Silt News

The New Castle Lions Club will sponsor a pie and ice cream booth at the Burning Mountain Festival, July 17-18. Come out and enjoy a big slice of homemade pie and support your local Lions as they raise funds to support vision needs of local youth.

Donna VanDeman's Golden Retriever puppy, Boudreaux, was only 7 months old when she noticed something was wrong with him.

There will be a Sports Day on the lawn at the Glenwood Springs Community Center.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Glenwood Springs Police responded to an attempted robbery at the Arby's on Grand Avenue after receiving a report of gunshots being fired at the local fast-food restaurant.

SILT, Colorado - While a rainy spring season makes irrigating easier for hay farmers, it does not make it easy come harvest time.

Carbondale will not be included in the first round of financing for new public library facilities in Garfield County, because of uncertainty about a preferred new library site and some questions on the part of town trustees on how best to help facilitate the move.

State regulators of the oil and gas industry will be in Glenwood Springs twice this month to discuss a variety of controversial subjects, ranging from pollution coinciding with gas-drilling activities to plans for setting up drilling rigs in a residential community.

Timothy J. Richmond was arrested by Mesa County Sheriff's Department deputies Monday on suspicion of burglary, trespassing and criminal mischief.

When things get really chaotic in the economy, to get anchored it's sometimes necessary to refer to that great American economist, Yogi Berra.

Ethel Richards surprisingly let out a giggle as she spoke about a car that smashed through her bedroom wall Wednesday night, while she was sitting on her bed.

Growing up in southeastern Colorado, Edith Morrison remembers the Dust Bowl when dirt settled onto everything - inside and out.

BATTLEMENT MESA, Colorado - Residents here are likely to use an established play book in their efforts to deal with planned natural gas drilling in the neighborhood - the same play book used to create a 2006 drilling plan for the Silt/Rifle/New Castle area.

SILT, Colorado - Two local teenagers made a Rifle woman very happy last weekend, when they found her wallet containing hundreds of dollars, all her identification and other valuable documents, and turned it in.

Bill Barrett Corp. has taken control of federal oil and gas leases sold last year for the top of the Roan Plateau, and says it is eager to settle a lawsuit challenging those leases.

Heidi Moss, a 2004 graduate of Rifle High School, graduated May 16, 2009, with scholastic honors from Colorado State University College of Agricultural Sciences with a Bachelor of Science in landscape horticulture with a concentration in design and contracting and a minor in business administration.

Basalt Sunday Market bags, with the new event's logo, will be sold for $10. BASALT - When the Basalt Sunday Market debuts in downtown Basalt on June 21, organizers plan to give shoppers something unique, and to keep it fresh for the following 15 weeks.

The Town of Silt is poised to join the ranks of the fast-food nation, with the likely addition of a Subway restaurant to the town's Kum & Go service station and convenience store.

Garfield County's elected leaders want to ensure that at least three items get a public airing at the upcoming meeting of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission , which is to be held somewhere in Garfield County in July.

Teal LaRay Harper set off to paint portraits of angels, and with brush in hand, she danced through Heaven's Gates Wednesday, June 2, 2009.

Lisa Bracken wonders if gas drilling activity near her Silt home has impacted her family's drinking water source.