Heart Health Fair set
Posted: Thursday, Nov 19th, 2009
MANASSA--The Manassa Heart Health Fair is Saturday, November 21 from 7-11 a.m. at the LDS Church gym.
Free screenings will be offered, and include cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure and Body Mass Index (BMI). Lab results available within minutes. For optimal results, fasting past midnight is required. Drinking water and taking prescription medication while fasting is encouraged.
There will also ...more

Colorado economic development director visits the San Luis Valley
Posted: Wednesday, Nov 18th, 2009
Get ready for the trickle down

By JULIA WILSON
ALAMOSA -- Don Marostica, director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, once convinced a company to locate in Colorado by telling them how many bugs there were in Tennessee.
"They were down to deciding between Colorado and Tennessee," he told a crowd at the Alamosa ...more

Phoebe and Jocelyn Russell schedule art show
Posted: Tuesday, Nov 17th, 2009
ALAMOSA -- Art lovers are in for a treat as once again mother and daughter Phoebe and Jocelyn Russell share their work during their annual exhibit, scheduled this year for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 20-22, at the Inn of the Rio Grande in Alamosa.
The opening reception will be held from 4-9 p.m. Friday, with show hours on Saturday ...more

Christmas shoebox deadline approaches
Posted: Friday, Nov 13th, 2009
ALAMOSA -- The San Luis Care Center is a collection point for Operation Christmas Child.
Through Operation Christmas Child, the world's largest Christmas project, area residents are packing shoe box gifts for children in more than 100 countries suffering from natural disaster, war, terrorism, disease, famine and poverty. From Alamosa, the shoe box gifts will be sorted and ...more

Milagros hosts book signing for author Sandra Lacy
Posted: Friday, Nov 13th, 2009
ALAMOSA -- Sandra Allbee Lacy drew her first breath in Alamosa and immediately began absorbing images, emotions and thoughts that would eventually emerge in a book, which she will share and sign from 1-3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, at Milagros Coffee House.
Insight Out is the canvas and words are her paints, brush and palette as she deftly ...more

Wildlife Commission meets today in SLV
Posted: Wednesday, Nov 11th, 2009
ALAMOSA -- The Colorado Wildlife Commission will finalize turkey hunting regulations for the 2010 season and review the proposed annual changes to big game regulations at its regular meeting on Thursday, Nov. 12 in Alamosa.
The meeting will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Inn of the Rio Grande, 333 Santa Fe Avenue.
Annual changes ...more

Housing authority case broadens
Posted: Monday, Nov 9th, 2009
Former
director's nephew charged

ALAMOSA -- In yet another case arising from the Alamosa Housing Authority embezzlement begun by former director Patricia Martinez, 62, a grand jury has charged her nephew Jeffery Guntle, 47, with conspiracy, embezzlement and money laundering.
The charges related to a time period between 2005 and 2007, a small portion of the time Martinez ...more