by Rick Langenberg: The jokes about the Victor police, and the town’s hefty lineup of former chiefs and officers, with enough folklore to start a television mini-series, have officially ended. The Victor cop shop is now a substation of the Teller County Sheriff’s Department and several officers employed there will become county employees,…
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Despite Fire Tragedy, Good Team Work Exhibited
by Rick Langenberg: Despite the devastation of the recent Waldo Canyon fire, which torched nearly 400 homes and killed two people, Teller and Woodland Park officials are happy with the response work exhibited by local authorities and residents. And within the near future, an official report may be released outlining…
AURORA MASS SHOOTING
AURORA MASS SHOOTING (source .cbslocal.com) AURORA, Colo. – A terrifying shooting at an Aurora movie theater overnight left 12 people dead and about 38 people hurt. The shooting happened at about 12:30 a.m. at the Town Center in Aurora at the Century 16 theater on East Alameda Avenue. Reports first came in that there were explosions…
Teller Lifts Stage Two Fire Ban
by Rick Langenberg: Photo by CR Chambers Due to more normal July weather patterns, Teller County has followed in the footsteps of neighboring agencies and the U.S. Forest Service in lifting some of the more stern regulations on the books against open burning and outdoor smoking. However, county officials have…
Teller Jail House Escapes Red Ink
by Rick Langenberg: The 110-bed Teller County jailhouse in Divide may finally escape from a tough financial plight. After years of incurring reams of red ink and encountering much scrutiny from the Teller County Commissioners, a situation that created bad blood between a former sheriff and the current board chairman, the…
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Horoscope For July 2012
Aries Horoscope for July 2012 On July 3, one of the most important changes of the year will take place when Mars, your ruling planet, moves out of Virgo, where Mars has spent an extraordinarily long time, since November 11. Fiery Mars is not comfortable in earthy Virgo. You may have felt high-strung and overworked…
While You Were Sleeping
By Eli Stone: “The opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.” Thomas Jefferson “Reason and ignorance, the opposite of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in…