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Supreme Court and District Judge end Linda Stanley’s final attempt to avoid punishment
By Jordan Hedberg
The five-year saga of the rise and fall of Linda Stanley entered its closing chapter over the last week as the Colorado Supreme Court ruled...
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Burros, volunteers, and a mission to bring water to LT100 runners on Hope Pass
By Jordan Hedberg
We recently spent four days camped out at timberline up Hope Pass —about 11,800 feet in altitude — helping support the highest aid station for...
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A steam whistle blasts in the Wet Mountain Valley for the first time in 86 years
By Jordan Hedberg
In 1939, as the United States continued to struggle to fully recover from the decade-long Great Depression, places like Westcliffe were still far from experiencing...
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Rockfall at dawn: Two good Samaritans rescue a man struck in the head during rockfall on Little Bear Peak
By Jordan Hedberg
The dark blue, almost black, of the morning twilight was only punctuated by the headlamps of three hikers as they reached the polished granite chute...
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Another smoke pall summer as wildfires choke fresh air
By Jordan Hedberg
As of this writing, there is some hope that the wildfire smoke pall brought into the Valley by a cold front earlier this week may...
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Living (and dying) in Avalanche Country by John Marshall and Jerry Roberts

By Staff on December 1, 1999

Review by Ed Quillen

Avalanches – December 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine

Living (and dying) in Avalanche Country
by John Marshall and Jerry Roberts
Published in 1993 by Simpler Way Book Co.
ISBN 0963202804

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Crestone Candles Burning Bright

By Staff on December 1, 1999

Not all the city council folded

By Staff on December 1, 1999

Thanks for the guffaws

By Staff on December 1, 1999

Please don’t judge us too harshly

By Staff on December 1, 1999

How do you keep water down on the farm …

By Staff on December 1, 1999

For those who don’t recall Gordias …

By Staff on December 1, 1999

About the Gunnison Knot, Part 2

By Staff on December 1, 1999

The Real Code of the West?

By Staff on December 1, 1999

Forget Waldo. Where’s Western Colorado and what’s in it?

By Staff on December 1, 1999

ATVs transport weed seeds, hurt habitat

By Staff on December 1, 1999

Salida makes Sunset List of West’s best cities

By Staff on December 1, 1999

Park County has the longest delinquent tax list

By Staff on December 1, 1999

Go west, young conservatives, go west?

By Staff on December 1, 1999

Limits to religious freedom

By Staff on December 1, 1999

Can Lake County afford to wait while they fix the pass?

By Staff on December 1, 1999

We just said no to taxes and highways

By Staff on December 1, 1999

Briefs from the San Luis Valley

By Staff on December 1, 1999

Make the developers pay for new schools

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Why would anyone want to four-lane U.S. 50?

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Valley Voices: Passages. Anthology of Central Colorado writers

By Staff on November 1, 1999

The Elephant’s Chiropractor by David J. Rothman

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Colorado Place Names, by William Bright

By Staff on November 1, 1999

The Thanksgiving Suggestion List

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Thanksgiving: the most American of holidays

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Here’s the latest from the Valley Rumor Mill

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Procrastination leads to noble result

By Staff on November 1, 1999

A train you shouldn’t examine in Cañon City

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Why steal the Bonanza sign when you have to hide it?

By Staff on November 1, 1999

The Gunnison Knot

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Is there any way to avoid having a mayor?

By Staff on November 1, 1999

You know you live in Colorado when …

By Staff on November 1, 1999

It’s down at the end of Harrison Street: Hearbreak Hotel?

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Big Brother is watching, not buying

By Staff on November 1, 1999

No pyramid, but the Valley gets a UFO tower

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Snow isn’t the only thing that’s falling at ski areas

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Briefs from the San Luis Valley

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Growing by the Numbers

By Staff on November 1, 1999

Cornwall loses its last mine, too

By Staff on November 1, 1999

On Mountain Time 47-50

On Mountain Time 47-50

By Staff on November 1, 1999

More tales from the Stupid Zone

By Staff on November 1, 1999

September: A fleeting, magical month

By Staff on October 1, 1999

Isn’t it time we tried a New West festival?

By Staff on October 1, 1999

About Whirling Disease

By Staff on October 1, 1999

Californicating the fishery

By Staff on October 1, 1999