— Ashyr Alexander Towns was born at Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center’sFamily Birthing Center in Salida on March 4, 2024 at 8:06 a.m. He weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces, and measured 20 inches long. Ashyr’s parents are Andrya and Eric Towns of Salida.Ashyr has...
Chaffee County Democrats will hold their Democratic Caucus, Assembly and Convention this Saturday at 1pm at the Salida Middle School. Check-in and registration is at 12 noon. Preregistration can be completed by going to the website chaffeecountydemocrats.org.
Carie Hallford, one of the co-owners of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, will return to court next week after failing to appear at a court ordered sobriety monitoring appointment. Carie and her husband Jon are facing hundreds of charges related to the...
March 25, 1940 ~ February 16, 2024 (age 83) James “Jim” M. McPhetres, 83, of Salida, died Feb. 16, 2024. He was born March 25, 1940, to Munro and Hazel (Mader) McPhetres at the D&RG Hospital in Salida. His family moved to Boulder in 1944, and he...
WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the first of the appropriations government funding packages for Fiscal Year 2024, which includes $12,602,446 for 14 community projects secured by Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) that span Colorado’s...
The Chaffee County League of Women Voters held a Buena Vista Candidate forum last night. The program included introduction of candidates, a lightning round of questions, followed by questions from media then Candidating, where each candidate went from table to table...
