Alamosa hosted the 10th annual Celebration of Lights on Friday evening. ALAMOSA Less will go into area landfills and trash barrels and more into recycling bins if plans for waste diversion are implemented in the San Luis Valley. Following blowback from last week's city council meeting, it was announced at Wednesday's Alamosa County Commissioners meeting that the Early Iron Club would likely withdraw its request for the Rio Grande Motorway building. Kre; Broadway; Mobile Public; Application; County; Analysis An A; Study; Alamosa Valley Courier Police Report . VALLEY The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will reopen US Highway (US) 160/La Veta Pass in both directions on Saturday, July 7 at 2 p.m. VALLEY The U.S. Forest Service-Rio Grande National Forest reported a few small fires this week, all of which had been contained by Friday night. The Forest is proposing to create a new domestic sheep grazing allotment in. Mean Moose kept the Spartans winless on Friday. Other available activities included a bouncy house, obstacle course, water hamster balls and more. VILLA GROVE On Tuesday, June 19, at approximately 6:20 p.m. the driver of an SUV was headed southbound on Highway 285 just north of Villa Grove. On Monday, Angel Nieto pleaded guilty in two cases pending against him, one involving the death of his passenger in a January 16, 2017 crash on Highway 285 south of Alamosa. Alamosa Mayor Josef Lucero reads a proclamation in recognition of the Alamosa Public Library's 115th anniversary. ALAMOSA A ballot question seeking to ban outdoor marijuana grows in Alamosa will have to wait until 2019. ALAMOSA Although the case tying her to the Floyd Dale McBride murder was dismissed, Shannon Cooper, 35, was sentenced on Tuesday to 4 1/2 years in Community Corrections on a felony charge of introducing contraband (drugs) into the jail. 3 days ago | Alamosa Valley Courier. Event organizer Jenna Zak explains the logistics of the People's Climate March to participants on Saturday outside of Adams State University's Carson Auditorium. ALAMOSA Those attending the annual Independence Day parade in Alamosa will have an opportunity to help the victims of the Spring Fire which continues to rage east of Fort Garland. Both bond ballot measures to provide matching funds for BEST (Building Excellent Schools Today) grants to build new school facilities passed in the Del Norte and Mountain Valley school districts on Tuesday. BRECKENRIDGE Thanks to donations, Colorado Operation Game Thief. CREEDE The Creede Repertory Theatre is closing out the 53rd season and with that also preparing to make some upgrades to the theatre itself. VALLEY Regular bus service from Alamosa to Pueblo will arrive next May courtesy of the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) which has received grant money for rural areas from the Federal Transit Administration. Though the voter approved one-cent sales tax has made the new courthouse construction and jail expansion possible, it hasn't funded the entire project. ALAMOSA A retired schoolteacher living in rural Alamosa for the past 10 years has been charged with a double homicide occurring in California 23 years ago. N. ALAMOSA The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) has removed the sanction of Probation for Adams State University, Adams State President Dr. Cheryl Lovell announced Monday afternoon, July 9. ALAMOSA Community performers reunite tonight to fill the air with holiday cheer. RIO GRANDE COUNTY A 12-year-old boy from Rio Grande County underwent his first arraignment Monday, April 9, after a tragic accident that claimed his best friends life. Alamosa firefighters knock down a blaze Sunday afternoon that burned this shed and some fencing after embers from a trash barrel started weeds on fire, which spread to a fence and shed. Convicted by a jury earlier this month of sex assault on a child, Adam Acosta, 40, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony burglary and violating a restraining order in a separate but related case. COSTILLA COUNTY Colorado and New Mexico authorities are searching for murder suspect Charles Lobato, 30, who allegedly shot at Costilla County code enforcement officers who tried to stop him before possibly crossing the New Mexico border on Thursday morning. Area residents help plant trees by the Alamosa Cemetery on Friday. During the citys May 3rd council meeting, Alamosa Mayor Josef Lucero proclaimed May 7-13 Drinking Water Week in recognition of the city staff who ensure safe drinking water for residents as well as a sufficient water supply for fire protection and a mult. Alamosa city council on Wednesday night recognized the winners of the City of Alamosas first ArtScape Peoples Choice Award and decided to purchase one of the ArtScape pieces. ALAMOSA The Alamosa School District Board of Education was presented with the numbers for the October enrollment count on Monday night. MONTE VISTA The San Luis Valley Interagency Fire Management