The Chaffee County Ranchlands Project will present the results of two 2007 surveys at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3, at the Chaffee County Fairgrounds in Poncha Springs. All interested members of the public are invited to attend.
The surveys of county residents and visitors were conducted with assistance from Colorado State University to support future […]

A ChannelBV reader writes:
“Dear fellow lovers of mountain living and planning aficionados, I’m far from complacent but this gave even me a jolt. Here’s a link to a Brookings report entitled “Mountain Megas.” I recommend scanning and maybe bookmarking the complete report. If nothing else, see the chart on page five of the […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLhOUKBwKGo

For those of you who may have missed the discussion between US Senate candidates Bob Schaffer (R) and Mark Udall (D) on NBC’s Meet the Press, here it is…
And, as the Chaffee County League of Women Voters reminds us in their blog, the last day to register to vote is October 6.

Coming at you with a special Saturday edition of ChannelBV! We are spending the day in beautiful downtown Buena Vista in the Orpheum Theatre, staffing our booth at the First Annual Sustainability Showcase sponsored by Colorado Mountain College. If you’re reading this at home, come join us for a day of engaging speakers, […]

The Operation Round Up® board went to work again at their August board meeting. The Operation Round Up® board decided to give financial support to Cornerstone TGIF so they can continue to provide meals to youths in our community every Friday afternoon. Cornerstone TGIF also tries to offer area youths a place that shows them […]

Hi ChannelBV Readers! It’s Alex, John and Allison, your friendly CBV founders. We wanted to take a moment to thank you for all of your support. We have received so much good feedback and encouragement around this project, we really feel that our work is having an impact and that people appreciate what […]

Since ChannelBV launched this February, we (the writers) have striven to speak with a neutral, objective voice. We continue to stand by this editorial policy in the hopes that the people who do feel strongly about an issue one way or another will feel comfortable stepping forward in the comments or the forums to […]

This is a post for all of you ChannelBV readers whose hearts are in Buena Vista, but whose bodies are elsewhere around the country or world. Autumn is here and the cool nights and gorgeous days along with color like this on the mountainsides are a big reason that a lot of us live here. […]

Today, we thought we’d draw your attention to a little article about Buena Vista localer, Grant Heilman, featured in the latest issue of High Country News. The story gives a wee bit of background as to how Grant became a photographer and how he has watched the photography industry change in recent years:
Grant also started […]

I’ve been doing some thinking recently about what it takes to make a community, be it a church group, a business, a town or a nation, function and prosper. The concept that keeps coming to mind is the necessity for everyone involved in the community to have as much information from as many sources […]