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County to form focus groups
Staff Writer Archuleta County’s strengths, weaknesses, needs, obstacles and priorities were the topic of a two-hour meeting held for elected officials, department heads and supervisors on May 9. The meeting, called by the county’s new administrator, Jesse Smith, was the first step in a process of not…
Council debates pot issue
Staff Writer The regulated retail sale of marijuana is a topic most members of the Pagosa Springs Town Council seemed reluctant to even discuss until last week, when Mayor Ross Aragon announced there would be a work session to explore the issue. “It is very unusual for…
Pipeline: What is an easement worth?
Staff Writer Pagosa Springs has a sewer problem. This is not a new issue and anyone who has spent any time in the area has more than likely heard about the town’s sewage lagoons being at or near capacity, about problems with the Colorado Department of Public…
Ed Center will close
By Dick Richardson and Lisa Scott Special to The SUN The Board of Directors of the Archuleta County Education Center, with great regret, decided at its monthly meeting on May 9 to close the center, as it has existed, effective Aug. 30, 2013. Each year, the board…
Burglar vacations in local homes
Staff Writer An Illinois man is currently in jail after reportedly admitting to authorities that he broke into and stayed at several houses located east of Pagosa Springs. Preston Philippe, 28, of Duquoin, Ill., is being held on a $10,000 bond in the Archuleta County Detention Center.…
Town to boost some employee salaries
Staff Writer In order to give additional pay raises to certain town employees, the Pagosa Springs Town Council voted Tuesday to take $33,000 out of the general fund reserves and $7,500 out of the capital fund reserves. “In February,” council member Tracy Bunning began, “a group of…
Money for public education
Colorado voters will be asked in November to approve a ballot measure designed to provide funding for Senate Bill 13-213, which…
A right long overdue
We hear and read many comments about freedom, but seldom do they include note of the addition of an overdue right.…
All fluff and no muscle
There are times when the game must be called. Such is the case with our county commissioners. The trio has become…
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