March 2023

When Colorado needed a better bear trap, wildlife officials turned to a guy who never caught a bear

FLAGLER — On the caretaker’s property adjacent to the local state wildlife area, sheets of structural steel, once blanketed by snow but now tickled by tumbleweeds, sit stacked on the ground awaiting their eventual transformation. Inside a nearby outbuilding sits the finished product the raw materials soon will replicate, once it’s their turn to be cut, welded and shaped into a contraption state officials have been craving for years: a better, lighter, more versatile bear trap.

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The Fine P

EVENTS FREE LEGAL CLINIC Hosted by your Trinidad Carnegie Public Library Tuesday April 11 from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.

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River C

all Purgatoire River Call as of: 03/29/2023 Chilili Ditch: Priority #7, Appropriation Date: 04/30/1862 Trinidad Reservoir Report: Release 0 AF Inflow 36.81 AF - 18.46 CFS Evaporation 6.59 AF Content 23,559 Elevation 6,187.55 Precipitation 0 Downstream Call: Ninemile Canal; Appropriation Date: 05/10/1887. Jeff Montoya, Water Commissioner Colorado Division of Water Div.

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Survey: 65% of respondents believe Trinidad Riverwalk is ‘unsafe’

A “riverwalk safety survey” issued by the City of Trinidad as part of an ongoing effort to make improvements to the Trinidad Riverwalk found a majority of respondents feel the multi-use pathway is “unsafe.” The city ran the survey during the last two weeks of January, garnering 188 responses — according to the city’s grant writer, who helped facilitate the survey — and the city understands it is not a statistically significant survey. “I wouldn’t even want to guess if that’s the sentiment of our entire community,” said Trinidad City Manager Steve Ruger.

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Community leaders ‘champion’ TSC Region IX champions during community celebration

Trinidad — the “City of Champions” — celebrated a group of newly minted champions during a community celebration to highlight the mind-blowing feat of the Trinidad State College Men’s Basketball team taking the Region IX title for the second year in a row, and their overall smashing success of a season.

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JOANN LOCHARD

Joann (Mock) Lochard, 91, beloved mother and grandmother, passed away peacefully on March 17, 2023, at the Trinidad Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Trinidad, Colorado. Joann was born in Trinchera, CO on October 14, 1931 to Catherine (Doherty) and Mike E.

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