Tag: Larry Dorsey
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Colorado museum hopes to rise from the ashes after Marshall fire’s devastation
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When the Marshall fire swept through Superior in December, it consumed the vast majority of the town’s original coal-camp homes and the community museum, the cherished repository of its mining and farming history. While those physical landmarks have been lost, volunteers are working steadily to…
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Dangerous legacy: Tens of thousands of Coloradans live near one of the state’s many underground coal-mine fires
The veins of mining run deep in Superior, a Colorado community founded on coal and recently redefined by fire. For generations residents needed only to go a few miles west during winter to see plumes of steam and smoke rising from fissures in the Earth, from an underground coal mine fire that started before many…