COS Town Tidings #25-268

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📰 New Colorado Car Seat Laws 💺

📰 Road Test: New Tech on Woodmen 🚧

📰 Bookstore Comeback in COS? 📚

Recipe: 🍔 Slow Cooker Apple BBQ Chicken

📆 Local Events + Free Concerts, Farmers Markets & Fall Fairs/Festivals

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If you have kids or grandkids in your life, heads up: Colorado has updated its car seat laws to better protect children. New rules raise the age for booster seats to 9, rear-facing seats to 2, and seat belts to 18. Most car seats are still installed wrong, so free help and resources are available at CarSeatsColorado.com.

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Colorado Springs has launched a major repaving project along a 1.5-mile stretch of Woodmen using a stronger, stickier asphalt known as stone matrix asphalt (SMA), typically used on highways for its durability. The city is testing this new material in hopes of lowering future maintenance costs. Alongside repaving, the Woodmen bridge over Academy is also being repaired, with most work done overnight and completion expected by the end of this year. Full Story

Have you been impacted by the repair work on Woodmen?

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In a surprising twist for print lovers, Barnes & Noble is opening another store in our area, this time at Cinema Point in the First & Main Town Center. The new shop—complete with a cozy café—is expected to open in Feb 2026, marking the city’s third location. While digital reading dominates the headlines, this move suggests people still crave the joy of browsing real books. Could the bookstore experience be making a quiet comeback? Full Story

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Juicy, sweet and smoky apple BBQ chicken made easy in the slow cooker. With just 10 minutes of prep, it’s a weeknight lifesaver you can serve on its own, in sandwiches, grain bowls or stuffed into sweet potatoes.

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