Robert “Buster” Wetsel, age 97, died Sunday, August 23, 2015, in Dalhart, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM on Thursday, August 27, at the First United Methodist Church in Clayton, New Mexico with Rev. Robert Hunt, pastor and Terrell Jones, pastor of the Trinity Fellowship Church in…
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by Bill KnowlesTRINIDAD — Hitting the midpoint in expenditures for the year, the Las Animas County Board of County Commissioners heard from 12 department heads for a mid-year budget review. They offered praise and advice to the dozen supervisors who actually oversee the spending of taxpayer generated funds. “We have…
by Nancy Christofferson TRINIDAD — When people go looking for the old coal mining town of Starkville, Colorado, if they’re not paying attention they might find instead the Trinidad WalMart parking lot just off Interstate 25. Starkville was one of Las Animas County’s earliest coal mines. The first workings were…
by Mary Jo TesitorWALSENBURG — On the evening of Tuesday, August 11, Terri Patrick moderated a town-hall meeting of Re-1 School Board, staff, and citizens who gathered in the Washington School auditorium to brainstorm for answers to two prickly questions: How can we generate a significant amount of new money for…
by Paula M. Manini TRINIDAD — Because of her “Shame to Pride” art project, Stephanie Calvert has come to grips with her former life in Thatcher, a small community north of Trinidad. When Calvert was ten years old, her parents moved the family from San Diego to escape the…
by Brian OrrWALSENBURG — The Huerfano County commissioners listened Tuesday to Huerfano resident Mary Jenson, who spoke to them about the difficulty of finding records on property mineral or water rights. She and her husband have both been realtors in their careers, and know how to do record searches, but…
by Bill KnowlesTRINIDAD — An Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) between Las Animas County and Cokedale was delayed because of language changes in the International Code Council’s building code. During the regular meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 18, the county’s attorney, Dixie Newnam, recommended the delay until the changes could be written into…
by Lorna Eddleman WALSENBURG — Huerfano RE-1 School District took time at their regularly scheduled board meeting on August 4 to recognize representatives from the SO and OEM for the work they do on behalf of the school district over the course of each year.. The sheriff’s office puts together…
by Eric MullensWALSENBURG — Walsenburg City Council Tuesday night voted unanimously for a $13,700 expenditure with an engineering firm who will prepare construction documents the city may use itself to make some rehabilitation improvements on City Lake reservoir. The construction, which could take place as soon as spring 2016, calls…
Emergency ordinance stops pot business licenses for 31 days with regular ordinance to extend moratorium for additional three monthsby Bill KnowlesTRINIDAD — On Tuesday, the Trinidad City Council passed, on a 7-0 vote, an emergency ordinance imposing a moratorium on the issuance of conditional use permits (CUP), or the licensing…