Silt News

Survivors include his wife, AnaLee; one son, Tyrell of Grand Junction; one daughter, Amber Sigler of Grand Junction; his mother, Margaret Elliott of Grand Junction; one brother, Fred of Redmond, Wash.; one sister, Sandy McPherson of Silt; and one grandchild.

SILT, Colo. - Earlier-than-usual dry conditions across much of western Colorado have prompted federal officials to impose fire restrictions on Bureau of Land Management lands in the Roaring Fork and Colorado river valleys.

I remember teaching fourth grade with Paul Driskill way back in the late 1980s at Glenwood Springs Elementary.

Editor's note: The Garfield County Sheriff's Department reports the following incidents and arrests.

A brush fire burned possibly four or five acres of catttail marsh this afternoon, briefly closing part of U.S. Highway 6 between Rifle and Silt due to poor visibility caused by smoke, said Brit McLin, chief of the Burning Mountains Fire Department.

Pat and Rosemary Patterson's Grand View Ranch up Divide Creek south of Silt is one of 23 ranches in that particular area of Garfield County that have worked with the Aspen Valley Land Trust to place full or partial conservation easements on the property.

Living in the middle of a natural gas boom can be pretty unsettling. The area around the town of Silt, Colo., used to be the kind of sleepy rural place where the tweet of birds was the most you would hear.

A Denver judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a couple who used to live in Silt, who said the Antero Petrolium company contaminated their drinking water and air.

The Garfield County Libraries 2012 Summer Reading Program will start June 11 and continue through Aug.

Editor's note: The Garfield County Sheriff's Department reports the following incidents and arrests.

Jackie Skala of Silt was shopping at Downtown Drug on Grand Avenue in Glenwood Springs this week.

Editor's note: The Garfield County Sheriff's Department reports the following incidents and arrests.