Antonito News

As he looked at the jigsaw puzzle of beat-up computers, printers and VCRs on the palett, Mike Wyatt of Fairplay muttered to himself as he tried to figure out where he was going to put the ancient Gateway monitor so the whole mess would fit in his truck.

Front row: Preston Mehring, Cole Collier, Courtney Jenson, Meg Longcor and Bailey Eklund.

Any romantic notion I might have had of comparing myself to Lawrence dashing among the dunes of Arabia was rapidly fading as the spongy ridge of sand leading to Star Dune at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve became steeper.

Eighteen Morgan and Washington county 4-H members, two teen counselors and three 4-H leaders attended a four day 4-H Camp in the San Luis Valley last week.

Origin Of Name: Cumbres is Spanish for summit, peak or crest. Elevation: 10,022 feet Nearby Cities: Chama, N.M., Antonito, Colo.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has narrowed its focus to 22,000 acres in the San Luis Valley that it would consider for utility-scale solar projects .

ASC Community Partnerships will be featuring the work of art teachers from around the Valley for the "Before they were Teachers they were Artists" exhibit during the month of May.

On recent trip to photograph the Sandhill Cranes in the San Luis Valley we also spent a few minutes in Antonito, Colorado.

A volunteer panel charged with creating a memorial for Colorado soldiers killed in the war on terror has met just once since it was founded nearly two years ago - and its chairman apparently is missing.

An Antonito woman faces multiple felony charges as the result of undercover operations conducted by the Conejos County Sheriffa s Department.

From the Conejos County Citizen : "Users of Antonito municipal water and sewer systems could be looking at rate increases for those services, depending on information being gathered now by the Antonito Board of ...