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Here are the things to know the Buena Vista board of trustees packed Feb. 14 meeting:

The Chaffee County Patriots will host members of the Buena Vista Police Department and Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office during their monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. today at St. Rose of

'It's Not About The Badge' offers a unique lens into small-town peace officers and their stories.

Buena Vista police received a report of gunshots and a man threatening to kill another individual near CR 304 in the Midland Hill Trail area Thursday afternoon, resulting in a suspect being charged with attempted first degree murder. According to a press release from Chaffee County Sheriff John Spezze, responding officers found the victim, who had been shooting target practice, with injuries to his head and face. The victim said that the suspect, Thomas Labosky, 35, had inflicted the unprovoked injuries with a rock and a stick. The victim was also forced to remove all his clothing. Spezze sai...

Local author, John DiGirolamo, has a passion for policing and was inspired to tell the officers stories after listening to a summer full of negative portrayals of police officers in the media in 2020. “There was a constant drumbeat yet you never heard the officers side, especially that of small town rural officers,” DiGirolamo said. The result was “It’s Not About the Badge” – six stories about real cops including five from Chaffee County and one from Omaha. The stories tell of the dangers they  face in their work of protecting the public, often when a “si...