132-pound senior wrestler Alex Torres certainly wrestled well enough to earn a spot on the podium Saturday evening at Ball Arena in Denver, but as luck would have it, Torres came up one win shy of earning a top six finish at the Class 2A Colorado High School State Wrestling Championships over the weekend.
Drought continues to plague Bent County as the National Weather Service issued a red-flag warning for Southeast Colorado. The warning comes as no surprise since Southeast Colorado, particularly Otero, Bent, and Crowley counties, have been tormented by drought on and off since 2011.
The Colorado State Patrol (CSP) is investigating a single vehicle rollover accident that left one man dead and a passenger injured early Saturday morning between La Junta and Las Animas. According to CSP, at 1:40 a.m., a 2019 Dogde Caravan driven by a a 41-year-old man from Rocky Ford was traveling westbound on US Highway 50 when the vehicle failed to negotiate a left curve and went off the right side of the roadway near mile marker 397.
The presumed mishandling of evidence by the Rocky Ford Police Department resulted in a mistrial being declared in the trial of accused murderer Edward Aragon Friday afternoon. Aragon is being tried for the 2015 murder of his girlfriend, 23-year-old Amanda Ybarra, who lived with Aragon and was found deceased in their home.
Parenting Classes Tri-County Family Care Center will be sponsoring “Partners in Parenting” parenting classes, Wednesday evenings, March 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, April 6th, 13th. The six sessions will be held at Tri-County Family Care Center, 512 ½ N Main St, Rocky Ford, 5:30 to 7:30 pm with Bea Jae Viescas as presenter. The information during the free classes will cover parenting for all ages of children.
LA JUNTA — Otero Athletics is extremely excited to announce the addition of Ty O’Connor as the new Head Men’s Soccer Coach. Coach O’Connor comes to Otero from Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) in Taylorsville, Utah and will begin on March 1. Chris Carrillo, Ote
On Saturday, February 19, at approximately 12:41 p.m., Bent County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to an individual dressed in all black shooting in a neighborhood of Las Animas. Deputies located the individual, who willingly surrendered to law enforcement and was placed into custody.
Mrs. Addie Wallace, National Honor Society (NHS) sponsor, held the 2021-2022 NHS Induction Ceremony recently.
LA JUNTA — For a second year in a row, Governor Polis declared the third week of February as “Concurrent Enrollment Week in Colorado” today to encourage more students to take tuition-free college courses in high school. The largest provider of Concurrent Enrollment in the state, the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) is once again coordinating a month-long awareness campaign to showcase the benefits of the program and encourage students to sign up as they plan for fall semester. Concurrent Enrollment, launched by
The Arkansas Valley Conduit has been an idea in the works since the Frying Pan/Arkansas project started in the 60’s under John F. Kennedy. Chris Woodka of the Southeast Water Conservancy District has been working on it in one way or another for twenty years. Well water in Southeast Colorado contains radionucleides, since radium and uranium are naturally occurring minerals. Add to that nitrates (agriculture uses fertilizer), bacteria, selenium and iron in the alluvial aquifer. There’s a limit to what even a good water system with reverse osmosis will take out.