The Salida School Board voted 5-2 this week to deny long-term leave to a Salida High School teacher diagnosed with breast cancer. The story was published online by the Mountain Mail and it generated several comments critical of the board and Superintendent David...
— Edward Valentin Edmonson was born at Heart of the Rockies Regional MedicalCenter’s Family Birthing Center in Salida on February 21, 2024 at 8:41 p.m. He weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces, and measured 20 ½ inches long. Edward’s parents are Cecilia Schonewise and Sam...
On February 20, 2024, Rebeca (Becky) Lewis passed away peacefully in her home at Brookdale Assisted Living in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Rebeca was born March 4,1939 to Stuart and Violet Hamley of Meadow Grove, Nebraska where she was raised. Becky earned...
The deadline to mail-in ballots for the Super Tuesday presidential primary has passed but there are still options for voters who need to get their ballots in. The Super Tuesday presidential primary is next Tuesday, March 5th. While the Colorado Secretary...
A man has pleaded guilty to killing five people in the San Luis Valley in 2020. 29-year-old Adre Baroz nicknamed “Psycho,” pleaded guilty this week in an Alamosa courtroom to 13 charges, including five counts of first degree murder. Prosecutors said that...
The Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday that the demolition of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose has not started due to issues regarding landfill access. The EPA is waiting on modification to the preferred landfill’s ‘Certificate of...
