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“The snowpack is overall on a trend toward stability” Over the past three weeks there’s been a rumor spreading like wildfire …
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Local snowpack above average thanks to early season storms
“The more snow the merrier” The amount of snow resting on hillsides and mountaintops in the Upper Gunnison River Basin is …
Read More »Bicyclists will swarm to valley in June
Thousands of people to roll through Two of the Colorado’s largest road bike tours will be coming to the valley this …
Read More »Thompson Creek Metals feels squeeze of molybdenum cutbacks
Mount Emmons project still being studied … for now Thompson Creek Metals is making huge cutbacks within the company, reductions that …
Read More »State looks for comments on Tri-State oversight
HCCA says it’s about time The Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is seeking comments from the public on whether it should …
Read More »Briefs Crested Butte
Sales tax sucking windThe final numbers for Crested Butte sales tax in 2008 are in and they aren’t pretty. The town …
Read More »Land Trust reduces size of parcel it hopes to sell from Niccoli land
Covenants will restrict development, preserve view corridor The Crested Butte Land Trust (CBLT) has set the size of the property it …
Read More »Horizontal zoning gets another tweak
Split level buildings get some relief Crested Butte’s sometime controversial and frequently discussed horizontal zoning ordinance is getting tweaked a bit …
Read More »Gunnison County honors area’s oldest resident
At 106, Lena Costanzo still going strong For more than a century, Lena Costanzo has embodied the American story, from her …
Read More »Mining proponent facing new challenges
Thompson Creek scales back production plans Changes in the world economy and changes in the U.S. Congress all look to have …
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