Colfax County – On Saturday, May 16, 2015 around 10:00 a.m., the New Mexico State Police received notice of a crash involving a personal paraglider aircraft. This crash occurred near the Angel Fire Airport in Angel Fire, New Mexico. The investigating officers discovered the paraglider aircraft was operated by Paul Johnson, forty-six…
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By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media It was a cool bright morning as hundreds of motorcycles rumbled into Raton on their way east to honor those who paid the ultimate price for our freedoms. Once the Run for the Wall motorcycles were fueled the crowd gathered around a trailer where…
By Marty Mayfield Commissioners began their May 12th evening with a budget hearing to establish a preliminary budget to send to the Department of Finance by June 1. The bad news to the budget hearing included a possible drop in gross receipts revenues by as much as 4%. However Kathy Harris…
by Eric MullensTRINIDAD — Law enforcement officials from Trinidad and the state remained silent this week following the Friday, April 24 shooting of an armed man by an unnamed Trinidad Police officer. Todd Jamal Dye, 20, of Colorado Springs, was shot and killed when TPD officers responded to an unauthorized…
by Colette M. Armijo RATON — Twenty-one students from Raton High School were inducted as new members of the National Honor Society on Thursday April 29. The Historic Schuler Theatre came alive as parents, family members, friends and members of the School Board gathered for the event. During the induction…
by Mary Jo Tesitor TRINIDAD — Saturday was a night of superlatives as members of the Trinidad Chamber of Commerce met at Mt. Carmel’s Primero Cafe to present the 2015 J. Edgar Chenowith Award to the best and brightest of Las Animas County. The 19 individual or family nominees…
World Journal staff report TRINIDAD / DALLAS, TX — Pioneer Natural Resources Company announced Monday, May 4 it will close the company’s Denver office as well as make workforce reductions at its Trinidad field office, as a result of continued weakness in natural gas prices and the recent collapse of…
by Eric Mullens TRINIDAD — A Loveland man has been identified as the pilot killed when a single-engine plane crashed into an open field near the Las Animas County Fairgrounds in Trinidad around 1 pm Thursday, April 30. Gregory Arlen Frank, 53, was the only one aboard the plane…
by Kimberly AdamsTRINIDAD — It is Round II for Spot 420 owner Robert Lucero as he made another go at winning over the good graces of the Trinidad City Council in hopes for their approval of his marijuana business license application package after they denied his initial application attempt two…
by Eric MullensWALSENBURG — It was an historic, if low key moment, when the Walsenburg City Council, sitting as the city’s marijuana licensing authority, voted 6-1 to approve and grant a recreational marijuana retail and cultivation license to Bud Hut following a public hearing Tuesday night. City attorney Dan Hyatt…