Manzanola News

School closures in the following communities are being ordered by administrators due to flu absences.

Posted By vizion 3 hours, 10 minutes ago in Politics > While good Americans across the political spectrum hold widely divergent views of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, most unite around one fundamental rallying cry: "We support our troops." For Lorraine Melgosa of Manzanola, Colorado, those words are more than a popular mantra.

Manzanola, Colorado, doesn't have much in the way of art. Living in little more than a bump along state highway 50, about an hour east of Pueblo, the kids of the tiny ranching town are apt to know more about dust than they do about Rodin, more about milking cows than they do of Henry Moore.