The focus was on immediate first aid, and getting 911 emergency service there as soon as possible. Traffic control in the middle of Highway 550 was critical as well. I’m…
Smoke is still present around the area and firefighters are working hard to contain fires in many parts of the state. With wildfires becoming more prevalent, people need to dig…
There are three things in particular that struck us from the Herald article (June 25). First, it’s curious that the resolution to move forward with a separation is happening before…
Because Bennet listened to our community and worked to pass the Hermosa Creek Watershed Protection Act in 2014, Hermosa Creek will be preserved and can teach future generations the value…
As a result of the news coverage, we received a number of phone calls from people describing similar experiences. A short time later, I received a phone call from Nate…
On the Fourth of July, there were hundreds of people in Schneider Park to watch the fireworks. Unfortunately, the restrooms were locked. At least a dozen people tried the doors…
Former teacher and journalist Barbara McLachlan is running for Colorado House District 59. She won’t contribute to negative ideas and comments so prevalent in today’s media; instead, she will bring…
I just want to say what an awesome job the Town of Bayfield and the Parks and Recreation department staff in particular did. Their communication and organization skills for this…
Please understand that I truly believe this was not just an award to me but to my coach, the late Jerry Parker, my assistant coaches, my community, my parents, and…
The LPEA Round-Up Foundation is a valuable community asset which provides financial assistance to hundreds of not-for-profits in our local area. Because there isn’t much elbow room available at the…
The first-place winner of $800 was Phyllis Ludwig of Bayfield. Second place, $200, was won by James Dick of Bayfield. Our original goal of $ 9,000 has already been obtained,…
As a retired professional firefighter, I questioned that strategy. From a fiscal standpoint and a firefighting tactics perspective, I was not in support of it. It was explained to me…
The park was really busy with holiday activities. For several hours, we watched people coming up to the restrooms only to find them locked. We had to load up some…
The pronouncement came as no surprise. There is no way the FBI would bring charges against the presumptive presidential nominee of either party without solid evidence of a serious crime.…
The initiative calls for amending the state constitution so that “All new oil and gas development facilities, including those that use hydraulic fracturing, must be located at least 2,500 feet…
During the 1930s, the majority of the water was diverted south, leaving everything beyond Dolores bone dry in the summer. I hear people angry that farmers get the water, ranchers…
There is a problem, however, with legal marijuana use because of pesticides. It is bad enough that commercial products sold in grocery stores are chock-filled with unhealthy additives – at…
Any reduction in CO2 concentration “would require substantial and sustained cuts in anthropogenic (human-caused) emissions to near zero.” While I believe this is possible (witness World War II super-production efforts,…
Coloradans have witnessed the unpleasant experience of high heat. One of the reasons for such high heat is climate change. Global warming alters climate both globally and locally. And carbon…
Of far more importance, however, is that we keep alive the memory he lived to perpetuate. For as Wiesel said, to forget the Holocaust would be to kill the victims…
Islam is not a simple religion like “I believe in Jesus” or “I believe in Buddha,” but is instead a belief system that incorporates a set of civil laws called…
I first came to the San Juan’s when I was 18 to find myself, so this place is interwoven into my soul. But prospectors no longer explore these peaks. It…
Independence Day is not tied to any faith, ethnicity or racial group. And it lacks the somber quality of Memorial Day or Veterans Day. The Fourth of July is a…
I have heard people on the airport commission talking about the necessity of airport expansion and moving the terminal to the other side of the runway. The airport in its…
Colorado’s education system has been suffering financially for a long time. Despite being the 14th wealthiest state in the country, we rank 42nd in per-pupil funding for our students. Time…
If you really, really want a gun, you should get one; this is, after all, a free country. Who knows, you may be the person who does step in and…
If gun control is so great, why does President Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago, with the toughest gun control in the nation, show that there were 1,827 shootings since the…
He may as well claim there has been one automobile accident in the U.S. in the past decade. When he referred to the time frame of the past 50 years,…
His often tumultuous relationship with Durango authorities, the friendship and help of the Mancos ranching family the Wetherills, who rediscovered Mesa Verde while hunting lost cows, and arrest and jailing…
