Parents, now scrambling to find alternative care after the abrupt closure of The Schoolhouse in Poncha Springs, are accusing authorities of overreacting to reports of a 5-year-old touching younger classmates
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Colorado governor tells geographic renaming board to consider easier-to-pronounce alternatives
Gov. Jared Polis said “dots and dashes” made it hard to say Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain — leading one board member to label the governor’s position “problematic”
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How bad are Coloradans at recycling? Chaffee County contractor closed its free sites over bad actors, slim profits
Angel of Shavano Recycling spent 15 years sifting through Chaffee County’s trash collecting its treasures — plastics, cardboard, paper, newspaper, tin and aluminum. But slim profits and bad behavior by customers led the owner, Mickey Barry, to close the gates on the four free community recycling sites. “In the recycling industry the drop sites have […]
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Opponents urge federal board to reject revival of Tennessee Pass railroad along Arkansas, Eagle rivers
Opposition to the plan to revive long-dormant rail traffic on Tennessee Pass is growing by the day. Residents of Chaffee, Lake and Eagle counties buried the Surface Transportation Board this month with opposition to the plan proposed by a Texas-based, short-line operator to begin running freight and possibly passengers on tracks that last saw trains […]
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Chaffee County calls for more time, study of contentious Nestlé water-bottling plan
Chaffee County’s commissioners want more analysis of a plan by Nestlé Waters North America to pump as much as 65 million gallons of water a year from the Upper Arkansas River Valley for bottling in Denver. After several meetings in the last two months featuring hours of public input — virtually all of it opposing […]
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Nestlé’s plan to pump 65 million gallons of Arkansas River water to Denver for bottling stirs contentious fight
NATHROP — Dozens of Chaffee County residents lined up Thursday to virtually blast a plan by Nestlé Waters North America to pump up to 65 million gallons of groundwater a year out of the Upper Arkansas River Valley for bottling in Denver. “We don’t need Nestlé to bottle our water and sell it back to […]