The Crestone Eagle • May, 2021 It’s bear season! Please don’t attract them to your home, you really won’t like it Colorado Parks & Wildlife Someone once said that the only things certain in life are death and taxes. But every spring Colorado Parks and Wildlife...
Saguache County Public Health Release April 20, 2021 Saguache County continues to follow the State of Colorado’s “Level Green: Protect Our Neighbors guidelines” which allows for 50% maximum capacity indoors in restaurants and bars. Saguache County also continues to...
NEWS RELEASE The remains of Xavier Zeven Garcia identified The remains in a missing persons case has been identified as Xavier Zeven Garcia (DOB: 07/06/1996) of Saguache and a past resident of Crestone. Adre Baroz, an Alamosa man, has been arrested in connection with...
U.S. House to consider public lands package next week WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives will consider a package of public lands bill next week. The package includes eight separate public lands bills the House approved last year – including Rep....
During July, it was reported that bears have entered four houses in the Crestone/Baca Grande area and Colorado Parks and Wildlife is warning residents to take precautions to keep the animals away from their homes.
by Sandia Belgrade, with Peter Peterson, County Assessor JoAnn Groff, Property Tax Administrator for the state of Colorado, has announced that this county and many others will see an 18% budgetary reduction in funding. What’s happened to cause such a severe...
The Crestone/Baca Indivisible group held its first organizational meeting at the home of Chalet II resident Sarah Hoenninger in mid-January with about 20 local residents gathering. According to organizer Susannah Ortego, the purpose was “to offer regular people a way...
by Rosemary Dempsey, Dir. Communications, GOCO The Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) Board awarded three grants totaling more than $1.4 million to projects across the San Luis Valley. San Luis Valley Inspire, a valley-wide coalition breaking down barriers for kids to get...
The Crestone Eagle • November, 2021 Living on Earth: Slavery in the southwest by Mary Lowers It was a marvelous yet troubling exhibit at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center that led to this story. Two friends and I drove down one summer afternoon to view the...
The Crestone Eagle • October, 2021 Living On Earth: The curious life of hibernating black bears - Questions for our sleepy neighbors by Zaylah Pearson-Good As we endure months of piled-up snow and below-freezing nights, many of us naturally adopt a slower pace and...
The Crestone Eagle • May, 2021 Miners, ranchers, military & railroads: White settlement in the San Luis Valley by Mary Lowers Back in the 1850s the US Army was ready to abandon Fort Massachusetts at the west end of La Veta Pass. The fort’s location on swampy land...
