Author: Bill Hudson

A riverfront parcel once home to Bob’s LP was purchased for $882,000 to provide better recreational access to the San Juan River…

In the current climate of declining enrollment and rising prices, is it likely that Archuleta County voters choose to increase their property taxes by $150 million for a new school facility?

“Drought conditions are such that PAWSD is encouraging customers to voluntarily reduce the amount of water they use…”

Our existing school buildings are not overcrowded.  Enrollment has been falling, and is predicted to fall further…

Enrollment numbers have quite a significance in the Colorado education industry, because our public schools are funded on a “per pupil” basis…

“We feel very confident that we have the overarching electrical capacity to serve this community…”

“Data centers… there’s a huge amount of uncertainty about what we’re actually going to see in the way of data centers…”

“Tri-State cannot hide beneath the covers and pretend that plans to produce alternative energy will simply go away if ignored….”

A simple answer seems to be:  renewable energy is now more cost-effective than fossil-fuel energy, and getting ever more cost-effective as oil wells get more and more expensive to drill…

Reportedly, the LPEA electrical outage yesterday was caused by construction equipment that went through a transmission line south of Pagosa Springs…

At tonight’s Board meeting, the staff will discuss plans to enter Drought Stage Level 1…

The CWRC was officially adopted by the state government last summer, and local jurisdictions had to adopt the code by April 1…

According to a 2012 “Economic Impact Study”, our airport is an economic boon to the community, because the millionaires and billionaires who use the airport spend money in our county…

He also explained that “this year we were faced with quite a budget cut…”

“There was also a discussion about low-cost housing, which one of the attendees correctly identified as government subsidized housing….”

Who was to blame for this situation? Well, it was you and I. The local taxpayers…

“We had a great turnout, and the Springs Resort was a wonderful host. We had to bring in more chairs and I’m pretty sure we were north of 70 in attendance….”

About 15 years ago, the Aspen Springs Metro District developed an artesian well — a well that doesn’t require pumping because the water naturally flows from the ground due to underground pressures…