Tag: Baca County
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Cotton in CO? Southeast farmers test if crop has potential to take hold
BENT COUNTY — It’s easy to spot Caleb Wertz’s fields along the farmland east of Las Animas. About half of the Wertz family’s land is growing corn but the other half is filled with scraggly, foot-high plants dotted with soft white bulbs. Bulbs as soft as cotton. The Cotton Belt has never reached into Colorado before. But with…
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Entire Springfield Police Department resigns
All three members of the Springfield Police Department, including its chief, resigned this week. The town and Baca County officials learned of the “imminent resignations” on Tuesday, according to a joint release from the Baca County Sheriff’s Office and town of Springfield. Two of the officers resignations were in effect as of Saturday, while the…
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Body found in pond after multi-ay search at Two Butte Reservoir State Wildlife Area
A body was recovered by divers from a deep pond behind the dam at the Two Buttes Reservoir State Wildlife Area Thursday night, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Officials said a search began after a group of campers reported one of its members went missing Sunday night while jumping from cliffs into the Black…
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NEWS | Residents in parched Baca County fight water speculation
Local residents, including former state Rep. Wes McKinley, have spent months fighting the appropriation of wells in Baca County, Colo., where water levels are steadily receding. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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Residents in parched Colorado county fight water speculation
Tumbleweeds bounced along County Road 44, 20 miles south of the Colorado town of Walsh. Vast expanses of dry grassland spread in every direction in this southeast corner of the state, the occasional small herd of dusty cattle grazing at roadside. Farmhouses dotted the horizon. To most people, this would be the middle of nowhere,…
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Colorado unemployment rate unchanged in February
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s unemployment rate in February remained unchanged from January at 6.6%, even as the state eased COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on businesses early in the month. First-time Colorado unemployment claims edge higher While 1,900 more people found jobs than returned to Colorado’s job market, that wasn’t…
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Colorado unemployment jumps amid tighter pandemic restrictions
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s unemployment rate surged two full percentage points to 8.4% in December as tighter pandemic restrictions took hold, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Colorado unemployment claims hit nearly 9-month high as CARES Act expires The state’s jobless rate was the highest since…
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Baca County artist chosen as Art on Parade People’s Choice winner
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Baca County self-taught artist, poet and knife-maker has been selected as the winner of the 2020/2021 Art on Parade People’s Choice Award. The Northglenn Arts and Humanities Foundation, which sponsors the contest, announced that…
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Colorado unemployment rate falls to lowest level since March
Colorado’s unemployment rate fell for a fifth consecutive month in September, dropping to its lowest rate since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in March. The state has regained two-thirds of the private-sector jobs lost in the early months of the pandemic. The jobless rate fell to 6.4% last month from 6.7% in August and is…
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Former Colorado legislator faces jail for being a pain in state’s neck | Joey Bunch
“He is a cowboy.” That’s the No. 2 reason why Wes McKinley won’t stop fighting over the water beneath the eastern plains, even if it doesn’t directly pick his pocket or break his leg, according to district court documents. The first reason is he’s a resident of Baca County. The third is he’s a former…