Unit plans to conduct two prescribed burns this spring on the Rio Grande National Forest. ALAMOSA Alamosa city councilors this week made several decisions supporting positive efforts in the community. John Hickenlooper is contemplating using an out-of-state service to replace Colorado crisis service organizations. Congressman Scott Tipton said on Tuesday as his Water Rights Protection Act prepared to move to the U.S. House of Representatives floor. SAGUACHE After deliberating for several hours, a jury empaneled to decide the fate of Charles M. Gonzales in the death of Michael D. Rust in 2009 returned a verdict at 1:20 p.m. Thursday afternoon of guilty on all counts. ALAMOSA Not that anyone has a current proposal before the Alamosa city council, but the council wants to be prepared for a smoking lounge request if it does receive an application in the future. Its time for parents to gather school supplies and backpacks. This summer Alamosa County's road and bridge department will spend roughly $330,000 to pave and chip four roads. SAGUACHE Saguache Sheriff Dan Warwick says his jail is still overcrowded and despite hiring a new deputy he is still missing about half the staff he needs to run the sheriffs office with maximum efficiency and safety. A bystander trying to break up an argument between a couple outside the Purple Pig Pub early Saturday morning received a stab wound in the leg for his efforts. BLANCA Blanca will hold an election for three trustees on April 3. VALLEY The U.S. Forest Service is challenging a federal judges ruling from earlier this year that its Rio Grande offices approval of the Village at Wolf Creek was steeped in predictive bias and was contrary to law.. ANTONITO The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) started slope work operations earlier this week along Colorado Highway (CO) 17, 10 miles west of Antonito in Conejos County. The bronze statue of Old Moose, Colorado's last grizzly bear that died in 1904, wears a new white coat along First Street as Alamosa sees much-needed snow on Tuesday. Youngster find the brightly colored eggs left in Boyd Park by American Legion members and volunteers during the Legions annual Easter Egg Hunt on Easter Sunday. CONEJOS First appearance in district court is slated at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 15 for Michael John Robinson, 32. WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Legion members and their guests are invited to a potluck dinner in the Legion Hall. The Northern Saguache County Fire Protection District volunteer firefighters were paged out at 12:16 p.m. on Monday to a wildland fire approximately four miles south of the summit of Poncha Pass. ALAMOSA In a special Alamosa school board meeting on Thursday, Superintendent Rob Alejo announced recommendations for the following hirings: ALAMOSA A former Alamosa County Detention Center inmate has filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Alamosa County Sheriff Robert Jackson over alleged mistreatment during the birth of her baby in the county jail in late 2016. ALAMOSA When every drop of water counts, a local conservation district is proposing a creative way to keep more water in the area. Free Community Christmas Dinner Chairperson Debi Parr Yund and long-time committee member Rick Esquibel, right, present a plaque to the family of Patricia Lucero, left, to honor her memory and dedicated service with the Christmas dinner, the last several years as committee chairperson. Even though the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) granted an Essential Air Service (EAS) waiver for San Luis Valley Regional Airport last year, the agency is once again tentatively terminating eligibility due to low enplanement numbers in the 2016 fiscal year. PAGOSA SPRINGS The Horse Fire is a lightning started fire burning in the Horse Creek drainage, approximately eight miles north of Highway 160 and Chimney Rock. MONTE VISTA Rio Grande County and the City of Monte Vista have agreed to pay more than $290,000 to settle a lawsuit over a 2016 incident at the Delgado resident in Monte Vista, according to Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP, who represented the family in the lawsuit. He said the 11-day enrollment count for October has begun. COSTILLA COUNTY In the heart of the San Luis Valley, a new state wildlife area now protects 17,019 acres of public open space along the Rio Grande, as well as outstanding habitat for fish and wildlife, thanks to the efforts of Western Rivers Conservancy (WRC) and its partners Costilla County, the U.S. ALAMOSA Business at the San Luis Valley Regional Airport is better than ever before, but it could improve. Alamosa city councilors are as yet undecided on an RV resort proposal that would include a portion of the Alamosa Ranch. Along with San Luis Valley Unmanned Aircraft Systems and SLV Noxious Weed Management Association, the 12th Judicial District Attorney's Office spent their Monday asking the San Luis