2022 graduates... Well, here you are graduating. I’m sure you’re pinching yourself at the prospect of reaching your goal of the last 12 years. I think of you all as caterpillars. You’re about to leave your cocoons; your high school and homes, to emerge as butterflies and fly away to your futures.
Multiple communities are under evacuation orders in Colfax County due to the Hermits Peak / Calf Canyon fires, authorities announced Monday. Taos Pines Ranch and Veterans Memorial Area are both under “Ready” status, the Village of Angel Fire is under “Set” status and Black Lake, Black Lake Resorts and Hidden Lake are under “Go” status.
Purgatoire River Call as of: 05/17/2022. Hoehne Ditch: Priority #20, Appropriation Date: 10/07/1865.
Today’s Quote “Give me that man who is passion’s slave and I shall wear him in my heart” ~Wm. Shakespeare, “Hamlet” ■ COMMUNITY EVENTS —THIS WEEK —CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WEDS.
First National Bank Fisher’s Peak Elementary School students are learning about saving, thanks to an innovative curriculum supplement sponsored by The First National Bank in Trinidad. Second grade students do more than read and color story pages in the workbook titled Saving with Mandy and Randy.
By this time next week, only a handful of titles will remain to be awarded in the 2021-22 athletic calendar. Hardware will find its way home this week for Class 1A baseball as well as all five classifications in track and field.
Trinidad State College sent 156 graduates off into the world on Friday during its Spring 2022 commencement ceremony on the TSC Trinidad campus during the largest TSC commencement ceremony in the last three years.
The most recent U.S. Drought Monitor report showed extreme and exceptional drought conditions expand in southeastern Colorado.
Purgatoire River Call as of: 05/16/2022. Hoehne Ditch: Priority #20, Appropriation Date: 10/07/1865.
Today’s Quote “What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.” ~Thomas A. Edison ■ COMMUNITY EVENTS —THIS WEEK —LAS ANIMAS COUNTY TUES.