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Trinidad Mayor Phil Rico and Trinidad City Manager Steve Ruger attended the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Colorado Municipal League, a lobbying group for nearly 300 cities and towns statewide. Representatives from the founding membership, including Arvada, Boulder, Brush!, Cañon City, Fort Morgan, Grand Junction, Haxtun, Loveland, Pueblo, Windsor and Trinidad all attended, with Mayor Rico and Windsor Mayor Paul Rennemeyer recasting a vote of support for CML.

Small nonfarm businesses in seven Colorado counties are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Tanya N. Garfield of SBA’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West.

Wednesday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between noon and 3 p.m., then showers and thunderstorms likely after 3 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 74. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east northeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Night: A 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Gov. Jared Polis signed SB23-222 which will help eliminate Health First Colorado (Colorado’s Medicaid program) co-pays for most members for pharmacy and outpatient health care services.

Gov. Jared Polis signed HB23-1201, which will eliminate the practice of “spread pricing,” or up-charging of prescription drugs by middlemen on insured individual and group policies.

“Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.” ~ Josh Billings Public Service MAIN STREET LIVE Main Street LIVE is scheduling auditions for The Sound of Music June 2-5 using a new process. Log onto mainstreetlive.org, go to “About” and select “Announcements” to sign up for a specific date/time to audition.

A Trinidad woman who shot another Trinidad resident to death in 2020 took a plea deal this month that will mark her as a habitual felon. Gina Lynn Rael, age 26, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of second-degree murder (a class two felony) and entered into a plea agreement with the Third Judicial District Attorney’s Office that dismissed one count of first-degree murder (a class one felony).