- It's a good year for Palisade fruit crops including apricots and peaches.
- The law places multiple restrictions on “notarios” in Colorado, who sometimes pretend to be specialists in immigration law.
- Cortez's apples were once world famous. A new Four Corners project aims for an antique apple revival.
- The largest highway project in Western Colorado in 25 years is underway in Glenwood Springs. The $125.6 million Grand Avenue Bridge replacement will modernize the entrance to the city from Interstate 70 but it won’t be completed until 2018.
- The exception was Crestone, where voters approved ballot measures allowing for retail sales of marijuana and for the town to tax it.
- Voters in Hotchkiss, Buena Vista, Crestone, Julesburg, Poncha Springs and Silver Cliff weigh the lure of legal marijuana.
- The average waiting period is 933 days, and there are 9,420 cases pending.
- Silversmith created Welcome Home Montrose, an organization to help vets struggling with civilian life.
- Last year, taxes on marijuana sales brought in more money than the town sees in overall sales tax and energy impact fees combined. Now, how to spend it?
- Fat-wheeled bikes look like motorcycles without engines. They also annoy Nordic skiers, who have to share the trails with them.
