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Hairpins as weapons? Check out the Beckwith Ranch’s new 1890s clothing exhibit decommissioned from the Molly Brown House Museum
By Jordan Hedberg
The picturesque Beckwith Ranch, formerly called the Waverly Ranch by the Beckwiths themselves, remains a historic time capsule for the Custer County community. From 1869...
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Morphew, Stanley, Payne, and the robustness of justice
By Jordan Hedberg
I tend only to publish stories that have local relevance, but I do make exceptions when news has an impact, although indirectly, on this region....
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The comedy, tragedy, and triumph of a Central Colorado native traversing the rocky slopes as an autistic college student and athlete is the subject of new dual autobiography
By Jordan Hedberg
If you have ever spent any time over the past four decades on the dirt roads and mountain trails or attended any of the burro...
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Possible 12,000 year old Paleolithic projectile point discovered in the Wet Mountains of Colorado
By Jordan Hedberg
While chugging along on his daily light run at Bear Basin Ranch a couple of Sundays ago, Gary Ziegler’s trained geological and archeological eye glimpsed...
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Part archaeologists, part Peruvian explorers, part ranchers, Gary and Amy curate regional history in the Wet Mountains of Central Colorado
By Jordan Hedberg
Ziegler and Finger have made several native discoveries on their ranch east of town including a possible Clovis crystal spear point Originally published on November...
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SouthArk Funnies

SouthArk Funnies

By Staff on June 1, 2008

Comic Strip written and drawn by Monika Griesenbeck

Mountain Life – June 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine

Alcohol, but no drugs, in body of man found in snow

By Staff on June 1, 2008

These are the West’s good old days

By Staff on June 1, 2008

2008 Collegiate Peaks Forum Series lecturers

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Donkeys in the midst

Donkeys in the midst

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Just another earth hour

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Jane Rhett, the ‘Bag Hag’ maker

Jane Rhett, the ‘Bag Hag’ maker

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Elitism and the American way

By Staff on May 1, 2008

The Collegiate Peaks Forum Series stimulates and challenges

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Drawings by Mel Strawn

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Listening to Cougar, edited by M. Bekoff and C.B. Lowe

By Staff on May 1, 2008

The principled politician, by Adam Schrager

By Staff on May 1, 2008

A house is a house is a house

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Regional water update

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Who will fight the virus?

Who will fight the virus?

By Staff on May 1, 2008

But if you keep going west, you will get to the Dunes

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Advice on accents

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Speculative future history

By Staff on May 1, 2008

More insight and incite

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Hal keeps getting better

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Incite and Insight

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Who owns the rain that falls on your roof?

Who owns the rain that falls on your roof?

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Move to Alamosa and camp out at home

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Regional Roundup

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Summit County considers cleaning old mine

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Officials insist foreclosure rate is not so high

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Boars favor golf course, sows prefer the ski area

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Ski towns riled up about proposal for tolls on I-70

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Taos Pueblo gets biomass burner for its greenhouse

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Mine proposal back on simmer at Crested Butte

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Briefs from the San Luis Valley

By Staff on May 1, 2008

From Antonito to Denver, it’s the Ralph Carr Highway

By Staff on May 1, 2008

SouthArk Funnies

SouthArk Funnies

By Staff on May 1, 2008

Just say No to driving for every little thing

By Staff on April 1, 2008

It’s that crazy time of year

By Staff on April 1, 2008

Meet the Fiber Floozies

Meet the Fiber Floozies

By Staff on April 1, 2008

The Stupid Economy

By Staff on April 1, 2008

Baca residents fight drilling in wildlife refuge

Baca residents fight drilling in wildlife refuge

By Staff on April 1, 2008

Seven-Year Itch

By Staff on April 1, 2008

Closings for homeland security

By Staff on April 1, 2008

Some kind words

By Staff on April 1, 2008

Our representative at work

By Staff on April 1, 2008

Regional Water Update

By Staff on April 1, 2008

The fragility of hope

By Staff on April 1, 2008

Radicalism in the Mountain West, by David R. Berman

By Staff on April 1, 2008