NEWS

Headlines:

• Paonia Mayor discusses BLM meeting at Town Hall
• Immigrants who finish high school expected to get in-state tuition
• Coal projected to become top energy provider by 2030
• Elk Creek Mine in Somerset still closed
• Minor earthquake felt on Western Slope
• Snowmobile fatality near Overland Reservoir

What would have been a sparsely attended regular council meeting turned into a crowded and contentious event when state BLM officials visited Paonia to talk about pending gas leases in the North Fork Valley on Tuesday, January 22. KVNF’s Marty Durlin talked to Paonia Mayor Neal Schwieterman on the morning after.

Delta County Commissioners took a step back from a proposed ordinance curtailing Amendment 64 Tuesday after a group of concerned business owners and marijuana activists complained. 

Headlines:

• BLM faces packed house in Paonia Town Hall regarding leases
• Civil Unions bill introduced at state capitol, passage is almost certain
• Delta County Commissioners re-examine possible restrictions to 64
• New ski resort might open near Telluride
• Cold snap freezing pipes in Montrose, all over listening area

The Bureau of Land Management held the first of three meetings with local town councils last night. About 50 people showed up at the Hotchkiss town hall to hear what agency representatives had to say about the pending gas lease auction of parcels in the North Fork Valley. KVNF’s Marty Durlin reports.