Author: Bill Hudson

As of 2026, their parenting effort has resulted in a total of ten great-grandchildren…

I know that’s a weird question to ask, here in America, where everything seems to cost more than it did last year…

“Being totally immersed and present in whatever I am doing, wherever I am…”

That might be the central question in this editorial series.  Does change and improvement bring about a satisfied mind?

He arrived with a half dozen autoharps, each tuned to a different key. And, as it turned out, each in need of tuning…

An unusually wet period during the 1870s mistakenly led settlers to embrace the belief that “rain follows the plow”…

Earlier this week, I snapped a photo from the Highway 160 bridge over the West Fork of the San Juan River…

A few intelligent and thoughtful people would still like to see a large water reservoir built on the Running Iron Ranch…

SJWCD already has a few “water demand studies” in its files.  Do they show a “need for more water in the future”?

Public financing for public projects and much-needed maintenance of public infrastructure has been in the Pagosa Springs news lately…

Some cities and towns have embraced ADUs as a significant tool for addressing the lack of affordable housing for workers and retirees…

The Town Council decided instead to engage a Texas company called Servitas to build up to 64 units of rather small (and rather expensive?) apartment units…

We have no idea how the decision was made, and what factors were considered, and who was consulted for advice… Most definitely, the taxpayers were not consulted…

All we really know is, that seven Council members felt confident entering into an auction for properties that the owners have walked away from…

As noted previously, very few members of the public had attended this special meeting. But two local citizens did step up to the microphone during public comment…

Back in 2022, the Pagosa Springs Planning Department was searching for new ideas for solving the housing problem they had helped to create…