From the 50/50 raffles at Colorado Rockies games to bingo at the Elks Lodge, raffles and bingo brought in more than $121 million for Colorado charities in 2021. But nonprofit employees can’t be paid for their time spent working to call a bingo game or sell raffle tickets.
DENVER — Colorado voters can call the Secretary of State’s Language Assistance Hotline for assistance with interpreting their ballot. The new hotline will allow Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese or Vietnamese speakers to receive real time translation of their ballot content from a live interpreter.
Colorado’s attorney general candidates faced off in a debate that centered on what to do about crime and public safety. During the debate hosted by 9NEWS, incumbent Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat, defended his record since being elected in 2018, while 18th Judicial District Attorney John Kellner, a Republican, criticized Weiser for not taking responsibility for rising crime.
Trinidad City Council received a presentation on how its housing development contractor plans to review the city’s land use code during a work session this month. Michael Yerman of MY Rural Planner, a housing development consultant contracted by the city through a Department of Local Affairs grant, shared his plan to review the city’s land use code during a work session Oct.
Trinidad City Council unanimously approved an operating plan and budget for a local business improvement district for 2023 during its regular session Oct. 18.
Do you ever wonder what happens to people at the end of the month when they run out of money for food? Step in Zion’s Lutheran Church with its 5 Loaves Food Program. The group provides food on the last Friday of the month for 200-250 Trinidad people.
Cannabis sales in New Mexico remained virtually steady in September, according to the New Mexico Cannabis Control Division. New Mexico sold a total of $39,651,326.49 of legal marijuana in September, representing a slight decrease of 2.5% from August sales.
DART, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, has been in the news most recently and has been described, “a smashing success.” NASA expected the orbital period of the moonlet, Dimorphos, in orbit around the asteroid Didymos, to change by a few minutes, but it actually sped up by 32 minutes. These two bodies cannot be resolved with Earth-based visible-light telescopes, but they can be with radio telescopes.
The Trinidad Police Department responded to or initiated some 258 incidents between Thursday, Oct. 20 and Wednesday, Oct.
A report of a suspicious party carrying a gun near the Trinidad School District No. 1 campus prompted a swift police response and the lockdown of TSD1.