Antonito News

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter expressed his sympathy to the locked-out workers of the Harborlite Corp.

Gov. Bill Ritter is touring the San Luis Valley today and Saturday, hosting a series of town hall meetings.

The Union Pacific Railroad said Thursday that it has approved a request from Amtrak to operate a revived Ski Train between Denver and Winter Park for the upcoming ski season.

When one thinks about fall foliage in the western United States, many will think of beautiful Aspen, Colorado.

Richard DurA n has spent nearly four decades opening classroom doors for students as a teacher and community college administrator.

With nearly 15,000 acres under the microscope to determine its suitability for commercial-scale solar development, Conejos County could bear the brunt of the Bureau of Land Management's efforts to harness the sun in the San Luis Valley.

With nearly 15,000 acres under the microscope to determine its suitability for commercial-scale solar development, Conejos County could bear the brunt of the Bureau of Land Management's efforts to harness the sun in the San Luis Valley.

Opposition to a study that would look at the potential for federal land to support utility-scale solar development has become a little lighter.

The original Osier depot, built in 1888, is seen behind a tank that supplies water for the steam engine on the Culbres & Toltec Railroad.

The time was summer in 1999. The people in the group consisted of two Colorado transplants who had actually lived in Arkansas longer than they had lived in Colorado.

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.