A team of international researchers has dug into archaeological records, DNA evidence and Indigenous oral traditions to paint what might be the most exhaustive history of early horses in North America to date. The group’s findings show that these beasts of burden may have spread throughout the American West much faster and earlier than many European accounts have suggested.
Trinidad has more history than one could learn in a life time, but a local author has taken a number of chips out of the old history block. Phillip Arnold Vigil, a Segundo- born author who spent much of his youth oversees, has released his eighth book focused on the history of Trinidad.
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.
A solar farm poised to be constructed in Las Animas County saw a timeline extension and is expected to come online at the end of 2024. The Las Animas County Board of County Commissioners approved the special use permit (SUP) extension 3-0, pushing the project completion date back for a second time.
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.
Trinidad Police Department responded to or initiated some 166 calls for service between Thursday, March 23, and Wednesday, March 29, including harassment, shoplifting, theft, and at-large dog issues. Call logs for March 27 were not available before deadline. The Las Animas County Sheriff’s Office saw some 154 calls during the same time, including trespassing, DUI and accidents.
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.
One in four Colorado teens reported they could get access to a loaded gun within 24 hours, according to survey results published Monday. Nearly half of those teens said it would take them less than 10 minutes.
Locals from Trinidad and Raton spent a recent Saturday touring local food producers and food supply chain locations through a bus tour spearheaded by a nonprofit focused on building vibrancy in and near the Great Plains.
You dislike uncertainty even more than usual now. You would rather know what’s going to happen, even if it’s bad, than not know and worry that it might be bad.