By Forrest Whitman I got an email recently from a reader who threatened me with a lawsuit. He was mad about an article I wrote four years ago which included examples of shock talk from Gov. Davis Waite and President Donald Trump. Waite was the Colorado governor from 1893 till 1895, and was given to …
By Kim Grant For 90 years, the eclectic Tarryall-Cline Ranch house has stood proudly like a sentinel amidst a beautiful meadow just off U.S. Hwy. 285 in Park County. The main ranch house was built in 1928 by the ranch owner, Foster Cline, Sr., a prominent Denver attorney. Cline was the deputy district attorney in …
By Hal Walter Coaching a high-school athlete on the autism spectrum to run track and cross-country is not for the faint of heart, and sometimes it seems there should be a soundtrack playing in the background complete with foreboding drumrolls and exuberant crescendos. Any meet could result in a total meltdown or an epic moment …
By John Mattingly No one has ever mentioned me as a dog person. I’m not even a dog enthusiast. I would never walk a dog, for example, or groom or wash a dog, or take a dog to the dentist, or let a dog in a vehicle, or feed a dog anything but raw meet, …
By Mike Rosso Colorado Central readers looking for a true Western experience, need go no further than the town of Westcliffe, in the Wet Mountain Valley and take a seat at the historic Jones Theater. Whether its a film, theater performance or concert, there are few venues in the region that capture the small town, …
By Virginia Simmons In Colorado’s younger days, publishing a newspaper often simply involved hauling a printing press, a case of lead type, and some newsprint in a wagon across the prairie to a new town or mining camp, printing the current local news, and selling it to any eager soul who could read and had …
