Weston News

Avondale residents got their first look Tuesday at plans to extend a natural gas pipeline through the community.

Representatives of the City of Trinidad and Las Animas County met May 13 with representatives of the Sunflower Valley Pipeline Association (SVPA) to discuss providing the county with a new water tap for its airport.

The county's request for extra water for the Perry Stokes Airport is not a new one. The acquisition of the extra water, however, had been previously thwarted by the moratorium placed by Trinidad over the last few years on the selling of water taps.

The county requested a four-inch water tap for the airport. A four-inch tap was stated by SVPA Director Ralph Gagliardi as being the equivalent of nine three-quarter-inch taps. The county currently owns three water taps for the airport, with two currently in use. One tap services the terminal building, the other services the Road and Bridge shop.

A high angle team is fighting a brush fire in the area of High Drive and Gold Camp Road on the west side of Colorado Springs. via KRDO

A sign is posted at the base of the driveway to the home of Marcia Dasko in Weston, Colo., on Wednesday, Feb. via Salt Lake Tribune

“People actually put dummies in the windows of stores (in Trinidad) to make it look like something was there besides vacant storefronts.”

A hamlet near here of wooded gulches, rocky outcrops and views of the snowy tops of southern Colorado's Sangre de Cristo mountains is the perfect escape for retirees and telecommuters who've settled in.

But people who bought lots on the 4,000-acre North Fork Ranch about 200 miles south of Denver, hoping to leave behind big-city hassles, worry when they flip on a switch or take a drink of water. They're afraid that volatile methane gas from drilling in the area's coal seams could seep into their water wells or migrate inside their homes. Read more

“We'd always planned to go to the same college together.”

Nineteen-year-old Daniel McMahon walks each day to classes at the college that he and his childhood friend planned to attend together someday. via The Grand Junction Sentinel

The Colorado Department of Transportation begins a rock mitigation project along State Highway 12 next week, just east of Weston . via Dot.state.co.us

Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Jan. 12--WESTON -- Two property owners are suing the Internal Revenue Service because of tax adjustments made to land they donated for conservation easement several years ago. via Customer Interaction Solutions

“The only thing CBI will call us for is if they need something that's down in this area for us to acquire for them. As far as interviews and stuff like that, CBI's doing that themselves.”

A sheriff's deputy present at the alleged shooting of a local lawyer was placed on administrative leave last week. John Martinez of the Las Animas County Sheriff's Department was placed on leave Monday, Dec. 5.

Martinez was present at the Nov. 29 shooting of local lawyer Jim Tatum, 68, at Tatum's residence near Weston. Arrested in the shooting on charges of second-degree murder was Ann Tatum, 58. She was held in the county jail until Wednesday on a cash-only bail of $175,000.

Las Animas County Sheriff Jim Casias stated that Martinez was placed on leave, "...because of the investigation and he's a viable part of it. Plus, in the best interest of the policies and procedures that we have, at least until this is done or completed, he was placed on leave." Read more

“We won't know until we get the blood test and autopsy report, and they (CBI) didn't finish that until late Saturday morning”

Local lawyer Jim Tatum, 68, was allegedly shot and killed Thursday evening during a domestic dispute with his wife. Ann Tatum, 57, allegedly shot her husband multiple times with .38-caliber and .45-caliber weapons.

As of early Monday, Ann Tatum was in the custody of the Las Animas County Sheriff's Department. She was placed under detention by the department following the alleged shooting until a warrant was issued for her arrest at 11:10 p.m. Friday. Ann Tatum was arrested at 12:15 a.m. Saturday morning on charges of second-degree murder. Her bail was set at $175,000 cash-only. Read more

The wife of a former Las Animas county attorney is accused tonight of shooting her husband to death. via KRDO-TV Colorado Springs

A Las Animas County deputy witnessed the fatal shooting of former county attorney Jim Tatum last Thursday and said Tatum's wife used a .38 and Tatum's own .45 handgun in the struggle leading up to the shooting. via KMGH-TV Denver

A Las Animas County woman is accused of fatally shooting her husband. Authorities arrested Ann Tatum, 57, over the weekend. via KOAA-TV Pueblo

Former Las Animas County Attorney Jim Tatum has been shot to death in his Weston home and his wife has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder. via KRDO-TV Colorado Springs

The Las Animas County Sheriff's office is investigating the death of a man found shot inside his home. via KOAA-TV Pueblo