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Valley counties band together to fight water exportation

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Friar’s Fork is a James Beard semifinalist

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MONDAY BRIEFING | Jan 23, 2023

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Alamosa school board gets dose of tough love

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A Golden Pick in a silver mine: Pond Hockey in Creede

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Ag-rich Subdistrict 1 moves ahead with new plan to recover Rio Grande

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Unpaid wages, injuries: The dark side of mushroom farm known for helping migrants

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Final respects for Erik Melgoza

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New timeline: 2027 completion of pedestrian bridge over the Rio

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Alamosa’s Rio Frio attracts southern Colorado adventurers

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New state senate district: For Simpson, it’s still about water

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Alamosa School District moves ahead with planning for four-day week

Distillery

Opening in sight for Mosca’s Dune Valley Distillery

Main photo: early-morning scene of flags at half-mast in with snow on the ground. Inset: portrait of Melgoza at his desk wearing a maroon shirt

Mean Moose Nation mourns passing of AD Melgoza

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The year in water

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Downtown Alamosa looks forward to lights, signage, events

two panels: men in the back of a truck working with contents of a bucket; closeup of mass of baby fish

Can assisted migration save the Rio Grande’s cutthroat?

two panels: fire trucks and firefighters in a neighborhood with smoke and flames; the same street months later

Monte Vista Fire

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Groundwater conservation easement: A new way to manage Rio Grande

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sunset behind mountains with draft of regulations superimposed

Valley counties band together to fight water exportation

woman behind counter

Friar’s Fork is a James Beard semifinalist

wintery outside

MONDAY BRIEFING | Jan 23, 2023

photo illustration of a classroom with the label "Alamosa Schools"

Alamosa school board gets dose of tough love

figures playing pond hockey

A Golden Pick in a silver mine: Pond Hockey in Creede

two panels: two men at dais with microphones at a meeting; another man in a suit standing at a lectern

Ag-rich Subdistrict 1 moves ahead with new plan to recover Rio Grande

mushroom farm

Unpaid wages, injuries: The dark side of mushroom farm known for helping migrants

Large group of people standing in front of folding chairs in a high school gymnasium

Final respects for Erik Melgoza

walk along the dyke

New timeline: 2027 completion of pedestrian bridge over the Rio

family sitting together on a rock in the mountains

Alamosa’s Rio Frio attracts southern Colorado adventurers

man in blue plaid shirt standing in a field with hay baling equipment; vintage state map of Colorado with outline of State Senate District 6 superimposed.

New state senate district: For Simpson, it’s still about water

School Board members sitting at a long table on a stage with a screen behind them.

Alamosa School District moves ahead with planning for four-day week

Distillery

Opening in sight for Mosca’s Dune Valley Distillery

Main photo: early-morning scene of flags at half-mast in with snow on the ground. Inset: portrait of Melgoza at his desk wearing a maroon shirt

Mean Moose Nation mourns passing of AD Melgoza

collection iof images showing irrigated fields, the Rio Grande, farmland

The year in water

looking down Main Street Alamosa

Downtown Alamosa looks forward to lights, signage, events

two panels: men in the back of a truck working with contents of a bucket; closeup of mass of baby fish

Can assisted migration save the Rio Grande’s cutthroat?

two panels: fire trucks and firefighters in a neighborhood with smoke and flames; the same street months later

Monte Vista Fire

sun rises behind a mountain

Groundwater conservation easement: A new way to manage Rio Grande

a horse and fence posts silhouetted against a vivid pink and orange sunrise

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episode 86: Sarah Parmar

Sarah Parmar, conservation director for Colorado Open Lands, discusses groundwater conservation easements in the latest episode

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episode 86: Sarah Parmar

Sarah Parmar, conservation director for Colorado Open Lands, discusses groundwater conservation easements in the latest episode

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