Charli Nowell Trigg
Charli Nowell Trigg was born at Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center in Salida on May 10, 2021, at 2:42 pm. She weighed 5 pounds, 13 ounces, and measured 18¼ inches long. Charli’s parents are Wyatt Trigg and Nikki DeGasperi of Saguache. Grandparents are...
2021 Digital Senior Salutes
Heart of the Rockies Radio is celebrating the class of 2021 with Digital Senior Salutes! The Salute shows your proud graduate now, and how they looked when they started their journey. Digital Senior Salutes are completely FREE! It's our way to help celebrate our...
Rocky Mountain Family Practice Merging With St. Vincent Health
Dr. Lisa Zwerdlinger, a family medicine physician in Lake County for 23 years and owner of Rocky Mountain Family Practice, is gifting the practice to St. Vincent Health. With this move, St. Vincent Medical Clinic and Rocky Mountain Family Practice will merge on...
2021 NFL Schedule Announced
The 2021 NFL schedule was released, and for the first time in 29 years, the Broncos will not be on Monday Night Football. The Denver Broncos open the season on the road to take on the Giants on September 12th. Denver will round out September at Jacksonville and at...
Colorado Lottery Rebounds After Pandemic Slowdown
It’s proving to be a big year for the Colorado Lottery, rebounding after a pandemic slow down. This year, the lottery will provide more than $71 million to Great Outdoors Colorado, reaching the funding cap nearly a month earlier than last year. This comes thanks...
Chaffee County Public Health Reporting Two Week Positivity Rate of 3.29%
In their weekly update, Chaffee County Public Health is reporting 9 new Covid-19 cases in the last 7 days, 38 in the last 14 days, for a 2-week positivity rate of 3.29 percent. Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center currently has 1 Covid-19...
Pet of the Week: Gaia
Meet Gaia! She is the Heart of the Rockies Radio Pets of the Week! Gaia is a 10 year old female Domestic Shorthair mix. She's been spending her days in a loving foster home where she enjoys spending time looking at the world outside and sleeping in her cozy cat fort....
Flags at Half-Staff Across State
Governor Jared Polis has ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff to honor the victims of the Colorado Springs Mother’s Day shooting. On Sunday, a man entered a home and shot and killed six people before turning the gun on himself. ...
REPLAY: Salida stumbles in home match with Ellicott
The Salida volleyball team watched as Kaela France led the Ellicott Thunderhawks past the Spartans in a mid-season volleyball match with big implications. The Spartans would force it to four sets, but couldn't quite push it to the limit and get over the mountain....
Colorado 2nd State to OK Human Composting
Composting a human body will become legal 90 days after this year’s Colorado legislative session ends. Governor Jared Polis signed a bill yesterday that makes Colorado just the second state in the U.S. to allow it as a post-death option. Once...
Salida School Board Offers Informational Meeting for Prospective New Members Tonight
The Salida School District is holding an informational meeting today beginning at 5 pm today for those that might be interested in running for the board in November. The meeting will take place in the Kesner Building. The Salida School Board will hold a regular...
San Luis Valley Leads State in Covid-19 Cases
The San Luis Valley is seeing the highest Covid-19 positivity rate and the highest one-week case incidence rate in the state right now. There are currently 163 known cases of Covid-19 in the San Luis Valley with 76 in Alamosa County and 20 in...
