Joseph Pacheco out on $200,000 bond
Posted: Saturday, Mar 13th, 2010
CONEJOS -- A bond reduction hearing scheduled for Friday in an Antonito murder case did not have to take place. So, it did not.
Thursday afternoon at 2:51 p.m. Joseph Pacheco, alleged to have strangled his father to death, was released on his own recognizance. A $200,000 surety bond was posted in cooperation with bond agent Florence Valdez.
Another ...more

NLRB rules in favor of local teamsters
Posted: Saturday, Mar 13th, 2010
DENVER -- National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge William Kocol issued a decision in which he concluded that Harborlite Corp. violated the National Labor Relations Act by threatening to lock out its employees and then by locking them out under the threat of permanent replacement.
Teamsters Union Local 455 attorney Michael J. Belo wrote that the judge had issued ...more

Task force seizes $300K of pot
Posted: Thursday, Mar 11th, 2010
Two in
custody, more arrests expected

By ERIC MULLENS
COSTILLA COUNTY -- As part of an ongoing drug trafficking investigation, agents from the Southern Colorado Drug Task Force, Colorado State Patrol Investigative Services Section and uniform CSP Troopers, seized suspected stolen property, weapons and marijuana from two locations Wednesday evening.
Two adult males are in custody and over ...more

Valley home to new 911 center
Posted: Wednesday, Mar 10th, 2010
CSP facility online early Wednesday morning

By ERIC MULLENS
ALAMOSA -- You may not have heard or felt anything during the early morning hours Thursday, but a huge change in the Valley's emergency communications infrastructure took place at about 3 a.m.
911 dispatchers, communications supervisors and technicians were wide awake in the middle of the night as the switch ...more

Pacheco bond hearing postponed
Posted: Tuesday, Mar 9th, 2010
Communication gap makes
delay necessary

By STAN MOYER
CONEJOS -- Formal charges were filed with Conejos County Judge Mary Elizabeth Garcia before a 4 p.m. deadline Tuesday against Joseph S. Pacheco, 35, alleged to have strangled his father, Delfino Pacheco, Jr., 73, Thursday night Feb. 25. The act is alleged to have caused the older man's death.
The ...more

Hackett Preserve request renewed
Posted: Monday, Mar 8th, 2010
City refers
issue to
ranch board

By RUTH HEIDE
ALAMOSA -- The widow of long-time Alamosa City Manager Michael Hackett is asking the Alamosa city council to name part of the Alamosa Ranch in his memory.
After earlier requests from local residents to name a portion of the ranch after Hackett, the city council placed a plaque ...more

Armory clears state funding hurdle this week
Posted: Friday, Mar 5th, 2010
Site is
next step

By RUTH HEIDE
ALAMOSA -- A permanent National Guard armory in Alamosa cleared another hurdle this week as state legislators approved funding for the facility.
"I think it's a great thing for the Valley and a good thing for Alamosa County," said State Representative Ed Vigil, a San Luis Valley resident who represents the ...more

7 period class day coming to AHS
Posted: Wednesday, Mar 3rd, 2010
By JULIA WILSON
ALAMOSA -- Alamosa Board of Education voted four to two Tuesday night to change the structure of the school day in Alamosa High School.
For 13 years Alamosa High School students have studied under a modified block schedule, with students attending some classes on Tuesday and Thursday in one and a half hour blocks, and other classes ...more

Deferred sentence for drug sales
Posted: Tuesday, Mar 2nd, 2010
Getting off lightly says Judge who approves deal

By JULIA WILSON
ALAMOSA -- A student arrested in November for dealing cocaine out of his dorm room at Adams State College received three years deferred sentence in District Court Tuesday.
Jamison Taylor Bair, now 19, was picked up by the Alamosa policemen after an informant, wired with a tape recorder ...more

Alamosa hit with salmonella suit
Posted: Monday, Mar 1st, 2010
Plaintiffs
seek trial

By RUTH HEIDE
ALAMOSA -- Attorneys representing 29 plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in District Court-Alamosa on Monday against the City of Alamosa for damages related to the salmonella outbreak about two years ago this month.
The civil case seeks unspecified damages for medical care and associated costs such as travel, lost wages and emotional distress ...more