Tag: aguilar
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Historic Colorado town faces spiraling water, administration crises
AGUILAR – “Not a lot happens in Aguilar to crowd out old memories,” Larry Batson observed in a 1984 profile of the town for the Star Tribune in Minnesota. Decades later, Aguilar’s old memories still have plenty of room to roam. Boarded-up facades that wouldn’t be out of place in an old Western movie recall…
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Former Aguilar clerk arrested for allegedly embezzling federal water funds
The former Aguilar town administrator and clerk was charged with multiple felonies after allegedly embezzling funds, according to a news release from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday. The agency alleges Tyra Marie Avila, 47, diverted more than $26,000 in funds intended for the Augmentation Reservoir project to her personal bank account. Avila served…