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Westcliffe · WestcliffeOnce located in the West Custer County Library community room and then in the Cliff Lanes conference room, the Friends of the Library Arts and Crafts Fair has grown over the past 30 years to host more than two dozen local artists at the Hope Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall. 25 percent of every purchase from ceramics to jewelry, soaps and candles to handmade stationery, wood crafts to knit, sewn, and quilted items, to the books of four local auth…Read Article
Fair reserved for local crafters was a big hit last week

Fort Collins · Fort CollinsOn June 20, a three-day celebration for newlyweds Spencer Little and Kris Rahner attracted more than 120 well-wishers from throughout the country to the historic Sourdough Valley Ranch, in the shadow of Pikes Peak near Woodland Park. The groom was born and raised in Wetmore and is the son of Jim Little of Wetmore and Constance Little of Pueblo. He’s a sixth-generation Coloradan. The bride was born in Loveland, Ohio, and was raised in Homer, New …Read Article
Wedding bells rang on the summer solstice for Spencer Little and Kris Rahner

Mosquitoes · WestcliffeThe hotter the summer here and the closer to drought conditions, the higher potential for mosquito populations to grow, along with heightened concern for mosquito-borne infections, particularly West Nile Virus (WNV). WNV was introduced to the United States in 1999, and has become the prevailing mosquito-borne disease in the nation. Colorado was particularly hard hit by the untreatable disease in 2022 and 2023; in the latter year one Custer Coun…Read Article