Trinidad’s landfill will see another piece of equipment to assist in dealing with resident’s trash, after Trinidad City Council approved the $150,000 expenditure. Council unanimously approved the purchase, totaling $149,500, for the city’s public works department to acquire an “Articulated Off-Road Dump Truck” for the city’s landfill on the northside of town.
Tears flowed and warm words were spoken during the retirement reception of former Chief Judge Leslie J. Gerbracht, with a focus on her character, and commitment to fairness and humanity, in and outside the courtroom.
all Purgatoire River Call as of: 01/12/2023 Chilili Ditch: Priority #7, Appropriation Date: 04/30/1862 Trinidad Reservoir Report: Release 0.04 AF Inflow 43.04 AF - 21.70 CFS Evaporation 0 AF Content 21,457 AF Elevation 6,184.65 Precipitation 0 Downstream Call: Ninemile Canal, Appropriation Date: 05/10/1887 Jeff Montoya, Water Commissioner Colorado Division of Water Div. 2, District 19 .
rint “When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.” ~ George Bernard Shaw EVENTS STARKVILLE The Town of Starkville board meeting is Monday Jan. 16.
As one of her final duties as Colorado’s Third Judicial District’s chief judge, former Chief Judge Leslie J. Gerbracht swore in county elected officials who secured seats during the 2022 General Election, along with three judges.
DEARABBY:Ihavebeen best friends with “Mickey” for about five years. We spend every day together and go out to dinner/movies/ events, etc. He sleeps over at my house, and I cook for him almost every night.
Bill Barrett, age 78, passed away on January 7, 2023, in Hoehne, Colorado. Bill was born in Trinidad, Colorado on August 23, 1944, to Thomas and Miriam (Perry) Barrett.
Colorado has dropped out of the top 10 states for growth in U-Haul’s 2022 report, which ranks the Centennial State No. 11.
Colorado’s superintendents still see plenty of room for improvement after an independent audit found the state’s school accountability system is working as designed. Bret Miles, executive director of the Colorado Association of School Executives, said his organization’s top legislative priority will be the creation of a task force to recommend changes to the system, which rates schools and districts based largely on test scores and allows for state intervention in those that perform poorly for many years in a row.
Michael Booth, Tamara Chuang & Joshua Perry The Colorado Sun Colorado’s worst-ever avian flu outbreak has now resulted in nearly 6.4 million poultry deaths and is increasingly crossing over into wild birds and killing bald eagles and other precious raptors in what wildlife watchers call “the stuff of bad dreams.” The mass slaughter of egg-laying flocks has decimated the commercial egg market in the state, with every large producer now affected after a spread of the outbreak in December. Wildlife officials say they are overwhelmed by reports of carcasses in the wild and have limited testing of dead birds in order to concentrate efforts in the most impacted areas.