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We Are Being Amused & Abused To Death
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We Are Being Amused & Abused To Death

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School enrollment continues decades of decline with 267
Westcliffe · Westcliffe

School enrollment continues decades of decline with 267

The Custer County Board of Educa­tion released the budget for the 2025 and 2026 school year during their regular Board Meeting on May 13, and the numbers do not look good. While funding is not the big­gest issue, the larger problem revealed in the budget is that student enrollment con­tinues its two-decade-long decline. For background, the school population in Custer County peaked around 2005, at just under 600 students, serving grades Kinder­ga…Read Article
How Art in the Barn makes Spring all the better
Westcliffe · Westcliffe

How Art in the Barn makes Spring all the better

You know the seasons must have changed once again, as one of the most unique art shows of the spring kicks off this Friday and Saturday. Dubbed “Art in the Barn,” a team of local artists has transformed a simple rural barn into a breathtaking display of artwork, jewelry, clothing, furniture, and more. Artist Lorie Merfeld-Batson is the main organizer of the event (and owner of the barn) and will have her oil, watercolor, and pastel works on disp…Read Article

Remnants of tropical Alvin storm powders Sangres

In March and April, drought was steadily growing in the Wet Mountain Valley region – week after dry and windy week. The snowpack totals continued to fall at a level not seen since the horrific drought of 2002 that caused ranchers to sell herds across the region as grass failed to grow. The fear among many of the locals was that drought and wildfire would be the star of the short summer months. But for the time being, Mother Nature has staged a r…Drought · WestcliffeRead Article

Five Juveniles, One Adult Rescued From Greenhorn Mountain over the Weekend

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PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) -- The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) Emergency Services Division’s volunteer Search and Rescue (SAR) team says they rescued six hikers over the weekend. According to officials, five of the hikers were juveniles. Rescue crews said the search took roughly 25 hours. "All hikers were found safe and, though exhausted, were uninjured," read a release from the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office. "One SAR team member from…Colorado · ColoradoSee the Story

Tidbits of the Past: Wetmore oil derrick catches fire, Chinook clips a tree during rescue, prosperity in Rosita

(Information was gleaned from copies of the Wet Mountain Tribune, unless otherwise noted, all from the last week in May.) 140 Years Ago – 1885 From The Sierra Journal (Rosita) The employees of the Bassick Mining Company have received no pay for nearly three months and there is in con­sequence great discontentment among them. J.W. Snyder has a herd of 1,500 cattle on the way from Texas to Colorado. They are now near the border, and trou­ble is an…Westcliffe · WestcliffeRead Article

Scott Ruzanski takes helm as Silver Cliff Museum curator

History has been a subject that runs deep in the Wet Mountain Valley and the Silver Cliff Museum is one of those places that is packed with an unbelievable amount of the region’s mining, agriculture, and military service history. Yet, tragedy struck last year when the Museum’s young local curator Shantell Squire unexpectedly passed away. Taking care of and maintaining the collection of historical artifacts and documents is a job that requires pa…History · WestcliffeRead Article

White House, using AI, mistakenly lists Custer County as a “Sanctuary” community for immigrants; a mistake that could devastate local government funding

Since taking office in January, the Trump Administration has been increasingly using Large Language Models (LLMs), commonly known as Artificial Intelligence (AI), to compile lists for Trump’s executive orders. Most famously, the use of AI by the White House staff led them to place tariffs on Pacific islands where no humans live and are populated mainly by penguins. This week, the Trump Administration was exposed using AI to write a report for He…Artificial Intelligence · WestcliffeRead Article

Gifted and Talented students begin immersive learning trip

While a trip to coastal California sounds like fun and games on the surface of it, the eight Custer County Schools students trav­elling there this week with Shelley Green, their Gifted and Talented Instructor, know it is anything but that. Fun, yes, but the games’ part is instead, an itinerary of intense, immer­sive learning experiences. These range from participation in the Santa Barbara Mission Street Festival to UC Santa Barbara marine biolog…Westcliffe · WestcliffeRead Article

Westcliffe awarded grant for water and sewer to expand housing options

The Westcliffe Board of Trustees (BOT) held their regular meeting on May 20. Two agenda items were tabled until the June meeting: an IT report from Complete Business Solutions, and consideration of rezoning a lot in the Shadow Ridge subdi­vision from highway commercial to single-family residential. The other three items under New Business were: con­sideration of filling a vacancy on the town’s Planning Commission (PC); an update on the activitie…Westcliffe · WestcliffeRead Article

The comedy, tragedy, and triumph of a Custer native traversing the rocky slopes as an autistic college student and athlete is the subject of new dual autobiography

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 “Triple Crown” races in the mountain towns along the Upper Arkansas River Basin, you probably have seen Hal Walter loping along at a steady running pace. If you did see him in the early years, Hal might have been alone, motoring along with a running stride that, at a distance, deceptively seemed like nothing more than a v…College Students · WestcliffeRead Article

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