Dear Editor: To the Chaffee County Planning Commission, I have been following the decisions made the past year or longer regarding Alison Brown’s property and legal matters against her. It appears all the ever-changing proposals...
Read MoreChaffee County planning staff Jon Roorda and Christy Barton have issued a staff memo recommending against a citizen-proposed amendment to the county’s land use code to adopt the Colorado state statute regarding the definition of...
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Salida City Council approved an agreement with Paige and Joe Judd that will facilitate...
Read MoreThe Salida Public Works Department plans to conduct downtown street striping along F Street from Sackett Avenue to Third Street Monday morning, April 23. Access will be limited during this time. For more information or...
Read MoreMonica White of Poncha Springs has been appointed to a subcommittee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. A former U.S. Forest Service wildlife biologist, White is co-founder and...
Read MoreTwo finalists for the Kent Haruf Memorial Scholarship Awards will be feted Sunday, May 6, at a Salida-based event for the area’s internationally-known author, the late Kent Haruf. The student finalists, Ian Stanford from Canon...
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Chaffee County resident Erin Kelley, a Democrat, announced her candidacy for Colorado House...
Read MoreGun violence and public safety will be discussed at the Chaffee County Democrats meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 26, at First Presbyterian Church, 7 Poncha Blvd. in Salida. The meeting is open to the public. Jenn Schuchman of...
Read MoreThe city of Salida has received the referendum petition protesting the Salida Crossings planned development. Deputy City Clerk Lynda Travis issued a statement today, Thursday April 19, acknowledging receipt of the petition....
Read MoreDear Editor: The contentious debate over the proposed Salida Crossings development brings to mind two stories from my past. Some years ago, I was involved in a planning project for the city of Homer, Alaska. The city hired a...
Read MoreAnyone who has signed the petition protesting the proposed Salida Crossings condominium development can strike their name from the petition prior to it being submitted to the city clerk’s office. Salida City Attorney Geoff...
Read MoreChaffee County’s Electronics Recycling Pilot Project that aimed to promote recycling and reduce associated landfill fees completed its trial period recently and was found by the sponsoring state agency to be unsustainable. As a...
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