Manzanola News

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.

Reporting from Scottsbluff, Neb. -- Lorraine Melgosa hasn't developed the thick skin of someone who works with the bereaved.

Published January 2, 2009 at 12:05 a.m. A coal train derailed in Otero County on Thursday morning, blocking a county road and closing a state highway for half the day.

A BNSF coal train derailed near the town of Manzanola Thursday morning, prompting the Colorado State Patrol to close a portion of Colorado 207 for more than six hours.

A coal train derailed Thursday morning in Manzanola, east of Pueblo. It happened just before 7:30 a.m. Otero County responded along with the Colorado State Patrol and the Crowley Fire department.

I would like to share a gift my parents gave me when I was growing up that I still hold dear to my heart decades later.

Who says the Christmas spirit has evaporated? No one who lives in Pueblo, that's for sure.

Las Animas at Granada, 4:00. Friday, Dec. 5 Granada at Manzanola, 4:00 Cheyenne Wells at Wiley, 4:00 Fowler at Eads, 4:00. December 4-6 R.L. Ballard Tournament in Springfield.