Seventeen Chaffee County nonprofit organizations and public sector entities were awarded a total of $245,550 through the Chaffee County marijuana excise tax-funded 2022 competitive grant cycle. Grant funding will help bolster programs and projects across the county...
Monica Haskell will take the helm of Chaffee County’s Department of Human Services (DHS) beginning December 5th, 2022. The Chaffee County Board of County Commissioners, convened as the county Board of Human Services, recently appointed Ms. Haskell as the DHS Director...
Chaffee County Director of General Administration Robert “Bob” Christiansen is retiring following 30 years of service within Chaffee County government. Christiansen announced to the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) at their December 6th regular meeting that he...
A month after Nederland canceled its 2023 Frozen Dead Guy Days, a plan has been approved to bring the festival back to life in Estes Park. Over St. Patrick’s Day weekend 2023, the festival will welcome guests to the historic, and probably haunted, Stanley Hotel. ...
Chaffee County Public Health has launched a quarterly Emotional Wellness Survey. The survey will help inform the focus of Public Health and its new Behavioral Health Navigation workforce which was created in response to the 2021 Chaffee County Community Health...
According to the November River Report from the Upper Arkansas Watershed Collaborative, most of the Upper Arkansas Basin remains drought-free, but severe and extreme drought have returned to parts of the lower basin. In spite of recent snowfall in the upper basin,...
