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Local and regional news for Salida and Chaffee County, Colorado.
Big Mountain skiing icon Dean Cummings comes to Salida Mountain Sports Monday(0)
World champion Big Mountain steep skiing icon Dean Cummings will be at Salida Mountain Sports Monday, Nov. 7 for a night of pre-ski season stoke.
Update: New Salida High School(3)
School update #2 from DangerousCollective on Vimeo.
The Sound of Freedom or the Sound of our Fury?(17)
Maybe you’ve missed the recent letters in the newspaper. The US Air Force is about to unleash an ongoing barrage of low-level overflights of heavy MC-130 and CV-22 aircraft and they’re headed right for Salida.
Xcel may kill controversial San Luis Valley power-line project(2)
Xcel Energy — faced with a sharp drop in projected electricity demand in Colorado — is considering abandoning a controversial $180 million power line into the San Luis Valley, company officials said.
Fall municipal elections(0)
On Nov.1, voters in 72 cities and towns will be going to the polls across the state. Elections will be held for candidates (like mayor and city council) and on ballot questions, like tax increases. Four cities have cancelled their regularly scheduled elections
HRRMC hosts third annual Women’s Health Day(0)
Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center will host its third annual Women’s Health Day on Saturday, October 29, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the SteamPlant Event Center, 220 West Sackett Avenue, in Salida.
Have you taken the Community Food Assessment Survey yet?(0)
LiveWell Chaffee recently received a grant to conduct a Community Food Assessment to understand how we can better support residents to access and consume healthy foods. Please take 5-10 minutes to complete this survey telling us more about how you decide where and what foods to eat, and what changes you would like to see happen in your community to increase access to healthy foods.
Part Time Parks Position(1)
The City of Salida Public Works Department is seeking a Part Time Parks Laborer. Duties will include, but not be limited to assisting the current parks employees and future seasonal employees with maintaining city parks and facilities, and assisting public works personnel by performing manual labor on city projects as needed.
Christo news floating through our world(0)
Nothing radically new here, but thought we’d pass it on so Salida folk can get a sense of how the national media perceives our local public art controversy.
Macro Problems have Micro Solutions(8)
We can see that our economy has problems. Asking government to help solve these problems makes for abuse of power and well intentioned inelastic macro actions.
Intense public mic poet at Occupy Denver(0)
Powerfully creative stuff as this slammer gets after it. Beware of F bomb at the end.
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I?”(2)
For me this scholar’s statement asks us to contemplate how one lives a life in which our personal needs and desires are held in balance with the needs and desires of the greater commmunity.
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