Tag: New Mexico
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Puppies galore: Moms and Mutts holds weekly adoption event
The gentle, playful barks of puppies of all shapes and sizes could be heard throughout the halls of MAMCO Rescue Saturday afternoon. MAMCO (Moms and Mutts Colorado) Rescue’s weekly adoption event allowed local dog lovers to come to the shelter in Englewood and play with puppies, falling in love with the potential pets. But MAMCO’s…
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Not just a toy: Denver area yo-yo club shows that 2,000-year-old hobby is still alive
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save National Yo-Yo Hall of Famer Jon Gates stood in front of a table of handmade yo-yos and professional trading cards with his picture and information plastered on them on Saturday afternoon. Gates pointed toward a man sitting with a baby in the stands, noting that…
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Cashews sold at Trader Joe’s in Colorado recalled for salmonella threat
Some cashews sold at Trader Joe’s in Colorado have been recalled by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) due to traces of salmonella contamination. Four lots of Trader Joe’s 50% Less Sodium Roasted & Salted Whole Cashews were recalled by the FDA on Monday, according to a news release from the agency. Routine testing done…
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Just south of Colorado border, you can walk into a volcano crater
CAPULIN, N.M. • Just beyond Colorado’s southern border into New Mexico, a lonely highway runs through fields of cattle and pronghorn, of windmills and splintered, crumbling remains of homesteads. Then the mountain emerges. Now the imagination travels to a time long before the Wild West. The mountain’s shape is unmistakable — “a striking example of…
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Colorado marijuana sales tank in 2022 after pandemic-induced high
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Following a pandemic “high,” Colorado cannabis sales have been plummeting for months. Sales skyrocketed for the cannabis industry in the beginning of 2022, a trend that began at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, cannabis industry officials are seeing the other side of the…
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Colorado businessman, filmmakers work to garner interest in proposed Southern Colorado TV series
The West wasn’t always won by a bunch of gunslingers. In Trinidad, it was a 22-year-old nun named Sister Blandina Segale who helped bring peace to the mining town after arriving in 1872. And now father and son filmmakers and Phil Long Enterprise CEO Jay Cimino want to tell her story in “Trinidad,” a multiseason…
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Colorado’s unemployment drops again, recovers all pandemic job losses
Colorado’s unemployment rate continues its slow but steady decline. June’s household survey found that the state’s unemployment level edged down a tenth of a percentage point to 3.4%, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported Friday. It has been 12 consecutive months of flat or dropping unemployment levels, according to the department. Colorado’s unemployment…