Headlines:

• Legislative roundup
• Greeley Town Council okays 16 gas wells despite opposition from citizens
• Colorado third-graders score poorly on reading tests
• Bears wake up, wander into Telluride
• DMEA candidate frum Wed May 15
  

Headlines:

• Stahl shed burns in Paonia
• State’s fire-fighting fleet is unfunded
• Stoned while driving bill passes, along with other marijuana measures
• Hotchkiss dog trials this weekend
• CHC launches air-monitoring baseline study
• Antero fined by COGCC for Rifle pipeline leak in 2010
  

Local farmer Jere Lowe thinks he has a better framework for regulating recreational marijuana than anything the Colorado Legislature has come up with. In fact, he wrote his own alternative plan, and emailed it to state legislators and the governor last week.

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Will Beezley was an orchardist and farmer who lived up Steven’s Gulch just outside of Paonia. In the 1930s, 40s and 50s, he kept a daily log of his tasks, along with the weather and conditions. The brief entries offer a glimpse of his work on the land and his chase with water. The journals are now in the hands of Paonia resident Amber Kleinman, who has been selecting and posting entries for ISeeChange at thealmanac.org. She was interviewed by KVNF’s Marty Durlin, who asked her first about the process of transcribing the journals.

Headlines:

• Fire Consumes Stahl Orchard shed in Paonia
• McClure Pass closed until Friday
• DMEA feels the pinch from Tri-State Rate Increase
• Earthjustice appeals BLM’s Thompson Divide lease decision
• Late-season storms help the state’s water picture
• U.S. Forest Service adds to air tanker fleet of fire-fighters