New Alamosa mayor takes office
Posted: Thursday, Nov 19th, 2009
Rogers city's first lady
mayor

By RUTH HEIDE
ALAMOSA -- For the first time in a quarter century, Alamosa experienced a change in mayoral leadership as long-time Mayor Farris Bervig left the position and the city's first lady mayor, Kathy Rogers, took office on Wednesday night.
Mayor Bervig, who has served Alamosa for 24 years and opted not ...more

Animal waste likely cause of salmonella
Posted: Wednesday, Nov 18th, 2009
State releases final report on Alamosa
outbreak

STAFF REPORT
ALAMOSA -- The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Wednesday released its final report regarding the salmonella outbreak that struck Alamosa in 2008. The outbreak resulted in hundreds of people in the community becoming ill and had a significant economic impact on the city.
By the ...more

Students, parents picket BOE
Posted: Tuesday, Nov 17th, 2009
Moffat school controversy continues

By JULIA WILSON
MOFFAT -- Everyone attending the Moffat school board meeting had to pass through a picket line manned by students and parents before they could enter the school building Monday night.
The controversy pitting Superintendent Charles Warren and the Board of Education against parents, teachers and students is a result of the superintendent ...more

Arrest may clear over a dozen burglaries
Modified: Tuesday, Nov 17th, 2009
Jurisdictions join forces to close cases

By ERIC E. MULLENS
ALAMOSA -- A rash of burglaries involving at least four jurisdictions may have been halted Wednesday night at the business end of a Monte Vista police officer's taser.
Monte Vista officers and a Rio Grande County Sheriff's deputy confronted a burglary suspect who was attempting to smash open a ...more

Melgares awarded overdue Korean War medals
Posted: Tuesday, Nov 17th, 2009
ALAMOSA --The American Legion Veterans Day dinner Wednesday night was a time of remembering, camaraderie and, yes, a few tears.
In a packed hall, the families of World War II veteran Joe C. Trujillo and Korean War veteran Francisco "Cisco" Melgares honored the service of family patriarchs, while fellow veterans, their spouses, widows and children honored the service of so ...more

Engen progresses in post-season recovery
Posted: Tuesday, Nov 17th, 2009
FORT COLLINS -- Although medical professionals are telling Courier Sports Editor Lloyd Engen he still has extensive rehab ahead, they are pleased with his progress since the September 5 sideline injury at the Sangre de Cristo football game that put him on the injured reserve list for the rest of the football season, and then some.
He continues to undergo ...more

Baca Mountain Tract decision signed
Posted: Friday, Nov 13th, 2009
Access,
improvements outlined

CRESTONE -- Dan Dallas, Forest Supervisor and Center Manager for the San Luis Valley Public Lands Center, signed the decision notice for the Baca Mountain Tract and Camino Chamisa Project.
This decision amends the forest plan for the Rio Grande National Forest. This decision applies only to the national forest included in the analysis area. ...more

Line project an electric topic
Posted: Wednesday, Nov 11th, 2009
PUC hears pros, cons

By RUTH HEIDE
ALAMOSA -- Satan or savior, the proposed new east-west transmission line into the San Luis Valley drew varied responses during a Colorado Public Utilities Commission hearing in Alamosa on Tuesday night.
"I just feel it's like opening the door to Satan. You are just going to let him in and he will ...more

PUC hearing produces power struggle
Posted: Tuesday, Nov 10th, 2009
Transmission line views split

By RUTH HEIDE
ALAMOSA -- During a three-and-a-half-hour hearing before a Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) administrative law judge on Tuesday, 35 San Luis Valley residents shared their opinions, wishes and concerns about a new transmission line proposed to cross over La Veta Pass into the San Luis Valley.
Tri-State Generation and Transmission and Xcel ...more

Decorated vet recalls WW II
Posted: Monday, Nov 9th, 2009
Trujillo is lucky to be alive

By RUTH HEIDE
ALAMOSA -- When U.S. Army Infantryman Private First Class Joe C. Trujillo returned from the battlefields after World War II, medals and honors were not as important to him as being alive.
Narrowly escaping death on more than one occasion, Trujillo was just grateful to be back in the San ...more