Author: Nancy Lofholm
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Mule’s foal fools genetics with “impossible” birth
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save COLLBRAN — When it reportedly happened in Morocco five years ago, locals feared it signaled the end of the world. In Albania in 1994, it was thought to have unleashed the spawn of the devil…
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3 months later, deadly Colorado slide constantly monitored
GRAND JUNCTION — The colored lines spanning a graph on Mesa County surveyor Frank Kochevar’s computer screen are flat. Unlike in an intensive care unit, this is good news. The lines remotely show Kochevar and other landslide watchers that the massive and deadly rock avalanche that roared down a Grand Mesa cliff near Collbran on…
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Massive slide above Collbran still a mystery — and a danger
COLLBRAN — Landslide, water and disaster experts told Collbran residents Thursday that the massive slide above their valley is still a conundrum — and still a danger — even though more than half a dozen devices are monitoring and measuring it and dozens of agencies across the state and country are studying it. There was…
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Student of New Mexico shooting: ‘Blood everywhere’
ROSWELL, N.M. — It was supposed to be like any other day. Students escaping New Mexico’s chilly temperatures congregated in the Berrendo Middle School gym before class started. Then, 13-year-old students Evan James and Kayla Koren, standing on opposite sides of the gym, heard a loud pop. When they looked up, they saw blood and…
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What’s in a name? Try Colorado Canyons National Monument
GRAND JUNCTION — Where’s the statue? Where’s the tablet? Those questions regarding the Colorado National Monument have bedeviled tourism officials in Grand Junction and Fruita for years. For too many tourists, the word “monument” connotes something besides expanses of canyons and towering red rocks. To minimize that confusion, changing the Colorado National Monument to a…
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What’s in a name? Try Colorado Canyons National Monument
GRAND JUNCTION — Where’s the statue? Where’s the tablet? Those questions regarding the Colorado National Monument have bedeviled tourism officials in Grand Junction and Fruita for years. For too many tourists, the word “monument” connotes something besides expanses of canyons and towering red rocks. To minimize that confusion, changing the Colorado National Monument to a…
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‘Dog’ in the doghouse in Mesa County
GRAND JUNCTION — Television bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman and his posse earned an Internet smackdown from Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey this week after they showed up at the county jail in a caravan of black SUVs with cameras rolling and a scuffed-up, pepper-sprayed bail jumper in tow. Chapman’s team marched the reeking 29-year-old…
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Push to teach “other side” of global warming heats up in Colorado’s Mesa County
GRAND JUNCTION — A national group that thinks global warming is “junk science” and that teaching it is unnecessarily scaring schoolchildren brought its first petition effort for “balanced education” to Mesa County Schools on Tuesday night. Rose Pugliese, an unsuccessful candidate for a District 51 school board seat in the last election, presented a petition…
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Ridgway roils after mandatory-voting proposal
RIDGWAY — Residents of this Old West- meets-New Age town can be fined if their fences are too high, they have too many chickens, their dogs aren’t on leashes or their weeds are out of control. Tom Hennessy would like to add not voting to that list. Hennessy, a popular Ridgway brewer and pub owner,…
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Tea Party Express rolls through Colorado
Hundreds of Coloradans ready to send Washington a message turned out Wednesday at separate Tea Party Express gatherings in Grand Junction and Denver. Bob McConnell, a Steamboat Springs rancher and ski patroller who is running to unseat U.S. Rep. John Salazar, said, “There is a wall of arrogance in Washington.” “And on Nov. 2, we’re…