”
When informed last month of the administrative move to allow Class 1 e-bikes on all city trails where other bikes are allowed starting Memorial Day weekend as part of a year-long pilot program, members of the parks board asked: Wouldn’t motor-assisted bikes infringe on that ordinance?