“And part of the vision has always been, that there’s almost never a single teacher alone, except when working in a small group. There’s almost always a team, working together…”
Pagosa Peak Open School Hires Its Staff, Part One
“This is the kind of faculty that’s sort of a ‘Renaissance’ faculty… who can integrate the arts and music into the classroom… and over half the teaching staff is fluent in Spanish…”
Lightner Creek Fire in Durango 20 Percent Contained
A second fire was apparently started by an ember on the east side of Lightner Creek Road and it worked its way toward Perins Peak and became the larger of the two fires…
ESSAY: Data… and the American Dream, Part Five
“Bob, you shouldn’t be doing that kind of work,” I told him. “Hire someone to do it for you. A professional…”
ESSAY: Data… and the American Dream, Part Four
“At the end of the day, there’s no romance without finance. We need some money to finance this; we’re going to need money to pay the consultants to do this work…”
ESSAY: Data… and the American Dream, Part Three
In other words, DDM can analyze the tourists coming to Pagosa Springs and tell us, at some level of detail, what TV programs these visitors are watching at home…
ESSAY: Data… and the American Dream, Part Two
Back in 2010, the 20-member Water Supply Community Work Group (WSCWG) published a comprehensive study of our community’s water needs…
ESSAY: Data… and the American Dream, Part One
The birds were singing when I woke this morning, and that’s a fact. I can’t tell you how many birds or what species, but I definitely heard birds singing…
EDITORIAL: The Zombie Reservoir Rears its Ugly Head, Part Three
What has changed since 2010? If Dry Gulch was a boondoggle then, what has changed to make it a good idea in 2017?
EDITORIAL: The Zombie Reservoir Rears its Ugly Head, Part Two
“No, it’s not good news. There’s still a window of opportunity, to get them to turn this thing around, but it would be a long shot…”
EDITORIAL: The Zombie Reservoir Rears its Ugly Head, Part One
“I consider myself an informed person. I’m a County commissioner. I was intimately involved in the first Dry Gulch deal….”
HUMOR: The Flood
Well, gosh. I didn’t know President Trump had been counting on me in the first place. Nobody tells me about this stuff, until it’s too late…
HUMOR: The Smell of Global Warming
“It has been pretty conclusively proven that the earth is undergoing a period of surprisingly intense global warming…”
Town Seeking Applicants for Vacant Council Seat
After serving on the Council for just over seven months following her appointment last September, Ms. Anderson changed her residence and moved outside the District 1 boundaries…
Pagosa Charter School Announces School Director Finalist
Pagosa Peak Open School has announced its finalist for the School Director position: educator James Lewicki…
EDITORIAL: The Rezoning of Aspen Village, Part Three
The solution he proposed closely resembled the solutions that have been promoted by the Archuleta County Affordable Housing Workgroup over the past nine months: a mix of small single-family homes, townhomes and apartments…
EDITORIAL: The Rezoning of Aspen Village, Part Two
Limiting the Enclave development to townhomes and single-family only — as recommended by the Town Planning Commission — simply makes the development less likely to address the most pressing housing needs in the community…
EDITORIAL: The Rezoning of Aspen Village, Part One
With that curious little U.S. Post Office policy in mind, we might look at the 45 property owners who received notices of the meeting…
Special School Board Meeting Today, Friday, to Discuss Charter School
Readers might notice that the Pagosa Peak announcement mentions a possible face-to-face discussion between the charter school board and the Archuleta School Board…