August 2022

Immerse yourself in Colorado’s history: Experience war, calamity, life as it really was at Bent’s Old Fort on the Great Plains

National Park Service The public is invited to join the inhabitants of Bent’s Old Fort on Friday, Sept. 2 from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sept. 3 from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. to experience the sights and sounds of Bent, St. Vrain & Company in 1847.

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RIVER C

ALL Purgatoire River Call as of: 08/26/2022. Enlarged South Side Ditch: Priority #40, Appropriation Date: 04/30/1863.

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Affordable housing subsidy initiative makes Nov. ballot

A measure that proposes dedicating tax revenue towards affordable housing programs has collected enough valid signatures to appear on November’s ballot. Backers of Initiative #108, which will appear on the ballot titled “Dedicated State Income Tax Revenue for Affordable Housing Programs,” submitted over 230,000 signatures, with 149,072 projected to be valid, the Colorado secretary of state’s office said Friday.

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Public Works gets their paint on, repairs faded road markings at major intersection

Employees with Trinidad Public Works Dept. are seen repainting the road markings at Main Street and Commercial Street Monday, Aug. 22, where faded road markings made driving through the intersection dangerous. Numerous drivers have lamented online of how “confusing” the intersection could be trouble for tourists who aren’t aware that the right lane is actually a double lane and the right-hand side of it goes straight through onto E. Main St., while the left side is only for left-hand turns onto N. Commercial St.

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Colorado’s new state record Brook Trout

Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced a new state record Brook Trout has been caught, breaking the longest-standing fish record in the state. The Brook Trout was caught on May 23 by Tim Daniel of Granby in Monarch Lake, in Grand County. CPW Aquatic Biologist Jon Ewert inspected the fish the day it was caught. It weighed 7.84 pounds, measured 231/4-inches in length, and had a girth of 15 3/8-inches. When asked where and what he used to catch the fish, Daniel’s said, “In the water and with a hook.”

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GEORGE B. GHELLA

IN MEMORIAM IN LOVING MEMORY OF GEORGE B. GHELLA 8-10-1926 8-28-2021 Today is one year that you left me which was the hardest and the most heartbreaking thing that I have ever had to go through.

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