The white-lined sphinx, often known as a hummingbird moth is a frequent visitor to many Las Animas County gardens. While most moths are nocternal, this busy giant loves the day time hours to feed on the nectar of all types of flowers. Avid photographer Patrick Arguello just happened to snap this guy enjoying an afternoon snack in his own garden. Thank you, Patrick for sharing your photograph with all of us. It’s a real beauty.
Both the Stakeholder Advisory Group and Technical Working Group held their final meetings in August, wrapping up a 15-month long process that will inform Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff as they prepare to present the draft Colorado Wolf Restoration and Management Plan to the CPW Commission in December.
For the first time since the start of the pandemic, enrollment at the majority of Colorado community colleges increased slightly from the previous year. But that increase is driven largely by high school students taking courses for college credit, while enrollment for working-age adults remains well below pre-pandemic levels.
From September 17-23, members of the Santa Fe Trail Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution joined with Fisher’s Peak Elementary fourth grade classrooms to commemorate the signing of the United States Constitution — ringing a bell to help celebrate Constitution Week. To promote recognition of this momentous event, 73 copies of the children’s book, “Why America Matters,” along with an American Flag, a replica of America’s Liberty Bell and a history of Bells Across America were distributed to two classrooms. Each book was inscribed with the following verse: “Where can we find heroes today?
In November, Colorado voters will have an opportunity to end a practice known as “lunchline shaming,” which drew national attention after a Colorado child’s arm was marked as a message to parents who had fallen behind on their lunch tab.
DENVER — Eight volunteers from the American Red Cross of Colorado are deployed to Florida to provide shelter, food, emotional support, health services and recovery resources to the communities that could be affected by Hurricane Ian, which made landfall by Wednesday afternoon.
DENVER — This past legislative session, state representatives from across Colorado recognized the trauma of the boarding school legacy and the need to both acknowledge and understand Colorado’s history with federal Native American boarding schools and develop a roadmap for understanding. The legislature affirmed this through the passage of HB22-1327, the Federal Indian Boarding School Research Program Act, signed into law by Governor Jared Polis on May 24.
Law enforcement contacts with K-12 students in Las Animas County declined between the 20182019 school year and the 2020-2021 school year, according to a report from the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice. During those three years, official law enforcement contacts in the county declined nearly 77%, due to a decline in one school district.
GYPSUM — Kristy Wallner strolls from her flatbed pickup along a waist-high wire fence strung between eight-foot posts. On one side, the mountaintop grass is thick and high, dotted with blue aster.
A judge in New Mexico’s Eighth Judicial District has been appointed to chair a newly formed commission focusing on mental health and trial competency. Eighth Judicial District Court Judge Melissa A.