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ASPEN (AP) – Zachery Bowersock is making a difference in the world, one cocktail at a time. From raising money to help hospitals care for cancer patients to environmental organizations combating...
DATE: Oct. 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
FORT COLLINS (AP) – Standing in a boulder field recently with 74-year-old mangled twists of plane wreckage at my feet, I wondered about the wind. It could be the reason all this was here, after...
DATE: Oct. 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
FRISCO (AP) – The rugged mountain underbite in Summit and Eagle counties known as the Gore Range has drawn people to the area for generations, but soon the distinctive 60-mile run of peaks could...
DATE: Oct. 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
In the past 20 years, Southwest Colorado forests have been in the line of fire of an insect epidemic and disease. The pattern is a clue to a drying climate that could produce a much different...
DATE: Oct. 15, 2017 | UPDATED: 5 days 19 hours ago | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
DENVER (AP) – They traveled from all over the country to meet at a cattle ranch on the remote Eastern Plains of Colorado. They came to ride horses, pen cattle, rake muck and bask in the great...
DATE: Oct. 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
CABALLO, N.M. (AP) – To get to Bill Bussmann’s house, you take exit 63, the Hillsboro exit, off of I-25, about two hours south of Albuquerque. It gets interesting after that. Instructions for...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. – A new craze has hit Alamogordo, one that involves residents of all ages painting and hiding rocks throughout the community. “My sister lives in Illinois and they do the rock...
DATE: Oct. 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
GREELEY (AP) – Marry Naing grew up in a refugee camp in Thailand. No one had cars. There were no big buildings. There was no electricity. When she looks back on her childhood, she remembers being...
DATE: Oct. 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
New drilling rigs and oil and gas infrastructure could sprout within sight of Hovenweep National Monument, according to a proposed March lease sale issued by a Utah office of the Bureau of Land...
DATE: Oct. 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Farmers already do a lot of recycling, from using manure to make compost to repurposing wooden pallets to fix fencing and even reusing oil from tractors to run heaters. However, as is the case...
DATE: Oct. 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Long ago in the north Lies the road of emergence! Yonder our ancestors live, Yonder we take our being. Yet now we come southwards For cloud flowers blossom here Here the lightning flashes, Rain...
DATE: Oct. 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
COLORADO SPRINGS – Astronomy enthusiasts are seeking permission to build an observatory atop Colorado’s Pikes Peak. The National Space Science and Technology Institute based in Colorado Springs,...
DATE: Oct. 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
