The Colorado Space Business Roundtable meet with local schools, visits area businesses by Bill Knowles TRINIDAD — Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin headquartered in Denver, paid a visit to Trinidad and Las Animas County Thursday, Aug. 21. The southern Colorado tour is an effort to help stimulate economic development in the…
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by Gretchen OrrWALSENBURG— The Huerfano RE-1 Board of Education met Tuesday for the first time since school resumed and finalized old business including approval of volunteer and substitute lists, coaches and teachers. The BOE also accepted the resignation of Peakview teacher Teresa England. Jeffery Higgins, who resigned last spring…
Pueblo County Fleet Manager shows how Pueblo developed fleet of compressed natural gas powered vehiclesby Bill KnowlesWALSENBURG — ”This just didn’t happen overnight,” the Director of Pueblo County Fleet Management, Carl Chavez, told members of the Southern Colorado Energy Council during a luncheon Friday, Aug. 21, at La Plaza Inn.…
Sentencing set for Octoberby Eric MullensWALSENBURG — In a soft, nearly inaudible voice, Marissa Jackson pleaded guilty Friday, August 21 to causing the death of four-year old Alani Tatiana Reyes-Cueva in a plea agreement reached with special state-appointed prosecutors. Jackson answered yes to Third Judicial District Judge Leslie Gerbracht’s questions concerning…
by Eric MullensWALSENBURG — The Walsenburg City Council unanimously approved an ordinance and resolution concerning the First Ranch Annexation in a special session Tuesday, August 25. The eight members attending the session passed Ordinance 1075, which annexes 550.24 acres of the city-owned ranch into the city limits of Walsenburg. The…
Santa Fe, NM (AP News) — The New Mexico Environment Department’s Drinking Water Bureau has issued boil water advisories including Vermejo Park Headquarters Water System. The advisories were issued Thursday, August 27. 2015 after E.coli bacteriological contamination was detected in repeat drinking water samples. Vermejo Park Headquarters Water System serves approximately…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Raton Water Works is preparing for some expensive and lengthy projects at Lake Maloya with work on the dam and water intake facilities at Lake Maloya at the north end of Sugarite Canyon State Park. Dan Campbell, Raton Water Works General Manager, noted…
Special to KRTN Multi-Media The results of the state’s first venture into teacher pay for performance offer up what could be a valuable lesson in quantity vs. quality when it comes to where the dollars should go. And the New Mexico Public Education Department is paying attention. Of the six…
In a recent blurb published in “Recoil” a shooters magazine a recent unnamed visitor to Raton royally blasted the City of Raton. The blurb came to the attention of City Manager Scott Berry who then shared the article with KRTN as well as his response to the blurb.…
By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media Raton City Commissioners met Tuesday evening and heard that the gross receipts tax revenue for July is up by about 3.5% over budget. In the financial report City Manger Scott Berry also noted a slight increase in the cash balance for the city…