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Staff Writer After its Jan. 28 work session on the marijuana application and its associated point system, the Town of Cedaredge Board of Trustees met again on Thursday, Feb. 4, to further fine tune the regulations on that process, as well as code for marijuana in general. As previously indicated at the last January meeting, redundant items that repeated town code and state law were removed. Other items on the point system were tweaked as well. Firstly, as far as significant alterations go, on I...

Check out the Grand Mesa as of 9:45 this morning, February 4, 2021. Is it just me, or is this the way Western Colorado is supposed to look?

Enter your number to get our free mobile app Check out the Grand Mesa as of 9:45 this morning, February 4, 2021. Is it just me, or is this the way Western Colorado is supposed to look? This image comes courtesy of cotrip.org. Its fun to follow this site and stay up to speed with images from all over the state of Colorado. Kudos to the operator driving that plow. That road looks fantastic. At 9:56 this morning I thought it would be interesting to see how many plows were at work on the Grand Mesa...

Check Out This Grand Mesa Getaway In the Winter Enter your number to get our free mobile app Are you ready to escape? Check out this little getaway just outside of Cedaredge, Colorado. Have you ever been to Kiser Creek Cabins? Back in July 2020 I paid a visit to this retreat on the Grand Mesa. Until then, I had never heard of the place. As it turns out, this venue is amazing. That was back in July. I have a friend visiting the cabins right now (January 29), and the place is even more spectacula...

In a winter when a normal amount of snowfall in Colorado won’t be enough to adequately counter the effects of ongoing drought, snowpack accumulations so far are heading in the wrong direction, currently at about three-quarters of normal. Statewide snowpack was at 74% of median Thursday, with percentages even lower in area basins, at 68% for the Gunnison River Basin and 70% for the Upper Colorado River Basin, according to Natural Resources Conservation Service data. Local conditions are wor...

Condoning action of dangerous mob is like participating There always has been and always will be those who believe freedom means free to do what ever they want regardless the rule of law be it local, state, or federal. On Jan. 6 we experienced terrorism on our home front perpetrated by our own fellow Americans. These domestic terrorists did not appear on the horizon overnight, they’ve been here for eons but with the four years of support from their great leader Donald J. Trump they have be...

We’ve all seen people on social media wishing 2020 away and hoping for a better year in 2021. However, I think there have been many bright spots. As a whole, we have learned that we are more resilient than we knew, more generous with our time and attention, and way luckier to be alive than we sometimes realized. I continued working even after the world shut down, photographing a different kind of daily life. I had the unique opportunity to watch firsthand what our little community looked like...

For the fifth consecutive week, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has added more than 200 new entries to its list of outbreaks related to COVID-19, and an increasing number have tallied death tolls higher than since the early days of the pandemic. An extreme example is Windsor Healthcare, a skilled-nursing facility in Weld County. The CDPHE has confirmed sixty positive staff cases, 85 positive resident cases and seven resident deaths. The CDPHE considers an entity an outb...