Valley County Commissioners Association for a budgetary increase. He was born in Alamosa, Colo., to Jeanette Maes and Pat Silva on Jan. 2, 1990. ALAMOSA There may never be closure in the presumed homicide of a man last seen alive last summer at the McDonalds in Alamosa and believed to have been killed shortly afterwards, Jefferson County Assistant District Attorney Michael Dougherty said during a recent visit to Alamosa. Smoke from wildfires in Colorado and other states has impacted the air quality in the San Luis Valley. DENVER The Colorado Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates presented 12th Judicial District Chief Judge Pattie P. Swift with the 2017 Judicial Excellence Award on Friday, November 10. About eighty people, comprised of professional search and rescue teams and local residents have been searching for Antonito resident Kevin Gray, 45, a snowmobiler believed buried in the avalanche. The City of Alamosa will take a stand against the kind of hatred and violence recently manifested in Charlottesville, Virginia. ALAMOSA Citing a lack of resources and evidence deteriorated with time, 12th Judicial District Attorney Crista Newmyer-Olsen asked District Judge Martin Gonzales to dismiss the 2003 child death case against Krystal Voss, 43. 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ALAMOSA In order to not repeat a low elk population that was seen in the late 90s, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) met with hunters, outdoor recreationists and other members of the public to discuss herd management strategies. Efforts continue in the Rio Grande Basin to manage one of its most vital resources water. John Hickenlooper on Monday announced that significant progress has been made on The State of Health, the governors plan to make Colorado the healthiest state in the nation. VALLEY San Luis Valley Federal Bank announced its top recipients from the 2017 Spirit of Giving holiday donation program. ANTONITO The long-planned move of Antonitos government from a metal building to the famed Warshauer Mansion received support in the towns municipal election Tuesday. ALAMOSA The City of Alamosa announced on Friday that it has received a $50,000 Daniels Fund grant to support its Multi-Purpose Pavilion/Ice Rink Project. Usually the board conducts their monthly meetings in Denver. Local Briefs Sept. 23. VALLEY Pursuant to a temporary agreement with the Rio Grande Water Users Association and the State and Division Engineers, as part of its planned rehabilitation of Rio Grande Reservoir the San Luis Valley Irrigation District has begun and will continue to evacuate water from the reservoir to ensure that by mid-October the reservoir is effectively empty except for a small quantity of water behind the temporary coffer dam. Sending fewer people to jail and making that less of an option to begin with is one of the goals for the Alamosa city council decriminalizing municipal offenses. According to the Alamosa Police Department, the 2014 Toyota 4 Runner pictured below driven by Dyan Anderson, 45, Alamosa, was traveling westbound in the 2200 block of Vigil on Monday afternoon and left the right side of the roadway impacting a wood fence, above, causing extreme damage to her vehicle and to the fence. Firefighters from multiple departments worked all afternoon and into the evening Saturday to contain a blaze that destroyed numerous haystacks near Estrella. The booklet reveals that most of Ogburn's biographical information came from obituaries found in the Valley Courier, Monte Vista Journal and Del Norte Prospector, as well as various online and other printed sources and personal interviews. That was the verdict of the all-female jury in the case of People vs. Goldilocks on Monday at Alamosa Elementary. A Denver resident died Sunday afternoon after his vehicle rolled off the highway west of Antonito. The members of the American Legion, Post 113 are celebrating their 98th birthday on Saturday, March 18. ALAMOSA The United States Department of Agricultures (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Colorado, in partnership with the Rio Grande Water Conservation District- Special Improvement District #1 (Subdistrict #1) recently announced funding availability to assist producers in addressing issues of drought and aquifer depletions within Subdistrict #1. ALAMOSA If elected as Colorado attorney general, Michael Dougherty would place a regional office in the San Luis Valley, the candidate said during a visit to Alamosa on Friday. ALAMOSA In a 7-1 vote on Tuesday the Rio Grande Water Conservation District board voted to move forward on its Sub-District #1s behalf with the purchase of the West Medano Ranch from The Nature Conservancy for a price not to exceed $4 million. The lightning-caused Castle Creek fire in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area of Great Sand Dunes National Preserve was determined to be out on August 8. 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