March 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted stand-up comedy for a time, there is no question about that. As comedy clubs shuttered their doors and people moved meetings online, so did comedians who shifted their acts to accommodate the situation by hosting online comedy shows, just as The Chief Comedy & Bicycle Festival had to do when it shifted its performances outside to Trinidad’s streets last year.

It was a full house at the Mutiny Information Café in downtown Trinidad Saturday, Mar. 12, as the Trinidad Trails Alliance (TTA) hosted their monthly event — indoors this month due to snow. Over 25 people gathered to hear updates from the TTA, a local volunteer organization, whose mission it is to help build and maintain public trails in and around Trinidad.

PUEBLO — Operating hours for the boat ramps at Lake Pueblo State Park, the busiest park in Colorado, will adjust April 1 to the summer schedule of 5 a.m. to midnight.

—Editor’s note: Since the COVID-19 pandemic put a monkey wrench into the plans of many people that has kept them from getting out and about and socializing with each other, you’ll be pleased, no doubt, to see that some things are slowly beginning to return to normal. After a brief hiatus from her appointed rounds, our gal Pat Fletcher, creator and author of the Man in the Street Interviews, has once again returned to the streets of Trinidad on a quest to find out what all our friends and neighbors are doing and thinking. Now, let’s see what she found out for us, shall we?