Author: RACHAEL WRIGHT Special to The Gazette
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Federal funding suspended: Palisade sewage lagoon project in limbo
Overlooked by sloping vineyards and peach orchards, Palisade’s four sewer lagoons will soon stand empty without the $3 million in what is known as B2E (Bucket 2 Environmental Drought Mitigation) funding from the Bureau of Reclamation. In the 1960s, the town of Palisade built four sewer lagoons on a raised bank of the Colorado River…
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ICE arrest of student after traffic stop spotlights Colorado’s non-cooperation policy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On June 5, a University of Utah student was pulled over by a Mesa County police officer for following a semitrailer too closely. Caroline Dias Goncalves was asked where she was born and was released with a warning. But after exiting Interstate 70 at Loma,…
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Coal to nuclear? Western Slope advocates say it could be ‘a plug and play’
Family picnics in the 1940s and 1950s in western Colorado might have resulted in more than ants marching over a worn checkered tablecloth. On the arid sandstone outcrops, in fine grains and veinlets, in greenish-yellow or a sooty black, lay the United States’ hope for Cold War dominance: uranium. Seventy-five years on, some Coloradans still…
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Empty Stocking Fund: Catholic Charities fights hunger, brings counseling
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Since its incorporation in 1968, Catholic Charities of Central Colorado, the service arm of the Diocese of Colorado, the organization’s central tenant has always been to “provide help and create hope” for the most vulnerable…