WATER SERVICE IS RESTORED IN CENTRAL CITY

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CENTRAL CITY homes and businesses has been restored after construction crews worked through the night Friday into Saturday repairing a burst water main, officials said.

City officials sent water samples to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for testing, which takes about 24 hours.

Residents can use the water for bathing and sanitation, but they should continue to boil water until officials indicate it is safe to drink.

The city will continue to offer bottled drinking water at City Hall.

Inmate, 58, found dead in Pueblo County Jail. PUE B

LO» An investigation is underway after a 58-year-old inmate was found dead in his cell at the Pueblo County Jail.

The Pueblo Chieftain reports detention officers were serving food Wednesday when they discovered Mauro Hernandez unresponsive in his bed. Deputies and medical workers were unable to revive the man.

Hernandez was arrested after allegedly shooting his ex-wife and one of her friends in November 2016 before shooting himself.

Call center will close, lay off 200.

SPRINGS» A cable-tv comC OLOR A DO pany is closing a call center and laying off 200 people. Wideopenwest of Englewood will shut down the center March 8.

Wideopenwest says it’s getting fewer phone calls as customers shift to online chats and place orders through the company’s website.

The company says the workers will get a severance package that includes outplacement help and job fairs.

Parks and Wildlife seeks to limit drilling near big game. GR A ND JUN CTION»

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has reiterated to the Bureau of Land Management that it wants to see regulators consider limiting oil and gas pads to one per square mile in critical big game habitat.

Gov. John Hickenlooper raised concern last year in a letter to the BLM about its December 2018 lease sale, and the agency ultimately deferred offering most of the acreage largely because of a number of wildlife and other issues raised by the governor.

The Daily Sentinel reports the BLM is now proposing a March lease sale, which includes northwest Colorado parcels.

Parks and Wildlife regional manager JT Romatzke sent another letter noting the state’s hope of seeing the BLM limit pads for parcels with the highest-priority big game winterrange habitats and migration corridors. — Staff and wire reports