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Grant will aid local veterans in need
By Charles Benway Special to The SUN Pagosa’s local veterans group, Veterans4Veterans of Archuleta County, in collaboration with Charles Parnell from the Durango Disabled American Veterans, has obtained money to provide to hard-pressed and needy veterans, for a limited time and in limited amounts. Veterans can call…
McLachlan recall fails
Staff Writer The recall effort against Rep. Mike McLachlan (D-Durango) failed Tuesday when organizers failed to turn signatures in to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office. The recall petition, due Tuesday, required 10,586 signatures of registered voters within McLachlan’s southwestern Colorado district (House District 59) to trigger…
Tax revenues continue to rise in first quarter
Staff Writer Town manager David Mitchem presented an ordinance to town council earlier this month that was designed to change the incentives Pagosa Springs gives to businesses for economic development, closing a loophole that allows tax rebates for any business that opens within town limits, even if…
Memorial Day events planned
SUN Staff Memorial Day events are scheduled in Pagosa Springs and the surrounding area on Monday, May 27. Mullins-Nickerson American Legion Post 108 will conduct a memorial service at the Legion Hall, 287 Hermosa St., next to Town Park, beginning 9 a.m. Following the service, American Legion…
Wal-Mart submits permit application
Staff Writer Wal-Mart is on track to break ground this summer and begin construction of a 92,000 square-foot super center at the corner of Alpha Drive and Aspen Village Drive on the west side of Pagosa Springs, with an eye on a grand opening in the spring…
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…
Clean up the corridor, now
Clean it up. The Denver Post is bringing its Ride the Rockies bike tour through Pagosa Country, with thousands of cyclists…
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.…
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