Commissioners set 17 conditions that need to be met by Brian OrrWALSENBURG — The Huerfano County Commissioners listened on Tuesday to Sonic Bloom spokespeople Jess Greis and Kristen Sommers make their final pitch to allow the four-day music festival to occur in Huerfano County this summer. Gries ticked off all the…
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by Kimberly Adams LAS ANIMAS COUNTY — The Las Animas County Board of Commissioners received an update on the Purgatoire River Watershed Plan (PRWP) during their regular meeting Tuesday, April 7. Karen Wolf made the presentation on the 167-page plan finalized in November 2014. Las Animas County is part of…
by Kimberly Adams TRINIDAD — Marijuana came to Trinidad this year with three recreational dispensaries already in operation with one more opening this month near Walmart south of the city. A fifth recreational marijuana business is slated to open this month next door to Peaceful Herbs – an existing…
Union County– On April 8, 2015, New Mexico State Police was called to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct by a Clayton Police Officer. As a result of the investigation, Clayton Montoya, twenty three years of age, was arrested on April 9, 2015 and booked into the Union County Jail on the…
AGENDA CITY OF RATON SPECIAL COMMISSION MEETING RATON CITY HALL, 224 SAVAGE AVE TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 AT 5PM A special meeting of the City Commission of the City of Raton will be held on April 14, 2015 at 5pm. The Meeting will be called to order by…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Express Aviation Services was born out of a need, a need to keep the Raton Crews Field Airport fixed base operations open for business and to keep people employed. Express Aviation owner Robert Funk heard that previous FBO operators Pegasus Aviation needed to sell…
Bill Knowles April 9, 2015 HUERFANO-LAS ANIMAS- COLFAX — Stronger Economies Together (SET) Initiative a joint project launched in 2009 by USDA Rural Development in collaboration with the nation’s Regional Rural Development Centers (RRDC) and their land-grant university partners have teamed up in a multi-county effort with Huerfano County and Las Animas County,…
Brian Orr April 9, 2015 WALSENBURG— When George Birrer and John Luginbill went in together to purcase the decrepit Fox Theatre in 1991, they knew they were buying a fixer-upper, but didn’t know how much. The theatre had been closed for the previous ten years, and had been neglected the entire time.…
CLOVIS – A Clovis man convicted of illegally possessing more 1,600 trout – more than 160 times the limit — agreed to pay $8,110 in civil penalties after accepting a plea agreement. Bounchanh Bounsombath, 63, was arrested in May 2014 after Department of Game and Fish conservation officers seized the trout…
RATON – Eight Clovis men will pay penalties and fines totaling $7,189 after pleading guilty to numerous poaching and other charges, including killing a deer and turkey out of season and hunting without licenses. Department of Game and Fish officers caught the men hunting on the Elliott Barker Wildlife Area north of Cimarron…