Hunters and other outdoor recreators in western Las Animas County are projected to see increased access to a state wildlife area, if a project being undertaken by Colorado Department of Natural Resources comes to fruition.
Colorado would fund special education at the levels lawmakers promised back in 2006 under legislation recommended unanimously Friday by a special committee on school finance. The special education bill was the only one recommended this year by the school finance committee, which originally convened six years ago with the goal of rewriting Colorado’s decades-old school funding formula.
More than half of Colorado parents believe public education is “off on the wrong track” and favor measures to improve funding and support for charter schools, according to research conducted by Cygnal for a school advocacy group.
There is great joy to be found from what is unnecessary, useless and trifling. Tonight: be sure you’re really choosing worthy challenges instead of making ordinary things harder than they have to be.
To help watersheds recover quickly from catastrophic wildfires, federal and state funds need to be available continuously, rather than on an as-needed basis, and water districts and local governments need to be shielded from the liability that normally comes when working with federal wildfire recovery programs, according to a new report.
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” ~ Maya Angelou PUBLIC SERVICE FISHERS PEAK STATE PARK Colorado’s new 42nd state park has launched its new public website.
Get your race shoes ready and your water bottles filled: the Trinidad Healthy Kids Running Series, striving to promote an active lifestyle, is making a return to the region this year. The HKRS, a five-week program that sees youth aged two to 14 years old compete in a five-race series, will run from April 16 to May 14 and is currently taking registrations.
The Las Animas County Board of County Commissioners met for their second regular meeting of the month Tuesday, Feb. 21, during which grants, contracts and finances were discussed.
Benjamin Mandile The Chronicle-News All three schools in Trinidad School District No. 1 entered lockout status Wednesday afternoon after the Trinidad Police Department Communications Center… Login to continue reading Login…
Additional residents in southeast Colorado have expanded access to eye healthcare, after a Colorado Springs-based optometrist, focused mostly on veterans, expanded an ongoing outreach program to include non-veteran Coloradans.