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Titans soccer rolls to 2A state semifinals
After outscoring their opponents 13-0 through the first two rounds of the 2A girls state soccer tournament last weekend, the Crested Butte Titans are headed to the semifinals to face Flatirons Academy on Saturday, May 18 at All-City Stadium in Denver at 12 p.m. The Titans entered the tournament the...
Traffic detour following U.S. 50 bridge closure could put Colorado’s threatened sage grouse at risk
A rare bird found only in Colorado and Utah could be at risk as the rising rumble of cars disrupts the otherwise quiet sagebrush habitat along a dirt county road now serving as a detour route for the closed U.S. 50 bridge, wildlife biologists say. A few hundred Gunnison sage...
Delta County teen recovering from gunshot wound to the head
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — A 15-year-old from Orchard City has an uphill battle to recover from a gunshot wound to the head on May 3. The teen was with a group of other young people on the 1400 block of U.S. 50 in Delta when he was shot in the head by a .40 caliber handgun. The Delta Police Department recovered the handgun, a magazine and a casing from the scene.
CB council on board with new Chamber of Commerce direction
Updating the services provided at the visitor center. Crested Butte-Mt. Crested Butte Chamber of Commerce officials were able to give some confidence of a positive change in direction to the Crested Butte town council at the May 6 council meeting. As a result, council expressed a willingness to give the Chamber more time to come up with an operations and funding plan on how best to utilize the Visitor Center at Sixth and Elk. Council had funded the Chamber through September with the understanding that a new business plan had to be developed by April 1 that showed council the Chamber was moving toward more modern services that provided better value to the town.
Keith: No more dog operations at Snowmass Village
This is in response to the May 3 article discussing the proposal to re-open Krabloonik as a tourism dogsledding site with increased “quality of care” measures. The things that Marsh proposes according to the recent Aspen Times article (treating the dogs better; implementing a spay/neuter program; implementing an off-tether program; implementing an adoption program), were already legal requirements when Dan Phillips took over ownership of the kennel. Yet these requirements were not accomplished in nearly a decade of Phillips’ ownership.
The long history of Paonia, Colorado
PAONIA, Colo. (KREX) — Paonia, a small town of only about 1500 people roughly 40 miles from Delta, has been around for more than half of America’s life. Let’s take a cinematic, no-narrative look at how this town progressed from the 1880’s to now.
Soccer Game Preview: Crested Butte Will Face Flatirons Academy
The Crested Butte Titans will face off against the Flatirons Academy Bison at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. Each of these teams will be battling to keep a five-game winning streak alive. Crested Butte is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Saturday. Their defense stepped up to hand...
Two people dead in car accident
DELTA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) — Bradley Joseph Armendariz of Delta and Tasha Nicole Cruz of Montrose died in a vehicle accident on Colorado 65 on April 28 in Delta County. Sometime during the night at milepost 3.5, the driver lost control of the Ford Expedition and it rolled, throwing the two people out of the car, who were not wearing seatbelts.
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