With the holiday charitable giving season now underway, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold is reminding Coloradans who plan to give to make sure they are doing so wisely. Once again Coloradans will have ample opportunities to give, including on Colorado Gives Day, December 6.
Colorado’s Friday windstorm blew in poor travel conditions, dust storms, power outages and downed trees —with a peak wind speed reported in Las Animas County at 71 mph. National Weather Service Pueblo did not report any major impacts to the county, but said it brought a dust storm to Baca County and damaged roofs in El Paso County.
San Isabel Electric’s Board of Directors approved a change in the cooperative’s rates that will increase the monthly grid access charge as follows: • $5 increase for residential and small commercial rates • $20 increase for large commercial rates • $80 increase for industrial rates There is no change to the grid access charge for accounts with an electric storage time-of-use rate or to accounts on the pump rate. There is no change to the energy usage charge for any rate class (the kilowatt hour – kWh rate).
After heated debates at school board meetings over the past few years, the Trinidad School District No. 1 Board of Education said it plans to put consolidation discussions on the backburner and focus its attention on launching a new strategic visioning process to “look towards 2030.” The board made the announcement in a letter to TSD1 staff after holding a work session Monday, Nov.
Trinidad police arrested two suspects on suspicion of drug distribution during a traffic stop and confiscated nearly 12 ounces of methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroin and cocaine. TPD arrested Nadia Borrego (age 22) and Michael Jessie Schwartz (age 46) after conducting a traffic stop for an unrelated traffic infraction in the 500 block of E.
Waylon Rogers emerged from the exhibit at the History Colorado Center in Denver with his 18-month-old daughter, Ailani, squirming playfully in his arms. A tribal leader for the Northern Cheyenne, he had just finished touring the museum maze that tells the complex story of the Sand Creek Massacre — for the first time, in the words of the people still deeply scarred by the 1864 military slaughter of more than 230 mostly elders, women and children.
Grocery stores have been consolidating. With utilities, the opposite is occurring.
The Las Animas County Elections Office said it doesn’t expect much to change for Las Animas County results during a mandatory recount for Colorado’s Third Congressional District race, and projected to be complete by the end of the week.
When we think of Trinidad’s illustrious days of yore and the businesses that drove the local economy, we tend to think of coal mining. However, there were other vital industries active in Trinidad’s past, which we can see evidence of if we look at another one of the architectural jewels of our hometown: the Henry Schneider Brewery, located at 240 N. Convent Street.