I find it interesting and deeply disturbing that many Americas have forsaken reason and replaced it with anger and paranoid delusion. From anti-vaccers, to birthers, to crackpot conspiracy theories about everything from chemtrails to lizard people, we’ve become a society of solutions looking for a problem. The recent toxic water spill in the Animas River…
The Mountain Jackpot 8.18.15
Shining Mountain links conquered by top local players
Move over Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy. And whoever said Woodland Park is not a golfing hub with some premiere linksters. Nope, the top PGA tour players don’t have to worry about budding golf stars in the Teller high country ready to join their ranks. But in a drastic change from previous years, the area’s…
Swimming in Troubled Water
Almanac Week of 8.4.15
Tuesday, Aug. 4 National Night Out. The Woodland Park and Cripple Creek police departments and other agencies will be participating in the National Night Out national program on Aug. 4 with activities planned at the Ute Pass Cultural Center from 5:30 to 8:30 pm and at the CC Park and Recreation facility from 3 to…
MAC Emergency Vehicle Steals the Show
Rick Langenberg The big attraction at the 77th annual Bronc Day in Green Mountain Falls last Saturday wasn’t necessarily any signature float or colorful parade outfit. Instead, the surprising festival star, commanding a huge high tech presence and assuming a large visible area near the parade starting line, was the $250,000-plus Mobile Advanced Communications (MAC)…
Preparing for Disaster in the High Country
The disaster scenario is too familiar for rural Teller County. An ill-planned ATV (All-Terrain Vehicle) excursion in the high country has turned ugly. A middle-aged male (let’s call him Matthew for this particular story), is suffering from life-threatening injuries including a ruptured spleen and possible spinal cord trauma after flipping his ATV on a steep…
Samuel Adams
I like beer. God made beer BECAUSE…..he wanted us to be happy, or so we are told in a quote by Ben Franklin. There’s a beer out there named after Samuel Adams. Whether Samuel Adams ever made beer is beyond me, I wasn’t there. Back in those days most people made their own beer. It…