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Walmart Store Closes Briefly Following Apparent Arson in Clothing Department
“The male is the only suspect in the case and there are no public safety risks known,” the press release states…
EDITORIAL: Pagosa Walmart Closes Its Doors, Temporarily… Due to COVID
“Today when I went to Walmart this afternoon (Wed. 6/30), the manager was standing outside informing customers that the store was closed due to COVID…”
EDITORIAL: A Tribute to the Beatles, for Education
Since opening its doors in September 2017, Pagosa Peak Open School has grown into an intimate K-8 school, operating in a large former office building…
READY, FIRE, AIM: How to Outlive Yourself
I’d like to review another best-selling book that I’ve never read. “Outlive: The Art and Science of Longevity”…
EDITORIAL: Town Council Considers $850,000 Property Purchase, Part One
The ordinance would allocate $850,000 of taxpayer revenue from the Town’s General Fund to the purchase of about 12 acres of mostly (but not entirely) vacant property…
EDITORIAL: Fear and Loathing, and the Proposed Highway 160 Reconstruction, Part Two
“We’re talking hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of dollars for the downtown businesses who will lose a significant amount of revenue…”
Medical Debt Affects Much of America; Colorado Immigrants Especially Hard Hit
“Many hospitals also have funding to help out with your debt. You just have to get to the right person, because it seems that nobody wants to let us know that those programs exist…”
Track Opioid Settlement Payouts — To the Cent — In Your Community
Determining how much money has arrived is the first step in assessing whether the settlements will make a dent in the nation’s addiction crisis…
EDITORIAL: Additional Bus Routes During Highway Reconstruction? Don’t Bet on It… Part Three
“I think you have questions to answer. What are peak periods? When are the most people on the road? When are we going to be effective?…”
EDITORIAL: Additional Bus Routes During Highway Reconstruction? Don’t Bet on It… Part Two
“But what I kept hearing, repeated, was ‘Maybe the MET can do this… maybe Met can do that… maybe MET can put in a new bus stop’…
OPINION: Agreeing with Attorney General Weiser Regarding Proposed Kroger-Albertson Merger
I am extremely grateful that you have decided to fight against the merger of Kroger and Albertson’s for the People of Colorado…
EDITORIAL: Big Dream on Pagosa Street, Part Five
“Most of the other developments that we’ve both been involved in, over the past 39 or 40 years, are much, much, much larger…”
EDITORIAL: Big Dream on Pagosa Street, Part One
“[Architect] Brad Ash gave a good discussion about how much experience he has interpreting the LUDC. And he comes to that interpretation from the point of view of an architect…”
EDITORIAL: Community Development as a Corporate Activity, Part Four
The Middle School sidewalk project is estimated to cost $250,000, and will reportedly be rolled into other Town-sponsored sidewalk and streetscape improvements…
EDITORIAL: A Bright Future for Pagosa Tourism? Part One
Several of the nine applicants for the vacant Tourism Board seats brought up the fact that the community, as a whole, has developed a somewhat negative view of the tourism industry…
EDITORIAL: The Never-Ending Dream of a Town to Lakes Trail, Part One
If you count the sidewalks in Aspen Village as parts of the Trail, then the western segment gets close to a rocky cliff west of Harman Park…
EDITORIAL: Hot Springs Water, Vacant Land, Government Transparency
The mention of an ‘executive session’ got me thinking about government transparency…