06/10/11 City Manager Rick Klein presented the Front Porch project with illustrations, a summary of the project and details of expected expenditures. The Urban Renewal Authority unanimously agreed to back the project in the amount of $83,000 (20 percent of cost of project) contingent upon the city of La Junta budgeting five percent of the project in its 2012 budget (at least $20,000).
06/10/11 In 1975, writer-director Terrence Malick told a writer from Sight and Sound magazine: "There's something about growing up in the Midwest. There's no check on you. People imagine it's the kind of place where your behavior is under constant observation, where you really have to toe the line.
06/08/11 The Dinosaur Journey in Fruita offers life-size renderings of prehistoric life. Kids of all ages think dinosaurs and mammoths are cool.
06/02/11 Lanny Grant's oil painting, "Trail Ridge Tundra." ( Courtesy photo ) As the 100th anniversary of Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) approaches, the Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park (CAC) is launching a series of exhibitions and events in 2011, commemorating America`s national parks, and soon-to-be Rocky Mountain`s milestone in 2015. The CAC events brighten the landscape from June 4 through ...
06/01/11 For fans of the strange, quirky and unexpected, there's nothing like a road trip through the weirdest sights Colorado has to offer. Here are a handful of destinations that all give new meaning to the phrase "Colorful Colorado." Old Louisville Inn 740 Front Street, Louisv...
05/28/11 It isn't your average travelling interactive reptile exhibit that is on display this weekend at the Crystal Palace Amusement Park. The curtained enclosed display is located near the movie theatre entrance to the park and right next to the tabletop air hockey games.
05/27/11 An Alberta Parks boat designed to handle rough water rescues sat idle at the Lake Newell dock during a frantic operation to save a Chestermere family, a fatality inquiry heard Thursday.
05/27/11 A full-sized robotic simulation of the king of the Cretaceous period, Tyrannosaurus rex, has taken up summer residence at Dinosaur Journey, 550 Jurassic Court, in Fruita. The robotic T. rex measures nearly 50 feet from its menacing jaw to the tip of its tail and 18 feet high and was created by Wonderworks Exhibits Co. in Abilene, Texas.
05/27/11 Over ten years with the broadcaster Stephen Jardine has fronted some of the channel's most popular shows.
05/27/11 Dualakoo, 10 p.m., Rockslide Brew Pub, 401 Main St., ages 21 and older, 245-2111. Bobby Walker and guest Harry Harpoon, 7 p.m., KAFM Radio Room, 1310 Ute Ave., $15, 241-8801, kafmradio.org.
05/26/11 Jax Fish House chef and culinary celebrity Hosea Rosenberg has a longstanding streak of impressing palates, but he has yet to prove himself against some of the toughest natural-born food critics: kids.
05/18/11 In the 1990s, Dublin teens A.J. Auld, Brian Zuercher and Mark Forsythe decided to put down their baseball gloves to play middle-school lacrosse.
05/18/11 Tyrannosaurus Rex and his relatives hung out and hunted in bloodthirsty gangs which included young and older members, experts now believe.
05/17/11 From a Fox press release. Modern Stone-Age Family Returns to Television in New Animated Series from Seth MacFarlane, 20 th Century Fox Television and Warner Bros. Television.
05/11/11 The horns and skull of an Ice Age bison have been glued together and are on display in the window of the Paleo Laboratory at the Denver museum.
05/09/11 GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- In this week's Boomers and Beyond Dixie's guests have some terrific and very doable ideas not only for your summer enjoyment, but for all year round.
05/08/11 With summer vacation just a few weeks away, it's time for parents to think about summer camps and activities for kids. The Daily Sun has compiled a list of summer camp options.
05/07/11 Excavators (left to right) Tony DiCroce, Mel Grantham and Tom Garner clear away rocks and dirt from the remains of a woolly mammoth found in western Pueblo County. A portion of the extinct animal's tusk can be seen at the bottom right.
05/07/11 The United States Department of Agriculture has scheduled food supplement distributions for later this month. Food will be distributed from 9 to 11 a.m. May 17 at 595 Breeze St. at the northeast alley entrance, 9 to 9:30 a.m. May 18 at the Maybell Community Center and 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May 18 at the Moffat County office in Dinosaur.
05/06/11 Right now, Ubaldo Jimenez is admittedly a mess. At the midway point of last season, the Rockies' ace had used his dominant fastball to become appointment viewing and a search for similar numbers was calling up names like Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson. When Jimenez was 15-1 last July, the historic comparison most frequently made was that of Smoky Joe Wood, who recorded 10 shutouts along ... | 
