Pagosa Springs News

Those sweaters you've been living in all winter no longer make the cut, ladies. Pagosa Springs-based Autumn Teneyl Designs has funky tops, bottoms, dresses and outerwear that could liven up your summer wardrobe.

A nearly six-square-mile wildfire in southern Colorado has grown more than 600 acres but is now 4 percent contained.

Buckeye Reservoir , Memorial Day , Montrose , Pagosa Springs , Paradox , Rock Creek , Sinbad Valley , Steve Segin , U.S. Forest Service , utah , Wildfires PARADOX, Colo.

Charles G. Taylor, a former president of Liberia and the first former head of state convicted in an international court since World War II, was sentenced for his role in atrocities in Sierra Leone's civil war.

Firefighters in New Mexico were working on Monday to protect several Depression-era landmarks from a blaze burning through the rugged high country of the Gila National Forest, fire officials said.

Buckeye Reservoir , Memorial Day , Montrose , Pagosa Springs , Paradox , Rock Creek , Sinbad Valley , Steve Segin , U.S. Forest Service , utah , Wildfires An eight-square-mile fire near Paradox was 30 percent contained but a smaller fire near Pagosa Springs was burning in terrain so steep and rugged that firefighters had no containment lines built.

Two air tankers arrived in Durango on Sunday to fight the Little Sand and Sunrise Mine fires, which have burned almost 10,000 acres in the state, and more equipment is on the way.

Crews fighting a wildfire in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico benefited from lighter winds Sunday, allowing them to focus on building protection lines on key flanks of the blaze and preparing to send water-dropping helicopters into the air for the first time in several days.

Gusty winds have spread two wildfires in western Colorado that have burned more than 7,000 acres and prompted the evacuation of several campgrounds.

Growing Spaces is a Colorado company based in Pagosa Springs. A They sell geodesic greenhouse kits ranging in size from a 15' diameter 150 sq.

The federal government is holding a listening session Friday on a proposal to designate the Chimney Rock archaeological area in southwest Colorado as a national monument.

Dunton Hot Springs, the former mining, ghost town-turned-luxury resort in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, has announced the appointment of a new culinary team -- Executive Chef, Carrie Eagle and, Sous Chef, Daniel Sopiwnik.

On Tuesday, Archuleta School District 50 Joint formally announced a vacancy on its board of directors for the seat representing District 1. As reported in the April 19 edition of The SUN, director Pete Kasper announced his intention to resign from his District 1 seat as of May 1. On Tuesday, the district board accepted Kasper's resignation.

The deer are everywhere, irises are exploding with blooms, the aspens are glowing green with new buds and the town of Pagosa Springs is making its announcement that the time for its annual spring cleaning is upon us - Town Clean Up Week 2012.

Charges were filed and a series of motions discussed Thursday morning, all concerning Charles Ray Stane - the suspect in a 1988 Pagosa Springs homicide case.